6086/Wherefore Art Thou Brother

Wherefore Art Thou Brother
Date of Scene:	01 January 2019
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Wanda discovers Pietro has returned. Their reuinion proceeds as though time has never parted them.
Cast of Characters:	Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver

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Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda had left Janet's party abruptly upon finding out that Pietro was back in town. Or somewhere. Somewhere close enough that Janet knew - and was under the impression that Wanda knew. Which Wanda didn't. Wanda had known her brother was safe - that much she coudl fathom based on the link that lay between them, but more than that? She hadn't pushed the limits.

Now that she knew, however, all bets were off, and Wanda was actively looking. Such that unless he's found a way to keep her out, she ports into the space he occupies, wide eyed and searching for him.

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro was currently running.

Of course he is. So of course, he's experiencing everything in SUPER SLOW MOTION. He was also lookin' for Wanda, and was honing in on her location. So imagine his surprise when he sees a glowing red portal coming near him. So he stops, as does his blurry blue streak, and he looks at his sister approaching, and his smile just gets bigger and bigger.

Time goes back to normal for him, and he sees his sister. He doesn't waste time. He's not in some special super-suit, he's not dressed in his Brotherhood garb, he's just wearing a track jacket with some nice blue jeans and white running shoes. and suddenly, Wanda might feel Pietro giving her the biggest hug. His accent peaking through his words. "I missed you, Wanda."

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Oh, he gets to hug her alright, and then Wanda pushes him, both hands flat upon his chest, her cheeks scarlet, "You! You did come back and not tell me. I did find out from someone else. At a party. A big party. Like I was a nobody."

He gets another push, but this time her hands stay upon his chest and she searches his face. "I did miss you so ery much. It was like part of me was the missing with you gone."

She's hopeful that this isn't just a flyby visit, but him coming home to stay.

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro looks at Wanda right in the eyes. "I looked at the Avengers mansion for you and you weren't there. I was literally running to see you." he doesn't seem to mind that he was shoved. Keep the cool, Pietro. you're reformed.

For Wanda.

he then gets another push, and he looks her in the eyes, clearing wild strands of hair from his sister's face. "Wanda, you will never be nobody. You are my sister. that makes you the somebody, always. Besides, thick and thin, all we have is each other." he smiles to her then. "and....I'm here to stay. You won't get rid of me so easy this time eh? I even asked Steve Rogers for official membership so I can be closer to you. Be like old times...without the terrorism."

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda purses her lips like she's about to scold, only she laughs instead. "Of course I was not there. Tonight I was at a party. But if I am not on duty, I do live with Nolan. Who I do think we shall wait for you to meet. I am not sure he has recovered from meeting Papa yet."

She pauses, eyes wide. "Wait! Does Papa know you are back? And Steve, he would let you be welcome. Always he believes the best in people." She gives Pietro a stern, but loving look, "You will not betray that, no? You will try? Hard, this time? For me? It has been so lonely without you. I did miss you so much." Even as she knows in her heart of hearts that when Pietro is around, she is less her own person. Just as with her father, there is so much of her that can be manipulated, try as she might to stand firm.

Wanda cups his face. "It really is you. I told Papa I would know if you were unwell. And Lorna, too. She has been asking. But nobody has missed you as much as I have. My heart is so glad."

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro is so riddled with questions that even he needs to catch up. "Okay, okay, you have reason." Pietro then chuckles. "Yes, Yes, I will not betray his trust. He saw good in me at first, and I actually DO like all of them, you know. So I kill none of them. Only bad guys." he smiles to her, and he reaches to give her hands a firm squeeze, then his cheeks are cupped!

He puts his hands on Wanda's shoulders. They always did share such a strong sibling connection that no one can really explain why on earth it's so strong. Stronger than even twins would give. "It is me. I promise. If you cut me, I would bleed. Lorna? Polaris? Ohhhh...shit. I haven't seen her in a long time. I hope everything is okay." becuase Lorna was his sister too. She's not Wanda, but she's blood. To a Maximoff, family is everything.

"Wait...who is Nolan?" AAAAND protective Pietro is back.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
"Yes, I have reason," Wanda says simply, some of her innocent demeanour falling away. Her hands still cupped to his face. "You are the other half of me, Pietro. But we have done things that we can not do anymore. Not and still.." She stops herself and pulls her hands away. "I do not want to be that person anymore. We do not have to be those people anymore. Those men, those things they tried to turn us into? We are not that."

Her smile is becoming. "I believe in you. It is not just him who sees the good. I see in you all the good. And.. there will always be the bad for us to fight against if you miss it. Maybe not so much killing, hrm?"

Her eyes twinkle, and she sighs deeply, drinking the sight of him in until he brings up Nolan. Then she grins, green eyes twinkling, "Yes. Nolan. He is.. well, you will see. But he does the magic. And he is something of an investigator. He sees ghosts. They seem to like him. I think you will like him. He.."

She looks distant as she remembers, the soft innocence of her voice falling away.

"I was trapped in Bellvue. They thought that I was a crazy person, and they were about to shock my brain. I could feel myself slipping away, and he recued me. He clawed his way through everything between himself and me to save me. I would not be here if it were not for him. But I loved him before that."

Quicksilver has posed:
Oh great, a boyfriend.

THe words are written plain as day over Pietro's face. but it explained so mcuh! "That explains it...I knew I needed to come and find you long time ago, and so I ran as fast as I could..but then you were alright...and I was content. Speaking of which, that is...many a story."

He also hates magic because its so hard to predict. Wanda is the exception. "I already don't like him...but I tolerate. For you."

