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It was funny, how your most important thoughts came to you when it was far too late to act on them.
When she had felt Pietro's soul leave this Earth, Wanda had been so sure she wanted to join him in Death. To remain together, as they had always been.
But now that the moment had come, debris flying everywhere as her Homeland crumbled around her, Wanda was afraid. While she did not want to live without Pietro, she was not entirely certain that she wanted to die, either.
Wanda had made mistakes. Big Mistakes. She had tried to tear the Avengers apart. So many people had been hurt by what she had done. Pietro, on the other hand, had been more of an annoyance to them than anything else. And, in her mind, he had done much more than she had to try and make up for the mistakes they had made.
There were no guarantees she would end up where Pietro was when she died. In Fact, Wanda thought, the odds were very much against her.
She was losing her footing, everything around her becoming increasingly unstable.
Wanda prepared for oblivion.
It didn't come.
Instead, she was in his arms. Or its arms, she wasn't quite sure.
Stark's Android.
The Vision.
He was looking at Wanda with an expression she couldn't quite decipher, but she had no time to dwell on it before he flew her away from the crumbling ruins.
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Wanda was grateful to have been saved in the moment, but once The Vision had got her to safety, her grief returned like Sokovia crashing to Earth. Anger washed over her. When Vision returned from destroying the final Ultron, Wanda beat angrily at the android's chest, red energy crackling around her fists. The other Avengers kept a nervous distance, but The Vision himself was unafraid.
"Why?" Wanda's voice cracked, her face stained with tears. "I was.. I was going to be with my brother!"
"Because, Miss Maximoff" said The Vision in an even tone, "I do not believe that is what he would have wanted for you."
The answer knocked the breath from Wanda's lungs, mostly because he was right. Death was not what Pietro would have wanted for her.
That was.. such a human thing for him to say.
Later, when her grief was not such a raw wound, Wanda would begin to wonder whether The Vision was more than just an android.