deercountry | ( january catch all )

[ she cocks her brow and plants her hands on her hips. ]

And what kind of stuff is that?

[ she honestly should be afraid to ask. ]

Of course you'd ask.

( he rolls his eyes. )

I don't know if I have enough time to say it. We're about ten minutes from the new year.

[ she feigns a gasp. ] Then you should say what you want to say before the year ticks over.

[ c'mon, amos, give her three things. don't go into the new year with regrets! ]

Oh, should I? Because you say so?

( now he's gonna be obstinate. )

You haven't given me anything, you know.

[ she gasps once again, greatly offended by this very incorrect accusation. ]

I've given you plenty of things! I've given you friendship and a car to fix and plenty of good advice you have chosen to disregard.

[ she's a great friend. a giving one. one who breaks things and then asks him to help fix them.

that's friendship. ]

Did you really just say a car to fix?

( he laughs. )

You broke your car so I could fix it?

No, no, no! [ she shakes her head vehemently and points at him as she laughs. ] No.

[ no!!! he's misinterpreting her! ]

I have a car that I take to you to fix when it breaks all by itself. Is that not a good sign of friendship? I trust you with it.

[ please focus on what's important here. ]

When it breaks all by itself?

( he doubts. do you hear the doubt in his voice? )

I don't know, I think it has some assistance.

[ wanda scoffs. ]

By the things around it. [ she waves her hand to gesture around it. things happen to cars! that's what happens to hers. it's not her fault that it happens a lot. ]

Besides, we're at a party. Do we really need to discuss my car right now?

[ and the fact that she, you know, tinkers with it. ]

You brought it up.

( he's pretty sure she had. she'd been the one to bring it up. )

Just going along with the conversation.

[ she looks away and feigns a gasp. ]

It's almost the new year. You should make a wish to bring you luck.

[ it doesn't matter to her if that's not how it worked. that's her tradition; make a wish before the end of the year, and hopefully one of the new years will finally answer it. ]

Have you celebrated a New Years before?

( because he's pretty sure that's not what happens, wanda. wishes are for birthdays. )

Yes. They had New Years in Sokovia.

[ but she and pietro would always spend it wishing because wishing was always better than not wishing at all.

she crosses her arms against her chest and cocks her brow. ]

Did space have New Years?

Sure they did but we were usually too busy to do anything with it.

( he shrugs. )

What did you do for your New Years?

My brother used to try and get a good meal. And sometimes he would get fireworks, but they were hard to find because of the war.

[ wanda's noticeably more subdued. her new years was not a typical new years, but pietro always made an effort to make it special. if wanda had known she had these abilities, their new years would've been more magical than the party she and amos are at. ]

We used to wish for a better year. It's not as exciting as all of this but it was ours.

Hey, there's something to be said for tradition.

( he smiles at her, genuine and sincere. )

What wish would you make for this year?

[ she'd wish for her brother, her boys, and vision. but that's entirely too heavy of an answer to lug at amos. ]

Another good year.

[ simple. broad, she knows, but wanda doesn't like to wish for specific things anymore. too much disappointment has followed when she does. ]

Even with all of the usual Trench bullshit. [ she laughs. ] That always makes it kind of fun.

Another good year?

( not the worst thing to wish for. he nods, shrugging a shoulder. )

It was a good year last year?

Yes.

[ wanda furrows her brows incredulously as she smiles. ]

Why wouldn't it be? I'm here, I have a house and horses. I have friends. And I have an on-call mechanic.

[ she's come to appreciate the little things in life. ]

( he can hear the crowds around them growing louder and he knows that it's getting closer to midnight. )

And what do you think of midnight traditions?

[ of course, wanda knows what midnight traditions are held on new years. she's participated in some—not many, given everything, but some—and she's seen it on her television shows and movies. she thinks about playing naive, but she doesn't think that's the right path to go down right now. ]

I have heard that it's good luck to follow tradition… especially the midnight ones.

[ that doesn't really give him an answer, does it? she pulls at one of her fingers to summon all of her nervousness to that one point in her being. ]

And I don't want bad luck for next year.

Do you even know what the midnight traditions are?

( because he doesn't want to be the one to suddenly surprise her and end up getting blasted with magic. )

[ she smiles at him and nods, not wanting to make fun of him despite the urge to do so. sometimes he has his moments of being very cute. ]

I do. I didn't go to a lot of parties, but I am very aware that it's bad luck not to be kissed at midnight.

[ she glances around the party. ]

I wonder if there is someone here who can bring you good luck.

You gonna kiss someone at midnight?

( the big question. )

[ despite suspecting that this was where the conversation was leading, wanda's still struck by it like he's tossed a car at her head. ]

If someone's around and wants to.

[ she's not going to go searching for a partner, if that's what he's asking. if someone's around and willing, then they will be her midnight kiss.

she smiles at him as she teases him in an attempt to get the spotlight off of her: ] I bet you have a line of women waiting to kiss you at midnight.

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