REPEAT OFFENDER !

❛ it must be strange for you, ❜ thor begins, abruptly, ❛ five years on midgard sees many changes. ❜ he wonders how scott’s faring, given his family and the world had thought him dead for so long.

❛    we didn’t ,  uh   …   get a chance to talk before ,  big guy .   little guy .   both guy .    i’m Star - Lord .    ❜    

        ❛    —    What  kind  of  technology  is  that ,  if  I  may  ask ?    It’s  fascinating .    ❜        He  gestures  to  the  other’s  suit .    Ant - Man  was  no  illusion ;  no ,  he  really  was  able  to  change  size  so  drastically .    Intrigued  wasn’t  even  the  word ;    Quentin  was  enamored .

    creature comforts don’t sound so bad to sam,   not with a secondary glance around their dreary circumstances.  decorated with dust and cobwebs,   there’s peeling paint in the room he’d taken and a damp smell in wanda’s.   purchasing furniture was deemed useless and dangerous, given the widespread appeal for their capture and the celebrity they’ve achieved, but hawkeye had managed to shove an abandoned couch into the van, which had taken a good day to clean and repurpose.  there’s a radio but it’s attention is, mostly, demanded by steve in an attempt to monitor their progress in finding them.    they were, mostly, safe but by no means comfortable and he wouldn’t blame sam for wanting to return. 

                 ❛    thanks, man.    ❜       it’s not enough to resemble the gratitude sam feels but he’ll continue to thank scott any chance he has.     ❛     but i’m  -  still gonna work to do it.   even just get you a burner phone, so, you can call her.   steve and ‘tasha should be back with their cache of ‘rainy day’ stuff.     ❜

“     ACTUALLY.   a burner phone would be nice, if you guys could manage it.   i’m sure cassie has seen the news all over the place.   even still,  it’d just be nice to hear it from me.   but, uh  ---  hey, don’t be too hard on yourself, pal.   we all came here for a reason.     ”            he reaches out to land a gentle hand upon the opposite’s shoulder.   all of this was heavy.   too much for any one of them to bear alone.   though he was some last minute addition to the team, it was important enough to scott to remain, even in the face of another hefty prison sentence.

“     𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 . they didn’t mention anything about rotaries being capable of bending time and space .     “ 

                “time passes differently here than it does out there,”  she’s in his head, and she knows it’s not fair to him but she needs his help. and she hasn’t spoken to anyone in years. until hank can get her out, scott’s all janet has for company.  “i can only imagine how the world has changed technologically, scientifically, medically … who’s alexa and what is a netflix ?”  she gets bits and pieces from scott’s head, but it’s not safe to root around in there for too long.

what scott had initially thought to be a series of VERY weird dreams, was something of far greater importance.   his time spent in the quantum realm had left a lasting effect upon him, a connection difficult to put explain with words alone.   somewhere in that deep void, janet van dyne and scott lang’s paths had intertwined.   brows furrow as he wanders alongside her in the never-ending emptiness, as his mind tries desperately to keep up with what was unfolding before him.          

     HER      EYES      PAUSE      ON      HIM.                     ❛           they  say  you  can  grow      very      tall.      is  this  true  ?           ❜

     𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐛 𝐡𝐞𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 . not really . but it’s fun to play the part .    “     did it send you forwards or backwards .     “ 

hope smiled at him,    weak but there.     she didn’t know what it would be like if scott wasn’t there,     LIKE  SHE  WAS  SPARED  THAT  GUILT!     but as the world picked up the pieces,    and as she thought about being in the heart of it all,     she dropped her eyes down and started to pick at the sandwich.   maybe in the future there will be a day where hope could stop thinking about it.    thinking about the end,   the start,   the light that gutted through her when she came back.      everything felt so violent then,   ripping apart the pieces and hope was in the center of it all.   she took a few small bites,    but she couldn’t stomach the whole thing. 

‘     it was nothing,   ‘         she admitted with lifted eyebrows.    she still couldn’t look at him,   and she was thankful for the sandwich in front of her.   she popped small pieces in her mouth,   using it as pause while she cleared her thoughts.             ‘  i was with you and my parents on the roof and then,   NOTHING.     for a long time,   i think,    it was nothing.    then i woke back up on the roof and told that you needed me,     THAT  THE  WORLD  DID.   i think that’s when my life flashed before my eyes and i realized all the good stuff was—–  ‘           hard swallow!    and glassy eyes as she pieces it together.     picking up the wine,   she took a hard sip and bit down.   

maybe he was hoping for some big answer, some reassurance that those who had succumbed to thanos’s snap were at peace for those five years.   scott had spent weeks tiptoeing around the question, waiting for the right time to ask about it.   if there ever was a right time.   it was a touchy subject.   he remembers being launched back out of the quantum realm and his immediate thoughts focusing on loved ones.   cassie was still alive, spared from a nasty fate.   but hope.   hope was listed amongst the fallen.   he remembers the sinking feeling that settled in his stomach, that sense of hopelessness in a world that had long moved passed him.   and then he remembers the desire to change it.   the pyms had saved him from a spiraling life and shown him that he could make a difference.   the least he could do was save them and the world.   he owed it to them, he owed it to her.