Maddie sends everyone a text telling us to come to Tomorrowland. I don't run because I'm still pretty exhausted from the thing with the ferris wheel.
Arriving at Tomorrowland I see everyone crying. I don't really understand why, because of that I walk up to them. I can smell blood and look into the direction.
It's Tony.
Tony is dead.
I feel my eyes starting to water, but I try not to cry. I can do that later when civilians don't need our help. I try to get a overview of the situation. Almost everyone is crying. Parents are trying to keep their kids from seeing Tony's corpse. A lot of us are still on their way here, including Mara. She will be heartbroken. She already lost her mum, and now her dad too.
I use my powers to get the blood of Tony's face. He shouldn't have to look like that. Not really knowing what to do with the blood I just let it sicker into the ground.
The others arrive in small groups, everyone surprised, heartbroken and mad.
Dad arrives with one of them, immediately coming over to me. He stands next to me, putting a comforting hand on my shoulder. He has to take over now.
Mara arrives with one of the last groups. As soon as she saw her dad she started to cry. She falls to the floor, her powers acting out. I try to get them under control. It was easier than it would have been normally, because of Mara's emotional state. We are asked to stay a few hours longer, what we do because it's our task.
We arrive at the hotel and get grouped with one other person. Alice and I are in the same room. Arriving at our room we throw our things onto a couch. Alice sits down on her bed, head in her hands. She's most likely crying. I go into the bathroom that our room includes, washing of the blood and dirt from my face and hands. I shrub at my hands like a maniac. Tony's blood was on my hands and that just seems wrong. After like 10 minutes I come back out. Alice is already back on her feet, looks like she just needed that time.
"I'll go and get some food for us", she says, not looking at me. She gets sunglasses out of her purse, putting them on. I saw something that is open 24 hours." She throws the purse on her shoulder.
"Stay here", are her last words before leaving.
I look into the mirror. I look like every other day, not even having red eyes or something like that. I guess it's my defense mechanism that stuck with me trough everything. I stopped doing almost everything I used to do in the red room and at H.Y.D.R.A., but this is something I never stopped doing.
I decide to check up on the others to get my mind of it. I go to Kandyce first, because her room is next to mine.
I knock and she opens the door.
Hey I just wanted to come and check up on you" I say pulling her into a hug. She must feel unbelievable bad, with her being there when he died.
"Yeah I'm fine. Just quite tired", she responds.
"Alright. Well Alice has my dinner so I'll talk to you later." With that I leave the room. Nat is paired up with Kandyce, she should be okay.
Next I check up on Luka and Corey. They are in the same room. Or I'm trying to. They won't open the door, which means they want to be left alone. I tell them trough the door that they can come to me if they want to. They have each other.
Now Mara. That's gonna be hard.
I walk up to her room, knocking on her door.
"Mara, it's me. Erika. Can I come in?" I ask her calmly. I get no response but I can hear her quickened breathing and sobs. I really don't want to disturb her, but I can't just leave her like that.
I try to open the door. It's looked. I use one of the bobby pins I still have in my hair to open the door.
Walking into the room I see her lying on her bed, just crying. I walk over to her, sitting on her bed.
"Mara, I know how it feels to lose one of your parents. I still remember Peggy's death."
No response.
I sigh and continue. "Everyone is here for you. You are not alone. If you want something just come to my room and ask me."
Again only silence.
I stand up and go over to the door. Before opening it I stand there, leaning on the frame.
"I won't lie to you. It won't get better. The pain will always be there, but you'll learn to live with it. Tony will always be with you, and I know you know that."
I wait for a few seconds, but still get no response. I open the door and walk out of her room.
I walk back to my room. Getting in I see dad sitting on my bed. He walks over to me and pulls me into a hug. That's when my walls finally crumble.
I start crying like I didn't do in a long time. Dad sits down on the floor with me, not letting me go. Everything that happened in the last few weeks was just too much, and Tony's death brought up old memories.
Tony is- I mean was my godfather. He was a great person. The world always thought of him as that selfish, rich asshole. But they didn't know him. He was ready to sacrifice himself in every battle we fought.
Tony deserved the world, but the world didn't deserve him.
