4349/There's No Place Like Home

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There's No Place Like Home
Date of Scene: 27 April 2018
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Wanda goes to talk to her father about life and.. other things. They have a cup of tea.
Cast of Characters: Scarlet Witch, Magneto




Scarlet Witch has posed:
The wounds in time-space had been healed. Reality had been returned to itself. Wanda's sojourn in Bellvue as a result of that chaos was fast becoming a very bad memory. Her relationship with Nolan was slowly blossoming..

It was time to return home and visit her Papa.

Wanda might love her father, but she also wasn't unaware of who and what he was, and that was, ultimately, not a nice man. A man who cared deeply about his people, but one who would also stop at no means to get them what he believed were their just dues. Which is to say, as rulers of society.

In Genosha, he enjoyed that life. Ruling. And, by proxy, it afforded Wanda a certain level of nobility besides. Not that she took advantage of that. But it did mean that at times like this, when she came to visit her father in his home, that she was treated like his daughter.

Which is why she didn't arrive by usual, more polite means, and instead employed her ability to merely be where she wished to be.

And today, she wishes to be with her Papa...

Magneto has posed:
     Wanda would be transported directly to the Royal Palace in Genosha. Magneto has gone by many names during his long life, Max Eisenhardt, Erik Lensherr, Papa, but ultimately, he was Magneto: one of the most feared Mutants in the world.

  To the people of Genosha, he was a savior, their King. He had worked to overthrow the past government and freed the former slaves of their bonds. Since then, he had worked to build up this corner of the world into a haven for mutantkind.

  Magneto had been enjoying a moment of peace on the balcony of his home, overlooking the coast into the sea. He was enjoying a cup of tea, looking up to find his daughter had joined him he gives a light smile, spreading his arms wide in an embracing offer. "Wanda, my darling!"

Scarlet Witch has posed:
The balcony, Wanda knows, though it takes her a few seconds to get her bearins, and then to light her gaze upon her father. It's a thing, along with his greeting, that has her cheeks taking on the palest hue of pink and her head tilting down in a sudden shyness.

"Papa," she breathes in a softly lilting voice, clearly accented. "I did hope that I did not interrupt you. Only here you are, enjoying a rest."

The embrace is taken advantage of.

"It is okay that I can join you? We will have the tea together?"

And should he look, to ascertain, or to invite, there is, indeed a second cup by the teapot, as much as if he'd brought an extra with him in exact anticipation of the arrival of company. Only, he hadn't.

Magneto has posed:
     "Enjoying a rest indeed, but it's made all the better with the addition of family." The man continues with his smile, looking down at the tea set, complete with second cup and saucer.

  "Have a seat, please." He offers, taking a seat next to the offered one. "It is of course okay to join me, dear. Any time you wish." Not that he had a choice there, but he did care for his three children, even if their views clashed every now and again. "Something on your mind, daughter?" He asks, the tea pot rises and pours a cup for Wanda, obviously something he was doing, even without raising a hand.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
If Wanda had noticed that there wasn't a second cup and then suddenly there was, she makes no note of it. In fact, the little pleased noise of surprise she makes when he's already pouring her a cup as she takes a seat would suggest she hadn't.

"How is it you always know, Papa?" He earns a fond smile for his question. "I do say I have come to say hello, and you ask what it is that is truly bothering me." She waits until he's done 'pouring', reaching for the now full cup and its saucer, and sighs. "It is not so much I am bothered, Papa. Only it has been.. No. That is not truth. I am bothered. Only the words are hard."

Magneto has posed:
     Magneto simply shrugs a bit at the first question. Though to her comment the master of magnetism lowers the teapot, the cup ready for consumption. "I'm a man who has lived a long life. I can surely sense when one of my children has more than just a social call in mind." He takes his own cup and drinks a little, enjoying the brew.

  He waits patiently for her to work out the words. His form of dress was a simple suit, he also had a cape hanging off one shoulder, held to his clothes with a pin emblazoned with the seal of Genosha. He most likely had an appearance later in the day that he would need to look kingly for.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda blows over her tea, one hand taking a grip of the delicate fingerloop, and lifting the porcelin thing to her lips that she might do so.

"It is that you love us," she agrees. At least it's the easiest explanation for her and she's willing to accept it. "It is just that there are so many things in my head, Papa."

Her tea is sipped, and found to be of hte perfect temperature, allowing her to distract herself while she ponders where to begin. And further, with what.

"Papa? You are powerful, yes?" She looks over to him, even though the question is somewhat rhetorical in nature. Still, she seems to need the confirmation of the thing. To be able to place him firmly as an authority for where her troubled heart sits.

Magneto has posed:
     Magneto places the cup back to the saucer. He wonders how exactly she meant by powerful. "I lead a country, and have done many things in my life that would be considered powerful. I would venture to say that yes, I am." Quickly, though he still does wonder where this is going.

  His eyes meet hers, not judgmental, but supportive, since she seems more than a bit troubled.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Of course he's powerful. He's not feared for no reason.. and it's that 'feared' that worries her. Though, as she speaks, it becomes clear the worry is not so much about him this time. In the past, his escapades (such as the assassination of the President) have concerned her - even moved her to action - but this time, the worry does not extend that far.

"Papa, it is only that I can hurt people. I did think about this very long, and I do not know what it is to do."

She lifts her eyes to him.

"I do try so very hard to not hurt others, and it does always seem I do the wrong thing. Nolan, he says that it is because I do not accept who I am. That I am too much trying to be not what I am and it does hurt others. I do not know."

Magneto has posed:
     "Dear child, you are who you are." He says, reaching a hand to beet hers.

  "The progeny of greatness can indeed to great things. You and Pietro, and Lorna. You all have a part of the best of be." To him, it wasn't bad. "And Nolan, did not take that well, I guess." He knew she was powerful, and ventured much more than even he. "But He says you don't wish to be Homo Superior?"

Scarlet Witch has posed:
"No,no, Papa. Nolan, he is good. He is saying I should not hide who I am." Magneto gets a fond smile; one that ends in that sudden shyness again. "He says I will be happier if do not worry so much. That it is always that there will be time even the thing that is right will cause pain."

Her teacup is picked up, then set back upon its saucer without being sipped from.

"It is only that I have seen what you do do sometimes. And what it is that Pietro has done." Not to mention things from her own past, such as that village that they burned. "It is only, Papa that it would be so easy to try to make it all okay, and to be so very terrible. Only I do not.. Oh, Papa, I did think if I tried to not be powerful, then I could always do the good. Only it is not that. I do make the mistakes. So many mistakes."

Magneto has posed:
     "You shouldn't, no one should hide who they are." He's told her before if things that happened in his own past, and how he sees parallels to that past in America.

  "Making mistakes is life, we grow with those mistakes. I swore to never let what happened to my people happen ever again, and here we are, a safe haven where Mutants can live freely." He doesn't mention the human population still on the island, but his goal was to have her believe he wasn't the despot he was once accused of being.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
"That is what he did say, too. That it is not good to hide myself."

She's looking very thoughtful, but there is some relief about her.

"It is hard, though. I am sometimes a bit frightened." Her father might be of a mind to manipulate her; Nolan, however, she has faither wouldn't be. That they both agree in this has given her food for thought.

"You are well, Papa? It is not so very often we do get to talk."