𝖉𝖆𝖞𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙~𝖕𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖊𝖗 𝖝 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖗

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𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖌𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖔𝖚𝖙𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖇𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖞𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖞 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎 𝖌𝖔𝖙 𝖒𝖞 𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝖆𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐. yes it had been mine since my name was wiped from the world's most wanted list but with everything that had happened i never had the balls to move back in. now i was practically forced to.

juno moved back in with me obviously but we had two other now-homeless guests as well. i had forced bucky and wanda to move in even though they told me they didn't want to be a bother. so technically it may have been kidnap but the guest room and sofa seemed to have grown on them. besides the fact that they didn't know each other that well they got along good enough to be roomies with juno and i. peter and may somehow got their apartment back across the street so the web-slinging teen was always over to hang out with juno. their dynamic improved with juno's new age jump but their behavior was similar to a brother-sister type relationship.

bucky wasn't much of a fan of the two teens' loud conversations so he would hide in my room until their hangout was over. wanda seemed to enjoy their rowdy behavior and would often cook them meals. i knew it was so she could distract herself from the things going on in her head. she would often wake up in the middle of the night and stay awake until morning. i caught her rearranging the kitchen very early one morning and let's just say a long therapy session lasted until the sun rose. she told me about how much she missed vision and how she couldn't even close her eyes anymore without seeing him dying in front of her all over again. from then on she would slip into bed beside me for some comfort. she said i helped. i don't really know how but she helped keep my own nightmares away as well oddly enough.

if it wasn't me finding wanda in the kitchen at 2 am then it was bucky. his night terrors would have him screaming himself awake. i had become used to it from my time in wakanda but he always apologized over and over again for it. juno was a heavy sleeper thank god so she was never woken by it and wanda was often awake anyway. i would stay with him in the living room curled up on the sofa until he would fall back asleep. he insisted wanda take the guest room so the tiny sofa i had barely fit him much less me as well. i didn't mind at all staying with him as i had missed his company so much over the years i counted that time as the makeup for it.

eventually, i got the call from pepper regarding tony's funeral. i knew it was coming at some point but i still wasn't ready for it. my injuries from the fight had healed but the memory of tony's last breath never would. wanda, bucky, juno, and i were dressed in black as we arrived at the cabin by the lake. we all piled inside the living room where pepper and morgan were. morgan's small hands held her father's ironman helmet as she sat on the sofa. her mother greeted us all as she tried to keep her tears in. the room filled with the world's mightiest heroes who were all in mourning.