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I'm so sorry guys! I know it's been a while and I've been trying but things are not working for me right now. I've redone this chapter over and over again and I've think I've got this down. I hope you all understand and I'll try and get more of this story out soon.
Author: A year? It's been a year? Holy shit I am so sorry!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC.
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"Why do I have to do this now?" I asked Tony as he unscrewed the only thing keeping him alive from his chest.
"Because I trust you." He looked at me in a serious way. "And I don't trust snowflake over there." He pointed to his robots who responded in a sad manner, making me giggle in amusement. When I looked back at Tony he was smiling this soft sweet smile.
"What?"
"I missed hearing you giggle and smile. Was one of the things that kept me going." He said and touched my face. I leaned into his hand and kissed the palm of it.
"You'll never be away from me like that again. You're mine Tony Stark, I'm not giving you up so easily now that I have to." I said and his smile got bigger. "Okay, so what do I need to do?"
"You are going to be swapping what I have in here, for a better one that will keep me alive longer." He said plainly and just one look at my face showed him how guilty and uncomfortable I feel about doing this. "Don't have that look on your face it will stick. Besides, you're too pretty for a frown."
"Okay. Tell me what I have to do."
"There's an exposed wire under this device. It's coming in contact with the socket wall, causing a bit of a shortage." He pulled it out and handed it to me. "Put it on the table over there." I did so and returned. "Now I want you to reach in, and you're just gonna gently lift the wire out."
"Is this safe?"
"Yeah, it should be safe. Just don't let it touch the socket wall or it goes beep like that operation game we used to play. I always did lose." He said with a smile as I reached my hand inside.
"That's because I always had steady hands and you didn't." I said and gently started to lift the wire, not letting it touch the walls. "You so owe me for touching this nasty crap on my hands."
"I will make you dinner, pour you wine, and make love to you till you pass out. Sound good?" He asked with a teasing voice and smile.
"Yeah, just pleasant. Okay what do I do now?"
"Gently pull out the wire but not the...ah!" I pulled everything out in my haste and realized what I did was not something good.
"Oh god what did I do?!" I said as Tony stated he was going into cardiac arrest. He handed me the upgraded version of his 'heart' and instructed me to put it back inside. Once I did he screamed in pain, making me wince, and things settled. I gave a sigh of relief and glared at Tony who started to laugh. "You think that's funny?!
"No it's not but your face, was something to laugh at." He said and got up. I wiped my hands on the towel, and watched as Tony picked up his old 'heart' and handed it to me. "Here."
"What am I supposed to do with this?" I asked him.
"Destroy it. Incinerate it. Do whatever you want with it." He said and he started to talk to his robots. I smiled and left the workshop. I went upstairs to see Pepper watching the news about Tony's decision about the company. In truth, I'm glad but not really. Tony built Stark's Industry around war. Now he's suddenly changing it all because he saw first hand what he's weapons do to the world? I've told that man for years to get out because I knew the press and the government would have a field day.
"Pepper?" Pepper turned her head to see me, quickly changing the channel to not hurt my feelings. "It's alright. I've already seen Fox News, nothing really has changed since his decision." I said to her and handed her Tony's old reactor for his heart. "Can you do something with this? Take it somewhere and I don't know, make something for Tony. Make it special." I said to her.
"Of course Aurora." She said and left. I watched the Mad Money Man continue to break stuff and call Tony a moron. I rolled my eyes and turned it off. What these morons don't understand is that Tony is putting a stop to illegal gun trade that he built.
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"I'm still going to kill you." I said to Tony as we worked in the basement. After our...reunion...Tony and I had a very long talk. I told him what I had done during his 'vacation' and was impressed on the work I had done. I said I was impressed on the metal robot suit he created out of very simple and easy components. He said he needed to go talk to a friend about his project so he was going to make a simple drive and be right back. I rolled my eyes and told him I'd be downstairs working so he better make it a quick visit.
After he got back, Tony showing me the design he had for his idea and I showed him mine. He had a lot of questions...a lot I couldn't answer.
"And I still want to know what you got that material from." He said from his desk, his eyes wander from me and then back to what he's working on. I smiled and shook my head.
