The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
By Forbidden Donut
Fandom: Guardians of the Galaxy
Disclaimer: I neither own or profit from the use of these characters.
It was a way of feeling something, anything, again. The suit kept him alive but he couldn't experience what everyone else took for granted anymore.
So he let her probe with her psychic fingers. Stroking areas of his mind gently, searching for answers but also awakening long forgotten emotions in him. He had no secrets from her, everything from the moment he'd thawed out was there for her to read. He just hadn't expected to feel anything again.
"Adam Strange said you were the Celestial Madonna. That's special right?"
{I am the Celestial Madonna. But you are forbidden donut,} she favoured him with a small smile.
"What?"
{A reference from my time on Earth. Cartoons. I simply meant you were... untouchable.} And there was a small bubble of disappointment in her teep voice, which was both somehow softer and harder than her real one. He wasn't imagining it. {Did you want to continue?} she asked.
Vance nodded. "We might find something unexpected."
{Unlikely. I know how everything ends.} She smiled again and brushed her fingers lightly across his temples, thrilling the sensors in the suit. {And begins.}