thanks for the reviews you guys wrote me , I'm glad you liked the story so far^^ so here is chapter two, enjoy!

: thanks for telling me, I haven't seen the movie yet, but I know the plot, I did not, however, know that the shape was changed. I will edit it when I have figured out how to use this website properly xD

When Tony was upset, he usually hid in his laboratory to distract himself. It used to work better when he had been living alone and when it had only been Pepper who had bothered him. Now that he was sharing his house with five other people, this turned out to be a lot more difficult.

Much to his disapproval, every two hours one of them would show up at the laboratory, knocking at the door trying all different kind of things in order to get him out.

Natasha tried by using one of her super -creepy spy psychology tricks. Tony fought them off by turning up the music on the highest volume.

Clint offered him all different kinds of things, like going to the cinema together, or playing Xbox or taking him to a strip bar. But Tony didn't feel like going to such places anymore and told Clint so.

Bruce didn't actually try to get Tony out of the lab, but he tried to get in by telling Tony that they could work at one of their projects together. But Tony knew that if he let Bruce in, he would instantly start one of his relationship adviser speeches. So he got rid of the other scientist by telling him that he was currently working on his suit and that he didn't want to be disturbed.

Thor came down once, almost banging the door out of its frame, yelling that hiding was no behaviour that was worthy of a warrior like him and that he should come out immediately if he wanted to save his honour. Tony had feared that even his super strong laboratory door would break under such pressure,. Luckily Steve saved him and his door, telling Thor that he was being to rude and that it wasn't helping.

Steves visits were the worst. The blonde man would come down to knock at his door and tell Tony that it was him. When Tony didn't answer, Steve didn't say anything either. He just stood there in front of the door, waiting for Tony to say something. It never happened and Steve always left after a few minutes of silence. It made Tony feel more guilty that anything else in his life.

While he was able to successfully avoid his friends, Tony wasn't so lucky when he tried not to think about what this incident had done to his feelings toward Steve. For the past weeks Tony had successfully lived with hiding away his feelings toward Steve, keeping up the act of being the friend/teammate that usually drove everyone crazy with his comments. And it had been fine. Not perfect, he admitted that, but he was able to come to terms with it.

He had tried to build a friendly, but distant relationship with the other on, so he wouldn't get confronted with his feelings. And now Steve had somehow managed to overcome this emotional distance with one touch and a few words.

Great.. just great.

Fortunately Tony didn't have to keep this up for too long. Four days after the incident with Steve, Dr Doom decided that this was the perfect time to let some of his Doom bots run riot in the city.

It was still early in the morning when Fury called them and told them what was happening and only twenty minutes later they all stood in heap of rubble, surrounded by about three dozen of Dooms robots.

The fight wasn't that bad, they had faced enemies much worse before. It almost seemed like Doom had only invented those things to annoy them without any serious intentions. Naturally, Tony thus took it as an opportunity to show off. He flew some really difficult and risky manoeuvres, trying to impress whoever was watching.

"Ironman, stop this nonsense at once! This is not the time for you acting like this. Return to your position immediately and follow the orders!" Steve bellowed through his communicator in his commanding voice.

Tony smirked.

"Relax Cap, those things are no match for me, so let me have my fun."

He had only finished his sentence, when out of nowhere one of the robots shot a green laser beam right into his back. And Tony immediately knew that something really bad had happened. His suit didn't look broken, but suddenly shut itself down.

At the same point, Tony felt a sting in his chest and his lungs felt like somebody was pressing the air out of them.

He felt his body starting to fall towards the ground and thought :

/Shit... seems like the reactor was shut down.../

Then everything went dark around him...

When Tony regained consciousness again, the first thing he k new was that he definitely wasn't dead. He knew, because he was pretty sure that being dead wasn't this painful. Tonys chest felt like something had exploded right in it and he had one of the worst headaches ever. (and tony had a lot of experience with headaches)

The second thing he grew aware of was the smell of his surrounding. Everything smelled so… clean… Tony hated the smell. Because it most likely meant that he was in a hospital… and Tony hated nothing more than hospitals. They made him feel trapped. For a few seconds his senses were blurry but then, he could hear voices talking around him.

