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First FF, please be nice. If convenient, review. If inconvenient, review anyway.

Rated T, just in case.

I got inspired by listening to Iron Man's 3 OST "Something to fight for" by Sencit Music and I highly advise you to do the same.

Something to fight for

Pepper was sitting next to Tony's bed at the hospital. He was in a comma, after all these things that happened in the last few days and Pepper has never left his side, waiting for him to wake up. She was holding his hand when suddenly, she heard the machines beeping.

"Oh my God, Tony!", she screamed while she realized what happened. Tony had no pulse.
She got out and started screaming for help. Three doctors came in the room with a crash cart. Pepper was behind them, crying and panicked. She heard a voice, she only got the last words, get her out, or something like that. A nurse got her and pushed her behind, out of the room.
"Tony!", she was screaming repeatedly, banging her hand against the glass of the room. "Please, Tony, you promised! You would never leave me alone, remember? I love you.", were the only words that came out of her mouth. She didn't care who listened. She just wanted to see him opening his beautiful brown eyes. This was the only thing that could refrain her from crying. The nurses were trying to calm her down, to reason her but she barely listened. Her blue eyes were focused on Tony's bare chest, looking for the ARC reactor's blue light, but it was nowhere to be seen. His body was jumping every time the paddles touched it, but it was falling again lifeless in the mattress.

Tony was falling. He was falling in a dark tunnel that had no light except a small one on the top. "So, I guess that's it.", he thought. "I'm dying.". He did not do anything in order to break the fall. He just looked up, in the small light. "I have nothing left, nothing to fight for. I quit. Pepper will be better of without me. No more danger, no more waiting up all night for me. She will be free from all the stress and me with my total ass behavior.". He closed his eyes, waiting peacefully for the end, while suddenly, the tunnel light up, like millions of screens have been turned on. All of them where showing Pepper. "Just let me go, please.", Tony screamed. "I am tired of all these things. Putting her in danger every time a maniac wants to kill me.". The tunnel light up again, showing him the scene when they first met. Tony looked around, remembering the scene. "Pepper.", he whispered. The scene changed, showing him the tortures, back in Afghanistan, when he heard her calling his name. How he felt when he realized that he had to come back home for her. This made him looking for something to grasp from in order to stop falling. The image changed again, showing him their first almost kiss, then changed again quickly in another scene with him and Pepper and changed faster and faster showing him his entire life with Pepper, until it got on their first kiss. "Pepper!", Tony shouted, now fighting in order to get towards the light. He was hearing a loud beep from a machine while he was approaching the light. "Pepper!", he screamed once again, while passing through the light.

He woke up with a start, taking a huge breath while screaming her name. He saw three men, three doctors, smiling. His vision, still blurry, went on looking for Pepper. She bursted into the room, still crying, but with tears of joy. They both hugged and kissed each other repeatedly, in order to make sure that this was not a dream. Behind them a doctor said "I assume that Mr. Stark is more than OK.". They both laughed and then Tony said "You are not going to get rid off me so soon.". He looked at Pepper and then added "Not as long as I've got something to fight for."