The Tragedy of Mary Jane Stark

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Before the Tragedy

Five years

Five years had gone by and not one of those days did Tony not think about the kids. His kids. The kids he watched grow as people and watched their relationship blossom. His daughter. His beloved apprentice, if you will.

He had both of them die in his arms. Peter dying without ever know if Mary Jane lived. Mary Jane begging her father, not wanting to die. Those moments haunted Tony. However after that day he tried to celebrate their anniversary, he did try a new coping method.

Of course it was not him writing letters, that was dumb in his mind. No, he would make video recordings of himself as if he were talking to Peter and Mary Jane. When they'd be played back it was like a halo gram. He would sit on a chair and just talk about anything and everything. Anytime he got upset and started to panic, he'd go in the garage and make them a video. And it worked. He stopped panicking as much, it was a heathy way to go through the five stages of grief. He excepted that there was nothing he could do.

He still brought daisies for Mary Jane every-time they started to wilt. He'd tell Pepper it was to brighten up the room, but in actuality,
he felt guilty that he hadn't done something as simple as getting flowers for his daughter.

He had a very fond memory of taking Mary Jane to a park when she was 13, when they first moved to New York. He remembers not wanting to take her to Central Park because there were so many people, so he'd take her to a park in a small town. They'd have picnics or he'd push her on the swings. Then Ultron sent Tony in to a spiral and he decided it was too risky to continue to take her there. But they both held cherished memories at that park.
He had built a memorial there, for her and Peter. There was already a whole separate memorial for Spider-Man in New York, but this one was for Peter himself, not Spider-Man.

He had it built in the middle of the park he'd take little Mary Jane too. It was a statute of the two of them. Tony had built it based one that drawing Mary Jane had of the two of them. The one were Mary was laughing and Peter was grinning at her. Tony would take Morgan to that park to play and would always sit on the bench next to the statue. On the plaque it says 'the two, who vanished together'. Saying the donor was anonymous. People would see that statue and think it was there to represent everyone's loss. Tony didn't mind, as long as he had it to look at.

Little Morgan Stark always loved the statue. It was so interesting to her. Her dad telling her they were in love and died together. The simple mind of little Morgan only heard love and automatically thought it was a happy statue. The memorial statue that sat in the Maple Twine Park's park, also brought solace to May.

Five years had gone by, Morgan was 4. And Tony finally felt he was able to rest. He excepted the fact that he was lucky, lucky to have pepper and lucky to have Morgan. Lucky to be alive himself. He should have died all those years ago, in that cave in Afghanistan. But he didn't and it allowed him to continue living, to have Morgan and help the world. He was content with his life. He was not over the death of the kids but he learned to live with it. He learned to be happy, to be a good dad for Morgan and a good husband to Pepper.

When Steve came to him with a plan, an impossible and irrational plan, tony shut him down. Not wanting to loose what he already had. But the mere thought, of possible maybe of having them back was intriguing. But to risk his new happy life? Time travel stayed on his mind for the rest of the day. After putting Morgan to bed he told Pepper he'd get the dishes.

Deep in thought he had accident sprayed the faucet sprayer in the wrong direction, getting items on a shelf wet.

He looked around hoping Pepper hadn't watched him do that and started to grab things off the self to clean off with a rag