A/N: This idea came into my mind after I've seen the IM3 trailer. It is a totally AU story. Excuse the probably grammar mistakes but English is not my first language.

Feedback: It is more than welcome. Either good or bad.

White. It was all the man's eyes could see. The white walls with a hint of silver seemed to be the creepiest thing he had ever seen. His eyes took in the surroundings and he could feel a frown creep over his forehead. He didn't understand a single thing from what happened. Where was he? The place seemed as a hospital but the smell didn't match. Why was he there? And the main problem was, why was he cuffed to the bed?

24 HOURS EARLIER

Tony Stark sat on his comfortable, leather chair in the basement of his mansion. He stared blankly at a vial he held in his hand, twirling it around his fingers with a loud sigh. He had been doing the same things since a hour ago. His dark, almond colored eyes meeting the crystalline blue liquid from the vial. The liquid that could change his life. In good or in bad.

Stark let out a resigned sigh and stood up from the chair. 'That's it, Tony,' he thought and opened the lowest drawer of his desk. He took out a tiny, velvet covered box and opened it with a single finger. He couldn't find a reasonable thought to explain his actions, he just knew it was right. He hopped it was.

His fingers wrapped around the cold syringe and trailed its needle with a finger before he picked it up from the velvet box. He opened the vial's lid and stuck the needle inside it before slowly dragging out the syringe. He stared at it for a second before he rose the sleeve of his undershirt. The same black one he wore under the Iron Man armor.

'Jarvis,' he began and stared up at the ceiling. 'Turn on the vital checking system and, don't let anyone to come in. Not even Pepper.' The billionaire finished his sentence as he entered the syringe needle in his purplish veins.

He drew in a sharp breath as the last drop of liquid made contact with his blood steam. His almond colored eyes widened visibly and the hand in which he held the syringe fell limp, trailing his arm and his sides lightly. The syringe fell to the floor with a soft thump and was soon followed by a louder, heavier thump before the world faded to black for him.

'Tony,' the thick American accent of the a man made Stark's head fall to side. 'Tony, wake up,' the man continued and only then Tony opened his eyes.

'What the hell happened?' Stark muttered as his eyes fixed on the concerned faces of his best friend, James Rhodes and his personal assistant, Pepper Potts.

'You passed out,' the gentle feminine voice responded. 'I told you that you should rest more and leave the work for another days.'

To the two concerned peoples surprise, Stark remained silent. He simply stood up from the couch he didn't remembered that he laid on. He saw the concerned faces of the peoples in front of him turn into something else. Into a mixture between surprise, fear and concern. That made Stark step back and he stared down at his hands and ran a hand over his arms.

'Tony,' Pepper was the first to gain the courage to step forward. Her eyes searched his but when she reached them she didn't found the warm, dark colored eyes she had grown to love. She found a pair of cold, electrical blue eyes staring back at her. The same color as the ones of his Iron Man armor eyes. That terrified her. 'Oh God…Tony, what have you done?'

Stark remained silent, taking one more step back until his back touched the cold, crystalline glass of the windows. 'Stay back,' he bite his lower lip gently and held up a hand. It was enough to make the Iron Man hand come to him and throw him out of the window in surprise.

The glass shattered around him and the last thing he could see was the terrified face of the only person he ever cared about more than himself. The delicate features turning into fear as she ran to the now shattered window. The wind blown her hair the same way as it did with his as he fell down from the cliff and toward the sea. He closed his eyes tightly, trying to call the suit to him but it was already too late. Tony Stark fell into the sea, the sound of his fall audible in the silence of the night.

TBC

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