Even after it was all over there was a lot to take care of. As much as Strange had wanted to take care of person business first there were things like the safety of the Realm that had to be considered. Fortunately with half of reality suffering the same losses as Earth the threats were as diminished as the protectors. Still, the hours seemed to stretch on for an eternity and he didn’t even have a cell phone that he could use to contact Harper.

Finally an irate Strange had told everyone to stop bothering him because he had some important business to take care of that trumped their increasingly minor concerns and questions. Strange knew that Harper had survived the snap, he’d been able to check that much. What that had done to her he couldn’t know but he could guess. She wasn’t a woman he trusted easily, not after all she had lost, and Strange had disappeared for five years. She had taken a chance on trusting and it had ended poorly for her. Again.

Traveling to a very familiar home, one that it seemed like ha he visited only a few days ago he hesitated for just a moment before knocking. It would be more than a little awkward if she had moved in the meantime but he didn’t think that was the case. Might she want nothing to do with him? He felt that was a far more likely scenario.