Hello, my adoring readers! MegaFrost4, here, and I just wanted to thank you all so much for reading this fic, and for sticking with me this past year or so (I started this in December 2018...between seeing Infinity War and Endgame!). This is my longest completed fic to date, and there were so many times where I felt the length. I hope it did not drag too much for you. I wanted most of it to be a slow burn, and I thought it was kinda neat that Endgame started out that way, but after something so devastating like The Decimation, you needed to take to time to feel with these characters we all love so much. So, yeah, and I wanted to do an Endgame that did NOT rely on time travel...especially the MCU version, ugh. I love Doctor Who, it's one of my favorite TV shows, and time travel can be a cool thing, but for something this grand and epic as ENDGAME...well, I wanted to do something different. I wanted to give them a real fighting chance.

A lot of heart and soul went into this story. Like I said, I drug out that beginning mourning phase of everyone coming together, not only after the humiliating defeat of Thanos after gathering the stones, but Civil War as well. That movie caused so many devastating consequences. I saw a post about what those actually were, as people claimed Civil War didn't leave any impact because no one died like in the graphic novel. But here we are...the Avengers are broke up, Thanos comes, and WINS. Anyways, I'm rambling. I wanted to break down walls and show emotions like the movies did sometimes, or rather just hinted at. I wanted this to be a sad story...a heartbreaking one. My favorite fics I read on here are the ones that actually make me cry. And I tell the author honestly if that happens.

That is a goal of mine: I want you to like my stories, or at least a part of them in some way. I want you to laugh, be shocked, be curious, go aawwwwww, cry, scream at me NO HOW COULD YOU through reviews. Trust me, my reviews can be pretty intense sometimes. I know I don't have those big numbers like a lot of these INCREDIBLE TRULY TALENTED authors have, but that is not why I write. I write because I love it, and I write because my mind goes 24/7 coming up with new ideas [seriously, I have a journal FILLED FROM COVER TO COVER WITH IDEAS...LIKE, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO START ANOTHER ONE SOON]

The Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is my absolute favorite groups of characters. Yes, there's Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and other trilogies, but this one is my absolute favorite. I still cry at the meer mention of that Endgame moment. I still cry when Stephen Strange wakes up devastated about his hands, no longer able to do his passion of being a doctor. I still cry when Thor and Loki have their moments. I still cry when Tony and Steve fallout at the end of Civil War. I still cry throughout Infinity War and Endgame [literally, so much emotion in these two movies it's insane]. These characters...these stories...they're important to me. I could write a volume of books for each character and how I honest to goodness relate to them in more ways than one. Sometimes, I'm Steve to a "t"...then turn around, and I am literally the incarnation of Tony. And maybe that's why I love them so much...because they are me, in a way.

Like I said earlier, I love writing, and I gave my all into this story. This is my first BIG ONE. Seriously, longest story I have ever written! [KUDOS TO THOSE WHO WRITE 100K+ FICS. Y'ALL ARE ROCKSTARS, AND I WANT TO PRINT OUT YOUR STORIES AND MAKE THEM INTO BOOKS THEY'RE SO ENJOYABLE. LET'S BE HONEST, EVEN THE 20K ONES ARE MASTERPIECES TOO. Y'ALL ARE SO INSPIRING!] I only want to push myself further as a writer. I want to get better with each fic I come out with. I want to keep reading because there are so many out here on this site! I literally have a notebook full of ones I read and ones I want to read. I read fics as much as I read published books.

Ok, I'm rambling, I'm sorry. I just wanted to thank you all for the favs, reviews, follows, views in general. They make me so happy because someone is actually reading my stories! Eek! On to the next story, there will not be a sequel to this. I tried to wrap it up the best I could all things considered. I'm not a huge fan of this ending, I might go back and make a better one, but for now, I'm happy I completed it. I had started a couple of other fics while I was writing this (The Never-Ending Nightmare & Round & Round We Go, I'm really excited about those) and I wrote a one-shot (Spare Him), but hey, I've got a volume of ideas, so it's time to move on, but I am so glad I got to write this, I was inspired by the song "Hide & Seek" by Imogen Heep, hence the title. It's one of the most unique songs I have ever heard, and I wanted to write a story that reflected the emotions felt while listening to it. Highly recommend listening to it. I listen to it literally almost every day, especially when I'm about to write another chapter.

Anyways, if y'all have any questions about the story, feel free to leave a review. Share this story, read it lol I'm so thankful for each and every view I'm so flattered people are reading this. Hopefully now that I mark it as "Complete" more people will want to read it. I know I took a while to get this written out, taking long breaks due to work and that dreadful writer's block. But thank-you again for sticking with me.

On to the next adventure!

Love,

MegaFrost4