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𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟯 - 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗯𝘆𝗲 ⍟ ⎊

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We will all die some day. Some know when, how, where and to some it comes like the snap of a finger. I guess I knew I'd never lead a normal life, and it dawned on me when I saw Stephen across the battlefield pointing his finger.

We've got one shot. Our shot is you.

'You' as in me that is.

I don't know where to draw the line of where my life was confirmed to be crazy. Maybe when I was born the son of a millionaire? When I traveled back in time and found out my soulmate is the great Captain America? When I was kidnapped by one of the few people I trusted after I traveled back?Perhaps when I became Iron Man?

No, Steve and I is definitely the craziest part. A lot of people are kids to rich people, not a lot of people are Steve Rogers' soulmate. That's only me. I'm the only Iron Man.

You may ask yourself: when and how did this become relevant?

Just a few days ago. Natasha found her time, found her purpose as an Avenger when she sacrificed her life on Vormir so Clint could get the Soul Stone. She recognized her time, and so did I.

I know I told Steve that I wanted to try this without dying this time, but this was written in stone and sealed shut probably from the moment I became Iron Man. In the very last moments before the snap I recalled what Ho Yinsen told me while trying to escape The Ten Rings, Don't waste your life. And so I didn't. I hope I made him proud.

"I am inevitable."

"And I..." everyone watched me, the air suspenseful and filled with smoke from raging fires clinging to wreckage and the landscape. "...am..." the things I was about to leave behind made me tremble. I would be losing my friends, my daughter, my apprentice, my soulmate, but I knew I was saving the world and I couldn't back down.

"...Iron Man..."

Snap.

A deep rumble sounded all across, the dust settled and the victims of the second snap in history drifted away in the breeze. I couldn't move. I was taken aback by the relief I felt.

Something that felt timely was everyone chanting in victory and smiling, we had won and it was over. Finally. It was when I scanned everybody's faces that I saw that no one was celebrating or smiling like I was, it made me curious and I had to scan again and see what was going on.