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The relatively short car ride to Tony's home was quiet. Steve drove while I took the passenger seat with Natasha and Scott in the backseat. Overplayed pop songs played softly over the radio while I had called my brother to notify him that Steve and I would most likely be late picking up the girls later that evening. We had removed the two car seats and left them at the Compound. The four of us were caught in our thoughts about the idea of time travel being introduced to our lives. Even I still didn't understand how I was able to spend what felt like a few hours in the mirror dimension, but a year could pass back home.

I wondered if there were important things that my mother hadn't told me while I was in the mirror dimension. She had said that I was destined for greatness; that the world needed me. How? I still had no clue.

"... You're stronger than you think you are. Sweetheart, you're destined for greatness. The world needs my daughter... I can't explain to you what'll happen just yet. I wish I could. But you are much more than you let."

At one particular stoplight, Steve laced the fingers of his right hand in mine and brought them to his lips; placing a kiss on my knuckles simply because he could. It was the little things and the simple gestures like those that made me continuously fall deeper and deeper in love with this man. Even if we knew that this whole time travel thing might not work, we hoped. It's been five years and we missed our friends just as much as we did the first five hours after the blip, but we had to move on not only for ourselves but for them. Our friends wouldn't want us to dwell on the loss if we had the opportunity to be happy.

Before I knew it, the car had stopped and parked in front of Tony and Pepper's lakeside cabin. He had designed it himself I presume and it was isolated from the rest of the houses on the lake, giving them their own sense of paradise. It was somewhere that Morgan could grow up out of the spotlight, similar to our girls.

We all exited the car and Tony looked from his daughter, then to his house. She squirmed out of his arms and ran at me, "Auntie Ella!"

Scooping her up into my arms, I hug the young girl and receive questioning glances from both Natasha and Scott. In my peripheral, I see Steve take a long slow inhale; nodding I send him a small encouraging smile. Setting Morgan back onto her feet, I tell her, "Why don't you go follow your dad?"

With a nod, she runs up the gravel path and follows Tony inside the house.

This entire exchange was going to be painfully awkward, but if anyone could help us figure out how to navigate the quantum realm it was Tony. Seven years ago we fought amongst ourselves and broke the team apart. That was the main reason we lost to Thanos. We weren't a united front like we had been before. If we were going to do this, we needed to be once more. Everything that had happened, I had forgiven him for. Tony had explained his reasoning behind using the power dampening collar and now that it was after the fact, I understood why. They, the world governments, were afraid they couldn't control me and the solution was the collar. It wasn't something he wanted to do but needed to at the time.

None of us ever expected or thought to find ourselves where we were in this moment after the devastation of the Snap, but here we were. After sharing a curt nod with Natasha, Tony exited his house with a pitcher of iced tea and several glasses. Setting them down on an end table on the porch, he exhaled loudly, "What brings you here?"

"Time travel," Scott blurts out without hesitation. He steps past Nat, Steve, and me as he rushed forward to explain further. "I was in a place called the quantum realm when the snap happened five years ago for you all, but for me, it was five hours. Maybe there's a way to navigate it and achieve time travel to fix things."

Tony didn't bat an eye or react in any sort of fashion. Scott sighed in response, "No, tru- We know what it sounds like."

"Tony, after everything you've seen, is anything really impossible?" Steve tries to reason with him.

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