The talent show had come around and Juniper was stood behind the curtain with her best friend and a woman who's name she hadn't been told. It was far too awkward to ask.

"Glad I don't have to follow this guy." She felt like it began with a G or an M, Wanda had told her about this lovely lady, but sadly the name had not stuck.

Wanda stopped her pacing, waiting for Vision was stressing her out beyond all belief. "Huh!? What?" She asked, her voice weak with worry and distress.

Juniper grabbed her best friends forearm and pulled her near. "You are going to do amazing, okay? You look gorgeous, you'll blow them away with your looks let alone your act, V is just running late, it'll be fine." The girl said, making sure Wanda's eyes stayed on her.

"Are you sure?" She asked, her eyes wide.

"One hundred percent." Juniper whispered, letting go Wanda's arm, so she could return to pacing the floor.

"What time is it now?"

The other woman checked her arm, looking at the watch to read the time. "Hm, two minutes after the last time you asked."

Wanda panicked verbally and Juniper watched the streets, sharing whispers to the dead, asking them to check around.

"I don't where he can be."

Juniper raised a brow as Vision turned up, looking drunk? His steps were uneven and he wasn't as put together as he normally was. He wasn't able to get drunk right.

"I spy Vision." She stated looking back at the shocked two women.

"Well, it looks like he's got a little hitch in his giddy-up."

Juniper snorted at the woman's comment. She helped the man clumsily make his way up the stairs an annoyed look plastering her face.

Vision could get drunk, but she wasn't allowed? Talk about favouritism.

The robot wasn't particularly light and most of his weight was on the weak girl. And she wasn't weak because she was a girl, she was once really strong — well strong enough to fight, at least she thinks she could — but her bodily strength just seemed to decay.

Maybe it was due to her being dead.

Vision wobbled, bring Juniper to the ground with him, she groaned, grabbed the banister, desperately yanking the two of them up.

Upon them standing up, Vision gave them a thumbs up.

Using the banister as help, she pulled the two up the stairs, her grip was tight on the man, nails would be digging in. It was a good job he was robotic and not human. 

"Wanda! My little cabbage, you look smashing!"

His weight left the girl as they stood on the platform.

Juniper placed her hands on her hips, she twisted around and cracked her back, then her neck, as she stared distastefully at the drunken Vision.

Again, why could he get drunk but not her?

The woman went to check in the show whilst Wanda and Vision walked towards each other and Juniper leant against a banister.

Vision grunted a grumbling noise following, seeming something wrong with him.

"Vis."

"Hmm."

"Where have you been?"

"Oh! Well, me and the boys were playing a rather thrilling game of horses with shoes." Vision stated, his voice going funny.

Wanda and Juniper shared a peculiar look. Horses with shoes?

"No that's not it." Vision turned his head in slight confusion. Think. Think. Think. He groaned in annoyance.

"Horse's shoes?" Juniper tried, looking at the robot in boredom and tiredness.

"Yes!" Vision said, clicking his finger in the girls rough direction.

Juniper looked at the two spirits what were around her, namely Tony and Natasha. They had appeared often whilst Juniper was in her room, often trying to check on Wanda and her. They had said peculiar things, like asking how she was alive — so she gave them the birds and the bees talk, they weren't impressed.

There was another ghost that had come around often, bullet wounds littered his chest, and much like the other ghosts his skin was dull, slightly transparent and greying. He never gave her a her a last name — neither had Tony or Natasha — he called himself Pietro. His name rang familiar to Juniper when he told her it, but she had never met a Pietro, damn it she never really heard of one either.

Oh, but how she had heard of him.

The two ghosts looked at Wanda and Vision with worry and sadness in their eyes. They knew her, they had to. They looked at Juniper in grief, as if she had died as if they had out lived her.

"Listen, something strange happened with Dottie." Wanda said, Vision nodded childishly, his actions over dramatic. "Well, something strange happened before that, too. It's hard to explain."

Wanda didn't get much chance to explain anything as Vision had grown bored and caught the attention of something, particularly shoes.

"I was just playing with his shoes." He stated giddily.

"What is going on?"

"You are."

Wanda gasped and Juniper wished them luck as they made their way on.

Whilst Vision was messing with his shirt, Juniper pushed him closer to the curtains — with difficulty — as the woman stated it was his turn on.

"Oh! Yeah! I've to go!" Finally, he wasn't relying on Juniper and made his way in.

The two women sighed as he left — thank the heavens.

"I'm Juniper." The girl stated, holding her hand out.

