Wandas POV

Well shit. Thought I got away without anyone noticing we talked about that.

"Uh, well. I don't really know her that well..."

Lenas eyes narrowed, "yeah.. Alex never told me how you knew each other."

I gulp. I don't think there's any way around this but through it. And more wine.

I top off my glass before continuing, trying to decide the best tactic for this.

I turn to Nat, knowing she knows just about everything to do with this situation, hoping her eyes give me some kind of direction.

She is looking at me with pity.

"Well.. I guess I first met her when she saved me from.."

"Holy hell. I don't know why I didn't connect the dots sooner. Please don't tell me I'm right on this," Nat cuts me off.

And for a moment, I'm very confused, my expression showing just how confused.

She raises an eyebrow at me and then it dawns on me: she wants me to read her mind.

I take a deep breath, "you sure?"

"Yeah, I don't really know if I should say this out loud right now," she is not happy.

Without saying another word, I reach into Nats mind, and what I hear matches her tone; "you better not have fucked my sisters girlfriend while they were dating."

"What?! Nat, of course I didn't. Or if I did, I didn't know! I would never do that to Yelena!" I defend myself, almost forgetting that no one else knows what Nat thought.

"Okay, can I interject here? What wouldn't you do to me?" Yelena speaks up, reminding me that I still have to explain myself to her.

I clear my throat and angle myself towards her. "Well.."

"Wanda slept with Spencer," Nat bites, arms crossed as she stares into my soul.

And at those final words there were all brought back to silence. The air is thick, practically suffocating me. I don't know what anyone else is think and I don't dare speak first.

No, these are my friends, I'm not reading their thoughts without permission.

And I don't think this is an appropriate time to ask. Nat saying I could earlier is not the same thing as now.

The silence stretching for far too long.

I take the risk and look around at everyone. Nat knows what she said and at least looks a little remorseful for having said it.

Spencer is a little shocked and a little confused, but she's still holding onto Nat. She also won't look at me.

And Yelena. Yelena looks hurt, mostly. Shocked still. And she is looking at me.

"You.. you slept with my girlfriend? And I thought.. how could you?" She speaks quietly but there's a pain in her words.

"I did sleep with Alex, but it's not what you.."

"How could you do that to me, Wanda? I thought we were friends and you go behind my back and sleep with my girlfriend? And don't give me some bullshit about us not being a real couple. You didn't know that until now. Unless you're reading my mind, too!" The quiet voice is replaced with anger.

This is so quickly spiraling out of control.

"Yelena, it's not what you think, she didn't.." Nat tries.

"No, Nat. Don't defend her. I want to hear her pathetic excuse from her own mouth. And then I'll decide if this friendship is worth anything," Yelena spits out.

Okay, I have to tread lightly here. I know I didn't sleep with her when they were together. Right? At least I definitely didn't know. And I (tried my best) to cut everything off once I knew.

I saw Yelena happy and I wasn't going to ruin that.

Even though I may have ruined our friendship.

Hopefully I can get my story out without seeming like too much of an ass and she'll understand.

But I probably have to talk in order to do that.

"I'm waiting, Wanda. Unless you quite literally can't come up with an excuse right now. Do you need more time?" Yelena sits back and crosses her arms.

I need to defuse this situation.

"Just give her a chance to talk Lena. I'm sure there's an explanation," Spencer says, looking over to me with sympathy, practically begging me to have a good excuse.

"There is an explanation. I had no idea you two were together when I met Alex.." I start. She scoffs. I power on.

"Lena, give her a chance," Nat defends me this time. Good. For a moment I was worried. I didn't realize she hadn't thought of that possibility before now.

"When I went on a solo mission a while back, she saved me from the explosion. I wanted to find her and thank her, she saved my life. I found out which fire house she worked at and went to see her."

Yes, I am omitting the fact that I talked to one of her ex's. I don't think that's necessary or helpful at the moment.

"She was anything but happy to see me. I did get a chance to thank her, but she just mostly yelled at me for being an avenger." I pause, wanting to gauge her reaction so far.

"Okay? And then you just slept together at the fire station?" Yelena still has some spice to her right now, but it's not the venom that it was. I'll take it.

"No. I didn't see her for weeks after that. Not until we went out for a girls night at a bar. We had been there for a while and I was a few drinks in when she arrived with some of her friends."

"I still can't believe she was there and I didnt even know," Nat mumbles.

I ignore it and continue on, "we ended up in another heated argument that somehow turned into.. us going back to my place. But in the morning she was her same angry self and swore that it didn't mean anything and she was seeing someone else anyway. Shortly after that, I ran into you and her at the store and that's when I found out who she was seeing."

There. She can't be too mad at that, right?

There's more silence. I will forever dread this kind of silence. It seems never ending and it holds too much weight.

"So you really didn't know?" She asks softly.

I shake my head, "I had no idea. Not until she told me that morning. I swear, Yelena. Once I knew, I backed off. Not that we really talked outside of those encounters, but I would never do that to you."

Why oh why is there so much silence? I never knew I hated it so much before.

"Well, I don't think it was anything malicious. It's not like there's anything currently going on between them?" Spencer tries, looking over to me.

I take the opportunity, "of course not. That was a one time thing."

She nods her head for a moment, "okay. I believe you. Sounds like you really didn't know and it was before we really started dating. But why didn't you tell me before?"

"What, and have this conversation? I just didn't think it would be helpful to anyone to admit that the Blue I had been telling Nat about was the same person as Alex, your girlfriend. I didn't know if you knew any of that. I also figured it would be best if she told you in her own time."

Yelena lets out a long breath, "okay."

That's all she says so I sit there waiting for her to continue.

"It's a little weird that you two have hooked up, but it's in the past. And since it is a fake relationship.. I'm not really mad. I was just more hurt at the thought that you would do something like that when you thought I was dating them," she admits.

"No, I would never do something like that to you, Yelena. I wouldn't risk our friendship over something like that." That reminds me, "and I would never read your mind or any of my friends minds without their permission. Can't say I didn't want to, but I would never cross that line."

And I am so very very glad in this moment that I didn't. I see how much doing that would have created even more of a drift between us and that's the last thing I want.

"I don't think you would. I'm just glad we can move past this now," Yelena offers me a smile.

"Yes, I'm glad it's all out in the open and cleared," Nat agrees.

Yelena narrows her eyes at Nat, "you're one to talk, Nat. You knew about her and Alex."

I know. I'm so sorry. When she first said she saw you two together I was more concerned with the fact that you didn't tell me you were seeing someone, not on the timeline."

"To be fair, she never brought it up and I was surprised. I thought maybe it wasn't as big of a deal. But I didn't feel like it was my place to bring it up and I didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble," I speak up for Nat.

"What she said, I really didn't, Lena. I was so happy when you wanted to do triple dates and everything that I let the rest slip," Nat confirms.

"And I had no idea any of this was happening," Spencer jokes, we have laugh a little.

I'm almost afraid to ask this, but her response has been good so far, "So.. are we good?"

A genuine smile form Yelena, "yeah. We're good. Just don't go near her again!" She's half joking, I think. "No, but.. mostly because I don't want her to somehow figure out we know each other. Better to not leave that up to chance."

"I completely understand that. I wouldn't want to mess up your mission. I'm sorry for causing all of this already."

"No need to apologize. We figured it out."

"Right, I'm glad we're still good."

"Of course."

"So.." Nat speaks up again. "What are you going to do now, Lena?"