Limitless ³|| B. Barnes

14. My Good Man

The moment Tony had been cleared by his mother was the same day he took his little brother to experience something that he never got to do in Wakanda. He wanted his brother to feel like a kid despite the trauma the universe had been put through. Jamie deserved everything and more the remaining Avengers could offer. He had promised his mother that he'd protect Jamie with his life. Because he had failed Becca, Tony had made it his life's work to keep Jamie alive.

It had been only a month and a half since the Snap, people and governments were still trying to recover from it. Streets had been deserted, neighborhoods abandoned. No one was recovering from the loss they had all suffered.

Mary's only sources of happiness in light of it all was her son, her sunshine in the darkness, and the two weddings coming up. Evelyn and Steve's wedding and Pepper and Tony's. Both couples wanted it to be soon because everyone needed happiness in spite of all the sadness. Evelyn and Steve had chosen December for their wedding, Pepper and Tony had decided on June.

It kept her busy with all the preparations that needed to be done for both weddings. It kept her mind off the fact that her husband and daughter were dead. That there was no way of getting them or her friends back. Her King back. She couldn't focus on that anymore without crippling.

So for Tony to take Jamie for a one on one day as brothers, scared Mary. She hadn't been apart from her son since the Snap. And it terrified her that something would happen, which is why Evelyn and Pepper both knew that Mary needed something to take her mind off the fact that she would be apart from her son for hours.

Planning a wedding in the middle of a crisis proved taxing on both brides, especially when their grooms don't speak to one another. But through the Snap's after effects, Evelyn and Pepper had become close friends, confiding in one another about how petty their fiancé's were being through all of this. With the help of Mary and Natasha, the two weddings were coming along well.

They had everything nailed down for the most part. The venues were the biggest challenge at first, Evelyn and Steve had called down to the chapel in Brooklyn that Mary and Steve attended when they were young with their mother, and thankfully, the pastor had not been a part of the casualties in the Snap.

Pepper and Tony before the Snap had settled on Martha's Vineyard for the wedding, but due to the Snap, they had to cancel that and relocate the wedding somewhere else. They had decided on the property Tony had just bought for his soon to be wife and family. A lake house that seemed to be what they needed to calm their spirits and rejuvenate them all. So both venues were taken care of.

Next came the guest lists and who would be invited to both weddings. The Avengers were clearly coming, but for Tony and Steve, it was difficult to ask the other. They hadn't spoken much since their tiff at the Compound after Tony and Nebula were rescued.

But Mary sat them both down, separate and together, and told them flat out that if they wanted her a part of their weddings, then they needed to suck it up and push past their qualls with the other. Life was different now for everyone, life meant more to them. After their talk, Mary wouldn't consider the two men to be close friends at all, but they were cordial with one another. And the fact that Evelyn was in Pepper's wedding party and Pepper being in Evelyn's party made it increasingly hard for the two men to ignore the fact that they'd be seeing a lot more of the other.