Of Course We’d Meet Like This
Wanda was always up to talk about her brother, that was the one thing you could count on. The one thing you could use to distract her from an injury, a failure, or just a bad sort of day;
“Hey, tell me a story about Pietro.” You would say and she’d be off, telling you the best one she could think of.
That was one of the things Peter liked best about her, her loyalty to her family, it was a good reminder that he wasn’t the only one on the team who had a family out there, someone who they missed and missed them in return. And in return Peter would spin his own tales about Aunt May and her various antics.
Peter never expected to meet the aforementioned Pietro Maximoff, or maybe if he did it would be in passing;
“Oh good, nice to meet you, gotta go, there’s a creepy crawly tearing up main street, gotta go save Queens.” -Y’know that sorta thing.
Guess he wasn’t too far off, there had indeed been a big bad and ugly taking a bite out of Queens when Peter Parker, dressed heroically in spandex (it wasn’t spandex Stark had assured him, sure felt like spandex to him.) - had come onto the scene and had promptly gotten his ass throughly whooped. He wasn’t even quite sure what happened, it was like suddenly there was a building on top of him and he was made aware of several broken ribs, perhaps with his luck a punctured lung and a agonizingly snapped femur. Yippee. There had been a flash of blue light not too long ago, Peter had no idea where that came from, and in his limited and terrifyingly blurry vision he could see a shock of something white. Looked like a person....