How Natasha and Wanda became friends [and maybe more..]
- To preface, after age of Ultron the team, while accepting of Wanda, the team were apprehensive of her. Given the whole mind bending and losing of her brother. She also wasn’t in a good spot mentally and ended up locking herself in her room, only opening the door to take the plates of food that the avengers(mostly Nat, Steve, and Clint) were leaving her.
- So Natasha hadn’t expected to see much of Wanda, especially not in the dead of night, peering over a now very much wide awake Natasha.
- Given Wandas living conditions when she was a young girl in Sokovia, it safe to say she was sharing a bed with either Pietro or her parents, then living on the streets, she would have been with her brother. All of this is to say Wanda would be very used to having someone in her bed when she went to sleep. Now she had no one.
- Wanda, eye bags, tear stains and all, just asked Natasha simply if she could sleep with her. And Natasha to shocked to say anything but, “sure”, moved over and let Wanda get under the covers.
- Surprisingly, to Natasha, Wanda feel fast asleep. And the next morning, Natasha woke to her and Wanda curled up next to each other. She slowly slipped out, because Natasha is an early bird who likes to train before dawn, but she did wrap Wanda back up in covers, before sneaking away.
- When Natasha came back, she brought a plate of waffles that Steve had miraculously made somehow that morning, in hopes of talking to Wanda, but she wasn’t there.
- So Natasha went to Wandas door, plate of waffles in hand, and knocked asking to be let in.
- And miraculously, she was.
- Wanda, actually looking rested for once, let Natasha in and toke the plate of waffles from her. And the two just sat in quiet for awhile. Neither speaking, waiting for the other. But neither said anything, so eventually around lunch, Natasha got up, touched Wandas shoulder and left.
- And this repeated for the next month, Wanda coming to Natasha’s room at night, and Natasha coming to Wanda’s room at day, always silent.
- Until Wanda spoke one day, and asked if Natasha had a sibling. And Natasha said, yes. And before long Wanda was crying and Natasha was tearing up, and the two held each other and talked of Pietro and Yelena.
- After that the two started talking, and Natasha convinced Wanda to leave her room for lunch one day, and another she got her down to the training room, and another she sat through an entire season of “I love Lucy” just because she liked to see the brunette smile, and another she got Wanda to go outside and take a short walk, and another she was able to get Wanda stay out of her room for the entire day, and another they made dinner together, and another she, and Clint took Wanda to get a cat.
- In the beginning Natasha thought of Wanda as a target, not a violent one, but one she had to get back on there feet. But in the end they ended up as friends. Wanda gravitating to Natasha over any of the other boys at the compound.
- And soon it got to the point that the two wondered if they were more.