At first, Wanda was just confused. Why did she hurt so much? She couldn't remember the last time the pain was this bad, not since the early days, not since-
Finally, she managed to cut through the fog and realize what was happening, and then came the panic, grabbing her and rising fast the instant she let it in. She tried to get up, a child's instinct to run, but her muscles, her bones all felt like they were on fire, and she knew there was nowhere to go. This was a threat from without, yes, but he was already there, already a part of her. He had been for months, now, thanks to the island, and she'd just been too stupid, too willfully blind to let herself see that and now it was too late.
Looking back, she didn't quite understand her initial reaction, a strange dismay to see that it was still Bruce in there, that he was hanging on. Not until she realized what exactly it was that she was so afraid of.
"Kill me," she said, her voice high and breathless. She knew she was already slipping away, knew she wouldn't even notice when it happened, and she couldn't let herself just end that way, not again. "Please."
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Finally, she managed to cut through the fog and realize what was happening, and then came the panic, grabbing her and rising fast the instant she let it in. She tried to get up, a child's instinct to run, but her muscles, her bones all felt like they were on fire, and she knew there was nowhere to go. This was a threat from without, yes, but he was already there, already a part of her. He had been for months, now, thanks to the island, and she'd just been too stupid, too willfully blind to let herself see that and now it was too late.
Looking back, she didn't quite understand her initial reaction, a strange dismay to see that it was still Bruce in there, that he was hanging on. Not until she realized what exactly it was that she was so afraid of.
"Kill me," she said, her voice high and breathless. She knew she was already slipping away, knew she wouldn't even notice when it happened, and she couldn't let herself just end that way, not again. "Please."