• • 1980's | 1990's • •

WANDA HELD TOMMY as she walked over to the crib. The infant had been crying non-stop, and his mother basically tried everything to calm him down.

"Sweet, sweet Tommy, don't you wanna sleep? Mommy wants to sleep."

He still cried, and Wanda let out a sigh, "If you go to sleep, I promise you will be my favorite."

Vision sat on the sofa holding Vivian. She had been crying as well.

"Sweet Viv can hear you." He said before looking back at the baby, "Don't mind your mother, darling. Your brother is just stressing her out."

"Oh, come on now, honey." Y/N walked down the stairs carrying Billy, "You know we love them all equally."

"Well, don't tell him that." Wanda replied trying to cover Tommy's ears, "No luck with Billy?"

He had been crying too, but Y/N couldn't sleep him. "Tried reading to him. Didn't work. There isn't a new dad instruction manual, is there?

"Vis? Would you mind grabbing their binkies?" Wanda asked the sitting synthezoid.

"Oh, of course not. Binkies all round, I think." He replied as he got up with holding Vivian.

"Uh, Y/N actually got a new set of them." Wanda turned to her husband, "Could show him where you left it?"

"Sure, darling." Y/N said before placing Billy back in his crib. Vision laid the baby girl down too and followed Y/N into the kitchen.

Wanda made sure they were out of the room, and quickly put down Tommy with his siblings.

"I know parents aren't supposed to take shortcuts, but I think this situation calls for one, don't you?"

The babies continued to cry loudly.

"So, go to sleep, my babies." Wanda said in a singsong manner. She tried to use her powers to put her infants to sleep, but it didn't work.

"And go to sleep." With a whoosh she tried again, to no avail. This time the babies giggled.

"Why, I don't think it's very funny." Wanda put her arms at her waist, "Why won't you do what I want?"

"What's that, dear?" Y/N asked as he walked in with Vision, who was holding the new set of binkies.

"I'll do the honors." Vision said as he went over to the children and gave them their pacifiers. They seemed to quiet down. It worked.

Wanda whispered, "Look, I think it's—"

Tommy, Billy, and Vivian spat out their pacifiers and wailed again. The three adults stood there in defeat.

"What are we doing wrong?" Wanda asked.

"Oh, don't worry, honey." Y/N kissed the top of her head, "We'll figure it out."

"Perhaps we could use more time to get to know each other." Vision said.

"Maybe. Or maybe we just need some help." Wanda replied.

As if she was summoned, the doorbell rung and Agnes walked in, "Hiya, kids!"

Y/N quickly put a pillow in front of Vision's face as he masked his synthezoid appearance with his human one.

"Oh, Agnes!" Wanda greeted.

"Agnes, I was just fluffing this pillow...with Vision's face." Y/N greeted as well.

"I was just on my way to jazzercise when I heard your new little bundles of joy were on a sleep strike."

"Oh? Who told you that?" Vision asked.

"Uh, my ears." She chuckled, "Anyway, Auntie Agnes is here and I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve."

"Oh, Agnes, you're a lifesaver." Wanda thanked.

"Very well. But be careful of their belly buttons and remember to support their heads." Y/N began as he writhed his hands, "And when was the last time you washed your hands?" Y/N started to not feel comfortable with another person handling his kids and changed his mind, "Actually, you know what? Maybe we better not."

Agnes just stood there in a confused state, as if she didn't expect Y/N to go on a rant like that.

"Um..." She faced Wanda, "Do you want me to take that again?"

"I'm sorry?" Wanda asked in confusion. Y/N and Vision also gave similar looks.

"You want me to hold the babies?" Agnes asked, "Should we just take it from the top?"

Y/N laughed nervously, "What?"

"Oh, don't be silly." Wanda chuckled dryly, "Y/N, let's...let's give Agnes a try."

Y/N gave a nod, and Agnes laughed as if everything went back to normal. She looked at the triplets, "Fussy babies, meet buns of steel."

Y/N called Wanda over as Agnes started to tend to the babies. She walked over to him and Vision.

"What was that back there?" He asked.

"What do you mean?"

"That with Agnes...how she looked at you...what she said."

"It was strange, really." Vision chimed in.

"Maybe she was confused. You know how she is." She answered.

"Okay..." Y/N replied, still not convinced.

