That-Sokovian-Bastard // Avengers (& other) Imagines

What Did I Miss? - Tony Stark & Stark!Reader

Words: 2328
Pairing: Tony Stark & Stark!Reader
Featuring: Pepper Potts (Stark), Happy Hogan, Morgan Stark, Assorted other Avengers
Warnings: Death, almost death, coming back from the dead, light swearing, Endgame stuff so, yeah.
Summary: Five years ago, Thanos snapped his fingers. Five years ago, Tony was stuck in space with almost no oxygen and no idea if his family was still alive. All he could hope for was that his fiance and his child survived Thanos wiping out half the universe. Five years later, Tony makes the hardest decision of his life.
Author's Note: Gotta fix some canon of how Endgame ended, huh?

*Edited*

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Tony didn't think he would make it home. He lost almost all of the team he was with, including Peter. Stuck in a dying ship with Nebula, who was on guard all the time, he wasn't sure how much time was left. All he could hope was that both you and Pepper survived.

Tony tried to record a message on his suit and ended up asleep, ready to drift off to sleep and never wake up again. He wasn't sure what happened, most likely due to lack of oxygen, but he saw something that looked like the sun, and the next thing he knew, he was back on Earth. He stumbled out of the ship, Steve running towards him. Pepper grasped him in a big hug, and as soon as they released, he looked around. "Where's-?" Tony asked dryly, not even able to get your name out. When Pepper began to shake her head and cry, he started to run out of breath again and break down.

"No...no!" He shouted, almost falling as he stumbled around from disbelief. "Pep...Pepper, please tell me this is a prank," Tony begged.

Pepper only began to cry harder and continued to shake her head. "I tried, Tony...I ran to grab them, and they disappeared right when I hugged them."

Tony thought his heart was giving out. "I lost Peter, too," Tony whispered. "Dammit!" He shouted, drastically different than his voice before. He shook Steve's hand off his shoulder and tried walking into the compound himself, almost falling multiple times and mumbling to himself about everything he's learned.

A day later, Steve was giving a briefing to the team— or what was left of it. They needed to find Thanos and the stones, and they had to find a way to get everyone back. For any free moments Tony had, he was working in his head to find anything that he could use to bring you back.

His emotions got the better of him, and he started yelling at Steve and pulling out the arc reactor. What more did he have to live for, anyway? Tony collapsed, and a few days passed before he was back out of bed, ready to take on the world.

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"Morgan H. Stark," Tony called when he walked over to the tent in their yard.

Only a month after the fight with Thanos and losing half of the people on Earth, Tony and Pepper found out they were expecting a child. They had been trying to have a child months before they even knew Thanos was on his way to Earth, and Tony wasn't sure he could be a good father again after losing you.

Sure, Pepper may not have been your biological mother, but she loved you just as much. She had been around ever since you were a small child, and it hurt her just as much to lose you as it hurt Tony. She will never forget how scared you were, running to her, screaming.

They were scared to have a child. Tony had a terrible case of PTSD, and Pepper didn't know what to do after losing so many people. Pepper still had a company to run and had to check on Stark Industries after losing half of, well, everything.

But they had the child. A beautiful baby girl would be with them in only a matter of months, whether they were fit to parent again or not. Morgan came along, and nowhere did this mean replacing you. They still had hoped to bring you back one day and left a room open for you at all times.