( there's a brief moments hesitation where she feels as if she knows the answer, one she's read written across his features time and time again. she'd never wanted to be a thing that needs, but with her powers muffled and the wildfire that stokes with each breath at her side, for the first time in a long time, she feels utterly defenseless. in foreign surroundings, disconnected from the rest of the world. the scarlet witch, brimming with her chaos magic, capable of controlling an entire city's limits with nothing other than grief — she hadn't expected them, she'd let her guard down. for him, for everything — and it'd cost her.
he agrees, and the single syllable sounds like relief when it's timed with her exhale, the subtlest furrow caught between her brows as she nuzzles in to his palm at her jaw (a place it so often found home.) she understands what it is he's sacrificing, staying with her, knows that it goes against every bit of his nature not to be out there with his team, to sit in the quiet when the fight was far from over. )
They'll be okay, Dick.
( a whispered bit of reassurance, of some semblance of comfort — it isn't missed on her that their insistence likely played a hand in his willingness to stay back, but something of this magnitude assured the titans wouldn't be on their own. their respective teams had a multitude of things in common — not boding well to threatening one of theirs being at the top of that list.
gaze lingers long enough that she knows he's heard her, and then she's drifting from his hold to crawl up into buttery soft sheets, shuffling the duvet down on the opposite side of the bed for him to join her. )
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he agrees, and the single syllable sounds like relief when it's timed with her exhale, the subtlest furrow caught between her brows as she nuzzles in to his palm at her jaw (a place it so often found home.) she understands what it is he's sacrificing, staying with her, knows that it goes against every bit of his nature not to be out there with his team, to sit in the quiet when the fight was far from over. )
They'll be okay, Dick.
( a whispered bit of reassurance, of some semblance of comfort — it isn't missed on her that their insistence likely played a hand in his willingness to stay back, but something of this magnitude assured the titans wouldn't be on their own. their respective teams had a multitude of things in common — not boding well to threatening one of theirs being at the top of that list.
gaze lingers long enough that she knows he's heard her, and then she's drifting from his hold to crawl up into buttery soft sheets, shuffling the duvet down on the opposite side of the bed for him to join her. )