A Twist Of Marvel || Infinity War

28. Paprikash

"Turn to shit?" Vision repeated, squinting his eyes at the camera in confusion. Naomi gave a short, hard laugh out of embarrassment, avoiding the gazes of the two heroes.

"Yeah... there's like, a whole-ass war coming." She trailed off, cursing her habit of swearing excessively when she was embarrassed. Unfortunately, her colorful language did nothing to help her credibility, as Wanda was now raising a perfect eyebrow at her. Vision remained fairly passive, but he was also a robot so it didn't count.

"You never cease to amaze me with your eloquence." Tony sassed, throwing a cocky smirk Naomi's way. As sarcastic as the comment was, it soothed her nerves slightly- and hopefully got rid of her red cheeks.

"Shut up Tin Can." Naomi retorted, smirking back at Tony- both to sass him and to avoid the camera.

"Hepburn." He nodded to her in surrender, backing out of the sarcastic banter. Now without an excuse, she was forced to pay attention to Wanda and Vision. Clasping her hands in her lap, Naomi took a breath and briefly ran over everything in her mind. It was a lot to cover over Skype if she was to convince the couple to go to a foreign country that hadn't existed until a few months ago.

"Okay, so, there is a war on its way. It's hard to explain how I know-"

"Prophetic knowledge."

"Shut it, Downey."

Naomi ignored the Stark as he became increasingly confused, making a note to explain the whole movie-actor thing again after FaceTime-ing with superheroes. In fact, everyone in the room was confused by her new nickname for Tony- Thor, Loki and Strange all glanced at each other to see if anyone knew what it meant. Vision and Wanda, who were still under the impression that Naomi was actually a crudely-spoken prophet, simply frowned and wrote it off as a fortune-teller thing. Huffing, Naomi found her previous nerves completely gone as a result of Tony's antics.

"Anyway, so there's this fight that coming- I've seen it. An alien named Thanos forges an infinity gauntlet to hold the power of all six infinity stones. With it, he plans to wipe out half the universe." She was about to continue when she realized her fatal blunder. It hadn't crossed her mind until she had actually explained it to Vision- that she had just told him and Wanda of his own death. There was only one way to remove the mind stone that the heroes currently knew of, and if Thanos had all six stones- it only meant one thing. Naomi froze in her seat as she watched the screen, her face giving away that she had realized something terrible. Vision and Wanda were unaware, since they had not yet learned that Thanos ultimately succeeded. 

In her state of apprehension, Naomi became aware of a hand on her shoulder. She turned to her side to see Tony, his expression sympathetic as he provided silent support. Naomi then realized her second mistake. Tony had asked not to know any of the casualties in the war, and yet she had inadvertently told him that Vision was part of the death toll. It was with a burning disappointment in herself that Naomi met his eyes, and saw that he knew exactly what she had realized. Tony nodded to her in confirmation that it was okay, and Naomi turned back to the screen, determined not to make the mistake again.

"Do you want to know who dies in the war?" She asked clearly, the ferocity in her gaze taking the couple aback. Wanda peered closer at the screen, analyzing Naomi's expression.

"There are deaths in the war you have seen?" She questioned. Beside her, Vision's face suddenly grew troubled, and then cleared quickly. Clearly, he too had realized that the war against Thanos  included the cost of his life.

"Yes, many." Naomi answered, "do you want to know who?"

The two paused, staring first at Naomi before turning to each other. Their eyes held a silent conversation, before they each gave an almost imperceptible nod.