Rocket took a next to Gamora, who was still watching over their sleeping teammate. "How's Quill?"
"To be honest, I don't even know." She sighed. "Physically, he's fine, no injuries or anything, but he's not himself."
"Typically Star-Munch. Not even injured, but still a complete baby about it." Gamora rolled her eyes, but smiled at his attempt to keep up the usually sarcastic atmosphere. Peter just stirred silently in his sleep, no witty backlash.
Peter glared at the emptiness in front of him, as the image of his father began to materialize, putting a face to voice.
"How are you here?" Peter practically snarled.
"I never pegged you as one for getting straight to the point."
"I like cutting unpleasant conversations short."
"Well I lied to you earlier, you know, when I said if I died you'd lose touch with your celestial heritage."
"You lied about a whole lot more than just that, ass-hat."
"You know, if you don't listen I can't explain." Ego chastised, shutting Peter up. "Even a celestial will do what he must for self preservation. The light can not die. It can be weakened, but can not die. It will instead just dwell amongst the most of its remains, which just so happened to be you after you destroyed my planet. And I exist wherever the light is."
"Yeah right. This is all just some twisted dream, courtesy of my messed up head."
"Believe what you want, Peter. It won't change anything"
"I don't have any power anymore, I tried." At his admittance to this, Ego raised an eyebrow in interest. It seems he did still have somewhat of a hold over his son.
"The powers didn't work because I told you they wouldn't, and you believed they wouldn't. Why do you think you didn't discover them until you knew about them? They don't work by accident, and they don't work by coincidence."
"Whatever I want you out of my head. And I want to wake up, now, and forget this even happened because IT'S NOT REAL."
"As you wish, I've told you what I needed to." Peter waited until the man disappeared to let out as loud a scream as he possibly could, not out of pain, but out of frustration. He hated this. He hated how lost everyone. His dad, his father, even his mother in a way as he lost his Walkman, his last connection to her.
He hated how all he couldn't feel anything but anger. He couldn't mourn for Yondu because he was filled with too much anger over his death. He couldn't laugh with his teammates because he was filled with too much anger over his situation. He knew it was selfish, they had all been through much worse than him, hadn't they? It took all he had to not snap at them, they didn't deserve to be outlet, but holding it back just made it so much worse.
He wanted to punch something, but he was too drained of energy. On top of everything else, a pounding headache began to settle in, the pain bringing him back to the reality of awakeness.
Gamora and Rocket sat in silence, a rarity for Rocket, watching their friend. Rocket agreed that Quill hadn't been himself as of late. He missed their battles of the wits, their sibling-like bickering that drove the rest of the team insane. He missed the loud Quil that would never shut up, the one that would blast weird Terran music through the entire ship, the one that he could freely insult, and be insulted by. He may have been an asshole, but all of them were assholes, and goddammit, it was boring without this particular asshole being his usual asshole self.
As Peter stirred awake, Rocket decided that he would not rest until they got their lovable asshole back, not because he missed him though, definitely not that.
Peter opened his eyes, groaning as the light penetrated them, causing his head to pound more than it already was.
"Good morning, sunshine." He heard a particular rodent say.
"There's nothing good about waking up with a freaking migraine."
"I'll go get something for it" Gamora offered while walking out the room.
"Yes," he shouted after her, "because as we have all just learned, you're so good at playing nurse!" Peter sat up in the bed. Despite his head, he did feel a lot less drained. "How long was I out?"
"Your beauty sleep? Lasted few hours maybe."
"Wow, a new record," he replied flatly. Gamora came back into the room with a few pills in her hand.
"Here, for your headache." Peter took them from her, and swallowed them. They made the pain bearable, but it didn't completely disappear like he was hoping.
"Are you feeling any better?" She questioned. Physically yes, mentally no, but he just answered with an almost convincing, "All things considered, yeah."
"That's better than not at all." She said giving him a suspicious side glance. "We're about to eat, if you feel up to it."
"Yeah, I'll meet you up there. Just let me change." He said glancing at his sweat covered shirt, taking it as an opportunity to gain a few minutes to himself.
"Don't make us wait. You may have been sleeping all day, but the rest of us were working." Complained Rocket. Peter realized he was trying to be his normally sarcastic self, but he couldn't help but feel guilty.
"I won't be long, trust me, I'm starving too." The assassin and the cyborg exited the room, leaving Peter to himself.
He ran his hands through his hair. Thinking about his dream. It all made sense, but it couldn't be true. He didn't want it to be true. He just wanted this all behind him! Besides, if he had some extreme, ancient, power dwelling inside of him, wouldn't he have felt it by now. Or maybe he did, but he ignored it out of denial, at this point could he even trust his own feelings? He stared at his hands, tempted to summon the light, to see if this was all true or not, but he couldn't bring himself to actually do it, out of fear for what the answer would be. Out of fear for what he would want the answer to be.
Soo… funny story xD My grandma just walked into my room, looked at my Groot pop figure and went "Do you have the Baby Groot one?" So I go, "Yeah, it's over there" and point to it, to which she responds with, "Awweee. He looks like his daddy." So yeah, I thought that was an amusing story. Anyway, as always, thank you for reading, and especially for the likes and reviews!