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[scarlet_discord]

Wanda lay numbly in her bed in the crowded Infirmary, trying to ignore the shunt feeding blood into her arm. Memories of the last few days bashed around in her head; not just the Flood itself but everything Tony had told her right before it. And now...

...now the reckless bitch she had been had nearly coaxed Raine into draining her dry. For fun.

And that was only the tip of the iceberg. Utterly mortified, she sat there silently, sometimes pale, sometimes wet-eyed, sometimes blushing furiously.

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[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

"Wanda!" Tony rushed into the infirmary, his item having gone off. Unfortunately, he'd put it down during the flood, and though he realized it was gone and panicked after he returned to normal, it had taken some time. "Are you okay? What happened?"

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"My other self screwed me over. She tempted someone whose alternate had no mercy into...um...feeding." She touched the bandage on her neck and blushed again.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

"Don't feel bad. Emotionally, I mean. I mean, that could happen to anyone. I mean, I could totally see that happening to me, and that's when I'm unaffected."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"I feel bad because she was so reckless with my health and the other person's feelings. I just...yeah. I..." She swallows. "Just...

"Whoever I was before Mastermind got his claws into my brain...please tell me that I wasn't like that."

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Tony shook his head. "You weren't. What you were was something you thought you had to be to protect yourself, not someone who didn't care about themselves."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"A bitch, then. But not crazy and evil?" Her eyes pleaded. "Because if I'm that bad I don't...I don't want to go back. I don't want you or me or anybody to have to deal with that."

Yes, your file mentions this

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

"Right. You weren't that bad. I mean...think of it this way...Toad liked you before your memories were altered, so you know you weren't that bad."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"He did risk his neck for me. In...in the other world he was one of the ones that killed me. I...I get what you're saying. I just...I don't know. I got a lot to think about.

"What...kind of things do you think you'd want to do to give me my memories back?"

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. The flood you...wasn't you."

"I don't know. I was going to ask Snape if he had a spell that would do that."

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

Sometime late, hopefully after Tony's left, Vila crept up to her bedside. He didn't think he'd be allowed, so he was trying not to be noticed by the infirmary staff. He pulled up a chair and sat, leaning toward her.

"Can you tell me what the hell happened?"

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"Y-yeah..." Wanda swallowed, having trouble with eye contact, and touched the bandage on her neck.

"The Wanda you were talking to wasn't me. She was really reckless with her--our--life. She flirted with an alternate with no sense of mercy and willingly got bitten.

"I...hate her. I'm just glad she still recognized some of my friends." Woops, wibblyface. Wibble.

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

"I could tell things were different." He'd still be glad to be her friend, though, because other!Barge was seriously trouble. "Could you tell if I was different?" He was his same old self as here.

"You're going to stay here and rest, right?"

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"You didn't seem different, but I looked at you differently. I tended to put people in different categories. I still liked you, though."

She sighed and looked around. "I guess I have to, for the night."

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

"I can stay nearby if you want me, and they let me. Are you going to try to sleep?" He doesn't sleep well in such places, not anymore. "I hate this place."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"I'm just stuck until they put my blood back, basically. I'm already stitched. I have to check back with them tomorrow, and later to get the stitches out.

You're a pal, Vila. I 'ppreciate it. [Wibbleface!]

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

I want to be nice to my friends if they need me.

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. You're a stand-up guy and you make this more bearable. I'm still embarrassed and pissed off, though. Not much can be done about that.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

She'd hear a familiar groan from another bed a short ways down from hers.

Luke was finally coming to after being revived from having his brain essentially teleported out of his skull. Opening his eyes, his head was pounding and he grit his teeth.

"Damn...that wasn't fun..."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"Luke?" Oh shit. Oh shit. The body under that sheet, the one she hadn't wanted to look at because it had been so huge...that had been him. Luke got killed.

Feelings warred inside of her, until she was shaking again and her heart monitor started bipping rapidly. Luke...her Luke...was alive again. That bastard boyfriend of the evil bitch she had become...he was dead and gone.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

"Mmm?"

That was the best answer he could give right now, but at least it confirmed for her who was there. At the moment, he didn't recognize her voice, just knew someone was calling his name.

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"Oh good..." came the weak reply. Not because she was in bad shape--she'd had her stitches and she was getting her blood levels back to normal--but psychologically...well. Nother story. "You're back...." She didn't know what to say to him, but she sure as hell wanted him to know she was glad about that.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

After several more minutes, he sits up in bed, rubbing his head a bit before looking over and seeing Wanda.

"Hey...what're...," he pauses and looks around. "We're in the Infirmary."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." A wan little smile. Not so good with the eye contact but she forced herself to do it a little. He had to understand she wasn't mad at him, and still cared. "Welcome back." She had to force herself not to itch at her stitches or the shunt in her arm.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

"Welcome back? Oh...ooooh man." It was all coming back and he dropped his head down into his hands.

"I'm so sorry."

[scarlet-discord.livejournal.com]

"It's OK. It's OK. I mean...I have eight bazillion things to sort out now. But we're cool. You're also not why I'm here." Cause that would have been REALLY embarrassing.