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[Wanda learned years ago how to hide her true feelings behind a calm, almost bored expression. She knew how to control her body language to seem relaxed when she wasn't, and how to rely on subtle nuances of tone to get her point across. So it's not difficult to hide the anxiousness and tension she feels in her Water sector suite. She's separated from her brother, really separated, for the first time in her life, and also from the team she's come to trust and rely on. In some ways, she even considered them her friends.

Lips pursed, she flips on the console in her suite and leans back in her chair, by all appearances entirely unruffled by her current circumstances. Dressed in her Ultimates uniform, she crosses one leg over the other and periodically takes sips from the glass of water in her hand.

Those familiar with her alternate universe counterpart might notice a striking resemblance to the Scarlet Witch they know. Though she's at least ten years younger, her hair darker and straighter, and her uniform entirely different, her face and bearing are remarkably similar.]

As it seems highly unlikely that our hosts have provided full and completely honest details about our situation here, I'd appreciate any insight you all may have, or information they may have neglected to to give me during their orientation.

[After a brief pause she continues, though the words are completely foreign to Wanda.]

It also appears to be required that I find work as well. Unless anyone's spoken to a man by the name of Fury recently, recommendations as to where I might begin looking would also be welcome.

[She ends the transmission without offering her name or listing any of her affiliations save that of Nick Fury. Those who know her will contact her, she's certain, and perhaps those familiar with Fury will as well. Anyone else she has no intention of enlightening any more than is absolutely necessary. Not until she gets a better impression of the climate of the city and the other foreigners living in it.]

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You say that like I don't know what she did, or what the X-Men wanted her dead for. Or you know, saw her restoring Rictor's powers. We didn't let Cyclops give the real Scarlet Witch a death sentence and I'm not about to let you do this to someone who has nothing to do with our universe.

So back the fuck off before I make you.

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That was one mutant, and she couldn't do any better than that, and it sure as hell doesn't make up for the millions that lost their powers, the ones that disappeared because of that loss, my friends who were killed because of her, and the ones that died because of the events she made possible to happen.

I'm not going to try to kill her. Scott fucking Summers might have forgotten what it means to be an X-Man, but we don't kill. That doesn't mean that I ever have to be okay with her and smile and act like everything is okay with her being here.

You don't understand what she did to mutants and you never will, so stay the hell out of my face unless you want yours broken.

Edited 2013-06-04 21:32 (UTC)

Yeah, because the X-Men isn't full of murderers and terrorists but somehow their crimes are forgiven and forgotten. I mean, geez, they let Magneto join, and he's killed thousands. [He has the best relatives :|a] Wolverine, Rogue, Emma Frost. I can keep going.

--Ugh, look. I'm not asking you to be okay with her or act like what happened was okay--because it wasn't--all I'm asking is that you back off this Wanda. She had nothing to do with that, and seriously? You're poking a bear here, and she can do a lot worse to you than me.

You can't blame her for something she didn't even do.

Hey! I never wanted Magneto on the team. That was another brilliant Scott Summers decision. [There's no love for Cyclops here.] But this isn't about murder, this is about genocide, and none of the murderers and terrorists on the X-Men or the Avengers could pull that off.

[Santo forces a sigh. He wants to yell more, he wants to punch something or just explode until he feels any semblance of "better. But it's not going to happen.]

I almost kind of want her to... But fine. I'll back off of her for now, but you better keep the word "mutant" off her lips, because I'm not going to lose any more people because she's too crazy to control herself.

You still let him on and acted like his crimes meant nothing. And it doesn't change the fact that half the X-Men and the Avengers were on the wrong side of the law in one way or another. You know she wants to pay for her crimes, right? She's trying to make things right. And doesn't want people to think that 'sorry' is gonna fix everything. Because it won't and she knows it.

[He scrunches his nose up and bites his tongue. He want to keep arguing with Santo, but he knows getting into a fight with him would probably end badly for him. Getting punched in the face with a boulder wasn't exactly on his bucket list, but he's not just gonna sit and watch him blame someone for something they didn't do. Especially not when it's a version of his mother.]

--Fine. You just stay away from her.

[Well, if Wanda ever wondered if Tommy was related, his immediate defense proves he's inherited something from his uncle.]

As much as I appreciate your intentions, I can handle myself against people like him. Don't pit yourself against him for my sake.

[He sort of puffs up a little.]

I'm not just doing it for you.

No? Then what are your reasons?

[He gives a small frustrated noise.]

He's talking bad about the Scarlet Witch from my world. And I'm not gonna let him just insult her when she can't respond herself.

[It's odd, to think of there being two of her. Wanda eventually nods.]

Of course.

[There's no apology or thanks, but the nod seems to imply approval for his sticking up for family.]

And it's not like the X-Men are saints either.

Is he one of the X-Men?

[That would explain a lot.]

Yeah. They dicks in your world too?

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Trust me, if I had my way, me and every other mutant would be on a different turtle right now.

Yeah, well. You can't have your way.

At least not until we find another giant turtle with a city on its back. Until then, I'll just side-eye her like crazy.

Good luck with that, Pebbles.

[She's just stalking this for fucking ever and you'd better believe she's keeping her eye on you, Santo.]

[No! He's keeping his eye on her. Points to his eyes, points to her ass.]

[Hhhh, the curses of looking fabulous in tight black leather.]

[He'll be honest. There's at least one thing he likes about her.]

[And it's nothing of actual merit. Figures.]

[It's a start, so they should try to work with it. At least her ass hasn't tried to kill all mutants yet.]

[She is always working with her ass. It is her secret source of magical power, and she's pretty sure it's more likely to summon dinosaurs than it is to take away mutant powers and kill people.]

[He'd actually really like to see that... Dinosaurs around here, not her ass...

And her ass too.]

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