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

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Wanda's smile fades, but not for the reasons one might think. She looks down at the parcel he holds, drawing her brows together as her smile resurrects into a softer, smaller shape.

"This is for me?" It's a silly question to ask, but one that feels like it needs to be asked to let her save face and avoid looking at it stupidly like she's never been gifted something before. She has been, although it's been a long time. She doesn't take it from him yet.

Cocking her head to the side, she steps away from her door, prompting it to widen. "Come in. Watch your head. My door is made for small redheads with great senses of humour."

She doesn't wait for him like one might, keeping the door open with a sliver of red magic spanning along the wooden door's edge. Wanda leads him into the small furnished living room; it's comfortably decorated with a couch and armchair, wooden tables and picture frames featuring her boys (there's no Vision) she'd created before she lost her ability to create. She sits on her armchair and waits for him to make himself comfortable.

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At her muted surprise response, Sweeney shrugs his head. "Seemed fittin', given all ya've done fer me." He's a little surprised when she doesn't take it after making that show, but maybe it's more faerie stuff she's using to make a point. Nevertheless, she invites him inside, and that counts as a win.

"S'ppose one outta three means I'd earn the bruising," he pokes, even as he bends to clear the doorframe unscathed.

Whatever he'd expected, it wasn't pictures of their kids--no, her kids--fuck. There's a barb in his heart, but he shores up the feelin' along with his thoughts. Sweeney focuses elsewhere, and takes a seat on the couch nearer the chair. He angles out a touch to account for the length of his legs and leaves the bundle on his lap.

"It's a lovely place," he continues honestly.

"It's nice ta see ya indoors in a space that's yers." Much better than her out wandering the woods on her own.

Sweeney had worried, but at the end of the day, Wanda is going to be who she is without his input, worry or otherwise, and he'd worked to accept her choosing her own way.