"Maybe one day Tony but as of right now that is none of your concern." I said and watched as Tony picked up his head to say something but I stopped him, "And no, I'm not borrowing or nor did I steal anything. It was a gift from an old friend when I was little. We didn't know each other fully until that dinner with our parents. I..haven't seen her until I found out you were missing. She helped me through the hard times." I explained to him and he closed his mouth.
I went to work on my suit, taking in the fittings, addressing the boots and gloves, looking over the mask and just trying to keep up. After a while, Tony getting his boots done for his suit decided to try it out. Much to my amusement, it kind of backfired on him. Along with the plasma cannon arm thing when Pepper came down with my little present for Tony. I mouth to her thank you and she just smile in return. I needed to remind myself to get her and Happy something special.
"I've been buzzing you. Did you hear the intercom?" Pepper asked and I shook my head. I wasn't even paying attention to the damn thing either. Oops. "Obadiah's upstairs." She said and I almost let out a growl in annoyance. That man has been nothing but a rather annoying thorn in my side and he's kept digging in ever since Tony got back. And he's not really in a good mood since Tony said no to making any more weapons.
"Great. We'll be right up." Tony looked at me and I rolled my eyes. Of course he would volunteer me. So, after that little backfire with his arm piece like I said, the two of us went upstairs to see the annoying man sitting at the piano playing it.
"How'd it go?" Tony asked. The annoying man looked at him and Tony eyed the pizza box that sat on the coffee table. Yep, that was the sure sign that something really didn't go well.
"Just because I brought pizza back from new york doesn't mean it went bad." He said and I rolled my eyes, sitting down next to Pepper as Tony took a slice. "It would have gone better if you were there." He turned his attention to me. "Or the woman who is basically behind every design and make."
"I have told you thousands of times Obadiah, I don't do meeting with the board. I'm the inventor not the owner." I said and Tony shot me a look to which I stuck my tongue out.
"You told me to lay low. That's what I've been doing." Tony said back to him with a mouth full of pizza. "I lay low, and you take care of all..."
"Hey, come on. In public, the press. This was a board of directors meeting."
"This...this was a board of directors meeting?" Tony acted like he was surprised.
"The board is claiming you have postraumatic stress. They're filing an injunction." Obadiah said.
"A what?"
"They want to lock you out."
"But they can't do that." I put my two cents in. "What about me?"
"No, not you, you still work for the company and it is your job to do so. We let your little vacation slid due to the fact that Tony is a dear friend of yours and we understood how close you two are. Now that he's back it's time for you to get back to work." Obadiah said. I rolled my eyes.
"Why, 'cause the stocks dipped 40 points? We knew that was gonna happen." Tony said.
"56 and a half." Pepper corrected.
"It doesn't matter. We own the controlling interest in the company. Aurora owns more of it than I do."
"Tony, the board has rights too." For once I had to agree and yet not agree. "The board is making a case that you and your new direction isn't in the company's best interest."
"I'm being responsible, that's a new direction for me, the company? I mean me on the company's behalf." He said. Well, he fucked that up fast. "This is great." Tony and Obadiah went off to talk about giving the company a new pitch about Tony's only life source and we both said no. That one goes nowhere. When Tony went back down into the lab I stayed upstairs.
"He's being unreasonable." Obadiah said and I shook my head.
"No he's not Obadiah. Something like that is special to him and he's not taking any chances of it getting stolen. He's seen his weapons stolen and used against the very people he's trying to protect." I said to him. "And there's a reason that I stayed up here. I wanted to let you know on a little secret." I said to him with a smile.
"And what would that be?"
"When Howard died he left the company to Tony. What he didn't tell people was that if anything should happen to Tony, anywhere from getting locked out or somehow unable to access his family's business, everything then would go directly to me or any children Tony or I have." I said to him and left him with that. Just as I reached the steps I turned around with an even bigger smile. "Oh, and one more thing. Tony and I aren't super close or close friends. We're together. As in a relationship, Bf and Gf, all that fun stuff. You don't get one without the other so you can tell the board that if they want to keep their comfy jobs they can kiss my ass. I don't work for them, I work for Tony and myself, no one else. Have a nice night Obadiah." I said and went downstairs to see what Tony was up too now. Hopefully, he doesn't go overboard on anything.
I would like to keep my boyfriend in one piece.
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I'm so sorry guys! Please review and let me know what you think and I promise to keep making chapters! I'm not giving up I swear!