"Y/N, you and I both need a break and Agnes is just being neighborly, that's all."

Y/N gave a nod, then rose a brow upon the sound of silence.

"Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Vision asked.

"Absolutely nothing." Y/N replied.

Wanda gasped on the realization that the crying had stopped, "They finally fell asleep."

The three of them walked over to the cribs, expecting to see the sleeping triplets. But they were empty.

"They're empty." Y/N stated.

"Then where are they?" Wanda asked.

"Mommy?"

"Daddy?"

They turned around and saw three toddlers by the steps. Two were boys and one was a girl. Y/N looked at his wife and gasped.

"Kids." Agnes said with a chuckle as she sat, "Can't control 'em. No matter how hard you try."

Vision was the first to greet them, "Well, hi!"

"Hi!" Wanda greeted as well.

Y/N still didn't say anything. He was speechless at the sight of his now-grown children. Wanda hugged Tommy and Vision embraced Billy. Vivian ran up to her father and hugged his leg.

"Daddy?" She mumbled.

He smiled and carried her, planting a kiss on her cheek. "Hello, sweetheart."

• • •

MONICA RAMBEAU WAS at the briefing with the other S.W.O.R.D operatives. Director Hayward walked into the room and began to speak.

"We are now assessing a clearer picture of the crisis. And thanks to Captain Rambeau we now have first-person intel from inside the Westview Anomaly."

Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis walked into the room as Hayward continued.

"Our intial theory had Wanda Maximoff as one of many victims. We now know she is the principal victimizer." He turned to Woo, "Jimmy?"

"Quick history on our subject." Woo began, "Born in Sokovia in 1989 to Irina and Olek Maximoff, both killed during an air raid when Maximoff and her twin brother, Pietro, were ten."

"The twins were subsequently radicalized, volunteering at HYDRA." Hayward added.

"It's an oversimplification of events, but, yes." Woo nodded, "After unspecified experimentation with the Mind Stone, Maximoff gained telekinetic and telepathic abilities."

"Back up, Jimmy. Does Maximoff have an alias?"

"No, sir."

"No funny nickname?"

"Not a one." Jimmy quickly thought about it before adding, "Aside from one Y/N L/N gave to the media back in 2016. The Crimson Sorceress. It was a joke, though."

Hayward shook his head, "And the earliest tracking had her using her powers against the Avengers? Is that correct?"

"Right before she earned their trust and became one herself." Jimmy corrected.

Hayward brought up Germany and Lagos before dismissing Woo. He started to label her as a terrorist, which Monica didn't like.

"Wanda is not a terrorist." She stated, "I don't believe she has a political agenda or any inclination toward destruction."

"Monica, she blasted you halfway across New Jersey."

"And I survived because she chose to protect me."

"She's holding thousands of people hostage so she can live out this fantasy with Y/N L/N."

"And it could have been thousands more if she hadn't put up her own quarantine." Monica shot back, "Look, I don't believe this is a premeditated at of aggression."

"You don't think so?" Hayward asked, then called out to his technicians, "Bring up the visual."

On the screen at the console, he showed footage from nine days ago of Wanda storming into S.W.O.R.D HQ and looking for Vision's deactivated corpse.

"Maximoff stormed into our facility, stole the Vision's body, and somehow resurrected him along with L/N." He stated, "Now I could care less about how the Specter was revived, but the Vision is a sentient weapon and that goes against the Accords."

Hayward looked directly at Rambeau as he gave his finishing statement, "Wanda, in her grief, disregarded his wishes."

Hayward dismissed the agents and left, leaving Jimmy, Darcy, and Monica on their own.

"But how did she even do this? Bringing Vision back without the stone? L/N from wherever he vanished to?"

"Who knows? But she has them reenacting her favorite Full House re-runs." Darcy crossed her arms, "What happens when they learn the truth?"

• • •

Y/N WALKED INTO THE KICTHEN, just having freshened up.

"Morning, wife. Morning, kids." He greeted as he saw Wanda with his children. He noticed her holding a small dog, "Good morning, unfamiliar wet animal. Who's this?"

"Weren't not quite sure, actually." She answered with a chuckle then noticed his attire, "Why so formal, honey?"

"Oh, I want to look as presentable as I can. You never know when somebody can just pop over..." He replied.

Suddenly, Agnes walked into the kitchen through the back door holding a small dog house. "Hey, y'all!"