His accenti s as strong as Wanda's. It's like they are back in Romania. "You are never crazy. and...I thank you everyday for still believing in me...even when I'm wrong." he kisses Wanda's forehead in a very paternal way, and he hugs her again. "I won't leave you again. I promise." He'll protect her against everything if he has to.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
Wanda ducks her head for the kiss. It's a simple thing that makes everything alright. It makes all the separations between them okay. Like they'd never been apart.

"You will like him because he loves me. Though I think he will probably growl at you some. That is his way. But he cares as much as you or Papa do that I am happy."

She lifts her head to look her brother straight in the eyes, biting at her lower lip as she says softly, "He makes me happy, Pietro. Happier than I have ever been."

She nods at the assertion that she will not be left again. "If you do leave, I will find you. This time I will follow you to the ends of the earth to know where it is you have run to." A smile blossoms. "It is you. Truly you. Oh!" A thing is remembered, and her cheeks pinken. "There is a small thing I do need to tell you. It is that I do have children. It is best to say that it is complicated, and that they are much older than you might expect. They are, well, one is very like you. Tommy. He is all the fast. And then there is Billy, who is most like me. Maybe more so. All the magic."

She waits for his reaction.

Quicksilver has posed:
And just like that, all is well! Any trials or tribulations between them is healed through such a simple action. She was literally his other half. How could he maintain disdain with her? and vice versa?

When she tells him about Nolan, Pietro narrows his eyes. This Nolan makes Wanda more happy than Pietro does?! he almost looks wounded. But such is love, and he understands. "I am....glad you have someone that makes you so happy." it could mess up their inseperable dynamic, but Pietro loves Wanda enough thath e wants her to be happy always.

then she tells him she'll follow him to the ends of the earth. "You will have ot keep up." he winks. "But don't worry...and don't you go anywhere either, or I will have to hunt you down." he smiles to her. "it is me." he cups her cheeks. then his eyes widen. "what?"

CHILDREN?

IS WANDA EVEN MARRIED?

"Wait...so...this Tommy and Billy...they are like younger us? Are they our children? clones? Is Trask at it again?" he is sooooo confused.

Scarlet Witch has posed:
"Wherever could you go, Pietro, that I am not already there," she asks of him. And it's true. He might be able to move at speeds unknown, but she defiesthe rules that others must play by, and were she to need to be there, there she would be, waiting.

"No... not clones. I did make them. That is, a me made them. And hid them here from Papa. It is long and complicated, but it is simplest to say that they are mine, and oh, they are beautiful, Pietro. And grown. So very big. A little confused and hurt by things still, but that is a thing we can work on. I.. In another time, I did love someone greatly and wished to give them my love like this. Only it is that Papa and you are always my downfall. So I did hide them where he could not find them and use them. Only I was too clever for myself. And one day, there they were. I did remember all of it, only they are of this place now."

As she'd explained to Tommy, their beings had become part of the fabric of this reality. They could no longer return to the one they were birthed in. It was a sadness, and while she was not the Wanda who created them, they were, indeed, still hers in all the ways there were. That was simply how reality folded upon itself.

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro shrugs. "The future, probably." Oh that is a story. But it would explain where Pietro had gone. What happens in Pietro-adventure STAYS in Pietro-adventure. But, he just tilts his head at Wanda, raising a brow at her as she tells him about Billy and Tommy. "uhm...oh..okay. I still not sure I understand. A you...who isn't you....made the babies, and...now you take care of the kids not-you-but-still-you gave birth to?" he rubs his temples.

"Do I have kids I should know about, Wanda? Because to my knowledge, I haven't made the babies."

Scarlet Witch has posed:
"You do not have to understand," Wanda says simply. Reality is her forte. Not his. "And I do not think you have children you do not know about. Not unless you have been careless." Because there is a distinct difference between creating children as she did and, well, accidentally having them.

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro was impulsive, yes, but he wasn't stupid.

He wouldn't make the same mistakes his father did when it came to....ahem..procreation. But, Pietro just shrugs, and shakes his head. "Nope. I haven ot even been...how to put it, sleeping with people. If I had a child, I would know. There would be like...smaller me zooming around." which is apparently Tommy.

"Either way....but tell me, How is papa? Is he being foolish again?"

Scarlet Witch has posed:
WAnda's features brighten, "No. Papa is being entirely reasonable since.. the incident." Which does make her brow furrow. Because that whole thing was horrible, and not only was it horrible, she'd done a terrible, terrible thing at the time. A thing she's still not dealt with. "I would like to believe he has changed his ways. I suppose time will tell. But he is in Genosha now, ruling. As it should be. He seems to be not so concerned with the power so much as the getting along. I do not know. I do not know if I trust him, but he is Papa."

Which is to say she loves him anyway.

Quicksilver has posed:
Pietro sems to look relieved. "Good. I hate confronting father. I love him, and we argue much...but sometimes He goes too far. It's one of hte only things I agree with Charles Xavier about." Pietro crosses his arms and shakes his head. "But....I do not think I will ever trust Papa again."

If Pietro is deceptive, Magneto is downright manipulative and deceitful. Pietro had to get it from SOMEONE. but, he looks to Wanda. his hands cupping her cheeks again. "There's so much to tell you. It really does bring me joy to be with you again, Wanda."

Scarlet Witch has posed:
"I do not trust Papa," Wanda says carefully. "Not in anything but that he does love us. And that he does truly care for the mutants. But he is extreme and that is not good." As she and Pietro well know, given what they were to be turned into. Given the things they'd done in their youth before they were rescued and set upon a different path.

"We do have time now, for every little detail. We do not need to do it all at once."

Again she smiles at him. "It really is you. You really are back. I have missed you."