She's The Girl Where. || Avengers [4]

xi. One Heart

' She has the mindset of a Queen, because a King is the one who raised her. '

"Everybody wants a happy ending, right? But it doesn't always roll that way. Maybe this time. I'm hoping if you play this back, It's in 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 not the world, the universe now. If you told me ten years ago that we weren't alone, you know to this extent. I-I-I probably wouldn't have been surprised but come on! Who new. That epic forces of dark and light could come into play. And for better or worse, that's the reality Morgan's gonna have to find her way to grow up in. So I thought I better record a bit of a greeting, in case of an untimely death. On my part, I mean not that death at any time isn't untimely. This time travel thing that we're gonna try and pull of tomorrow, it's got me scratching my head about the survivability as a whole. But then again that's the whole gig, every journey has to end. What am I even tripping for, everything's gonna work out exactly the way it's supposed to."

Carter finally looked away from the projection as Morgan crawled into her lap, her bright eyes still glued to the projection as it looked right at them both.

"I love you 3000."  The projection said before shutting off as Carter's tear filled eyes spilled over again and cascaded down onto Morgan's hair.

Walking out of the house with Morgan and Pepper, Carter kept her little sister safe at her side as they approached the lake and passed by everyone invited, the people who really cared about Tony, and the ones he loved equally as much.

Picking Morgan up into her arms Carter snuggled her little sister to her as Pepper crouched with the wreath and placed it in the water, the simple piece completed by the placement on top that simply read 'PROOF THAT TONY STARK HAS A HEART' around Tony's mechanical heart.

Placing Morgan down so that she could hug Pepper, Carter reached her hand back and felt the rough hand of Pietro's slide into her own, fitting together perfectly like two puzzle pieces as everyone watched silently as the wreath floated away down the river.

Carter stood beside Clint and Wanda hours later, when everyone else had made their way inside as Pietro played with Morgan.

"You know I wish there was a way, that I could let her know." Clint spoke up after a long silence, Carter leaning her head on his shoulder defeatedly in agreement "We did it. We won." He finished as he wrapped an arm around the young woman beside him and smiled sadly at Wanda.

"She knows." Wanda smiled smally "They all do." She decided as Carter pulled her into the hug, the three of them just standing there for a while and enjoying the moment.

Walking down the river bank with her small hand clasped in Pietro's larger one, Carter simply smiled as she thought of those she'd lost. Remembering them only fondly and as heroes in her mind.

"Carter." Pietro grabbed her attention with the sound of her name.

"What's wrong?" Carter turned and frowned at him with large innocent eyes "I don't think you've ever called me by my name before." She smiled as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her in closer.

"Well I should start to more often, don't you think." Pietro mused with a grin causing Carter to blush and smile as she rested her head on his firm chest and contently closed her eyes "I want to marry you, Carter Stark. Before it is too late." Pietro spoke as Carter's head snapped up to look at him.

"You what?" Carter blinked in shock as she slightly pulled back from him.

"I know that I could not ask your Father for his blessing." Pietro softly told her "But I asked those he held closest to his heart, and now I am asking you." He slowly got down on one knee and curled a daisy around his finger before plucking it from the ground and offering it up to her like a ring "Carter Stark, will you do me the honour of making me the happiest man alive and agreeing to marry me?" Pietro whispered in his delicate tone of voice that Carter had long ago fell for.

"Yes." Carter smiled widely as she sat herself on the grass before him and grinned "I would love to Marry you Pietro Maximoff."

"Carter." Steve called as he stood to leave, smiling sadly as her face dropped "I've gotta go now." He told her as she approached him and pulled him in for a hug "I'll see you again, soon." He told her sincerely as Carter bit her lip and nodded, fighting off tears as she knew what was to come.

"I'll miss you Captain." Carter told him wholeheartedly.

"I'll miss you too, Mam." Steve smiled as Carter shook her head and grinned, knowing that the world was never going to be the same again in about half an hour.

"Can we talk about Daddy?" Morgan asked as Carter said goodnight to her that evening, Pepper having tucked her in before the little girl asked for a story from her sister.

"Watcha wanna know Pumpkin?" Carter smiled as she shuffled into the little bed beside her sister, holding her close as they both thought about the man they'd always love most in their lives.

"Why'd he do it?" Morgan asked sadly as tears filled her eyes.

"For you, for us. For the next hundred generations of kids and adults who wouldn't have been given a chance at life without him making that one sacrifice." Carter honestly told Morgan as the two layed together in harmony.

"What's a hero?" Morgan suddenly piped up when Carter thought she'd fallen asleep.

"You know what a hero is." Carter told Morgan with furrowed brows.

"I know what I think a hero is, what do you think a hero is?" Morgan turned to look at her sister with wide brown eyes.

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." Carter nodded along with her own statement as she looked up at the ceiling full of glow in the dark stars and knew for a moment or two, that those lost were simply watching down on her and keeping her safe. And they Always would.

THE END