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✿ Rubi-telepathy (easy mode) feels different to ✦ Wanda-telepathy (hard mode).

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[ A long, heavy silence as he processes that. What Wanda lacks in formal training she more than makes up for in raw, intrinsic, terrible power. To find her reduced to sucking up, to asking nicely...

It should be a relief. That there's somebody, anybody, anywhere who has an edge. But the check on the Scarlet Witch these days is Wanda herself, and Stephen is not relieved. He's pissed. ]

Do what you have to do. If it doesn't work, we'll find another way.

[ We, because who else? ]

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[ She doesn't wish to cry, so she doesn't. But something warm flutters in her chest. How long has she allowed her fear of becoming the monster she was, the monster Stephen refuses to describe her as, to keep her wedging distance between them?

He's not the enemy. Stephen never was, even though he fit it so perfectly in the original draft of her script. ]

I don't want you to get in trouble because of me, Stephen.

[ While noble, it's not worth it. It feels like something that needs to be said. She wants to say it. ]

But I will— [ Poignantly adds - ] and we will.

[ Thank you. ]