Author's Note: So I got The Avengers the day it came out, and I've been watching it non stop since. I've wanted to write this for a while, so here it is. Also, to my readers who I desperately awaiting the next chapter of "Control," (actually, I don't know if you're that anxious for it, but I can pretend), I'm really sorry. I'm trying to think of a good idea for the next one. If there's something you want to see in that, PM me or mention it in a review.

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trip

"Stark... you know that's a one-way trip."

He knew. Of course he knew. He was a genius, how could he not know? He knew the risks. Had weighed them all. Tony Stark would not be responsible for the slaughter of innocent people. Not again. And yeah, he was a superhero now, and he wanted to save people, but there was one deciding factor in it all.

Pepper.

Pepper would be proud of him. Maybe his dad would be proud of him, too, if heaven was real and that's where he was. And damn if he didn't want to prove Rogers wrong.

So when JARVIS asked if he should try Miss Potts, all he could manage was,

"Might as well."

Because Tony Stark was dying again, and the last time it had happened, he hadn't told her, and it had been one of the worst mistakes of his life.

And really, he just wanted her face to be one of the last things he saw.

trip

Author's Note: Yup, that's it. Just a drabble. Hopefully this'll kick start my creativity again and I'll be able to write more for "Control."