The Trues
Everything was quite. Steve was lost is thoughts. This was wrong. Everything about it. Over and over again he thought about there last moment together. If could just change it. But it was to late.
It was to late for everything.
Sharon stand up and walk in front of the people. She thought about the things that her aunt did and how she was important to everyone. But she didn't know what to say. So she decide to to it free. Without a plan, but as true as possible.
“Aunt Peggy was an unbelievable women. Someone who was never afraid of anything, or I thought she was never afraid of anything. As a little girl she told my cousin and me always story's about the war and the SSR and SHILED. It was so unreal. Like a fairytale. But she always told as that fairytale normally did not exist. She said that we girls have to create over own happy ending, like she did. So I tried and I'm still trying.”
Steve could just nod. This was so Peggy. Nobody told her what to do or what to say. She doesn't care about this stuff.
“I ask her if she ever found it. If she ever found all the thinks she told s about and she just said yes. I know that the most people here just knew the Director Carter. The bad ass women, but that was never really she. The first thing she always was was a mother to her son. Who was always her most important person. And then of course her grandchildren.”
Peter was sitting with his head down so that nobody could see him crying. But as his cousin stared talking about them he just had to see her. His grandma was always this warm light for him. She knew the best story's. She made always everything better. But this was the end of it. There are no story's any more and no cookies that bake for him and no hugs that he already start missing. Nothing will be the same after this day. He looked over to his sister and saw her quite crying. She saw his eyes on her and take his hand in hers. It was just this this small things that there grandma did for them as well. But it was still there thing. Forever.
“There are so many story's that she told me and I thought with one would be the best. But its very difficult to decide. So I thought about our little story's. You know, the things that we talked about and I get to remember the one talk that is still in my mind.
I was eighteen I thing and spent the summer with aunt Peggy and my cousin Darcy and I went out on a date with this guy. But it didn't work out and I get home and I was so angry about it. I went to my room and shut the door and just wanna be alone. But aunt Peggy never take no for an answer and get into my room and sit on my bet with me. I told her about the evening and she just stared laughing. I ask her if it will always be so complicated and she said yes. It will never be easy. And she start to talk about her ex boyfriends and it was so normal. She wasn't just my aunt or a hero, she was a normal women with the same problems everyone has. Peggy talked about the guy she was engaged with before the war and a guy from the SSR.”
Steve doesn't know what to thing about this. He didn't know that she was original engaged before the war. She never talked about an ex fiancé. Was he angry or mad? No, he was more confused. What did she was so mysterious and never talked about her past?
“ In the end she said, you never know if the right person directly in front of you and just didn't recognized it. I thing Aunt Peggy was more that just what the books said. Yes she was strong and selfless and good and so much better than most of the people out there, but sometimes she made her life more complicated as she should. Really. She and Uncle Howard made in the forties and there needed nearly twenty years to finally get together. Which shows us that even the best people make sometimes mistakes or need a little longer than there should.
But this was also Peggy Carter. No just a war hero. She was also human and I thing that should be the way how should remember her. Always. Thank you.”
With that she went back to her sit and sit down.
Steve was shocked about the last part. He knew that Peggy got married, but he never knew who she married. He never cared about it. All he knew was that her husband did many years ago. But Howard was a very normal name. It doesn't mean that she was married to Howard Stark. Right?
Sam was sitting nerves next to Steve. Was it possible that Stark was Carters son. He never looked up Starks back up story, but Sharon said something about grandchildren and he was hundred pro cent sure that Tony Stark has no children. Or any relationship with Peggy. But he was here and sit in the front and has watched every movement of Sharon. Something was not right.
“You can do this. I believe in you”, said Pepper to Tony before he stand up to go to the front. He was very afraid about what will happened. In a normal situation he would try to play it cool and play a man who cared about nothing. It was all fake. Most of it was fake. He was married with his wife for decades and cared about his kids and his family more than anything. But he also try to protect than. That was his job. But all this was over today. He didn't want to play this part any more. And especially not at the funeral of his mother. She was the head of the family and now he has to take her place and do his best to make her proud. Do make both of his parents proud.