Brain On Fire; Ch. 2
Summary: There’s nobody you can trust when your life becomes altered. How will you know what’s real and what’s a simulation?
Pairing: WandaNat x Reader
Warnings: blood, death, brainwashing, simulations, depression, suicidal tendencies
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Wanda couldn’t take her eyes off of your sleeping form, her head propped up by her elbow as she scanned your thoughts for an opening. Being unconscious, you couldn’t keep the fire burning in your brain, your barrier extinguishing into nothing but smoke that distorted a path into your memories. And she fell down a path that you were failing to protect and, the longer she dove into your mind, the more she understood why you were struggling to decipher between reality and simulation.
To her, it felt like she was looking through warped glass, barely capable of seeing the horrors HYDRA put you through, a new way to mold soldiers to do their bidding. She watched as you replayed several moments over and over in your head, meeting your untimely demise by the hands of the people you had considered family, but what broke her heart the most was the sacred moments you’d have with her or Natasha or both, the amount of trust you show the women… only to meet the same fate as all the other simulations.
She sees now that she can’t fully blame you for not trusting anybody, no longer having any reason to be frustrated with your slow progress to welcome her and Natasha back with open arms. And she’s clueless as to how to get you out of this. The empty feeling in her stomach was the helplessness she felt throughout her body, incapable of dragging you out of the fire. She wanted nothing more than to hold you in her arms and let you know that everything’s going to be okay, that the three of you would get through this together, but she knew it wasn’t that easy.