Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 348 As a Father (Second Update!!)

Christmas Eve is followed by Christmas Day.

Early the next morning.

Hawke and Gwen are getting ready to return to New York City.

only……

Hawke frowned as he looked at his sister Anya, who said she planned to stay here for a few days.

Are you sure you want to stay here?

"Ah."

Anya nodded, glanced at the house diagonally opposite, and said to Hawke, "I want to see my nephews and nieces."

Hawke chuckled and nodded upon hearing this.

"Alright, then I'll stay here for a while and come back after the holiday."

"Thank you, brother."

"You are my sister."

Hawke smiled slightly, hugged Anya, kissed her forehead, and then, without saying anything more, turned around and opened the door of the Audi A8.

Gwen hugged Amy, then opened the car door and got into the passenger seat.

next moment.

The Audi A8's engine roared.

"Go to the 21st Precinct first."

After Gwen fastened her seatbelt in the passenger seat, she said to Hawke, "Dad said he has something to discuss with us."

Hawke nodded, somewhat curious.

"Is George planning to surprise Helen and asking us to discuss a gift?"

"Dad didn't say."

Gwen shook her head: "But it's unlikely. Dad isn't the kind of guy who likes to surprise people. Once, Mom was planning to surprise Dad, but after the cannons went off, Dad had already pulled out his gun."

Upon hearing this, Hawke instinctively looked at Gwen.

seems to be saying.

"real or fake?"

"real."

Gwen nodded, her expression serious: "Anyway, as far back as I can remember, the word 'surprise' has never existed in our family."

Hawke became curious.

"Why did George call us over?"

"do not know."

Gwen shrugged.

"It's unlikely to be a surprise anyway."

"I plan to inject myself with the antidote for vampires."

"..."

In the sergeant's office of the 21st Precinct.

After Gwen and her prospective son-in-law Hawke settled in, George solemnly explained why he had brought them over.

Gwen's mouth dropped open.

Hawke was also slightly taken aback, then seemed to realize something, looked at Gwen who had a somewhat blank expression, and smiled.

"This should be considered a surprise."

"Go away."

Gwen realized what was happening, looked at Hawke who was smiling, rolled her eyes at him, and then looked at George with a puzzled expression.

"Why, Dad?"

"Because there is an antidote," Dr. Vanessa Brooks said, "with Whistler's blood sample, the vampire antidote can turn me back into a human."

Vanessa Brooks is the African-American doctor that Blade Runner rescued from the hospital.

Although she is called a doctor, Vanessa Brooks is actually a medical doctor.

Since Dickon Frost was killed by Hawke, Vanessa Brooks has also joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and has been conducting research on the antidote for vampires.

The antidote Whistler used after being rescued by Blade was actually an experimental one.

But Whistler was lucky and turned back into a human.

With Whistler's successful blood sample as a precedent, Vanessa Brooks, after a period of research, finally managed to develop the antidote for vampires.

George was unaware of the existence of the vampire antidote.

But ever since Gwen took George to the New York headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D., George learned about the existence of the vampire cure.

This is not.

After careful consideration over the past few days, George called Hawke and Gwen to discuss it.

Rather than calling it a discussion, it would be more accurate to say that George had already made up his mind and was simply informing the two of them.

but!
Gwen, seeing George's resolute expression, slammed her hand on the table and stood up.

"No, I don't agree!"

"why?"

George looked at his disapproving daughter.

Hawke sat to the side and watched silently.

Gwen said, "Dad, even if you don't get the antidote now, it won't affect your life at all. Most importantly, you're a vampire, so Mom and I will never have to worry about the police knocking on our door again."

Gwen would be happy if George were just an office-based sheriff like the others, and she wouldn't care whether her father was a vampire or not.

But George particularly enjoys being there in person, which makes Gwen very unhappy, as the vampire is more than capable of guaranteeing George's safety.

Frankly speaking.

Since her father George became a vampire, Gwen has never worried about George's safety again.

After all, even if vampires are the weakest among supernatural beings, they are still overwhelmingly powerful when it comes to ordinary criminal activities.

What she heard next was...

George actually wants to go back to being a normal person.

Gwen didn't understand.

"Dad, do you really want Mom and me to worry about you every time you go on a mission?"

"Your mother supports my decision."

"……what?"

Gwen paused for a moment, her eyes widening as she looked at George.

"Mom, she..."

"Yes, there are no secrets between your mother and me."

