[ Gamora doesn't know if she's surprised when he speaks or if she should have expected it.
(He must have to face the dark reality of his Gamora's death, she thinks, if he can't look at her and pretend like nothing has changed.)
Despite her better judgment, she halts in place, pausing for a few heartbeats before turning to look back at him. She looks at his face, really looks at him, and there's a vulnerability in her own that even she isn't aware of. ]
Why?
[ The weight of being here, of not being the one who should be, is a harsher reality than even she could grasp. It's a look into her future, a future stolen away by Thanos just like every other "what-if" that might have been.
She could have had this – this path and this family and this love – and instead, she's been dropped into a dead woman's life to disappoint herself and everyone else who knew this other Gamora. Everything that shaped the woman Peter knew will never happen to her now; every fundamental, defining moment that she'd undergone with the Guardians is in the past, where this Gamora should be.
Instead, she's stranded in the wrong time with nothing but a ghost to show for it. ]
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(He must have to face the dark reality of his Gamora's death, she thinks, if he can't look at her and pretend like nothing has changed.)
Despite her better judgment, she halts in place, pausing for a few heartbeats before turning to look back at him. She looks at his face, really looks at him, and there's a vulnerability in her own that even she isn't aware of. ]
Why?
[ The weight of being here, of not being the one who should be, is a harsher reality than even she could grasp. It's a look into her future, a future stolen away by Thanos just like every other "what-if" that might have been.
She could have had this – this path and this family and this love – and instead, she's been dropped into a dead woman's life to disappoint herself and everyone else who knew this other Gamora. Everything that shaped the woman Peter knew will never happen to her now; every fundamental, defining moment that she'd undergone with the Guardians is in the past, where this Gamora should be.
Instead, she's stranded in the wrong time with nothing but a ghost to show for it. ]