I want more Wanda/Natasha interactions and I’ll tell you why: Natasha has every reason to be terrified of Wanda. She knows what Wanda can do, one wave of her hand and some glowy red magic and Natasha is reduced to a brainwashed Red Room agent.
Moreover, Natasha represents everything that Wanda fears about herself. She knows that she can bring out the very worst in people, and that she’s a physical embodiment of everything they fear. So their budding friendship, or any sisterly interactions could be a very tangible manifestation that they’re both moving past their histories and their pain and learning how to put it all behind them.
Plus can you imagine the trouble they could get into with Wanda’s telekinesis and Natasha’s super-spy skills? They would be the prank queens of the Avengers, and whenever anyone hears them giggling or whispering in Russian they immediately look for an exit and sleep with one eye open.
It would be glorious
This is actually absolutely hilarious because I kid you not I wrote almost the exact same thing in one of my drafts and I was just about to publish it on my blog.
I would have loved to see more interaction between them in Civil War, especially since the connection between the two of them during the New Avengers training would be very interesting. I had this HC that Natasha wouldn’t even look Wanda in the eye for a while, not necessarily because she is scared of Wanda, but horrified about what she can do.
I have a HC that before the New Avengers training even started, that when she was staying in Clint’s house, after Wanda attacked her, the visions would come back dancing at night. The visions had always been there, in the back of her mind. There were some nights where she had to handcuff herself to the bed just to feel a sense of normalcy (and even Clint didn’t know that one). But after Wanda attacked her, everything came back, flooding all at once. While she had to do her best to hide it from the other Avengers, she couldn’t hide it from herself. In such a high-stakes and emergency extraction from a mission, she obviously didn’t bring her hand-cuffs with her to Clint’s farmhouse. That whole timeline (however long she was at Clint’s house) was like a daze. No-sleep, mental torture, and tears would do that to you.
And Natasha Romanoff never cries.
She tried to hide this from Clint’s children, but Clint, knowing Natasha, picked up that something was wrong. Let’s just say that he did his best to keep Wanda away from Natasha. (This may have resulted in some very deep and touchy conversations with Clint and Wanda late at night - about not only justifying to Wanda that she is a good person, but reassuring her that Natasha’s avoidance of her wasn’t personal; even if he didn’t believe that himself).
I want to see the anxiety in both Natasha and Wanda’s eyes when they first “meet” each other for the first time, knowing the damage that has just been done. I want to see Natasha’s reaction when she is asked to be the second hand with Steve in training the new recruits. I want to see her slowly come to terms with Wanda, to forgive her for what she did, no matter how difficult. Because Ultron had gotten to Wanda’s head, just like the Red Room had been in Natasha’s. Wanda was (in the MCU) motivated by the death of her family. Natasha never truly had one until she found the Avengers.
I want to see the awkward exchanges, the avoidance turning to pointers during training. I want to see Natasha teaching Wanda some of her infamous moves (though she keeps the Death by Thighs one to herself), but I also want to see Wanda teaching Natasha a few things. I want to see a hatred of a past experience turn into something beautiful, where both of them can forgive themselves and each other for their past actions and work to make a better world.
