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WHAT in person
WHERE the... cemetery?
WHEN day ""136""

[somewhere in cam... cour... uh, qm, there appears to be a new plot of land—some overgrown with weeds and other weed-adjacent plants, and some with towering oak trees and the like, and some with just perfect patches of freshly mowed and manicured grass...

also

there are tombstones every scattered all over this area, with the name of your father or father-figure on them, regardless of whether or not they are here or dead or here-dead.

yeeeeesh.]

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...

[she doesn't lose her poise, but Peter does get to see her hesitate for like the first time ever]

I—thought I did.

[ Yeah, that's enough to make him double take. ]

You did? Wait, why'd that change?

Some secrets he had been keeping for a long time came out after his death.

... Can I ask what kind?

[a bit more lightly]

Of course you can ask.

[that doesn't mean she'll tell him. she's thinking about it, though.]

Did you want to stay here for awhile?

[ He rubs at the back of his neck. ]

Just for a little while. Yeah.

Do you want company?

If you don’t mind staying. Yeah. I won’t take long.

I don't mind at all.

Thanks.

[ He turns his head back towards the stones. ]

My dad, he died when I was pretty young. Like nine or ten. That was when New York got invaded for the first time.

Loki's army. ...I'm sorry.

Yeah. It’s... y’know. I lost both my parents in the invasion. Lots of people lost more.

...you seem like you're good at focusing on other people. And on what you're lucky to have.

Well - yeah. You go crazy otherwise.

Right??

[bumps her shoulder against his]

[ He smiles at her, grateful for the gesture. ]

You know how it is, huh?

I think these days it's fair to say that I do.

Yeahhh ... yeah, no kidding. Like this Thanos stuff. New York really doesn't need another alien invasion.

I'd say Wakanda doesn't either, but honestly, at least if Thanos came back it would save me finding him.

-- Wakanda got invaded by Thanos?

Captain Rogers brought Vision to me to see if I could remove the mind stone, to destroy it without destroying him. So Thanos sent his army. And then he came himself.

[ A full body shiver at that. ]

I didn't know. I mean I knew he left at the end and he must have gotten the mind stone but --

[finds his hand and squeezes it]

...I'm sorry. I couldn't do it in time.

[ He squeezes back, gently. ]

It's okay. We all tried to get the gauntlet off, but obviously that didn't work.

...

[takes a breath]

Well. I'll just have to figure out a way to track him down and help the remaining Avengers steal it from him so we can take him down and reverse what he did. No big deal.

[that last sentence uh. is definitely obviously a joke. but the rest of it doesn't seem to be.]