A background of nightmares

Huh!?!

{Three years later}

Tony

Three years ago Eddie moved to live with his mother after the funeral. The few times over the past three years that I've seen him, he closed off even more. He still wears the old grey jacket that Y/N had and he refuses to let go of it.

Peter got married and left a spot in his wedding party open for Y/N. One of the grooms men made the mistake of trying to sit in his spot at the rehearsal dinner and Peter lost it.

Aaron and his team have been checking in a lot more and so have Gibbs and his team. The Holmes boys have been staying in New York every chance they get. It's at a point where Mycroft has purchased two homes here. One for Sherlock and John, and one for Greg, Alan, and himself.

"Stephen can I come in?"

I don't hear anything and I open the door to the artifacts room and find Stephen sitting on the floor. I walk over and sit down next to him.

"What's going on Stephen?"

"Why does it still hurt so much?" He asks and I sigh.

"You lost all three of your siblings on the same day. They were all killed brutally. None of us expect you to be ready to go after that."

"It's been three years." He says and I kiss his temple.

"Baby, they were your siblings. There is no rush to get over their deaths."

He nods and we sit on the floor in silence for a while.

"You know how Y/N was the only reason I ever asked you out?" He asks and I nod.

"He wanted me to have someone to go to after he died and Peter moved on with his life." He says and rests his head on my shoulder.

"I'm glad he got us together."

"So am I." He says and grabs my hand. I gently squeeze his hand and rest my head atop his own.

Cloaky makes an appearance and sets a box down in front of Stephen. He grabs it and lifts the lid off to find Y/N's watch laying inside.

I never quite understood his watch and how it works because it doesn't have a clock face nor does it have a digital clock face, so I don't see how it works.

I help Stephen put it on his wrist and the watch suddenly came to life and a holographic version of Y/N stood on the watch face.

"Finally! Thanks Cloaky." The holographic Y/N says and Levi spins around.

I look at Stephen and he shrugs but looks happy to hear Y/N's voice again and to see him, even if it's just a pre recorded message.

"So I can imagine you both have questions. And yes I know that Tony is sitting next to you on the floor in the artifact's room. Also I do apologize for making you wait for three years, but this process takes time." He says.

"What process?" Stephen mumbles.

"Glad you asked Stephanie. Me and the others had to put my consciousness into this holographic form. And since it's finally done and all the extra details are over with, you now have this watch." Y/N says.

"So his watch is powered by him like AI then?" Stephen shrugs and Y/N face palms.

"No you idiots. Hold on just give me a second." He says and jumps off the watch face and becomes his natural height.

We both look up at him and find it both weird but intriguing that his technology is this advanced. Even I don't have something this good.

"Let me explain. I got help from the others. As in others I mean the people you don't know about and hopefully never will. Now I'm going to do something and I'm going to need you to accept it by tapping the watch face once in the center." He says and types some thing into another watch.