Prequel to Taking the Backseat. Before he got into SHIELD, his second life started as a teenager. Genesis somewhat questions the Goddess why of all things his second life started off like this, until he meets an old man in hospice by sheer luck. Minerva's last lesson: A Part That Remains. ✪✪✪✪✪ Rated: PG-13+ Format: Drabble Driven Plot based on prompts, Short Story Genre: Hurt, Comfort, Friendship Fandom: ✔ Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) with Easter eggs & mystery MCU canon character (Robert (?)) ✔ Final Fantasy VII Compilation (Before Crisis, Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VII, Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus) ✪✪✪✪✪ ✔ Originally first published on FFnet on June 14th, 2013 under the writer name Wayang.Silver, and has gained 100+ favorites. (as of January 2016) ✔ This fic is also Cross-posted on Archive of Our Own under the name Wayang_Silver. No plagiarism is involved as I am the original writer of the series. Disclaimer: I do not own the Avengers or the Final Fantasy VII Compilation. They belong to Marvel and Square Enix respectively. I simply own the plot and make no profit whatsoever from this fic.