Blame blackdragonfox91 for this chapter! They were like Stane? And I was like Stane? And then this happened.

Warnings: Death of the character who's point of view it is.

Obadiah Stane first officially met the cat the moment it's claws sank into his leg.

"Fuck!" Stane swore at the pain, shaking his leg vigorously in an attempt to rid it of the cat. It simply yowled and claws dug further into Stane's vulnerable flesh.

Stane was finally able to get a good kick on the beast however, ripping it from his skin and flinging the cat across the room. It hit the wall hard before dropping like a stone to the ground. Stane swore again at the pain and stopped to stare down at the mess his leg had become.

"Well Jarvis," Stane growled, turning back and advancing on the paralyzed man on the sofa. Stane had come here for a reason after all. The arc reactor, the missing piece to Stane's Iron Monger suit. The power source which he had been unable to engineer from only pictures of Jarvis' current Iron Man suit. Stane though, he's here for both the arc reactor and for his revenge against this man who stole SI from him. "Seems you've got yourself a little beast who thinks himself a watchdog."

Stane leaned in close to Jarvis, threateningly. "Too bad the thing had to go and attack me, I might have let it live before." Jarvis made a small noise, his eyes widened slightly, even under the paralysis.

Stane smirked, picking up his handgun and turning back to where the cat had landed from the kick. But the cat wasn't there.

"Cat… come out come out…" Stane called viciously, surveying the room for a place for a cat to hide. It couldn't have gone far after all, Stane was pretty sure the beast was wounded at the very least.

Stane snarled silently when an initial search didn't reveal the cat in the room. It probably escaped, run for its life in terror. Annoying. But understandable. Stane stopped and took a deep breath, centering himself. He could continue to look for the cat, although at this point he didn't think he would honestly be able to find it, or he could just finish what he came here for. For his revenge against this man who ruined years of work. Years spent by Howard Stark's side slowly taking over the company from beneath his feet only to have the ungrateful bastard will the whole thing to his own INTERN. When he ordered that hit on Howard Stark it was supposed to be him, HIM! who received the company!

"Guess the beast lives another day," Stane stalked back to Jarvis. He glanced down at his watch, it was probably time to leave. The idea of staying longer, torturing the man who destroyed his life's work was tempting, but reckless. And if it was anything Stane could be, it was patient. "It doesn't matter anyhow. I've been much more thorough this time. It was so kind of you to will me the entire company in the event of your death. I'm sure people might find it strange, you picking me over Mrs. Potts, but the Board has always liked me more."

With those words he grabbed the front of Jarvis' white dress shirt and yanked it down to reveal… Nothing. Stane scowled. Impossible. The intell had said that the device was installed in Jarvis' own chest. Stane let go of the shirt in disgust. This whole mission, useless then, without the arc reactor.

"Fine then," Stane spit angrily. "Once you're dead I'll inherit all of your things anyways! I'm sure I can find it easily then." He yanked his pistol up, aiming right for the defenseless man's heart.

There was a clack of metal behind him.

The next second something heavy and HARD was hitting him. Stane gasped in a breath in surprise, the glowing eyes of Jarvis' robotic suit shining as Stane was flung through the air. That was impossible. He'd disabled Jarvis' AI and the man himself was still paralyzed on the sofa!

Glass shattered behind him, and suddenly there was nothing but air beneath him. Stane could do nothing but stare up at the flying armor as he fell. There was a moment where everything slowed down, when all Stane could see was that damn cat, sitting in Howard's lab. 30 years earlier.

Then something hard. A forced out scream. And then cool nothingness.

Sorry it's so short! Finals and all that!