MP POV
May was silent as she stared down at her comatose niece, fiddling with her niece's precious necklace.
Five years. She left her little girl for five years. Piper was separated from her brother. They left her alone.
Don't cry baby. She told the sobbing child who just learned of her parents death. I'll always be here for you.
May took a shaky breath.
Piper sat silently in the kitchen, staring at her cup of hot chocolate emotionlessly. She knew the girl twin had spent the night comforting her brother. May had been busy making funeral arrangements.
Peter shouldn't have to have witnessed that. And Piper was too young to be an emotional support.
"Piper." The girl looked up to her tears in her eyes as May put a hand on her shoulder.
She wordlessly hugged her, softly crying.
"Don't leave." Piper begged.
"Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere. I promise."
She was a horrible person having made that promise.
"Hey." May looked up as Pepper Potts- Pepper Stark walked in, two cups of coffee in her hands.
Peter and Tony were asleep in other rooms, although she suspected they were given sedatives of some kind. And Harry Osborn was out on a phone call with his returned father.
"Thanks." May said accepting the mug as Pepper sat next to her.
May looked back to Piper's face. Her right arm took the brunt of the damage which travelled up her arm and covered the right side of her neck and lower face. Now they were covered by scars she had seen in patients struck by lightning, Lichtenberg she thinks they were called, mixed with 2nd degree burn scars. The Wakandan doctors weren't hopeful of skin recovery though.
"Piper found us after the Snap." Pepper explained staring at Piper, looking as if she was lost in thought. "I didn't know if she had survived or not. Cell service was down, and her suit wasn't responding. I sent Happy to find her. And then she appeared a couple of days later, she travelled half way across New York to find us."
May smiled ruefully. "That sounds like her. Peter caused the problem and Piper would find a way to get them out of it."
May looked to Pepper. "I can never thank you enough for taking her in."
Pepper smiled broadly. "It wasn't any problem. She's a great kid. And she was a big help with Morgan."
May's eyebrows drew together. "I'm sorry, who's Morgan?"
As if to answer her question, the doors opened revealing Happy and a small girl with long brown hair who couldn't be older than four.
"Mommy!" The girl excitedly proclaimed rushing to Pepper.
"Hey baby," Pepper greeted scooping up the child. "Remember what we talked about? This is a hospital so you have to be quiet."
Morgan nodded before looking to Piper sadly. "Harry said Daddy's sleeping, but he should be walking up soon. Why isn't Piper going to wake up soon if she's sleeping too?"
"It's a different kind of sleeping, baby."
Morgan looked thoughtfully before skipping back to Happy who carried her backpack. Morgan then pulled out a light brown build a bear wearing a Spiderman outfit. Morgan rushed to Piper's side, placing the bear next to her.
"Pete-y helps me sleep." Morgan explained. "He'll help Piper too."
May hiccupped softly, holding back tears. She called it Pete-y, like Piper used to call Peter.
Morgan looked to her inquisitively. "Who are you?"
"I-I'm May. Piper's aunt."
"Are you my aunt too? Like Auntie Nat?"
"I..."
"Yes. She is." Pepper interceded. "Now why don't you go find Daddy? He'll introduce you to the real Pete-y."
Morgan's face lit up before she leapt to Happy grabbing his arm. "Come on. Come on, Come on."
Happy looked at her in a mixture of exasperation and fondness before going with Morgan.
Pepper chuckled softly. "Yes, little madam secretary has a will of her own. She gets in from Tony."
"Then that will be an eventful teen years ahead of you."
Pepper laughed as she groaned. "I have been dreading thinking of that."
May bit her lip. "Why did you tell her I was her aunt?"
Pepper smiled ruefully. "Piper talked constantly about y'all after y'all disappeared. It was her way of coping. She told Morgan about y'all. And since Morgan doesn't really understand... Some things, Morgan always held out hope she'd get to meet the infamous Aunt May one day."
Infamous Aunt May.
"I should've been there." May said softly tears streaming down her face. "I promised Ben I'd be there for them. And I-"
Pepper put a hand on her shoulder. "There was no way you could've known or stopped it."
May laughed humorlessly. "That's what I always said to them about their parents."
"Piper never talked about them."
"That sounds right." May reasoned. "After the first... week? Or so... Piper refused to talk about them. About them leaving or their deaths. It's too hard for her I guess."
"Same." Pepper agreed. "A month after they came back from killing Thanos the first time she stopped talking about y'all. It wasn't until Morgan was older she started talking. I tried getting her to talk to a therapist but-"
"-She insisted she was fine." May sighed ruefully. "That my friend is a Parker thing."
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TS POV
Morgan had not so gracefully woken him up. She insisted on using him too bounce on.
"Wake up!" She insisted with each bounce. "Wake up! Wake up!"
Tony moaned softly turning and wrapping an arm around her, pulling her to him. "No. Still sleep time."
Morgan giggled. "Daddy!" She hit him lightly. "Let's go!"
"Go where?"
"To find Pete-y!" Tony got all fuzzy inside. Finally all his kids would be together. He even go a call from Harley. "And get cheese burgers!
Tony chuckled sitting up, looking down at Morgan. "Cheeseburgers, huh?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright. Let me get dressed and then we'll see if we can find some food."
"Yay!" Morgan said excitedly.
After getting dressed the trio walked down the halls, quickly finding a lunch room. There were several people there.