"Geraldine." The other woman said, shaking Junipers hand.

Good to make friends, no?

Whilst Vision drunkly did his work, Wanda brought Juniper over Agnes' rabbit.

The girl took the bunny, holding it close to her chest as she stroked it, softness in her eyes as Wanda left to continue the disaster of a show.

Senior Scratchy, at least that's what she was told the bunny was called, was rather still and calm in the girls arms.

But she was startled out of stroking the rabbit when she was placed within a dark, small space. Junipers eyes widened. Her heart racing as she looked around confused.

Surely, people can't kidnap you that easily?

Chants were happening outside it, telling Juniper she was in a box. A box?! Why a box? She didn't get why she was in a box.

Oh. Oh! Vision had messed up the magic show and Wanda had to improvise, and here she was thinking she'd been kidnapped.

Wanda and Vision opened the box revealing Juniper Lea.

Despite her wide eye look, Juniper grinned brightly at the audience. Juniper stepped out of the box, taking Wanda and Vision's hands.

The audience were in shock, at least before applauding in amazement.

"Flourish." The robot said and the three bowed.

Her hand was still in Wanda's as they left the stage, the rabbit waiting patiently. Juniper dropped the hand, picked up the animal and cradled it, stroking its small head.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry. I'm so stupid." The man complained.

Wanda went to comfort the robot.

Juniper moved to stand at the banister, leaning back on it slightly.  "Do you ever wonder if your dead, hm? Sometimes I think I'm dead." She mused quietly, she was far away, at least enough so that the others couldn't hear.

Maybe she's truly lost her mind. Here she was telling a rabbit that she's thinks she's deceased, talk about insane.

•••

When the three had returned home — and Juniper had given Agnes back her pet, get this though, the neighbour let Juniper carry the rabbit, what lovely neighbours — Juniper walked passed Vision and Wanda, not truly interested in dealing with their romantic moment.

Juniper wanted a rabbit now. Or any pet.

"Wanda." Vision said softly and slowly, yet confused as Wanda got off the sofa. Juniper looked at them from her spot on the sofa where she had sat on.

Wanda had a bump. Not a bruise or an injury, a pregnancy bump. The three of them gasped. Was this how pregnancy worked?!

"Vision, is this really happening?"

Did Juniper miss something. Sure, as far as she was aware she never had been a biologist, but pregnancy followed sex. Like the birds and the bees. All that good stuff. Wow, maybe Vision was really fast, like fast enough for Juniper to not notice as she had momentarily been in thought. But that didn't explain the quickly conceived bump.

"Yes, my love." Vision said. "It's really happening."

The couple went in for a kiss, but the world didn't agree. A loud thump was heard, all three of the heads turned to the door.

"If it's that damn tree again, I'm going to rip it out by the roots!" Vision seethed, marching over to the door.

Curiosity gripped Juniper by her fragile mind, her head was still aching — it always was, as though she wasn't getting enough oxygen to it, as though she couldn't breath, like something was stopping her, like being under water — under curiosities dark grip.

Juniper inevitable followed after Vision, Wanda as well.

At first the night was dark and peaceful.

"I don't see anything." Wanda stated.

Juniper had began to walked along side Vision, having caught up rather quickly. The three came to a stop just outside their gate, hearing as metal hit metal. They watched as the sewers lid (of sorts) shook and wobbled, as though pressure was being placed form underneath it. Someone wanted out, or rather in.

"What is it?"

It was opened.

Juniper naturally stepped forward, her arm in front of Wanda, as though to shield her. To save her. Defend her. That's what Juniper was supposed to do, right? She doesn't know what she's supposed to do, she's running on instinct.

Vision seemed to work the same, placing his human like arms around his wife, pulling her back. "Wanda, Juniper." He said.

They watched as someone climbed out. A bee man? A bee person? Damn! What were they called.

Bee... Bee... Yes! Bee keeper. She got it, Junipers eyes narrowed in confusion. Did bees hide in sewers?

They slowly turned at first before their head snapped in the direction of the three in a fast and sudden movement.

"No."

•••

"Vision, is this really happening?" There was doubt and wonder in Wanda's voice.

Talk about Déjà vu.

"Yes, my love." Vision said. "It's really happening." He promised.

The two kissed, the dead swooned and Juniper smiled awkwardly to herself adverting her eyes down to her chipped nails.

But the kiss brought life, not in the same way as Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. No, shades of grey were replaced with colour. The world turned from dull to pretty, as one can only assume another decade passed.