[ The question catches Peter completely off-guard, and he looks at the kid for a long moment, startled and disbelieving, all at once. ]
Yeah. [ And the word escapes him on an exhale, like it’s punched out of him. ] Of course you did.
[ And it strikes him, then, how fucking young Pete is, how wildly out of his depths he must feel, rolling the dice on saving the whole goddamn universe and realizing way too soon that he loses.
Peter doesn’t know what happened to the kid, after he faded away to nothing. He hopes he made it through that fucked up game of Russian Roulette. He hopes that the kid survived, that he’s going to be part of the team that takes down Thanos, once and for all.
He pauses again, leaning up against a tree. They had gotten close to getting that glove off – Peter’s plan, his idea, and it had all been going so well. And then he had Thanos right where he wanted him, and he knew he was going to wring the information out of Thanos’ hypnotized mind, and they were going to get the glove. They were going to kick the guy’s ass. They were going to get Gamora back with a new toy at their disposal, and they were going to be big goddamn heroes—
And then everything fell apart.
Peter screws his eyes shut again, taking an unsteady breath. Then, ]
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Yeah. [ And the word escapes him on an exhale, like it’s punched out of him. ] Of course you did.
[ And it strikes him, then, how fucking young Pete is, how wildly out of his depths he must feel, rolling the dice on saving the whole goddamn universe and realizing way too soon that he loses.
Peter doesn’t know what happened to the kid, after he faded away to nothing. He hopes he made it through that fucked up game of Russian Roulette. He hopes that the kid survived, that he’s going to be part of the team that takes down Thanos, once and for all.
He pauses again, leaning up against a tree. They had gotten close to getting that glove off – Peter’s plan, his idea, and it had all been going so well. And then he had Thanos right where he wanted him, and he knew he was going to wring the information out of Thanos’ hypnotized mind, and they were going to get the glove. They were going to kick the guy’s ass. They were going to get Gamora back with a new toy at their disposal, and they were going to be big goddamn heroes—
And then everything fell apart.
Peter screws his eyes shut again, taking an unsteady breath. Then, ]
We just... all of us. We weren’t enough.