What if? {HIATUS}

Chapter 4

TWO MONTHS LATER

Peter's POV

"Sim failed." Harley groaned. "Great. Again. Come on! Give me something! Just 1% of a chance." I ranted then fell back into the chair. Goddamn it! We've been trying to crack this time travel thing for the past two months. It's starting to seem impossible. "Dinner!" Wanda called. "Peter! Harley! Get here now! Time travel can wait!" "Coming." Maybe I should take a break. "It's Peter's turn to wash the dishes anyway." Of course, it is. Wanda's cooking was to die for so there would be hundreds of plates to do. Ugh.

True to fashion that night there was a mountain of dishes in the sink. I sighed and started. Halfway through I accidently splashed some water onto an old picture. Wiping it clean I saw it was the one I had taken with Tony after getting an official internship. We were making bunny ears over each other's heads and I was holding the certificate upside-down.

Upside-down... huh. Leaving the dishes, I practically ran back to the hologram. "I'd like to run one last sim. I've got a mild inspiration. In the shape of a mobius strip again but this time inverted, please. It's wild don't worry if it doesn't work." "Running sim." After a while JARVIS speaks again.

"Simulation successful Sir. The current model has a 99.987% chance of success" Wait... what? "Shit." I swore raking a hand through my hair. "Shit" I heard a tiny giggle behind me. I turn to find Layla sitting on the steps with a cheeky smile on her face. "No, we don't use that word. That's mommy's coined word. Only she uses it." Layla pouted. "What are you doing up any way Star?" "I'm hungwy." "Oh. What do you want to eat?" "Ice cweam?" she giggled again. "Great minds think alike. I want ice cream as well. Don't tell your mother."

After eating ice cream, I carried Layla up to the bedroom she shares with Morgan an sat down beside her bed. "Can you tell me a stowy?" "Sure thing. Once upon a time Star went to bed. The end." "That's a tewwible stowy" she whined. "Nonsense it's your favourite story." I said getting up. "Goodnight. I love you tonnes." "I love you 3000 Daddy." "3000. Wow. That's huge. Love ya 3000 to kiddo. Now go to bed Star. Or I'll sell all your toys."

Entering my bedroom, I saw Lila sitting up, reading a book. Standing in the doorway I said "I figured it out." She looks up at be quizzically. "Time travel I mean. I did it. If you want, I can stop. I can throw the sim into the bin and continue like normal. ""Peter trying to get you to stop has been one of the few failures of my entire life. Now I'm not telling you to do this. But I am asking you, will you be able to sleep at night if you don't?"

"You're right." I sigh "I always am." She smirked. "Now come." she patted the spot beside her. After I settled on the bed, she curled up against me. "The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can. I love you no matter what."

The next morning, I called an emergency meeting. I told the team what I'd discovered. Harley and I set to work building the quantum portal. It took two weeks but it was finally complete. Then we set to work on a plan. "When are we going to go to get the stones?" They are scattered through time and space." Carol asks. We called her in when we found out that there might be a way to bring people back. "We don't have enough people to do missions to retrieve individual stones. There is however a span of two weeks where the stones are in the same time and place."

"...You have got to be kidding"

Which area of Sokovia did Ultron destroy?

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