Wanda snorted at her little act of revenge and shook her head. "Steve, my existence threatens everyone around me constantly. My father can come try to kill me, and anyone around me, whenever he'd like and blowing up his empty terrorist headquarters- after he blew up the tower which wasn't empty- won't change that. But I'm not afraid of him anymore. There are worst things than Magneto, much worse. Just step outside and look. If he does come, I'll go up against him, because I owe him. More than a pile of bricks. I’ve never hurt him, not the way he’s hurt Pietro and me. Not emotionally or physically. I’ve tried but nothing’s ever got to him, not really. And whenever I’ve thought that was it, that there was nothing else he could do to hurt me, he just turns around and rips my heart right out, like it’s nothing. I wanted him to know what it’s like to lose something for once. No, I didn't set the bombs, but I pressed the detonator and it felt good and it was stupid, and it was cathartic for me. I don't regret it, I'm sorry, but I don't." She paused, surprised that she was being so candid, particularly about her father. She rarely even talked to Pietro about how she felt about Magnus. Steve had made another point, though, and she still had to address that.
"I never doubted that you intended to rescue Pietro," she told him, and she'd said so much already she wasn't going to stop now. It came out like a flood, everything she'd wanted to say to them- to anyone- for ages. "But it wasn't your priority and again, it was mine. I'm not saying it was right for you, for the team, for anyone but me. It was right for me. Selfish, yes, that too. But if this is the end then I'm going to be selfish. In LA I spent days holding a barrier around a refugee camp and in the end, I couldn't save a god damn thing. They still died, Steve, so many people still died." Her voice broke a little and she had to clear her throat before she could continue.
"On the road it was the same anywhere we stopped and tried to help, someone still died. This isn't like anything else before, we can't just save the day, carry on, be the heroes. This bigger than us. We can't stop this. I was scared, I'm still scared, and I just needed someone, I needed my brother and I needed him right then and that's really the only way I can explain it." Wanda finally stopped and took a breath again and blinked away what might have been tears. If they didn't understand, fine, but she'd managed to get it all out there and she didn't know what else she could tell them, what to do to try and make things right.