Twisted in Ties (Loki x OC)

Tony's POV

"How is she doing?" Izetta was outside, sitting by the water. It was late now. The sun had gone down and Morgan was in bed. Izetta had refused to eat. I could understand why. She was probably too emotional to keep anything down, even if all her emotions were on the inside.

"Not great. She isn't taking any of it well. But what do you expect? Catching her up to speed...wasn't exactly a fun talk."

"How did she handle...Peter?"

"She didn't break anything around her, but that's about all I can give you. She was barely able to keep herself together."

"This must be so much for her." Pepper stayed next to me as we looked out at our eldest daughter. 

"...I have a feeling we don't even know the half of it." I sighed as I knew I had to make sure she was okay. It wasn't that I didn't want to, it was more I didn't want to see her in so much pain. "Hey, um, can you make sure her room is ready? I'm gonna go see if I can convince her to actually use it and get some sleep."

"Be gentle, Tony."

"I know, hon." 

I walked out and headed over to her. I stood beside her for a bit, letting her have a minute or two. She was staring at the water. It was almost like she refused to take her eyes off of it. I didn't know why, but I did know she always was fascinated by water. I mean, it was natural.

"You wanna come inside and get some sleep, Izz?" She didn't answer for a few moments.

"...I don't think I can sleep." I sat down next to her. This was different from when she was younger. This wasn't anything I'd seen from her before. I didn't know how to help or if I even could. Still, I had to try. 

"You ready to talk about it, yet?" She finally looked over. She didn't seem sure about how she wanted to answer that. However, I saw that she did want to explain how she was feeling. I could read her very easily no matter how long we'd been apart. I knew her down to the core. She closed her eyes, swallowing hard before starting what I knew was going to be a really rough story.

"...I lost everything." I listened closely. "We tried to save Asgard and failed, Thor's people were slaughtered, I watched..." She bit her lip, starting to tear up again. "...I watched the love of my life be killed right in front of me. I was helpless and then he killed me too. I was only saved because of my siblings. They brought me back, but I wake up and find out we lost, I've been gone for so long, and...the Avengers are practically dead." I frowned, knowing how hard this was for her. She was worse than me. 

"You were in love?" I remembered the guy she'd mentioned back during everything with Ultron, but I hadn't expected her to still care about whoever it was after all this time. I still didn't even know who it was. I knew it wasn't Thor, but that was it.

"...We got back together. I didn't want to forgive at first, but he showed me that both of us had been wrong and...I realized that my life will always be missing something without him. But Thanos took him from me. Of course, it doesn't even matter. There's nothing I can do to get him back..." She started to laugh a little before it turned into cries and sobbing. I pulled her in, hugging her and rubbing her back to try to comfort her and calm her down. 

"I'm so sorry, Tailwind. I thought we could win...we lost."

"W-what am I supposed to do, Tony?" She whimpered. "I-I'm so lost...I-I just wanted us to be happy, Dad..." Her words crushed me. It was then that I understood how much pain she was really in. "I want to be happy again, Dad..."

"...I can't change the past, sweetheart, but I promise we're going to be a family now. You can stay with us forever if you want. We're gonna stick together. You can stay and help Morgan grow up. You're gonna be the best big sister. We can try again. I know it will never be the same, but it's all we can do. It's...everything I have to offer you, kiddo." She sniffled, pulling back.