Say You'll Remember Me

by allecra

Tony messed up during a mission. It was an accident. Nobody believed him. Natasha and Clint were the first to leave. Then Bruce. Then Steve. Thor was still on Asgard. Pepper quit. Happy and Rhodey abandoned him. Now, on his deathbed, will any one of them come back for one last look? Or will Tony be left to die alone? Steve/Tony, Major Character Death

1. one

For the Taylor Swift Challenge (HPFC) and Director Fury's School of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents (AFC)

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Tony was sprawled across the pristine white sheets, his brown eyes staring up at the ceiling above him. Part of him still marveled at what had happened. His mind turned everything over - Howard telling him tales of the man who dressed in America's colors - Maria's tender smile as she held him in her arms - Jarvis smiling kindly at him as he made his way to the school - going off to college - Rhodey, oh God. Car crash - Howard and Maria and Jarvis dead - taking control over Stark Industries. Pepper - Afghanistan - Ten Rings - Yinsen - Arc Reactor - I am Iron Man. S.H.I.E.L.D. - Natasha - palladium poisoning - meeting Captain America. Billionaire, Genius, Playboy, Philanthropist. (Big man in a suit of armor - take that off, what are you?) Bruce - Thor - Clint - Coulson's dead.

The battle against Loki and the Chitauri - the wormhole - the nuke - the feeling of weightlessness as he stood in space - and the explosion - then falling.

Then eyes open.

Still alive.

Confusion - how did he survive?

Meeting the man behind the costume - getting to know Steve - falling in love - and then . . . the mission.

Tony fucking up - Steve leaving him - and then that feeling of being broken all over again.

And the brain tumor.

Everything falling apart.

Tony was dying again.

This time, there was no escape. (I think I would just cut the wire)

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t.b.c.