Wife. His wife. Johnny's wife. Married. Marriage. ME!?

I hunch over in a corner of my room and rock myself back and forth in a near fetal position.

"Are...you okay?" Johnny reached out to push a stray strand of my hair away from my face.

I swat his hand away, "Of course I'm not!" I snap, baring my teeth at him.

He pulls his hand back and chuckles at me. Anyone else would have been offended by my tone, but Johnny knew me well enough to know I didn't mean any malintent behind it.

We've been through so much...

The thought hit me, making a lump grown in my throat. Despite everything that has happened this past couple of months, the one thing that persevered through ALL of that...was our love for one another.

And our sheer stubbornness that it was either the other person or bust, I thought cynically to myself.

"Do you regret it?" I then hear Johnny ask.

I flinch out of my thoughts and looked at him with alarm, "What gave you that idea!?" I blurt out.

He raised a condescending eyebrow at me, "You're joking, right?"

I clear my throat in correction, "I mean...aside from my mini-mental breakdown, what makes you think I regret it?"

"You are literally in the fetal position."

"I was literally single just a few moments ago."

"Single!? Since when!?"

I chuckle.

"You never actually officially asked me to be your girlfriend, Johnathan" I remind him.

He blinked.

"Oh my God, I didn't..." He just realized. Then he walks around me and knees in front of me and holds onto my hand. "Victoria, will you be my girlf-"

"I AM ALREADY YOUR WIFE!" I smack him.

He laughs as I assault him and pulls on my wrist, making me tumble down on top of him as he spins me under and pins me beneath him.

"My very beautiful and annoying wife," he corrects me, and proceeds to kiss the ever loving shit right from me.

By the time he pulls away, I'm panting and breathless. Is this what I'm to expect every day from now on? Not a bad deal if you ask me...

With a gentle hand in his shoulder I push Johnny up till we were both in sitting positions. I took a deep breath and met his eyes with a serious look on my face.

"Ah," he says, clearly picking up on what I was thinking. "Time to address the white elephant in the room..."

I nodded but couldn't speak.

"Do you...want to back out?" He asked.

I glare my eyes at him.

"I CAN'T DO THAT!?" I cry out.

"Yes you can," he says solemnly, "You chose to give it, you can chose to take it back. It's all about consent, after all."

Then he tilts his head from side to side and adds.

"I ain't taking it from someone who might not want to give," he then stretches his arms out to gesture to our surroundings. "I only set all this up to make you fell more comfortable..."

"I know," I say, "and I am forever grateful. And don't get me wrong, I'm resolved in doing this-100%...it's just..." I trail off, unable to finish my words.

Johnny just looks at me and gives me all the time I need.

"It's just...I'm sacred. So...very...scared..." I admit in a silent whisper.

Johnny tilted his head to the side and considered my words.

"Understandable." He finally says with a nod.

Silence fell between us as the gravity of our actions finally weighed in, and the unspoken question lingered between us.

Can we really go through with this?

There was really no instruction manual that could guide us on where to go from me. From here on out its either we take the plunge into the great unknown or retreat and suffer the consequences.

I glance over at my husband -urgh! Chills run down my spine simply at the thought!- and look at his face.

He seemed to also be conflicted by his actions, like he was swimming through unknown waters and was trying to keep his head up from sinking below into the dark unknown.

I give him a meek smile and reach out my hand to link it with his. The action caught him off guard and he looks at me alittle startled, noticed my gesture, and smiled back at me.

I wasn't going to let him do this alone, no matter what the problem, we'll solve it together.

"So, what's our next move, hubby?" I tease with a raised brow.

"We gotta get you to a high point and pop your cherry, my dear beautiful wife." He says matter of factly as I flinch at his harsh words.

"And how do you know we need to be at a high point?" I asked, somewhat scared to know the answer.

"The Grand Master," he simply said.

"WHEN!?" I simply shriek, forgoing the how's, why's and what's.

"He was one of the people I was on the phone with alittle while ago..."

"The Grand Master...has a phone!?"

"The man is a phone." He paused for a bit. "Man?...Being?...Entity!? Meh, whatever."

"So you called him...and?" I prompt.

"He told me of a couple things we gotta do, so the sacrifice will be fully appreciated and or accept by the Grand Council"

"And they are!?" I explode, "Stop being so vague! I know your doing this on purpose!!" I say while jumping him.

