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days foreshortened by TheTruthAboutLove
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Avengers (Comics)
29 Jul 2024
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Sharon slides the picture closer. Maria finally looks down at it. She picks it up, studies it, traces the edge of it with her thumb.
“It's not her.”
“How do you-”
“Listen to me, Sharon. Clint saw her fall to her death, she sacrificed herself for him, for us, she died on an alien planet while I was erased from reality, alone and scared and wondering if we'd ever make it back. The news called her a hero for it, and we buried a flag in her grave. My wife is dead. I don't know who this is,” she pushes the picture back to Sharon, “but it isn't Natasha Romanoff.”//
She plants a cherry tree, one day, and calls it Natalie.
It's stupid, maybe, but it was one of Natasha's alter egos. One way she was rebirthed, once upon a time.
So maybe, maybe this cherry tree, or Liho, or whatever, something close to Maria can be her next reincarnation. So she doesn't have to be gone gone; so she can live on, in the space around Maria. Gone, yes, but still lingering. Gone but present, like an echo, living through the things it resonates off of.//
Or, Maria Hill retires to a farm in the middle of nowhere; she has a cat, a cherry tree, and the unsurmountable burden of her grief.
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