Yeah, Tommy could tell plenty of stories about messy families. Shepherds, Maximoffs, it’s all the same. Messy beyond belief and he’s hardly one to judge. So heMs silent. He waits. He watches through seconds that are eternities to him.
Moments like this? They make what he is a literal torture. Will she turn away? Will she demand space? Will she...?
After an endless plethora of nanoseconds she starts to move. And the first step forward tells him all he needs to know. He could leave. He could be gone long before she could blink. Instead he stays and lets those arms wrap around him. Different arms, but still so strong. Like she could hold him together. After a moment his own loop around her back and his head settles against her shoulder. It’s rare to even allow himself that much. But now feels like an acceptable indulgence.
“Yeah. You even give hugs just like Mom’s.”
And that single word may say a lot about how he felt about his relationship with his own Wanda. Didn’t matter if she was there or not. Didn’t matter whether or not he had her DNA (and no one had bothered to test it). Wanda Maximoff was his mother. There were very few simple truths in his life. That was one of them.
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Moments like this? They make what he is a literal torture. Will she turn away? Will she demand space? Will she...?
After an endless plethora of nanoseconds she starts to move. And the first step forward tells him all he needs to know. He could leave. He could be gone long before she could blink. Instead he stays and lets those arms wrap around him. Different arms, but still so strong. Like she could hold him together. After a moment his own loop around her back and his head settles against her shoulder. It’s rare to even allow himself that much. But now feels like an acceptable indulgence.
“Yeah. You even give hugs just like Mom’s.”
And that single word may say a lot about how he felt about his relationship with his own Wanda. Didn’t matter if she was there or not. Didn’t matter whether or not he had her DNA (and no one had bothered to test it). Wanda Maximoff was his mother. There were very few simple truths in his life. That was one of them.