George smiled slightly: "Your mother already knew, but I told her that you all told me not to tell her first, so she wouldn't worry. So, these days, your mother has been pretending not to know about it." Gwen opened her mouth.

Hawke, who had been sitting silently to the side, pretending not to exist, smirked as he heard George's words: "Hey, this is none of my business. I don't care whether you tell Helen or not."

George looked at Hawke: "Yes, I told Helen too. Listen to Gwen."

Hawke breathed a sigh of relief and looked at George with some gratitude.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"Hey!"

Gwen, standing to the side, looked at her fiancé thanking her and her father saying "You're welcome," and instantly became unhappy: "So, Mom thinks I'm the only one who kept it from her?"

George smiled at Gwen: "You did say that you wouldn't tell your mother yet so as not to worry her."

Hawke, sitting to the side, also kept his voice down.

"You did say that."

"Oh God, shut up."

Gwen raised her little pink fist and punched her fiancé, who had a gloating expression on his face, then looked at George with a nervous expression: "Daddy, did Mommy say anything?"

George shrugged.

"You'll find out when you get back tonight."

"Hawk!"

Gwen's expression turned serious as she turned to Hawke: "Our flight is this afternoon, right?"

Hawke was stunned.

"airplane?"

"Ok?"

Gwen raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, an airplane."

Hawke, seeing Gwen's unfriendly gaze, immediately understood, nodded, and looked at George: "Our flight is this afternoon."

but……

Where are their afternoon flights going?
It didn't fly anywhere.

The plane crashed before it even took off.

Because of Helen.

After all, George called them over not to discuss it with them, but to inform them.

The antidote injection will be administered at 10:00 AM, and Helen, as Helen's true love, will naturally be present.

This is not.

Outside the medical room of the New York SHIELD headquarters.

Hawke leaned close to his future mother-in-law, Helen, and whispered, "Helen, you know me. I'll listen to Gwen."

Helen, the prospective mother-in-law, glanced at Hawke with gentle eyes, then glared at Gwen standing to the side.

"Your father is right, it's a drafty cotton-padded coat."

"Mother……"

"Don't call me Mom."

Helen rolled her eyes, then looked at Gwen with some curiosity: "I'm curious, if I really don't know, when is my daughter, whom I've always considered the pride of my life, going to tell me?"

Gwen's expression was serious: "I was planning to tell you tonight, Mom."

Helen was delighted.

"Weren't you already looking at plane tickets for this afternoon when I came into the office?"

"Hawk is planning to go out and have fun, right, Hawke?"

"……Correct."

Hawke nodded and looked at Helen: "Yes, Helen, I plan to take Gwen out to play."

Helen looked at her daughter, who was shrugging, then shook her head and looked at Hawke.

"Hawk."

"You say."

"Thanks a lot."

"It's not hard."

"Mother……"

"Shut up."

Helen rolled her eyes at Gwen again, then sighed at Hawke, "George and I have agreed that after the holiday, once City Hall opens, you can take Gwen back. We don't want this daughter anymore."

Hawke raised an eyebrow, exchanged a glance with Gwen, and then was overjoyed.

"thanks Mom."

Just as a marriage proposal requires the consent of both George and Helen, so too does marriage require their approval and blessings.

Although registering at the city hall doesn't require anything like a household registration booklet.

However, if the woman's parents do not approve or bless her, it is also called eloping in Western society.

After all, the wedding expenses are something George and Helen need to pay for.

"Mother."

Gwen then realized what was happening and hugged Helen.

The conversation we just had was just to ease the sadness of actually having to send my daughter away.

Helen looked at Gwen, who was hugging her tightly, and said softly with a smile, "Your father and I have already made a reservation at the Holy Trinity Church, but you need to hurry up and compile the detailed guest list."

New York City has countless churches.

Of all the churches where people get married, Holy Trinity Church, located on Manhattan Island, is undoubtedly the most famous.

Helen embraced Gwen while glancing at her husband George, who was lying in the infirmary receiving an antidote injection, and then back at Gwen.

"Because your father will hold your hand and put you in Hawke's hands."

"so……"

“Your father said he hopes to send you off as Gwen Stacy’s father, George Stacy, when you get married.”

"Instead of sending you off as the vampire George Stacy."

"..."

Gwen's heart skipped a beat. She turned to look at George in the infirmary, who was receiving the antidote. His lips were pursed, but his brows were furrowed, as if he were enduring some kind of pain.

"……dad."

"..."

(End of this chapter)