Xoxo - y/n Carter

26. Morning again

Tony pov

"Good morning family" you say as you walk into the dining room where we are all sitting. We all answer you with a good morning. It feels so wrong but right at the same time. Like something isn't adding up. As you seat yourself you turn to Peter and put some scrambled eggs on your plate. "Butterfly, ready for school today?"

"Yes, but i haven't finished the summer homework and i just need someone to drive me" he answered, sipping on some juice. It really feels like nothing has changed, like the past year hasn't happened but still everything is different at the same time.

"Aren't you 18, don't you have a license yet?" you ask him with a laugh and some of the others tune in. There are other conversations at the same time but i'm only listening to yours.

"I was about to last year, with the help of you" Peter says and he doesn't need to say the words for you to get them, i can see it in your face. But you still keep that loving smile on.

"Well then i'll drive you, since no one else seems to offer" he smiles at you and you turn your head towards me. "If that's okay with you?"

"Yeah, of course. As long as you're careful, as you said, the world might not be ready for it yet" i answer even though i definitely think it's a bad idea for you to go out right now, but i still agree. Like someone is controlling my moves. "You can take the dark blue corvette stingray"

"Yeah, just take my car" Nat throws in with a laugh.

"Technically it was y/n's car, you just drive it" Pepper says and Nat makes an over dramatic face expression towards her that just makes Pepper laugh. It's nice to have it like this again, even though there is that one thing i can't seem to pinpoint.

"I thought i gave my car to Maria, and that it was an old marine blue ferrari" you say and i can't say i'm surprised you know a lot about cars, i mean you did before but maybe it's just a thing you remember. Like everything you've learned except for people and specific events are still in your head.

"That you did, but i'll keep it. It's the only car i have left and me and Wanda kinda drove here in it" Maria says with an awkward smile but you just laugh it off.

"It's not like i have many places to go to, and i know how much you loved that car" your answer on that makes Maria hide her blushing cheeks behind her hair. And the guess i don't want to have is that something intimate happened in that car as well.

"Please tell me you've had that car cleaned before i got in it" Wanda comments and you two just burst out laughing. Everyone is just watching the scene unfold.

"Oh my god, you did it in the car?" Yelena asks with a laugh of her own and the rest catches up with what they were saying as we all listen to the same conversation now.

"Well i'm glad to see your memory is starting to improve" i say, not wanting to know details on that part of your life. We're close, but no oversharing please.

"Sorry Tony" you just say with an apologetic angel smile that makes me melt.

"Tell him what you remember, the thing you told me and Wanda yesterday" Maria continued and i look back at you.

"Technically i told Yelena first but whatever. I remember the day by the lake when i threw myself and Maria into the water, every little detail about that day" you say with a deep breath.

"That's great y/n, it means it's possible to restore your entire memory" Steve says and i can't help but think about it. I wasn't down at the bridge with them but i had heard the story and saw the footage. Maybe there really is a chance for this to go the right way and back to normal.

Arya pov

"Come on Peter, you don't wanna be late on your first day" i say with a heightened voice from the foyer.

"Here are the keys, drive carefully" Nat says, throwing me the car keys as she walks past me towards the labdoor. What could she be doing down there?

"I'm coming, chill" he answers back as he comes running back down the stairs. "I almost forgot about my essay"

"Well we have to go, why don't you finish it in the car. It's about a half hour drive" i say as I gesture for him to get out the door and he does. I follow him down to the garage to find the car i somehow remember seeing before. It's the one Natasha was driving a few years ago, i saw it in a video online, she was leaving the courthouse in it. Looking hot is what i could say to that. How could y/n have chosen Maria when she had Natasha lined up to wait for her. I throw that thought away as we get in the car and start driving.

"So what's the essay about?" i ask him to keep a conversation going, this is the perfect opportunity to get him away from the mansion. Then i'll get Pepper to run some errands in town and i'll have a clear path to my goal. No innocents in the line of fire.

"Which superhero is the best and why?" he answers and i can't help but laugh.

"Isn't that the things you write about in like fourth grade?"

"Yeah, but since we live in a city filled with them our teacher thought it could be good summer homework question"

"And who's your favourite?" i ask and i can't say i expect him to say y/n, more like Tony or Steve, maybe Natasha even.

"Starlight, you. You've always been my favorite" i can hear the pain in his voice.

"Oh sweet boy" i mutter to myself as i realise what he must have searched up and asked about the one he has lost, the one he was closest to. I only know how it feels to meet a sibling you didn't know you had but to lose them. I couldn't imagine, don't want to imagine what it would feel like to lose Jake. We may not agree all the time but he's still my brother, my twin brother. We are bound by blood whether we like it or not.