"I wish for all our loved ones to come back from death, and our living ones to be happy."

( i reccommend reading this while listening to "thanos' victory - alan silvestri" see above for it! )

"You should have gone for the head."

The words barely resigned in Thor's ears over his thunderous heartbeat, which quickened when Thanos raised his hand, the gauntlet shining in the light.

Snap.

Something should have happened, both Thor and Thanos sensed this, yet nothing came. In fact, Thor stared in confusion and relief as he noticed that the gauntlet was barren of the infinity stones, despite clearly having been there a few moments ago.

Thanos realized this too, his eyes widening ever so slightly as he stared at his hand. His gaze hastily searched around before narrowing on a figure beside Thor. "You. What did you do?"

You stood with your hands outstretched, the infinity stones floating above in a continuous circle. You didn't bother looking up, too enthralled by the stones within your grasp. The tips of your fingers were blistered right up to your elbows, but the pain didn't seem to bother you. "I made a wish."

"You could never wield them," Thanos spat. The anger he felt was suffocating. He pushed his legs up, not caring if the axe wedged deeper into his chest. "You're too weak."

"And yet Y/N has wielded them," Thor's voice was a low warning. "Make another move towards them and I will end you right here. Accept your death without struggle."

Thanos was mad. A power hungry titan, beseeched by death and enticed by chaos, he was dubbed the Mad Titan for a reason. He had been soft on them, the inferior. Now he was done, his façade dripping away as he glared at you. With one last breath, he stood to his full height, fighting against Thor's strength. He made it one step towards you before collapsing to the ground, the volatile burst of lightning from Thor frying his nerves, and being enough to finally stop his heart. The last thing he saw before closing his eyes for good was you, infinity stones in grasp, more powerful than ever.

"Have I not told you brother, the sun will shine on us again?"

Thor thought the man that appeared before him was but another trick. Loki stood with a sly grin on his face. He was alive.

"How? How are you here?" Thor asked. No matter how many times his brother tricked death and returned, Thor would always be relieved. "I saw you die."

Loki waved a hand in the air casually. "I suppose we have your friend to thank for that."

...

Wanda cradled Vision's head in her lap, her heart shattered. She had lost another loved one, and she failed to save them. Which is why when the heavily accented voice spoke to her, and the flash of white hair appeared in her sight, did she recoil in shock and disbelief.

"Gone for a few years, and this is who you start dating, huh? Couldn't find a nice guy back home?"

She felt like she was going to crack, her sanity splitting in half as she stared at the image of her dead brother in front of her.

"Pietro?" her voice was barely a whisper, and it broke Pietro's heart to see his sister so devastated. "You're another trick, an illusion."

Pietro sat down beside his sister and wiped at the tears falling down her face. "I'm right here, I swear."

Wanda shook her head. "I felt you die, Pietro. You're not real." She inhaled, the weight of everything being too much for her tormented mind. "I'm going crazy."

Pietro patted his chest. "What do you feel now?"

It took her a few moments to sense it, but it was there, the bond they shared since birth. Her brother really was in front of her, alive. She didn't know how, or why, she didn't care. Pietro was back, and she would never let anything happen to him.

...

Worlds apart, but Bucky and Tony felt the same thing. Happiness. Relief. Content.

They had both been haunted for years, their actions, the consequences they bared, everything had wrapped around them, seeping into them until all they felt was misery.

But something had changed, and now it was different. For the first time, they took a deep breath in, and felt at peace.

Was this really what they had been missing out on all of these years?

Tony smiled at Peter, a kid who was like a son to him, and knew that they had won. Everything was going to be okay, and it was.

Bucky looked at his best friend since childhood before sprinting towards him and nearly crushing him into a hug. Till the end of the line, a promise that was kept forever.

author's note

- ya'll are given the chance to request with the power of the infinity stones, and almost all of you have wished for is for infinity war to be undone, everyone to be happy, etc. honestly, ya'll are so cute. Love ya'll.

- To make a wish, see the chapter [ MAKE A WISH! ] and comment your wish!