Life Dies In The End

Chapter 75

Some time passed before Tony, Bruce and Rocket got to work on making a gauntlet for the stones. The others had started to ask questions about what to do next and what not, after my speech or whatever you'd call it. I separated from the others as they all busied themselves with something to do while waiting on Tony, Bruce and Rocket.

I sat silently on the same balcony I had found myself on before we got the stones. I was even in the same position, sitting on the railing and my back leaning against the wall it connected to. I had summoned the spell book to my hand but I never managed to open it as my thoughts took over my mind.

I was still needed here for some reason. If I wasn't I would've wanted to stay, but I'd still return in hopes of seeing my brothers one last time. In hopes of seeing Loki again. Staying would've brought a sense of contentment and guilt. I would've been with Odin, Frigga, and Ela.

Ela. She was different now. Once I do die maybe she'll finally be her true self. Maybe she'd finally be a good person. Frigga would put her on the right path, surely she would. Frigga and Odin would put Ela back on the right path.

I would be with them again someday and then Thor and Loki would join us. We may be a broken family now, but there will be a day that we'll be able to be a full family once again. For now I had my brothers to look after.

Plus part of me was kind of scared of dying. I had always craved the finality of it, but now it was the finality that made me waver. I could die any second of any day and have no control over it. I could drop dead in the next five minutes or five years or five decades. I didn't know. For once my life was always in danger. That wouldn't stop me from jumping into battle, if needed, but it might make me more cautious and there wasn't a downside to it.

I looked towards the door as it opened. Tony stepped through with two plates of food and two bottles of beer. He glanced up to me, giving me a small smile before closing the door behind him and extending a plate and beer to me.

"I figured you might actually be hungry for once." Tony joked softly as I took the plate and beer from his hands, after hopping off the railing and onto the balcony's floor. "And I thought the beer would make you feel better."

"I honestly don't remember what it feels like to be hungry." I sat down next to Tony along the side of the compound, and was safe within the railing of the balcony. "I remember it being unpleasant."

"Very." Tony nodded as he spoke through a mouth full of the sandwich he had for himself.

I laughed softly at his muffled words before taking a bite of my own sandwich. With that bite I had realized how hungry I really was and that the dull ache in my stomach was from hunger and not something else. Within a few moments I had managed to eat the whole sandwich and followed it with a third of the beer. Tony laughed from his spot next to me.

"I figured right, I guess." Tony smiled as he finished off his sandwich. "Take it easy on that beer. We don't need a drunk goddess, once we get the gauntlet finished."

"I'm not gonna get drunk." I looked to Tony as I started to speak in a voice intimidating a snobby person. "A goddess can't get drunk off of your measly midgardian alcohol."

Tony laughed loudly at me as I smiled. It was good to know that he wasn't going to act any different around me now. It was nice to have someone who wouldn't look at you like you're broken and more as an equal.

"Come on," Tony rose to his feet, extending his hand to help me up. "The gauntlet's almost done."

I took Tony's hand and came to a standing position, before following him to the gauntlet. Soon we'd have everyone back. Soon our family would be back, but first we had to choose who would snap and I would volunteer, even though they'd say no, maybe there was a chance they wouldn't. I was still a goddess afterall. 

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