Always ~ Parley/Parkner

Chapter 10

*PETER'S POV*

The past couple of days have been a mixture of the best and worst days of my life.

I got to see Harley, my Dad and Pops, and everyone else. Amazing.

Only...turns out I've been gone for a year.

I helped out in a huge fight to defeat Thanos and his space dogs.

In the end...I lost my dad.

I also found out soon after that...Ilost Natasha, too.

I lost two of the most important people in my life in less than a day. Pops and I have each other, the team, and Harley, of course. We got this. We're a family.

The hardest thing was seeing Pops carry the love of his life off the battle field, seeing my dad being carried...I can't.

Today is the day.

We're holding a memorial for Natasha and my dad. Everyone is here.

It's a beautiful day. The sun is shining bright. Just enough clouds in the sky. Not too hot. The sun is beginning to set. It's perfect. They would have loved this.

I'm sitting on a sloped hill facing a pond. My arms are crossed over my knees.

I feel someone come up next to me.

"Hey kiddo." My Pops takes a seat next to me and stares at the pond with me. He has tear stains along his cheeks. I scoot closer to him.

"Hey," I whisper.

"The ceremony is starting soon..." He drifts off. I don't respond. "I know it's hard Pete. They did this for us."

"There had to be another way-" My voice breaks and tears threaten to fall.

"I wish there was." Pops sighs and wraps his arm around me. I lay my head on his shoulder.

"I didn't even get to say goodbye to Nat..." The tears roll down my face slowly. "I lost two of the most important people in my life, and there was nothing I could have done about it..."

Pops rubs the side of my arm. "Just because you couldn't do anything then, doesn't mean you can't do anything now. Natasha and your dad did this to save trillions. They did what they did to save you." Pops looks at me with watery eyes. "I know it hurts, trust me...but they wouldn't of done this if they knew it wasn't for a good reason."

I look down at my feet seeing the tear drops fall onto my shoes. "I love you, Pops."

"I love you, too Peter. Now let's go. Don't want to keep everyone waiting. It's starting to get dark." He gets up and holds out his hand to help me up. I grab his hand and pull myself up and dust off my black tux. I take a deep breath and follow Pops to the cabin we bought for vacation a while ago, but never used.

Everyone was gathered outside near the pier. There were two floats. One was Nat's the other was Dad's.

Dad's had white roses and sunflowers with a reactor that says "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart" and a framed picture of him. Nat's had white tulips and red roses with a framed picture of her smiling laying on top with her nunchucks laying in front.

Everyone took their turns expressing their thoughts. It was Harley's turn.

"Tony Stark..." he smiles. "He was the dad I never had. Over the years he helped me grow as an engineer, and a person. He believed in me when I thought no one else di-d." His voice cracked. You could tell he was holding back tears. "Natasha Romanoff...she was basically my second mom." A tear slips down his cheek. "She was always so happy, and positive. I won't forget the last time I saw her. I won't forget the last moment I had with either of these two amazing people." More tears trickled down his face. I took his hand into mine and used my other hand to wipe his tears.

He reached up to my face and wiped the tears, I didn't realize I had, off and smiled.

Pops looked at me with a warm smile you could tell he was putting on to cheer up the mood. "Would you like to say anything, Peter?"

I stared at the two floats. "I love you 3000."

Could I have said more? A ton. I'm not emotionally able to at the moment though.

Pops looked at me and smiled. 'I love you 3000' is a little inside joke we had. It started when they first adopted me.

I smile, remembering all the good times we had as a family.

The game nights with all the Avengers. Nat and Clint and Pops and Dad would always go head on with each other. It was so funny whenever one of them lost against the other...

The big movie marathons.

Training days.

Inside jokes.

Heartfelt talks.

The messy dinners.

Last minute school projects.

Birthdays-

"Peter- Peter?" Harley whispers trying to gain my attention. I look around and everyone is clearing out.

"Yeah?" I come back to reality and see the floats making their way down the river.

"Are you okay?" His under-eyes are dark, showing lack of sleep. Mine are the same.

"No." I answer honestly with a sigh.

"Me neither." We take a seat on the cold grass and watch the floats.

"We'll be okay though..." I say in the most convincing voice I could handle at the moment.

"In the long run...yeah." Harley intertwines our hands and kisses the back of my hand. "We have each other...we can make it through anything."

I smile softly. "We're Parley. Of course we can make it through anything." I laugh softly.

"Parley." Harley scoffs, smiles, and shakes his head.

"Didn't Natasha come up with it?" I ask laying my head on his shoulder.

"I'm pretty sure she did. Her and Wanda, I think."

"I wish I could have told Nat goodbye..."

"I know..." he whispers.

It's silent for a couple seconds.

"I'm never going to be able to look at the workshop the same..." I sigh.

"Me neither. Remember when we had our first kiss?" We both laugh remembering that day.

"Yeah," I chuckle. "Then right afterwards my dad wanted to see me downstairs."

Harley laughs. "Then we went to your room and kissed again, but someone left the door open."

"Ughhh, you're still not going to let that go!"

"I told you I wouldn't." He smirks and I slap his leg playfully.

"I don't know what I would do without you, Harley Keener." I look into his big, bright blue eyes and he stares into my brown ones.

"I don't know what I would do without you, Peter Parker." he leans downs and kisses my forehead.

I love his forehead kisses. I love him. We can do this. We have each other. The rest of the team. Our lives will go on. It will be hard, but we have to push through. Not only for ourselves, but for Natasha and Dad.

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{A/N  well...here we go, another Parley adventure. Also...Far From Home is coming out in four daysssss!!! I'm so excited, words could barely describe. I'm dressing up as Ned and then R is dressing up as Spidey and AHHHHHHHHH I cant wait. The only downside is that the next MCU movie isn't set to come out until May of next year, I don't know if I can wait that long. I'll just start my hundredth Marvel Binge. No biggie. Anyways...

I hope you Midgardians have a BOMB ass day ;)