Refer to the last chapter for Hiccup's official epilogue, Cutting Ties.

Or go back and read the entire story. I won't blame you. Haha jk.

The elevator dings faintly as the doors open in front of me. I walk out to the shared common room, OneRepublic's Something I Need blasting softly from my AirPods. Judging my music taste? Fine, kick a guy while he's down, its not I recently died or anything!

I hum along to the words as I walk down the hallway. The school day and all the stress that came with it already out of my head. I'd decided to take the subway to and from school today, which wasn't too packed thankfully so I had been able to relax for the majority of the trip back (there was, unfortunately, a brief five minutes of having to endure a drunk man's angry rambling).

"With broken worlds I've tried to say
"Honey don't you be afraid
If we got nothing, we got us".

I pause the song and take my AirPods out once I reach the entrance to the lounge room on the shared quarters. "I'm home!" I call out cheerfully. A chorus of cheers ring out in response. I walk into the kitchen, seeing most of the Avengers gathered around. A sight I'm still not used to.

A sight that I now get to see every day, ever since May and I permanently moved into the tower about two weeks after the battle. I'll tell you what, saying goodbye to our apartment had been emotional, we'd had so many years of memories there, but it was all worth it. Moving into the tower means there's always someone around (Tony refers to it as a B&B), so even when May goes to work I'm never lonely. Tony has offered to retire her at least five times in the last week alone, but she still wants to work. I'm very proud of her. But mainly, I get to come home to the Avengers every day!

"Hey Pete!" Bucky smiles at me kindly as I put my AirPods in their case then tuck it into my bag.
"Yess, Peter's finally back." Wanda cheers. "I made you some biscuits, it's been hard to keep the others away." She tossed a glare at Mr Stark/Tony/Dad?, who's sipping coffee from a custom "America's ass" mug. He ignores her.

"Hey, Pete. Good day?" He asks me. I nod, sitting my backpack down by the island.
"Yeah, it was alright." I smile at him as he walks past into the living room. I look around at everyone. Steve and Wanda are cooking; Wanda opens the fridge and hands me a plate of delicious looking cookies before returning to the mixing she is doing, while Steve monitors a frying pan. I take a seat at the barstool and start eating the cookies. Vision is also in the kitchen... washing up? And not short-circuiting??? I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
"These are so good!" I beam, tasting what might just be heaven in my mouth. Wanda waves off my compliment with a smile. I look around to make better note of who's here.

Sam and Bucky are playing cards on the living room floor, I think they're playing go fish? Well they were, Bucky just flipped the deck of cards in anger. Bruce is sipping tea and reading what I assume is the news on a tablet across from Sam and Bucky, but he's on a chair. Over in front of the tv, Natasha and Yelena appear to be kicking Rhodey and Clint's asses at Mario Cart, judging by the latter's complaints. Kate is lying on the floor halfway between the kitchen and living room with arrows spread out in front of her. I think she's labelling them. She sure does lay on the floor a lot. Hiccup is sitting on the ground next to her, intently listening to her as she explains what each arrow does.

Out on the balcony, Thor and Loki are standing side by side. They're not talking, but I feel like they're about to say something really sentimental to each other. Or at least subtly sentimental. Or maybe someone will get stabbed. It's always hard to tell with them.

Pepper, Aunt May, and Mr Stark approach from the lounge room. May has some paper in her hands, a thick stack to be exact.
"It's all signed, Peter." She grins, handing me a page. I put the cookies down so I don't get the paper dirty, and take a good look at the paper curiously.

Parenting agreement is in bold letters at the head of the page. My mouth falls open.

"You mean...?" I look from May to Pepper and Mr Stark.

"You're looking at your two new legal guardians." Mr Stark grins. "Pepper was only gonna have 12% but we decided to go 33% each."
"The last percentage goes to May, before you ask." Pepper adds.
"I can't believe this!" I exclaim, excited. "This is... wow."
"We were gonna give it to the dog," Mr Stark points at Pizza Dog, who's come out of nowhere to chew on arrows much to Clint's disapproval. "But pep said its illegal." Kate's started bringing Pizza Dog to the tower whenever she visits and it's great!