Cap, Bucky, Sam, and Natasha were sitting at one table. Probably catching them up on everything that happened the last few years. He wondered if they told them how a fourteen year old beat them up, and his sister could've done it even better even at the time.
Okoye and T'Challa also sat another table with who he recognized as Ororo. He remembered someone mentioned she arrived long before any of the other leaders had. Although he supposed control of the weather allowed certain advantages.
Tony also recognized Nakia and M'Baku sitting in one corner table by themselves. Did T'Challa know about them?
And of course, Harry Osborn sat alone at a table by himself.
"Harry!" Morgan yelled excitedly running to him across the room.
Tony blinked when he saw the look that crossed Harry face. Pain, anger and disappointment disappearing in the blink of an eye to portray a look of calm and ease to the rest of the world.
"Hey Morg." Harry greeted picking her up and setting her on his lap. "What have you been doing?"
"I was waking Daddy so we can eat."
"Oh?" Harry asked as Tony and Happy sat with them. "What are you making us?"
"I'm not cooking!"
"No?"
"Hey kid." Harry looked up to him.
"Hey." Harry greeted setting Morgan down who skipped off to Natasha.
"How you doing?"
"Could be better, doctors said they're not sure when she'll wake up."
"But she will." Tony assured before glancing down to Harry's phone. "You hear from your dad?"
Harry sighed tiredly.
"That good?"
"He wants me home." Harry explained. "I explained I was in Wakanda on business but he still..."
"Your his son, he probably just wants to make sure you're alright."
"Have you met him?" Harry asked with a raised brow. "He doesn't do concern."
"All parents do concern. Not all are good at showing it." Tony tilted his head. "You tell him about Piper?"
"Didn't have to, apparently Bernard let it slip so..." Harry shrugged noncommittally. "He just said he wants to met her as soon as possible. I didn't tell him, that you were her father."
Tony supposed that was fair. The last time he directly talked to Osborn he may or may not have insulted him by offering to buy out his then struggling and blossoming company for technically half it's worth.
"Another surprise for him then."
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PP POV
Peter quietly walked down the hall. It was the middle of the night and he knew almost everyone was asleep.
He was trying to sleep, but he couldn't. Every time he closed his eyes-
Red dust everywhere.
His body slowly breaking.
Chaos and blood flying everywhere.
His twin- his now older sister- laid dying on the ground.
He pulled himself out of his thoughts with a shaky breath. He needed to see her.
He stopped just outside of her room to see the door open, light pouring out.
He looked inside to see a small girl in pink pajamas bouncing on Piper's slumbering body.
"Piper!" The girl begged tearfully. "Piper! Piper! Wake up!"
"Hey." Peter called out a little more forcefully then he needed.
The little girl looked at him with tear filled eyes. "Why isn't she waking up? Mommy and Daddy said she was sleeping so why isn't she waking up?"
"She needs to sleep longer."
"Why?!" She hiccupped.
"I don't know." Peter confessed sitting down.
"You're Peter, aren't you?" The little girl asked getting off the bed.
"Yes."
"Piper always told me stories about you." the little girl said almost in awe. "My favorite was when you saved the bo-ge-ta man and his cat."
"The bodega man?" Peter questioned with a small smile.
"Yeah!" She said excitedly. "We have a cat too. Or had a cat. He's Loki now."
"Loki was your cat?" Peter couldn't help but laugh.
"I'm not sure how it happened either." She explained. "But I talked to Loki and he said he would get me a new kitty. I want a kitten. So he's small like me and Daddy."
"Who's your Dad?"
"Iron Man!" She said excitedly. "And I'm Morgan Stark. Piper said she'll help me become Iron Girl one day."
Morgan then turns to Piper's sleeping form. "She just needs to wake up."
Peter looked at his sisters. "She will." He promised. "Come here." Morgan scurried over, crawling into his lap. "You said Piper told you stories about me?"
"And Aunt May." Morgan added. "Piper said she almost beat Daddy. Daddy she had to be tough to raise two heroes."
"True." Peter agreed. "But did Piper ever tell you about the time we went to the Stark Expo?"
"No." Morgan said with a yawn.
"It began when Uncle Ben bought Piper an Iron Man mask..."
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AN:
So... It's definitely after the new year. I honestly have no excuse other than life is chaotic. I'm sorry it took so long and thank you to anyone who's still reading.
I'm going to spend a little more time setting up this new world and seeing how everyone finds their place. Especially in the Parker-Stark household. I also added small headcanons and what ifs.
I don't ship Nakia and M'Baku but I think it will be a nice curve to give T'Challa especially when adding Ororo into the mix which I'm guessing some of you know the relationship between the two.
And I'm really trying to find out how I want to show the Harry-Norman relationship, and Loki with the rest of the Avengers.
So please bear with me and my infrequent updates.
Thank you to everyone who reviewed.
AlchemyWriter: I'm glad you liked the last chapter. And we will get to more adjusting soon.
kaia: I'm glad to hear you don't mind filler. I'm going to have to add more to this story for worldbuilding. And you will understand Norman and Bernard's conversation... Eventually. I suck at pacing so who knows when it'll be.
reika88: First, aww I'm glad you're re-reading this at all. I didn't know if anyone would like it that much. Second, I've read and watched a lot of movies, and they almost all add tiny details to make the reveal more probable.
Guest999: Yes Morgan was brought to Wakanda as Piper's comatose. Did you like it? Or her and Peter's interaction?
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