CHAPTER NINETEEN:
I FOUND YOU

SHE HAD BEEN DEEMED A failure. And she was slowly rotting away in the cell they forced her in. The lack of food and water in her system was slowly killing her. In fact, she was on her last day of being able to survive without water before she died. She was too fragile to be experimented on, knowing that if they so much as put the wrong chemical in her body she would die immediately. And she wished that she would do that. Die. Beth couldn't stand it anymore. She hadn't seen daylight in months. She hadn't dreamt in weeks. Beth was dying, and there was no one that could save her.

Or so she thought. Beth had gone so far as to convince herself that Wanda Maximoff was a woman she had formulated in her own mind in order to keep her sanity. She had given up on the thought of anyone coming to save her weeks ago. No one would find her. HYDRA was too good. Her throat felt sore and like sandpaper was constantly being rubbed against it every time she tried to swallowed, but even then she was running low on being able to give her mouth moisturizer.

They had given up on her. And Beth had given up on herself. She had given up on hope. She had given up on the will to live. She felt so drained, so weak and fragile. She wondered what her mother would think of her. Giving up so easy. Her father would've never given up. Her father would've kept fighting until he died. Which is what exactly he had done in the army. Beth wished she could be like her father, or even her mother. Strong, brave, brilliant. But she wasn't. She was weak, broken, and couldn't even use her abilities anymore.

Death lingered there over her shoulder, waiting for her to close her eyes so that he could take his scythe and pluck her soul from her body, dragging it away. And just as she was about to close her eyes, just as she was about to allow herself to die as peacefully as one could in a place like this, her cell door had been blown from it's hinges by scarlet red magic. She had been too busy convincing herself all was lost, that she hadn't heard the ruckus outside. She hadn't heard the gunshots, the screams, none of it.

     Wanda Maximoff stood there, her eyes focused on Beth and only her. The girl looked so fragile. She was scared to touch her. Scared that she would fall apart into nothing but a pile of dust if she so much as moved the hair from her face. Wanda carefully moved forward, kneeling down in front of Beth with a tearful smile on her lips. "Beth?"

     Beth knew that voice. She knew it all too well. She carefully blinked, trying to see through her dark hair that cascaded over her face. But when Wanda removed the hair from in front of her eyes, she almost burst into tears. "Wanda?" Her voice was soar, scratchy, and all together awful as she croaked out the woman's name. But Wanda didn't mind, instead she nodded her head.

     "Yeah, yeah it's me." She continued to move the hair from Beth's face. "I found you. I promised I would find you, and I found you."

     "You didn't give up?" Beth asked her in disbelief.

     "Never." Wanda shook her head. Beth mustered the smallest of smiles before her eyes started to close, and she suddenly passed out. Immediately Wanda panicked. She tried shaking her awake, calling her name. "Beth? Beth, hey, can you hear me? Wake up. Come on, wake up." She wanted to cry out in frustration.

     "You find her?" Liliya swung around into the room, reloading her gun and quickly shooting the guard that grew closer and closer. She then turned towards Wanda before noticing the limp girl that sat in the corner of the room beside of Wanda. "Wanda, we gotta go."

     "Not without her." Wanda denied, shaking her head.

     Liliya nodded her head in agreement before running over to her and kneeling down. "Watch my back?"

     "Of course." Wanda nodded. She watched as Liliya carefully pulled the limp girl into her arms, lifting her up as if she weighed nothing. Liliya looked towards Wanda, nodding her head to which Wanda nodded back. The two were quick to exit the room, and anyone that even looked at them was quick to earn a shot of chaos magic to the gut, sending them flying either across the room, or into a wall, killing them or knocking them out.

     "Get the others." Liliya told Wanda. She noticed Wanda's hesitancy and offered her a small smile, nodding her head. "Wanda, I've got her. I promise you that I won't let anything happen to Beth, alright? But we cannot lose half of our team, alright? She's not the only one that needs us. So go. I got this." Wanda swallowed thickly before nodding her head and running down the corridor.

     "I got you." Liliya assured Beth, even if the girl couldn't hear her. "I'll be damned if I let anything happen to you. Not after all the shit you've put us through." Liliya paused before quickly saying, "Sarcasm. That was sarcasm. Why am I telling you this? You can't even hear me." Liliya paused for a moment, closing her eyes and allowing herself and Beth to both phase through the wall and make it out of the building. She laughed to herself.

     "Shit! That actually worked! I was totally jumping the gun on that one." Liliya admitted. She huffed before saying, "Still can't hear me. Right." She was quick to run to the quinjet, carefully getting Beth onto the medical table that they had placed inside before leaving, buckling the girl in and patiently waiting for the others to come back. When they finally did, Theodora was the one to fly them out of there whilst Wanda stood there beside of Beth.

     "You're going to be okay." Wanda whispered. "I promise you, you're going to be just fine."