Chapter sixteen
"A ravanger funeral."
When they found Peter and Yondu, pulling them in, Peter was sobbing as he held onto Yondu's dead body, but when he looked up, he saw Rocket down next to Atara, he stood up and walked over to them, falling down next to her "what happened?" he asked "she was gonna go after you. I couldn't let that happen. In all my years of knowing her I've never used that weapon on her until today." Rocket shared, standing up, he turned walking off and baby Groot went with him.
Peter looked down at Atara "I'm sorry.." he told her, taking a deep breath "my entire life, no women besides my mother ever truly meant something to me, until I met you. You were fearless, even if it was so you could kidnap me for a bounty. But I also saw that night when those prisoners were going to kill you and Gamora, you were scared and without even using your words when you looked into my eyes I knew you needed my help." he shared.
And unknowing to him, Atara was listening to every word, having woken up awhile ago but from the strength of the shock Rocket had used, she still felt it coursing through her system and found it hard to fully come to.
"And I know last time we were in a situation like this I was bragging but if that kiss we shared doesn't solidify that our unspoken thing is no longer unspoken then you should know that Mantis was right when she said I was in love with you." Peter shared "I love you, too." Atara whispered to him, opening her eyes and looking at him, and when she did, Peter started crying again as he leaned his forehead against her's.
Having gone to a place called the fold, they all changed their clothes, where Atara was wearing a black dress as she along with Peter, Rocket, baby Groot, Drax, Gamora, Mantis and Craglin, stood around Yondu's body and were lighting candles and putting flowers and all of his favorite trinkets around him, as they put ropes on him along with his mouth and eyes "I told Atara..how when I was a kid I used to pretend David Hasselhoff was my dad." Peter shared, as Rocket and Drax looked to each other not knowing who that was.
"He's a singer and actor from Earth, really famous guy. Earlier, it struck me..Yondu didn't have a talking car, but he did have a flying arrow. He didn't have the beautiful voice of an angel..but he did have the whistle of one. Both Yondu and David Hasselhoff went on kick ass adventures..and hooked up with hot women..and fought robots. I guess David Hasselhoff did kind of end up being my dad after all. Only it was you, Yondu." Peter shared, as Atara leaned her head on his shoulder "I had a pretty cool dad. What I'm trying to say here is..sometime that thing you're searching for your whole life..is right there by your side all along. You don't even know it." Peter shared.
As Nebula who was standing in the back watching them, turned and walked off, where Gamora left to follow her "I am groot." Groot said "he did call you twig." Rocket said, and as he did, they all then moved Yondu's body into the furnace, they all watched, as Atara turned looking at Peter "come on, you don't have to watch if you don't want to." she whispered to him, as Peter nodded, the two turned to walk off as did the other guardians "Peter.." Craglin said, as Peter and Atara stopped turning to him "captain found this for you in a junker shop. Said you'd come back to the fold someday." Craglin shared, walking up to them.
"What is it?" Peter asked, taking it "it's called a zune. It's what everybody's listening to on Earth nowadays. It's got three hundred songs on it." Craglin shared "three hundred songs?" Peter asked, as Craglin nodded, he turned to walk off "wait." Peter told him, as Craglin turned to them, Peter stuck his hand in his boot and pulled out the arrow, Craglin took it "Rocket grabbed the pieces, and reassembled them. I think Yondu would want you to have it." Peter shared "thanks..captain." Craglin said, as Peter and Atara walked off.
Going to Peter's room, Peter went to look at the zune but when he did, it was no longer in his hands as he furrowed his brows, he turned seeing Atara holding it in her hands "hey!" Peter voiced reaching for it, but as he did, Atara dodged him "my turn." she told him, bringing the headphones up and sticking them in his ears, she then looked down and pressed play on the song she had picked, which was called father and son by Cat Stevens, where Peter then looked into her eyes, as Atara looked into his
"It's not time
to make a change
just relax, take it easy
you're still young,
that's your fault
there's so much you have to know
find a girl, settle down
if you want you can marry
look at me,
I am old, but I'm happy."
And as Peter looked behind her, he saw through the windows ships coming in and as he did, he took the headphones off, grabbing Atara's hand, he began leading them out of the room as the two headed to the control room where Rocket, baby Groot, Gamora, Drax and Mantis were "it's a ravanger funeral." Peter shared, as the ships began shooting off fireworks, Peter put his arms around Atara leaning her against his chest "he didn't chase em away." Rocket shared "no." Peter said "even though he yelled at em. And was always mean. And he stole batteries he didn't need." Rocket shared.
As Peter and Atara looked to him "well, of course not." Peter told him, as Drax held a sleeping baby Groot, Atara turned looking up at Peter, Peter looked down at her "what?" he asked, as Atara brought her arms up, kissing him, Peter kissed her back, as the fireworks went off in the background.
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