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before june event

[carmesi]

I am sure you are glad we are not in the same factions.
Beats having to lock me up in my room yourself, doesn't it?

[okay, maybe she's a little salty still. she was hopeful that, perhaps, seeing how they had interacted in some very vague sense a couple of times while in the horizon, that tony stark would man up and maybe reach out?

maybe peter's positive experiences with the man made her overestimate him. how underwhelming, regardless.]

I don't think I will ever be able to truly forgive you. But it's been almost a year for me. Since we defeated Thanos.

[since you died, she doesn't say, but implies.]

I've always ever been angry at you. Especially because you always seem to look for reasons to ignore me.
Peter talks about you. I've seen memories of his with you.
I think that.
—maybe.
That it would have been nice. If I wasn't always so angry, so scared. So upset with you. Anymore, anyway. You did the world a service, and yet I still. Feel like Pietro and I meant nothing to you.

You do not have to talk to me, Stark. But you could at least acknowledge me.

[she sends this message across the mind-connection they have, thinking, realizing, that this is the first time she's ever said these many things to this man. there's a lot she needs to get off her chest though, before she can even mention vision.]

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[ It's a few minutes before a reply comes back. ]

I just assumed you'd prefer not to hear from me.

So here I am. I'm listening. What do you need?

[ The message is devoid of his usual sarcastic quality, even through the filter of glowing monospaced text. Wanda's familiar enough with Tony Stark and the the many shades of his armor that she might notice the use of the word "need" – like it's significant, somehow. Like his own ingenuity – the promise of tangible things, created things – is all he can offer, because the past is gone and done. Because at the end of the day, a "sorry" isn't worth much at all. ]

[carmesi]

You shouldn't always assume things about me.

[because she hates the idea that someone so pivotal in her life (regardless of it being in a negative way) would be so seemingly disinterested. however, wanda appreciates the candor, and the fact that she got a reply at all.]

I wanted to talk to you about Vision.

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[ This reply comes back quicker. ]

I heard what happened. I'm sorry.

[ "Heard about" is inaccurate. "Knew he was gone, the second it ended" would be more honest, but probably not very pleasant to hear for either of them. ]

You probably knew more about him than anyone, but. Sure.

[carmesi]

[heard. it's not the same as having been there, and wanda needs tony to know what happened to him.]

He was already injured when Thanos came to Earth with all stones but the Mind Stone.
We tried to protect him. To stop Thanos.
Vision knew that the only way to keep Thanos from reaching his goal was to destroy the stone before he got it. He asked me to do it. He never hesitated, Stark. Not for a second.
He didn't beg for more time. He just knew what he needed to do.

[someone needs to honor vision, even if it's nothing but words shared across this magical mind connection.]

He was terrified when Thanos brought him back with the Time Stone.
He died twice, and his sacrifice meant nothing in the end.

In those five years, did you ever look for his body? Did Banner?
Or did it not matter anymore?

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[ Jesus.

He'd known Vision and Wanda were gone – Vision by process of elimination, and Wanda from the the ID photos in the Avengers command room, as well as her – and the others' – suffocating absence. But from his hazy recall of Cap's debriefing on Thanos' attack on Wakanda, he doesn't think – he didn't know...

He'd thought Titan had been horrifying to witness.

He lets her finish, and it's only then that he frowns. What she's saying, it doesn't... ]

I'm from 2018. A month after the snap. I'd barely gotten back to Earth when I woke up here, so I have no idea what I did or didn't do in the five years afterward. I'm sorry.

[ He has some idea. He married Pepper. They raised a daughter. He died, in one shot at saving the world – his family – out of fourteen billion. Or so he's told.

But she wasn't your first child, was she, a little voice says, and he swallows down something dry. ]

[carmesi]

[why does it always feel like tony stark always fails her, even as the world chants him praises? wanda doesn't know what she expected from him, but maybe a little more than just 'i'm sorry, i don't know'.

but he meant (means) so much to peter, and vision—]

Vision would talk about you when we would meet.
I think he was trying to convince me that your intentions were never wrong.
He always said it wasn't the case.

You meant a lot to him. Even when he would say things like how he never understood the concept of family, or how he's never actually been lonely. He felt like he was able to understand what those things were.
I know that you gave him a home and a place to belong to. He would never have had those things had it not been for you.

Money was of no use to him, so... I always wondered.
Did you ever know about his plans for Westview?