Wanda and I are the only ones awake in the morning. We decided to get in a sparring session before breakfast, it's still only 6 AM, but usually Steve is awake by now running around outside.

"On your left," He approaches from behind me to take the toast off my plate, taking a bite out of it. I groan and slap his arm while he places it back down, rounding the counter to pour a cup of coffee for himself.

"I hate that every time I think you aren't awake yet you appear. You sure you don't have telepathic abilities Cap?"

He smirks and shrugs, "who knows? Maybe that's my secret."

When Wanda finishes making pancakes she leaves some for everyone to take on a platter dish and hands me my own plate before nodding her head to follow. I grab the plate and my glass of orange juice, then follow her, confused as to wherever the hell she's taking me.

"And where are we going now Maximoff?"

With a short giggle she shrugs, "Somewhere."

We reach the deck and she uses her powers to open the door for us, sitting at a table with the perfect view of the newly risen sun.

"Figured I might take advantage of our time alone before the others awaken. I don't need to share just yet."

She takes a few bites of her pancakes, leaving me to only smile at her cute gesture. It's romantic but doesn't seem like she wants me to acknowledge it as a big deal, so naturally I do just to embarrass her.

"Well isn't that cute and romantic of you."

Her cheeks redden as she tries not to smile, "It's not-I just wanted you alone."

Watching her get all flustered, it's even more adorable. I just eat my food in silence, every so often stealing looks at the beautiful witch. I can feel her looking at me too but I decide to let her freely for a bit until I finish my food. When we both finish, she grabs my hand and pulls me up as she begins to hover. I take the hint and kick off the ground myself, her taking me through the air until we reach the little lake behind the trees of the compound. We settle on the edge of it, sun reflecting off the tiny wind-made ripples of the water.

"I'm really happy," Wanda says simply, eyes trained on the water ripples.

Looking over at her, I take in her side profile, noticing how proficient her jawline truly is, how her lips rest in the most gorgeous way, the sun only illuminating her green eyes even more, almost to the point they look blue. Her hands are clasped together in front of her body, her whole demeanor relaxed and content. The air is calm, birds lively. I could sit in this moment forever.

It feels perfect.

My heart is buzzing with affection for this one woman and I almost want to spurt it out. I know I love her, and I should say it. But it's like my body won't really allow me to. I haven't said those words to anyone in a very long time. Saying "I love you" is something extremely important to me, I don't say it unless I absolutely, 110% mean it. But I do mean it. With Wanda, I mean it. But still, I can't say it, I'm too scared to. It's probably because the last people I said I love you too got killed right in front of my eyes. I watched them take their last breaths. I can't go through that again. I wouldn't be able to handle it. I wouldn't be able to handle watching the life disappearing from Wanda's eyes.

"I'm happy too," I settle on saying, my voice coming out in a sigh of joy. Wanda slightly turns her head to look at me, smile ghosting at her lips before she reaches her hand out.

I grab it and we just stare at each other for what feels like forever, getting lost in our own world. The surge of energy that shoots up my arm from her touch devours me. I feel my eyes gloss over to a blue while hers turn her signature scarlet red. Her lips twitch upwards and we just continue to stand there, our powers twisting together.

It feels like some sort of godly moment. I can see red and blue emitting from our connected hands, swirling together as one, creating almost a purple glow as it blankets around our hands.

I start to close the gap between us and she follows suit, connecting our lips before I can. Even with my eyes closed, I can see our energies bursting around us. It feels euphoric, it feels right, it feels like fate.

"I love you."

Those words make me freeze in place. I shoot my eyes open and the energy seems to stop as I stare at Wanda, in shock of her words. Did she actually just say that? Really? Genuinely?

She must realize that she said it, telling me she didn't even mean to let it slip because her cheeks turn a bright red shade as she gulps.

"I-um. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to spew it out like that so randomly but I um...Yeah, Y/N, I love you. I really, really love you."

What do I say? Ideally, I would say it back, I want to. But my mouth won't form the words, I can't actually say it yet. There's that little voice in the back of my head telling me that if I said it, she would die. Or she would get hurt, or I would hurt her. It's like the word "love" for me is a trigger. It terrifies me.

"Wanda-" "It's okay. I know how hard it is for you to say it. You'll say it when you're ready.I just wanted you to know."

In this current moment? Right now? I hate myself.

All I want to do is tell her I love her but of course I fucking can't. I feel tears starting to build, the overwhelming emotions of her love for me filling me up. The anger at myself for not being able to say it yet. She told me she loves me, Wanda loves me. Someone on this planet actually loves me. Who would've thought?

"You're amazing," I whisper loud enough for her to hear before pulling her into a loving kiss. If my brain won't let me say it, I'll let her know through actions. She knows how I feel, she knows I'm getting to that point, I know I will, it'll just take time.

I briefly open my eyes and look at the water beside us, a few feet below and smile into her lips. She smiles back and I use my speed to grab her and launch us into the water. Wanda shrieks on the way down until we hit the water.

When we come up she gasps and splashes me.

"Y/N! The water's cold!"

I laugh as she continues to splash me and just wade over to her, grabbing her and kissing her again.

"You wanna get out?"

I mumble into her lips after slightly parting. She just smiles and shakes her head, hands snaking around my neck to hold the back of my head, grabbing hold of my hair while our lips dance together in a fiery passion.

The longer we kiss, the quicker my heart beats. I can feel her only focusing on this moment right now, I can feel her joy and her passion and her love all swirling in her head and touch. I feel content in this moment, like nothing can touch us.

I feel complete, I feel loved, I feel actually happy for a change. Truly and genuinely happy.

By the time we pull away we are both out of breath, her eyes are staring into mine with a look that makes my heart race, my cheeks go red and my breath catch in my throat. I can feel her love for me in that look, I can feel how in love she is, and it both terrifies and excites me.

We hear Tony shouting for us and I just chuckle, pecking her lips one more time.

"We should probably head back."

"I guess so..." Her voice is hushed, lips teased upwards, eyes twinkling. She doesn't want to leave.

In all honesty, neither do I.

I wish we could stay in this moment forever together, never leaving.

But duty calls.

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A/N: Decided we could all use a few chapters of fluff. Hope you enjoyed them while it lasted 🤠

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