"Part of the journey is the end"
"I lost them, I lost the kids"
"No amount of money could of brought them back"
"Don't judge people by their worst mistakes"
"Some people move on, but not us"
"We lost, all of us. We lost friends. We lost family. We lost part of ourselves. This is the fight of our lives."
(Tony's POV, 2023... 5 years later)
"You done?... yeah?" I say to Morgan as we finish our juice pops just after I had discovered time travel.. yeah I did that.
"Here" I say to the adorable 4 year old sitting in front of me as I wipe her face free of the leftover juice pop. "That face goes there" I say as I gently push her face into her pillow, "tell me a story" she mumbles.
"A story... ah once apon a time Morgan went to bed the end" I smirk wanting to get back to my work, "that is a horrible story" she says with a small smile on her face, "come on that's your favourite story" I say raising my voice slightly.
"Please?" She says cutely, god how was I supposed to resist that face? "Fine" I sigh as I rest my face in my hand trying to come up with a short entertaining story that a 4 year old would understand. I let out a small smile as I finally think of one.. she's going to love it.
"Well there was this girl.. a very brave, pretty, smart and kind girl. She didn't have a very good childhood, she was brought up by bad people, who wanted to use her for bad. They liked to call her Caroline, that names creepy isn't it? Sends shivers down your spine. Her real name though was y/n Barnes and she had a brother called Bucky Barnes who was also used for bad but anyway he isn't important to the story and I never really liked him" I say looking down at Morgan's amused face.
"well one day a group of remarkable people found this girl, they helped her, saved her from doing bad. she was loved, she was so loved and she had finally learnt how to be a good person and she used her powers to help others she also so happened to fall in love with that boy Peter Parker, who I told you about a while ago remember?" I explained.
"mhm, but daddy, why have you never talked about her before?" Morgan mumbled obviously realising by now that this wasn't a fictional character.
I sigh before smiling at the girl sitting before me, the girl who reminded me so much of y/n, it was a blessing really. "Because truth is daddy misses her, he gets sad when he thinks of her, just like you get sad when you remember Mr bubble the elephant that you lost when you where 3" I say as she frowns, we don't mention Mr Bubble in this household.
"Anyway she was a very good kid, but then her powers got the better of her and... she.... she was taken for granted... and" I say having to stop myself not wanting to show my emotions, "well she lived happily ever after... in another world... just like Peter.... you know Morgan you would of loved her.... one day- one day if she e-ever comes back, I really want you to meet her" I smile hoping she understood my story, "she sounds really cool" Morgan mumbles, her eyes getting droopy proving that she was, wether she wanted to admit it or not, tired.
"Yes... she is- I mean was- I-uh-.... anyway love you tons" I say as I lean in and give Morgan a kiss on her forehead.
"I love you 3000" Morgan says proudly as I smile at her.
3000
Wow
That's a lot.
(Your POV, the ocean of darkness)
Your eyes slowly blinked open to realise nonetheless that you where still covered by a blanket of darkness.
Your head throbbed from the loss of blood and your body felt cold and weak, you where so confused you had no idea where the hell you where and all you wanted to do was go home, wherever home was.
Suddenly you see a small circular glowing shape forming in the distance, slowly increasing its size ever so slightly. Suddenly a man was visible behind it.. he looked oddly familiar?
"Y/n come here.. quick" the man said and you quickly realised it was Dr Strange. "Dr Strange? What the hell is happening?" You ask worry spreading throughout your body. "Just come here and I'll explain" he says as you slowly ease yourself up and walk towards the portal tripping a few times as you did so.
You finally reached the portal and stepped out to realise you where now back in Titan and wow did it look different, the sky's where grey and the dirt was now a dark orange, it had changed like crazy.
"Y/n!" You hear someone scream as you turn to your side to see Peter running towards you, "Peter!" You scream in excitement as you run into each other's arms. "How are you here?? I watched you die!" You say after a while of hugging each other, "I-I actually don't know" he says as you both look at Dr Strange who seemed to be the one with all the answers.
"Thanos had all the stones, which gave him the ability to make half the universe disappear" Dr Strange says after realising everyone was staring at him. "The reason we're all back here is because someone somehow got all the stones back and then got all of us back" he says as you nod your head in understanding.
"We have been gone for 5 years" he says almost calmly as you open your mouth in shock. "5 years! How the hell am I not dead?" You say remembering your loss in blood. Peter gives you a concerned look which leads you to remember the fact that he didn't know you could possibly be minutes away from your death bed.
You then felt it was your place to explain to him... everything, everything he had missed out on, god you could of sworn he almost cried.
"So you could die any minute now?" Peter questions his voice cracking, "well technically I should of died 5 years ago, somehow I'm still here" You say as you cross your arms and look over at Dr Strange.
"When thanos snapped it was technically only 5 seconds for us before the other person snapped bringing us back" Dr Strange said keeping his glance directly in front of him as if in thought.
"We are needed on Earth" Dr Strange says as if he had snapped out of his trance. "Why?" You ask not really wanting to leave, "thanos" he simply says before creating another portal.
"everyone go through now" he says as you all quickly jump too your feet, you being the first to slowly step through the portal.
As you stepped through the sight before you shocked you right through your core. There was millions of Thanos's minions laid out before you ready to fight the crowd of what you assumed was the force of Avengers, laid right in the centre of the vicious looking beasts was Thanos in all his glory.
Ew
"Avengers.....Assemble!" Steve Yelled which you assumed was your cue to begin fighting. You ran toward the beasts using your powers to tear them apart, ignoring the growing weak feeling within your body.
"I'd be careful if I where you y/n!" Shuri yells from beside you, "using your powers more will only make the process of dying faster" she says as you throw one of Thanos's minions off you.
"Thanks for that!" You yell back at Shuri as you run forward motivated to kill these stupid beasts.
You continue fighting them, using your powers to kill them, them trying with every ounce of there power to kill you, you suddenly trip over someone falling face first into the mud.
"Classy" the familiar voice says as you turn yourself around to see a smiling Bucky standing before you. "Buck!" You say happily as he helps you up and you hug each other.
"Doing alright?" He asks as you nod your head. "Not dying on me are you?" He smirks as you try to hide your own pain with a smirk of your own. "Course not" you say as you both begin fighting again, determined to kill every single one of the beasts.
You look over to see Thanos in the distance a small smirk appearing on your face as you run toward him determined to kill him. But before you could reach him a beast comes running into you knocking you off your path and causing you to tumble down a small hill, "die you stupid annoying oversized rat!" You yell as you fight the beast and eventually kill it.
You puff harshly as you weak tired body tries to tell you to stop, but you weren't going to give up, your weakness would not show.
"What are you doing on the ground?" someone behind you says as you turn yourself around and genuinely have to cup your mouth with shock.
"tony?" You question somehow thinking he was an illusion.
"Hey kid" he smiles as he comes over to you and helps you up.
"g-god I missed you" he says pulling you in for a hug before you had time to speak.
A tear trickling down your face.
You missed him.
You never wanted to leave his embrace.
God what would you ever do if he died?
You would never be the same..
I'm sorry for the pain I'm about to put you all through ...... again ...