Johnny laughs and tumbles backwards from my weight.

"Alright! Alright! I cave!!" He cries out as I crawl on top of him.

"Spill" I say, looking down as I saddle myself on his abdomen.

He slides his hands up the sides of my legs and rests his hands on the swells of my thighs.

"Well it's gotta be completed by midnight, otherwise they won't accept it," he suddenly solemnly says.

I freeze on top of him and glance at my wall clock.

"That only gives us a couple hours..." I unintentionally whispered at him.

He nods, but remains silent.

I supress all the swirling thoughts battling for dominance in my head and collapse my body on top of Johnny's. He moves is hands up and wraps his arms around my back, pressing me harder into him.

We stay like that for 20 minutes. Hearing the click of the clock and the sounds of our heart beats, time slowly fading away into the background.

I took in one deep final breathe and pushed myself up off of him and reach my hand down in offering.

"Let's do this" I say with complete and absolute resolve.

Johnny simply just grins up at me and then takes my hand, "What a woman..." I heard him mutter as he got up and kisses me.

Haha...it's funny...that was our first kiss as husband and wife...

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The city was quite as we drove back to the Baxter Building. Like everyone had run home or indoors to hide.

"Strange..." I simply say, gawking at the miracle that was an empty Times Square.

By the time Johnny and I were ready to proceed to the Baxter Building, we came out to haul a cab and noticed that Ben's car was simply just parked outside waiting for us.

"You think they're all sitting by a clock waiting to see if we actually do it before midnight or not" I snarkily say.

"That...or they find out because that thing disappears," Johnny says with a cautious look at the sky.

I peek up and freeze when I finally notice what he was talking about.

THERE WAS A GIANT-and I mean giant-SWIRLING BLACK VORTEX THAT WAS CURRENTLY EATING UP THE FUCKING SKY!!!

I squeaked in fear.

"What are you? A fucking mouse!?" Johnny mocks.

"HOW DID I MISS THAT!?" I cry.

"You can be fucking oblivious when you choose to be," Johnny replies.

"Excuse me!?"

"I literally lived across from you for months and you couldn't tell that I loved you and was your childhood friend!"

"Oh! So we're bringing up the past, are we!?" I challenge.

"Don't make me bring up the burning me in anger incident! We still haven't resolved that!" I counter add.

"I see that more as the divine being in charge of this story forgetting to address the issue after dragging the story out for too long" Johnny smirks.

I gasp.

"You have attained 4th wall-breakage status!?" I cry in delight.

Johnny just shrugged.

"We've almost reached the end of our story, I believe I deserved the upgrade." He finished cockily.

"I love you SO MUCH right now, I don't think I've ever loved you more in my LIFE!" I cry out in utter delight and praised as we got to the Baxter Building, got out of the car, and rode the elevator up to our floor.

That's not the only thing you'll be riding soon, honey. - Harley teased at me

BEHAVE! - Brain tried to contain her.

The doors to the former apartment floor that I called home dinged open, and I slowly walked inside after Johnny.

So many unresolved memories and trauma sprung up at me being in the building, but I immediately push the all to the side as I had a task at hand to complete!

"Are you ready?" Johnny once again had to ask at the room to his door. Just one last check to make sure I was alright and comfortable with going through with what we were about to do.

And I loved him ever so deeply for it.

I nodded determinedly at him.

"Born ready!" I cry out, pushing past him and running into the room. Damn near dragging him in behind me. "Let's go save the world by having sex!!!"

"HELL YEAH!" Johnny cried after me, resoundingly slamming the door behind us.

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Author Note

*Coughs in nearly 2 years of absence*

Let's just...pretend(?) that that never happened.

This chapter was 90% done since Dec 03, 2019. But LIFE WOULD NOT stop kicking me in the lady balls!

Anyway, I'm gonna shut up now and thank any of you STILL here and reading this. You a real one.

The next chapter is already ready and done (ironically) and is almost 3,000 words long (I might break it up or I might not), so sit tight and get ready for the wildest sex scene you'll ever read OF YOUR LIFE which will be published...TOMORROW! (Not 3 years from now XD)

So, for old times sake, say it with me!

Thank you for reading!

~Ya Gal Vicky!