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[incogneto]

No, the others went to the school. I should show you sometime, you'd fit right in.

[redchaos]

[Well, he's good at making Wanda laugh. There's a touch of nervousness to this bout of laughter, however.]

I haven't been to school in a very long time.

[incogneto]

Well, you might not have my genes, but you certainly age like you did.

[redchaos]

I'm over thirty.

[She'll take the compliment.]

You would have had to have me fairly young.

[incogneto]

[ His lips curl into a little smile. ]

I'll be sixty three in January.

[ Yeah, no one ever expects this because guess who decided to not age up their actors over a span of forty years' worth of story. ]

[redchaos]

[Wands looks surprised, if only for a moment. Knowing super soldiers and Asgardians makes age reveals a little less jarring than they might be for a normal person.]

Nevermind, then. You're an appropriately old man.

[But there's a fondness to the name-calling.]

Do you celebrate it? Your birthday.

[incogneto]

[ Yeah, he doesn't take it the wrong way because as it is, he is an old man. ]

Haven't in a long time. I think, since I was a boy.

[ He explains: ]

I was born in 1930.

[redchaos]

[Hard times. Wanda nods, understanding.]

Well. You'll have to show me the things you enjoy doing before your birthday so I have an idea of what we can do to celebrate.

[incogneto]

I'm sure we'll get plenty of time to know each other before then.

When's your birthday?

[redchaos]

February. 1989.

[Gotta love the multiverse.]

[incogneto]

The whole month? I'll get you gifts every day.

[redchaos]

I don't have use for gifts. Or... my own birthday, really. It changed after Pietro died. It was our birthday, and then...

[Just hers.]

[incogneto]

I'm sorry.

Perhaps there's another universe, where he is alive. And thriving.

[redchaos]

I'm sure there is. It's just unfortunate that it's not one that I'm in.

[It's the bittersweet truth.]

Just like there are universes in which our lives overlapped.

[incogneto]

Our lives are overlapping now. That's better than never.

[redchaos]

Just in time for someone to take care of you as you grow even older, hmm?

[She's found her thing to tease him about.]

[incogneto]

Don't worry about that, I've got a couple decades left in the tank, I think. Never thought I'd feel as good now as I did at forty.

[redchaos]

Is it because of what you are, or just... luck?

[incogneto]

Honestly, I don't know. Must be the mutant thing, Charles doesn't age either.

[redchaos]

[We don't talk about Charles. Well, Wanda isn't keen on it, given she's fairly certain she killed him in another universe.

Whoops.]

I don't think I'll be aging, either. A witch thing.

[incogneto]

[ She should. Maybe not mention this to Erik. ]

What else do witches do?

[redchaos]

[Daughters always have secrets from their fathers.]

Whatever they want.

[Within reason. Now, anyway.]

[incogneto]

I would hope you thought that, regardless of whether or not you were a witch.

[redchaos]

I was considered an experiment, before. A weapon. What I could do was... limited.

[incogneto]

Wanda...

[ That's a lot to unpack. How does he say that he knows exactly how that feels, and he's sorry, he wishes he was there for her, but he also knows if he had been, she wouldn't have these powers?

No, it's already been a surprisingly heavy morning. ]

Well. Maybe I could see a demonstration sometime.