Chapter 2: Going through past time.

Tony was sitting in his car, listening to the information he had made JARVIS look for about Anton and Ivan Vanko.

"...No further records exist." JARVIS said in his computerized british voice.

Tony thought about Ivan's last words: "Palladium in the chest, painfull way to die."

But he already knew that. He knew he was going to die. He had tried everything, but it just didn't work. What was Pepper going to do. She would not have a job anymore. Oh, come on Stark, is that what is worring you? She is brilliant. She will find another job in weeks, no, days! What you are worried about is that you won't see her lovely face again, her strawberry blond hair, her blue eyes, her perfectly palced freckless, her pale skin. That you will never hear the clicking of her heals, her soft voice speaking to him...

And her smile. Her laughter. The way her eyes shined when she was happy...

Oh, he was going to miss that...Well, if he went to heaven, which he highly doubted, he could see her from up there and watch for her, wasn't that what people had told him, about what happened when you died? But, Stark doubted that too. For just one reason. They had never been dead and hade seen what happened to you. How could they tell then. Either way, even if it was true, it still wouldn't be the same up there, than actually to be next to her. Protecting her.

Loving her...

Wait! Where te hell did that come from? Love her? You never loved anyone. Tony Stark, this is afecting definetely your mind... Well, at least, more than you thought it would.

But he knew it was true, since he had heard her voice while he was almost dying in Afghanistan... Just then had he relized how valuable she was to him. She had always been there for him. He didn't tell her about his...situation because he didn't want to see the pity in her eyes, or the sadness. He wanted to see her smile the last weeks of his life.

He thought of the first he had actually broken up upon her...

FLASHBACK

He had been dreaming about Afghanistan, about Yinsen, lying on the floor, about how he had got the RT in his chest...

He woke up screaming in agony when Pepper came rushing in. She had stayed down in the living room because she wanted to finish some paperwork. She had her blue eyes filled with concern and fear.

When he saw her he broke down to tears. He still couldn't explain why, but he did. Maybe because he relized she was there, with him.

Pepper walked slowly to him and sat down next to him. Then she pulled him into a weird hug.

After crying for a while, he finally stopped. When Pepper got up, he had taken her by her wrist and said: "Stay with me, please, I don't want to be alone"

And so she did. She had been with him the hole night, watching out for him, stroking his hair every now and then, huming a soft melody until he finally had fallen asleep.

When he had woken up the next morning she was gone. He had found her downstairs, in the kitchen, making cofee. Neither he or she had spoken, but he had gave her a thankfull look and she had smiled at him in such a sweet way...

FLASHBACK ENDS

He always remembered that night when he was nervous or he felt weak, situations like the one he was now in. But this one was not going to go away. He didn't have a way out. He was going to die.

Here's chapter 2. Enjoy it and please post your opinions.

Music:

Sucker Punch soundtrack: Asleep - Emily Browning

Sucker Punch soundtrack: Where is my mind - Emily Browning.