Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm going to get some hate/shocked comments for you guys after this *squints at the sky* *questioning life choices* Aw well, I'm a daring person! *presses post chapter anyway*
FYI: Yes I do sensor my language *sticks tongue out*
I wasn't at the house when the initial blow happened but I definitely felt the aftershock.
Tony cornered me as soon as I entered the house. And I thanked my lucky stars that I didn't have Peter with me as I stared up into his fire filled eyes.
"Did you know?!" He growled, his face matching the rage in his voice.
"You going to have to be more specific." I said, surprised by how steady my voice was.
"Don't bullsh*t me Elynea!" He barked slamming his palm against the wall next to my head. "Did you know about the palladium poisoning! Do you know that the thing keeping me alive is killing me too! Did you know that using the Iron Man armor is going to make it worse! Did you f$ king know!" He yelled.
"You have palladium poisoning." I whispered hoarsely. Dread filling the pit of my stomach.
"Yes." He growled impatiently. "Answer the damn question. Did you, in all your future seeing knowledge, know that I'm was going to die?!"
I suddenly turned angry. "How dare you!" I screeched.
"How dare I!" He started, startled by my reaction.
"Yes, how dare you!" I said jabbing my finger in his chest. "My abilities aren't an exact science and you know that! And they aren't always clear on the details, especially my visions about you! I don't even have them anymore, they stopped last year. I've told you this before. So, all I've got to go on is what I remember from my first vision. And those were spotty at best!"
"But you saw it didn't you! Didn't you!" He barked, turning angry again.
"I didn't know it was palladium poisoning or how you got it! All I remember seeing was this crossword puzzle thing around your reactor. You looked sick but then it just went away and you were fine. I didn't have much to go on with." I answered, my voice going soft as I continued to speak.
Tony looked at me for a moment, not saying a word.
"I don't believe you." He finally mustered out.
"What?" I whispered breathlessly.
"I don't believe that's all you saw, and you chose to keep it from me. How do I know you're not keeping anything else from me?" He didn't let me answer. "No, I asked you when I first learned about your powers if there was anything important that you could tell me. And I practically begged you to not keep things from me when Stane pulled the reactor out of my chest. We've spent the better part of a year together and still this never came up, as if it wasn't important at all! And I'm pretty sure that this damn well counts as important! If I can't trust you to tell me when I'm about to die then I can't trust you at all. So just get out and don't come back." His voice cracking as he spoke but firm in his resolve. There were tears in his eyes. This was breaking his heart just as much as it was mine.
"Tony..." I started.
"No, I don't want to hear it. Just... just leave." He interrupted, backing away from me.
Tears streamed down my face as I walked out of the door, it slammed behind me, I flinched. I got into my car and drove off.
When I returned home, Peter was already in bed fast asleep. I paid the babysitter and went in to my room to cry my eyes out at my heart's content.
My heart was broken and no one would be able to fix it.
I feel like I should be clear about something, Elynea's vision on Tony's future in the first fic wasn't really told in full to what she saw. So, in a nut shell, she saw mostly what happened in Afghanistan, the creation of Iron Man, a brief "scene" with Stane, and just a few flashes of what would happen in the Iron Man 2. So, all she had to go on was what she remembered from that and it didn't giver her much to go on, so please don't fault her for that.