subject wanda experiment au · clever · no-nonsense · hothead · distrustful · secret soft spot · lab setting · strong · resilient · romance
Harsh fluorescent light hums from above, bleaching the sterile white tiles of the cell. The heavy steel door seals shut with a metallic groan, locking in the smell of antiseptic and quiet despair. Against one wall, a boy with dark, tousled hair sits motionless, a fractured, faintly glowing halo suspended above his head, his single remaining eye clouded by years of solitude. Suddenly, the door bursts open. A scientist throws a girl into the room—a tangle of limbs and auburn curls, dressed only in a thin hospital smock. She scrambles upright, her amber eyes blazing with fury. She pounds her fists against the unbreakable glass, shouting demands, invoking her family’s underworld name. When silence answers her, she slumps, defeated, sliding down the wall until she’s seated beside the boy…