First completed work I've ever published! YAY! Even if it is just basically a little drabble, haha. Anyhow, if you have any suggestions or criticisms, please let me know, but be nice please! :)

Kinda based on "I am not a Robot" by Marina and the Diamonds. Listen to it if you want to :)

Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers or any Marvel characters. (sadly)


Tony is not a robot.

Tony makes robots. He welds their piece's together, making them whole in a way he will never be. The arc in him is made of robotic materials, true. But the arc doesn't make him.

Contrary to popular belief, he has feelings. Covered by a Kevlar layer of snark and stinging remarks like barbed-wire, of course. Because god forbid the world saw that Tony Stark, the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, had a heart. A particularly vulnerable heart actually.

Because if someone knew, they would take his heart and stab it out some more. And Tony didn't need any more of that. Buried under alcohol and a suit of iron lies a man that has been tossed around, weakened. But he'd still rather be hated for he is than loved for what he isn't. Because even though he's weakened and troubled inside, healed scars are always stronger than unmarked skin. And Tony knows that he is going to come out stronger than ever someday.

But he still wants to ask the man controlled by anger one question sometimes:

"Can you teach me how to feel?"

Because even if it is anger, anything would be better than being a robot.