Pepper slaps Mr Stark's head, rolling her eyes. May grins and gives me a hug and a kiss on the forhead. "I gotta go, Happy's taking me out to that new diner. I'll see you tomorrow after you get home."
"Bye, May!" I beam. "Don't get too happy with Happy." I joke. She swats my shoulder, chuckling.
"Shush, you."

She says a warm bye to Mr Stark and Pepper before leaving the way I came. I can't stop smiling. This is happening. Holy crap. Someone pinch me. Oh my god.

I turn back to Pepper and Mr Stark. He looks at me. "So, I don't wanna rush things so if you still wanna call me Mr stark that's ok but I think we could try Tony if—"
I decide to jump in the deep end, because you miss 100% of the shots you don't take and I am nothing if not a goal striker and a risk taker. "Sure, Dad."
He stops, blinks, slowly processes, then grins at me. "Okay, that works too."

We smile at each other, my heart hammering with delight. I have a father!
"You guys just jumped right in there." Pepper chuckles.
"Well what can I say, Mum!" I joke. "Like father like son."
She lights up when I call her Mum, much to my delight. "Just— just don't spend all night in the lab, it's hard enough to get one of you out." She tells me. I grin and nod, knowing I'll probably end up doing it anyway.

"Butter chicken's for dinner by the way." Steve calls from the kitchen. "And Wanda's fantastic salad."
"Stop eating it Steve, there will be none left."
"Sorry, sorry."

******

I crouch on the ledge of my open window in my Spidey suit, looking at my phone as I text MJ. One more text comes through.

MJ💕: see you tomorrow, loser ❤️ (now)

I smile, looking away from my phone and out at the darkening New York sky. I still get butterflies whenever she talks to me. And we're official now, as in girlfriend and boyfriend, no more doubts or confusion! It's great.

I toss my phone to my desk and pull my mask on, before jumping out of the window and swinging away from the tower, the wind whipping at me as I cut through the air.

I cheer, swinging towards Queens excitedly. The remnants of the battle loom below, but the clean up is well underway. Soon enough, you'll never tell there was even a battle.

"Greetings, Peter, there's a lot to do tonight." Karen greets me warmly as I flip and twist, swinging through New York and towards Queens. I feel the familiar rush of adrenaline and grin, exhilarated. I even wave to a few people, hearing them cheer my (hero) name as I pass overhead.

Several lots of data soon pops up in my eyesight, detailing break-ins, robberies and such. Karen was right, we have a lot to do. I see another text on screen from MJ💕: be careful on patrol, or I'll punch you. I smile to myself.

"Then let's to work!" I finally answer Karen and swing off into the distance, screaming out in delight as lights rush by me. As I move, the song from earlier gets stuck in my head--serves me right for not listening to it all the way through, I guess.

"You got something I need
In this world full of people,
There's one killing me
And if we only die once (hey)
I wanna die with you
(You you you)

I know that we're not the same
But I'm so damn glad that we
Made it
To this time, this time, now

At the end of it all, nothing matters. Fights, drama, traumatic torture and deaths, it's all irrelevant in this moment. Because I know I have a family, now. a large family, filled with super soldiers and dragons and vikings. I have a mother. I have a father. I have tons of aunts and uncles to join May. I have MJ. I know all these people will be there for me, and I know that no matter what we face, even if it's death, there's nothing I'd rather do than face it with them.

End epilogue.

Holy shit.

We made it to the end.

That was really not my best work, but give me a break lol, I just wanted to get it out. I hope you have enjoyed reading!

But if you've read this far, then remember that there is more epilogues to come--the alternate ones. Some of which may or may not illude to a sequel/sequels. Keep an eye on my profile for updates, I always announce if i've released something!

Anyway, let me know of your thoughts in the comments, thank you so much for reading.

Keep a look out for some deleted scenes, and if you're interested, the additional epilogues. I guess they might technically be sequels. Ish.

Okay, bye!