Y/N looked over at her, "...with exactly the item we require."

"My kitchen window told me someone got a new pooch." Agnes told the kids as she placed the dog house on the table, "Did you name him yet?"

"How about Sniffy?" Tommy asked as he saw the dog in the corner. The puppy sniffed at the power outlet, but it suddenly sparked.

Vivian turned to Agnes, "How about Sparky?"

"That sounds lovely!"

"Well, should we make it official?" Wanda asked, then used her powers to conjure a collar for the puppy.

"Wanda?" Y/N harshly whispered as she handed them the collar to put on Sparky, "Agnes was right there!"

"She didn't notice. She didn't even notice when the kids went from babies to five-year-olds."

"But you made no effort to conceal your abilities."

"Well, I'm tired of hiding, Y/N." Wanda told him, "And you don't have to either."

Y/N held her hand. He was confused at the sudden change in her attitude. There was no way the two of them, including Vision, showing who they really were would be a good idea.

"Wanda, we are usually so much of the same mind. But right now...what aren't you telling me?"

Wanda didn't know what to say, then Billy called out to them., "So, is Sparky our dog, Daddy?"

"Well, um..." Y/N put down his newspaper as he looked at Wanda.

"Your father and I don't think you're ready for an animal until you're at least..."

"Ten." Y/N tried to hide his answer with a cough.

"Ten years old." Wanda confirmed.

The three kids looked at each other with sly looks. At that moment, the two parents knew what they were planning.

"Wait, now, hang on there a minute..." Y/N told them.

Wanda shook her head, "No...no...no..."

In an instant, the triplets doubled their age. They were now ten years old.

"Let's just hope this dog stays the same size." Agnes jested as she carried Sparky, "Woof woof."

• • •

VISION WAS FIXING up his new computer that the company had installed at each of their desks. Y/N had the day off, so Vision was the only one from the family there.

Nearby, Norm was typing on the computer. He was in awe at the technology.

"So you're telling me this is a typewriter, a Rolodex, and a calendar all in one?" He turned to Vision, "What else can it do? Find me a wife?"

"Eventually, yes." Vision answered.

Norm chuckled, "It's a hell of a thing watching you work these computers, Vision. Y/N did say you had the brain for it."

"What do you think, Norm?" Vision walked over to Norm's desk, "Should we surf the Internet?"

"Cowabunga, dude." Norm replied and let him sit in the seat. Vision turned the computer back on, causing it to let out beeps and dial tones.

"Hey, look, we got electronic mail already." Norm pointed out.

"It's called an email, Norm." He noticed Norm rummaging through his desk, "What are you looking for?"

"Letter opener."

"Ah, we don't need that. We're already cutting edge." Vision replied, then pressed on a key to open the message.

Norm began to read it, "S.W.O.R.D. Top secret communiqué. Authenticate."

Suddenly, everybody else in the office began to read aloud in unison the same message from their own computers. Vision listened in with a confused look on his face.

"Doctor Darcy Lewis' findings regarding Maximoff's Anomaly. High levels of radiation present at perimeter. Effect on Westview residents unknown. Please advise."

Everybody began to laugh suddenly, which startled the synthezoid.

"Well, come on, pal. What are we gonna write back?" Norm turned to Vision, "You're the office funny guy."

Vision looked at Norm after he shut the computer down. Norm was still brushing it off.

"It's a joke. None of it is real."

Vision got up and quickly placed his fingertips at Norm's temples. Using his powers, he unknowingly woke him up from the mind control. He gasped as he caught his breath.

"Please. Please help me." Norm, or at least that's what he was named, pleaded. "What day is it? How long has it been?" He began to panic, "Where's my phone? I have to call my sister."

"Norm. Calm yourself, Norm." Vision said, "I can't understand what you're trying to telling me."

Norm grabbed onto Vision's suit, "You have to stop her."

"Stop who?"

"She's in my head. None of it is my own. It hurts. It hurts so much. Just make her stop." He started to yell, "Just make her stop!"

Vision put his fingers back at the side of his head, putting him back in the trance he was before. Norm quickly smiled as he went back into his faux personality.

"Now tell me this. If I send an email, where would I put the stamp?" He asked Vision, who didn't respond. He was still in awe at what he experienced.

Norm still smiled, "Technology. Ah."