The first year was eventful, to say the least.

Matthew had moved in with Mark. Of course, he was keeping up rent in the old house, because he planned on moving back into it once it didn't take two men who knew barely anything about babies to take care of Ollie.

He'd arrived a week after the Decimation as the Avengers had called it. Tony Stark was still missing, and Matthew often watched the news while feeding Ollie. Everything had been shut down temporarily until people knew they could be running again. America had to swear in a new president, as both the former president and vice president had been dusted. China's leader had been dusted as well, and according to some of the news networks it was making its way out of its dictatorship.

Both Matthew and Mark had tweeted out the day of the accident that they were okay, and told the world of their casualties. A lot of the fans that were left continuously asked about Ollie, but Matt didn't want to talk about it.

In a way, he almost began to resent Ollie. Whenever he saw Ollie, it just reminded him of Stephanie. He didn't want to feel like this, Ollie was his son after all. Matthew just missed Stephanie.

Exactly nine days later everything reopened, and everything started to feel just a little normal again.

Around a week and a half after the event, most YouTubers were releasing videos talking about what they were going to do. A lot said they were going to take time off to mourn. Fewer, like Mark and Matt, said they were going to continue, despite what they had lost.

The hardest videos to watch were from those who had been dusted. Some close to whoever owned the particular channel had recorded a video explaining they were gone. Matt had found Mark curled up in his bed sobbing shortly a particular video; Robin had called him. Mark refused to tell him what Robin had said, but told him that Robin had a video of Seàn getting dusted.

Two weeks after the Decimation the Avengers had released their statement, and twenty-two days after the Decimation Tony had been found. The world had let out a collective sigh of relief.

Nothing much happened for a few months. Matt got drunk one time and really regretted it the next day when Ollie woke him up screaming. Mark was there for him though and took care of Ollie all day so Matt could rest. Mark even recorded a video with Ollie and Henry, getting them to hang out and play together. It became his most viewed video on the channel, and Matt was amused to find that he and Mark now had a ship name.

However, four months in, Mark told him something that blew him away.

Ollie had been put to bed and would be up in a little while. Matthew was about to head to bed when he heard something from the kitchen.

"Matt?" It was Mark, and he sounded upset. Matthew came down, searching for the man before finding him at the dining room table with a scrapbook open. Matthew hadn't seen this book anywhere in the house before, granted he hadn't searched but it was still a weird thing to see.

"You okay?" Matt asked, sitting next to Mark. He looked at the book and saw it held pictures of a young Mark with a man who looked to be his father, "You thinking about your dad?"

Mark nodded, looking back up at Matt, "Can I tell you something?"

Matt grew a little confused, "Of course man."

Mark's eyes met Matt's and he sighed heavily, "I've been keeping a secret. My mom is literally the only one that knows this. I'm tired of hiding it though." Matt's eyebrow raised, and Mark sighed once more, "I've actually got a superpower of my own."

Now both of Matt's eyebrows were raised, "Like, Thor and Spider-Man?"

Mark nodded, "I've got superstrength. I got it from my dad. Apparently it's been passed down since, like, the beginning of time."

Matthew nodded, trying to comprehend in his exhausted state what he had just been told. "Do you mind if I ask some questions? I don't wanna seem rude."

"Of course man, I kinda expected you to have some, being the theorizer and all," Mark joked, making Matthew smile for the first time in a while.

"Do you know your limit on weight?" Matt asked.

Mark shrugged, "I've had to rent a whole gym once and still didn't have enough weights, I think it was a combined 7,000 pounds."

Matt whistled, "Do you have a weakness?" After getting an eyebrow raise from Mark he quickly said, "I'm not gonna tell anyone!"

"I'm emotionally weaker than other people. If I were to go out and fight crime, and the villain got someone I cared about, I'd be down, probably turn into the Hulk," Mark mumbled. Matt remembered how Mark had gone to the gym as soon as he and Ollie had gotten settled in, and came back sweating.

The two men went to bed later, both exhausted. Matt could hear the deep sighs of Ollie as he fell asleep.

Matt and Ollie finally moved back into their own home a month later. Ollie was now much easier to take care of, seeing as he could do things like sit up (with support), grab onto things, and rollover. Mark made Matt promise to check in at least once a week, and with that Matthew took Ollie home.

He and Mark visited each other often, just so that Matt could get used to being in the house without Stephanie. It had been a while, and as soon as they stepped in he knew he needed to clean. So, he took off his top, attached the baby backpack, and turned on the music. As soon as a good tune started, he grabbed the broom and began cleaning up the house.

By five, the house was spotless, and Ollie's play area had been set up in the living room. Matt debated ordering pizza and eventually came to the conclusion that he deserved it since he'd cleaned the entire house by himself. Skip circled around his legs as Matt sat down at the computer.

After the pizza was ordered, Matt put on his shirt again and sat down by Ollie, turning on the television and just played with his son.

The rest of the year was just calm. The holidays were a little hard without Stephanie, but he and Mark got together to celebrate it. Matt made sure to send gifts to those he knew were still alive, like Ro. She'd visit every once in a while with her boyfriend, and when she did Matt always felt like he had his own little family. He loved it. Matt and Mark often went to the gym together, since Mark was excited to have an accountability partner that he could truly work out with.

One of his friends, he couldn't remember who, asked if Matt would try and go dating again.

"Hell no," Matt said, "I'm not gonna do that."