ATHENA | peter parker

43 | i could never

43 | i could never

"It kind of sucks that we finally reunited and we have to fight the biggest war of our lives" Athena sighed out as she sat on the rocks beside Peter, squeezing onto his hand.

Peter sighed out and looked into her painful eyes "I missed you so much."

"I missed you too" she said, almost starting to cry.

The past three days, she had been in a lot of pain. She was stabbed through the stomach by a dead soldier when fighting Hela, then Thanos attacked their ship and killed her until she was nearly dead, and then, she drifted through space for 12 hours and somehow survived.

So, yeah, she was in a lot of pain.

Peter squeezed onto her hand as she looked down, cradling onto her stomach. "What happened?"

"I was stabbed" she admitted "then, Thanos attacked Thors ship and I nearly died." She paused when Peter wrapped his arms around her waist tightly.

"Please.." he paused "never leave my side again."

She pulled away and smiled at him "I won't if you won't."

He smiled, placing his forehead against hers "I could never."

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Athena bit onto her lip nervously as she looked at the scene unwrapping before her. Thanos, walking into titan through a space portal. She looked towards Peter who nodded at her as they both looked back down.

"Oh, yeah." Strange said as he sat on a rock looking at the purple Titan "you're much more of a Thanos."

"I take it that Maw is dead." Strange nodded at him "this day takes a heavy toll. Still, he accomplished his mission."

"You may regret that. He brought you face to face with the master of the mystic arts."

Athena quietly hovered around the wall, looking up to the sky to see if she could see Tony.

"And where do you think he brought you?" Thanos asked.

"Let me guess." Strange started "your home?"

"It was," Thanos explained before using the reality Stone to make Titan look like it used to. "And it was beautiful. titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."

"Genocide." Strange confirmed.

"At random, dispassionate, fair to rich and poor alike. They called me a mad man, and what I predicted came to pass."

Titan returned to its normal self as Strange started to talk again "congratulations, you're a prophet."

"I'm a survivor."

"Who wants to murder trillions." Said Strange.

"With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers. They would all cease to exist." Thanos explained "I call that mercy."

Strange stood up from the rock and looked over to the purple man "and then what?"

"I'd finally rest" he shrugged "and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest wills."