Chapter 9
Gamora sighed happily into the hoodie that she stole from Peter in the beginning of their relationship. It felt good to be back with her love, because five years is a long time to be away from the one, she wanted to share everything with.
“That’s where that hoodie went.” Peter said from the bathroom doorway. Gamora only smiled and leaned further into the pillows, letting the hoodie ride up, showing off her legs.
“Well what’s yours is mine.”
“And what’s yours is mine?”
“Eh, sure let’s go with that.” She said with a laugh. Peter joined in on the laugh and then joined her in the bed. The green woman quickly cuddled to his naked side and wrapped an arm around his middle, his shoulder as her pillow. He wrapped his arms around her middle and kissed her forehead.
“I missed you.” He said.
“I missed you too.”
“I didn’t want to kill you, you know? I mean I know you wanted me too so that he never found out about the stone, but I still didn’t want to do it.”
“I know, but I couldn’t let him know and carry out his plan.”
“I love you.” Gamora smiled into his shoulder and give it a small kiss.
“So now what?” she asked, drawing patterns on his chest, honestly afraid of his answer. They never really talked about their future together; they both are still very new to the whole relationship thing, but Gamora knew for a fact that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with Peter, but did he want the same?
“I mean spend time together. Go to check on other plants to make sure everyone is okay after the whole Thanos snap. Maybe take a page out of Tony and Pepper’s book. Retire, get a house, get married, and a have a kid or three.”
Gamora quickly removed herself from his embraced, sitting back on her heels, and stared at him in shock. He wanted the exact same things that she wanted. Peter stared back at her in the exact same shock that she looked at him with. He just blurred out everything that he kept hidden from her out loud. He loved her but she never really expressed how she saw their future together out loud.
“Mora, look I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, but if you don’t want to ever retire or get married or even have kids I understand, and I’m more than happy to just be with you. I know-“
“No Peter, I want all of those things with you.”
“You do?”
“Yes! Of course! I love you. You’re the first person that I’ve ever wanted to spend my life with. I want to get married and have children with you; you’re the only person I want to do these things with.”
“Oh okay. Thank gosh! I was scared for a second because you didn’t say anything for a minute.” The young man reached for his girlfriend’s hand, pulling her on top of his chest. Gamora happily straddled his legs and leaned her forehead onto his.
“I love you Pete.”
“I love you too Mora.”
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Scott has never been happier to be back in California than he was at this moment. After leaving Tony’s house he, Cassie, Hope, Hank, and Janet quickly made their way back west. He contacted Maggie and Paxton to let them know that Cassie wanted to stay with he and Hope for a few more days. Maggie was fine with it while Paxton just wanted to know did, he get anything signed by Captain America for him.
After that conversation he quickly called Luis and told him that they needed to catch up so that he can explain everything that went on. Hank and Janet hugged them goodbye at the airport and left for their townhouse that was on the beach; Hank mumbling about needing a vacation from all of this superhero stuff.
“So, pizza for dinner?” Hope asked as they walked into their shared townhouse.
“Yeah, can we order from that place down the street that we love so much?” Cassie asked with hope written on her face.
“Of course, peanut. Go put your stuff down and we can walk there.” The teenager ran upstairs to her room, leaving the adults alone. Hope silently walked across the hall into her and Scott’s room and began to unpack her things. Scott followed, worried about why his girlfriend was suddenly quiet; he followed suit and put his things away knowing she’ll talk when she was ready.
“Five years is a long time Scott.”
“I know, but you and Cassie are okay and that’s all that matters to me.”
“You were stuck in the realm for five years!”
“I understand that Hope.”
“Does that not bother you? Honestly it should. We disappeared Scott! We could’ve been gone forever!”
“I doesn’t bother me, because I knew you would come back for me. Five hours or fifty years you would’ve came back for me Hope.” Hope look taken aback by his statement. He was okay with being stuck somewhere that he wasn’t fully understanding of and he had faith in her?
Scott sighed as he wrapped his girlfriend in his arms, “Listen, I knew something was wrong when you didn’t respond to me, but do you think that I panicked? Well maybe a little but I knew that no matter how long it took you would come back and save my ass; because we love each other.”
The brunette relaxed in his arms and allowed herself to smile. He was right, she would’ve went back for him, no matter the risk.
“I love you and I’m sorry for getting upset.”
“It’s okay and I love you too.” They pulled apart and shared a kiss before stepping out of each other’s arms.
“I’m going to check on Cassie while you finish unpacking.” Hope nodded and resumed unpacking while Scott made his way to his daughter’s room. When he got there, she was sitting on the bed, texting away on her phone.
“Hey peanut.”
“Hey dad.” She said with a smile and put down her phone. Scott sat at the edge of the bed and looked at his daughter. She was fourteen now, five years of her life that he missed. Five years of milestones that he missed and will never get back. Gosh, five years he had her worried and scared, oh how he felt bad.
“Dad?”
“Sorry I zoned out honey. I was just thinking.”
“It’s not your fault dad. I know you had no control over what happened. No one did. I’m not mad.”
“I missed a lot.”
“You did but we can make up for lost time. Maybe we can make another indoor roller coaster.”
“Anything you want sweetheart.” Cassie moved closer to her father and leaned her head on his shoulder, while he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, hand running through her long hair.
“Don’t worry auntie Nat was there for me, mom, and Paxton.”
“She checked on you guys?” Scott asked, stopping his hand from running through his child’s hair.
“Yeah, she came a few days after the snap. She came by three times a month making sure we were okay. She’s really cool, how come you didn’t tell me you knew my favorite Avenger?”
“I told you she beat me up at the airport and I may have threw a truck at her and Iron Man.”
“Dad!”
“I thought it was a water truck!” Cassie removed her head from his shoulder and glared at her father, without any heat behind it.
“I told her I was sorry. Don’t worry Steve give me the lecture of my life.”
“Good.”
“Yeah, yeah, you ready to get pizza?”
“Yes! I’ve been hungry since the plane!” Cassie sprinted out of the room to meet Hope downstairs; Scott laughed at his daughter’s eagerness but realized she left her phone.
“Peanut you left your- who the hell is Zach and why does he have a heart emoji!”