𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬✓ 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐤 [𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟑]

39: We Won.

I opened my eyes to see the dust filled sky of what was once my home. I was sitting against a fallen piece of debris. I felt light. Very light. Too light. So quiet. Maybe except for the ringing in my head. A voice echos in my ears and I snap my gaze to their direction.

I see dad kneeling in front of me and I smiled. I think I do, I can't feel anything. I noticed his brown tear-filled eyes looking around frantically and I frowned. I know I did, because I felt that.

"Dad?" I called out wanting to know what's wrong.

His mouth was moving, and he was spraying something on my arm. I know it's supposed to be cold but I can't feel it.

My ears finally opened, even though it was muffled I could still hear dad crying desperately.

"-o, no, no, no. No! What have you done, Smalls? What did you do?"

"I- it's fine. I- I'm f-fine." I tried to assure him.

"FRIDAY?" A feminine voice called out beside me and I turned to see Pepper, barely holding back her tears.

"I'm fine." I tried again.

I don't get what the fuss is about.

"Life functions deteriorating critically." She responded.

"S-s-stupid AI. I always preferred JARVIS." I told them and dad smiled.

"I know Smalls, we know." He responds softly.

The sight of his smile, even though it had sadness behind it, made relief flood through me.

Steve, Thor, Rhodey and PJ arrived, they all looked distraught, tears filling their eyes. I smile softly at them.

"It's n-not as bad as it l-looks, guys." I tried to joke but I'm interrupted by fits of coughs. "I'm fine." I assured again as I started to feel the little strength I've gathered leave me.

"Lis! Lis!!" They shifted for him to see me and I spotted him, Liv not far behind. Her hands fly to her mouth as she tried to contain her sobs.

"Shortie?" He calls out as he runs past dad, coming to kneel in front of me. Tears start to form in his eyes and his voice breaks. "Hey– Lis? Can you hear me? It's Peter. Hey. We won, Shortie. We won, Lis. We won. You did it, sis. You did it." He starts to sob, leaning his head against my shoulder, I move my head to rest against his.

Liv kneels beside him, tears streaming down her face. "¿Qué voy a hacer sin ti" she asks with shaky voice, her eyes red and puffy. "Gracias. Por todo."
[Spanish|What am I going to do without you?|Thank you. For everything.]

I managed to give her a smile but my face felt heavy. Mom pulls Peter away from me and felt his warmth leave me. I noticed T, Val, Shuri, Wanda and the rest of the guardians standing around.

Dad comes into my gaze, mom beside him. "Hey, smalls."

"M-morgan-" I can't push out the rest of my sentence but he understands. Like he always has. He see the question in my eyes, the question, I'm unable to ask.

Will you be okay?

They both take my hand in theirs, squeezing tightly. "We're gonna be fine, Smalls."

"We're going to take care of all of them." Mom added and satisfaction fills me at their reassurance.

"We're gonna be fine. You can rest now."

With that assurance, I let go of the line I'd desperately clung onto. I let the darkness consume me.

🔸🔸🔸

'Everybody wants an happy ending, right? Villains, crooks, thieves and even us, the good guys, we do whatever it takes. But it doesn't usually roll that way does it?' She lets out a sigh, flicking her nails, everyone in the room knew it was what she did whenever she was nervous.

'If you're watching this, it means I'm gone again, or something has…happened or dad just decided to embarrass the life out of me again. But it also means we won, we brought everyone back. Families are united and everyone we lost are back with us.' She said with a smile.

'You know ten years ago, anytime I told dad about the possibility of us not being alone in the universe, he would have laughed at me and told me to stop drinking too much chocolate. But even, I didn't think it would be to the extent of finding a family and falling in love with one.' She twirled the crystal pendant in her hand.

'To be honest, I'm a little scared about tomorrow. I mean it's about time travel, this only happens in movies, fanfictions and science fictions, not in the real world. Even I am not crazy enough to dream about stuff like this, but it…it works and I don't know if I should be happy or scared because, let's be honest, something is going to go wrong, I mean it's us, nothing ever goes right, there's always a glitch in our plans and I really really don't want anything to go wrong because I keep getting this foreboding feeling or maybe it's just me being nervous and pessimistic.'

She lets out a sigh, adjusting her sitting position.
'Part of the journey is the end, is that how dad says it? I think that's what he says. Maybe this is it, we give it whatever it takes, it's part of the hero gig and it's how the world we live in is. To win sometimes you lose, I just hope the loss doesn't outweigh the win. Dad is making his own video right now and I just keep getting scared and I start overthinking everything again like what if it doesn't work, what if we manage to complicate whatever this is, what if we- you know what, what am I worrying for? Everything is going to be fine,'

She gets up from the bed, walking towards the camera, 'we're going to bring everyone back and hopefully by this time tomorrow, we would be cheering with the rest of the world and then I'll destroy this video so no one ever sees it and use it as leverage against me.'

She goes to stop the video but pauses looking right at Tony and then Morgan, for a moment it was like she was still here.

'Everything is going to be okay.'