Hello, it's been a while. No beta for this short text (can't call it a OS). Don't read if you don't like abrupt stop. Hope you will enjoyed it!.


Well, it could have been worse.

-Ho shit! Real real shit Nat'.

Natacha immediately tensed. Clint had seen something yet to come behind her. Her eyes left the beautiful Pepper Potts dancing with Steve in her absolutely gorgeous wedding dress and followed his gaze.

-What…?

Her voice died, she saw him. He looked beaten, tired, a vague memory of the playboy billionaire.

-That's surely the worse moment to pop up from space, Clint breathed.

-You think? she almost rolled her eyes.

They were bracing for what to come. Last time they saw him, Cap' and him was fighting like madmen almost killing each other.

Then they saw little Lili ran passed him to her mother, her blond hair catching the last ray of the sunset.

Tony Stark froze.

Natacha straightened if it was even more possible.

The girl jumped into the open arms of Steve Rogers and kissed him soundly.

The betrayal was palpable even from where they stood. It came out from the lost Avenger like a tsunami.

-No, that's the worse.

The newcomer took a step back like he had been slapped in the face. Well, that was not too far strech.

-I'm too old man, can't see that, Clint shook his head part disbelief part sadness. He didn't really know how he would have reacted if Laura was marrying someone else thinking he was dead the very day he was back home.

It could had been all: Tony disappearing into the crowd and Clint and her going after him to salvage whatever they could…but Steve saw him too. He blinked, looked in their direction. The archer couldn't avoid the grimace answering his silent question. Well, she was not as impassive as she used to be either. The blond looked again in the newcomer's eyes.

- T…Tony?

His whisper rang through the small garden like a church belt on a sunday morning.

Everyone stilled.

Pepper fainted.

Steve caught her.

Tony took more steps back and left.

-Well, it could have been worse.

-Really?

-They could have started a fight.

She rolled her eyes before going after the supposedly dead Iron Man. Clint sighted and run after them too.


Really small idea that popped up in my head. I have no will for sequel or more chapters. Feel free to start or end your story from here. I would be happy to read. Constructive reviews are always welcome (English is not my mothertongue)

Kisses!

Hanaty.