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In Passing
Jul. 2nd, 2024 09:19 pmTitle: In Passing
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Word Count: 153
Summary: There is only this, only here and now. It takes Steve eleven years of transience to accept this, eleven years too late.
Notes: A short character piece about post-Snap Steve. Inspired by this poem for Lights on Park Ave round 53.
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Somehow, despite knowing that this was it, this was all that he could have because his world was gone, everything he loved was gone, Steve had hoped there was something more. That there was something else, somewhere else, something real. This was just a nightmare. He was just passing through. There was no point in unpacking.
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Word Count: 153
Summary: There is only this, only here and now. It takes Steve eleven years of transience to accept this, eleven years too late.
Notes: A short character piece about post-Snap Steve. Inspired by this poem for Lights on Park Ave round 53.
On AO3
Somehow, despite knowing that this was it, this was all that he could have because his world was gone, everything he loved was gone, Steve had hoped there was something more. That there was something else, somewhere else, something real. This was just a nightmare. He was just passing through. There was no point in unpacking.
Bucky reappeared and it was a sign. Time to go, time to move on to a beginning, finally. How and what that looked like, Steve didn't know, but it would be where he was meant to be.
He understands, now that he lives among ghosts, what he had let slip through his fingers, unnoticed and unwanted, passing through life a visitor until he reached this death. Somewhere else, there was a real world, real love, real future. Somewhere else was behind him.
There is no destination ahead. His phone stays silent. Steve still doesn't unpack his bags.
