Believer [Peter Parker]

57 - Part of the Journey is the End

It's the day of the funeral. There were countless times where Hannah was close to tears. She put on her outfit for the funeral. She had cried the night before. She let the Guardians of the Galaxy stay in her apartment as well as Peter and May Parker. They had nowhere to go and she happily let them stay with her for as long as they need. She kept telling May that she can stay with her until she found a stable job and found an apartment for her and Peter.

Michael Quill was obviously going to live with Hannah. He was going to find a job after the funeral. Hannah was the one who insisted on her father living with her. At first, he was against it because he thought it was best that she lived on her own and be independent but as she continued to insist the previous night, he gave in. 

"Are you fine?" Michael asked his daughter.

"I'm... I don't know," she sighed. "I'll be okay."

Michael placed his hands on her shoulder and kissed Hannah on the side of her forehead.

"Everything will be okay," Michael said. "Don't worry."

"Yeah."

"Let's get going," Michael said. "We'll be late if we don't get going."

"Yeah."

***

"Hey, Hannah," Rhodey said. "There's a message from Tony for us."

"Me too?" Hannah asked, surprised.

"Yeah," Rhodey said. "It's for you too. You're part of his family. Come on."

Hannah looked at her father.

"Go," Michael said, gently pushing her. 

She nodded and walked into the house with Rhodey. 

"Come here, Hannah," Nora said to Hannah. 

Hannah sat down next to Morgan who is now between her mother and Hannah. Happy Hogan, one of Tony's long-time friend and has worked for Tony for many years. It was a holographic message from Tony Stark. It was being projected from his Iron Man helmet. Tony was sitting on a chair during the hologram. 

"Everybody wants a happy ending, right?" Tony asked. "But it doesn't always roll that way. Maybe this time. I'm hoping if you play this back, it's in a celebration. I hope families are reunited, I hope we get it back, and something like a normal version of the planet has been restored. If there ever was such a thing. God, what a world. Univers, now. If you told me ten years that we weren't alone, let alone, you know, to this extent, I mean, I wouldn't have been surprised. But come on, you know? That epic forces of darkness and light that have come into play. And, for better or worse, that's the reality Morgan's gonna have to find a way to grow up in. So I thought I'd probably better record a little greeting... in the case of an untimely death on my part. Not that, death in any time isn't untimely. This time travel thing that we're gonna try and pull off tomorrow, it's... it's got me scratching my head about the survivability of it all. But then again, that's the hero gig. Part of the journey is the end."

 Tony suddenly got up and walked towards his camera.

"Uh, what am I even trippin' for?" he said. "Everything's gonna work out exactly the way it's supposed to."

He leaned down and smiled. He is looking straight at Morgan and Hannah.

"I love you 3,000," he said to them. 

The message ends and the hologram cuts. Hannah smiled and a single tear streamed down her face. She already missed him. It's only been a day and she already missed him. But the amount of pain that Morgan and Nora must be going through right now, it has to be way worse then what she's going through. Everyone around her has known Tony for a long time, so much longer then she's known him. Morgan, on the other hand, has known her father since she was born. She just lost her father and the baby that Nora is carrying is going to grow without a father, which hurt so much.

She'll be okay. Tony's watching over her for the rest of her life. Everything will be okay. It won't be like how it used to be, but it'll be okay.