Lament
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Wanda considers – exactly once – how many people she’s killed.
Not just at Kamar-Taj, not just the probable friends of that other version of herself in that other universe, but the one’s she’s killed by accident – all those people in the building in Lagos, the accidental bystanders who must have been at their windows staring down at everything, must have seen the bomb be lifted up into the air by her magic, and then spent their last few seconds panicking as it drew ever closer to them.
(Steve told her that if she hadn’t moved the bomb, there would have been bystanders killed in the street. It didn’t make her feel better. Still doesn’t now.)
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- Part 4 of March 2023 Short Fics
- Part 1 of Lament
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The first morning Agatha woke in this…wherever they are, she’d gasped, felt air filling her lungs for the first time in years, and blinked, exhilarated with the control she had over her own eyelids. She sat up, pushed a hand through her frizzy dark hair, and drew her knees up enough that she could rest her arms on them, lean forward with a surprised huff of air. If not for the state of the room she was in, she could almost convince herself that the past two years had been nothing but a bad dream, but given that….
Well, perhaps this was the dream. Not a bad one, necessarily, but enough unreality to think her mind had finally snapped. After two years of struggling to maintain herself, she wouldn’t be surprised. She’s known better people who wouldn’t have been able to survive.
Agatha has always been so good at surviving.
Follow-Up to Strumming.
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- Part 9 of March 2023 Short Fics
- Part 2 of Lament
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Wanda lays it out for her. The girl doesn’t know what she’s asking, doesn’t know what she’s expecting, and doesn’t tell her everything, even though she pretends that she has. It would be foolish to believe that the witch who hates her – who chose her, but still hates her – doesn’t have contingencies planned for giving her even a small amount of access to magic again.
That’s the thing – Wanda calls it giving her magic back, but that’s not how it works, not really. Wanda didn’t take her magic away in the same way that Agatha could absorb hers. She cut her off. For all that Agatha might appear healthy right now, she still feels hollow. Devoid of the thing that actually gives her life.
Wanda does not depend on magic the same way that Agatha does. It is not her life; it is something she uses without thought, without name, without understanding, and she would give it up in a heartbeat if the world let her. Wanda wants to be normal.
What a waste.
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- Part 10 of March 2023 Short Fics
- Part 3 of Lament
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Every time Wanda enters the room, Agatha beams.
It’s unsettling, at first, but she gets used to it.
She needs a bit of sun to temper her thundercloud, after all.
(And always, always, always Agatha beams.)Follow up to Strumming, Strolling, and Accompaniment.
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- Part 12 of March 2023 Short Fics
- Part 4 of Lament