"... so if you do this, I will make sure that you will have some unpleasant visitors soon. "

"Ah come on Nat, don't be such a Grinch. And.. aw come on, don't gimme that look!"

"Guys, I think you should really keep it down a little. You're gonna wake him up."

"To late for that" Tony finally mumbled. He has had enough of their talking. His head was going to explode if they kept arguing.

Tony carefully opened his eyes, but shut them immediately again because the lights were only making his headache worse. He groaned in pain as he opened them again, blinking furiously.

"Well, look who's rising from his deathbed. You sure made us worry sleeping beauty!" Clint had walked over to his bed and stared down at his face grinning, but with a concerned look in his eyes at the same time.

"Barton... listen... I feel awful, I have a splitting headache, coffee detoxification and now I wake up in a fucking hospital and the first things I have to see and hear are your ugly face and your damn loud voice. So let me tell you this, if you do not keep it down, I swear I will have Jarvis make your life in the Stark Tower a living hell. Remember he is in control of everything there."

Clint raised an eyebrow, apparently unimpressed.

"Well it seems like you are back to your old self already" Natasha said as she stepped forward to stand beside the archer. She gave Tony one of her Natasha like smiles, which was hard to see, but if you knew her...

She then turned to Clint "We should go report to Fury. He wants to know about Tonys condition."

Clint nodded and gave Tony a light squeeze on the shoulder before he left the room with Natasha. Just before the door closed, Natasha quickly turned her head once more and winked at Tony.

Tony shot a questioning look at her, but it became clear to him what she meant when he got aware of the other person that was still in the room with him.

Turning his head he saw Steve getting up from the chair he had been occupying. Steve stepped close to his bed and looked at him with concerned eyes.

"Tony..." he asked in a low voice "how do you feel?" Tony felt a familiar tickling in his stomach. Steve standing so close to him, looking at him with puppy eyes... maybe he was wrong, maybe he had died and was now in heaven... ah what was he thinking, this was bullshit. He cursed his feelings, they were surely giving him some weird ideas.

"Nah, no need to worry Cap, I'm fine, I'll be back on my feet in no time"

Steve didn't look convinced. Tony gave him a wide smile, but it didn't quite have the effect he wanted to since you could see that he still was in pain.

"So what happened back there?" Steve asked and sat down next to his bed "You were flying around, acting as annoying as always and the next second you got hit by this beam, which didn't affect anyone else, we know that, since Clint got hit with it as well, but you just shut down ? You were lucky Thor was able to catch you in time." Steve looked at him angrily, as if this was his fault.

Tony smirked. "Ah I see. So this is why I didn't end up as a mashed potato, I was already wondering. Guess I'll have to buy him some poptarts as ... wait how does he always say... a token of my gratitude? Yeah.."

He looked over to Steve, who now seemed furious.

"Tony I'm being serious! What happened? You could have died." Tony sighed. Jesus, this guy sure was overprotective.

"Well I'm not sure yet, but it seems that this beam was able to disturb the Arc reactor in a way. Not for long I think, otherwise I wouldn't be here I guess. And it also made the suit shut down of course. And you said it had no effect on the others?"

Tonys mind was racing now. What did that mean? And how the hell was that even possible?

"So this means... this, whatever it was... this was developed as a special weapon against Ironman? Against you?" Steve slowly asked.

"Oh? Yes that could be it. Now I feel really special!"

"Tony, this isn't funny! You almost died... again!" Steve sounded even more upset. Although it shouldn't, it made Tony feel happy. So Cap was worried about him?

"Ah don't worry Cap, I'm not gonna die that easily. Can't leave you alone, I mean, who would save your arse if I wasn't around anymore?" he wiggled his eyebrows toward Steve, who was starting to blush.

"Tony, you argh.. you're impossible!" he said before he stood up and stormed out of the room. But Tony was sure he had seen a small smile on Steves face just before the door had closed...

end of the chapter two, hope you liked it^^

there will be more Tony/Steve action in the next chapter, I promise.