A/N: The format is different this chapter. I won't make it a habit I just liked it better this way cutting from perspective to perspective. BTW what Pepper sees is basically what everyone on the ground is seeing including everyone watching the News broadcast. So I did a little digging and I found out Christine Everhart (Reporter in Iron Man and Iron Man 2) In the comics she's from the daily Bugle (Like most Marvel reporters) But for obvious reasons (Daily Bugle and Spider-Man belong to Sony) They had to change it in the movies.
TONY POV 3rd PERSON
After staying up late and talking the team had fallen asleep on the couch. For once Tony was the first to wake but instead of getting some coffee to fuel him for the rest of the day or talking to JARVIS or stumbling to the lab to get some science done he stared blankly at the wall in front of him with the numbest, lifeless expression that had ever graced his face. Slowly he untangled himself from in between Captain America and Bruce, ignoring the protest from his joints (That's what happens when a super soldier sleeps on you) and made his way to the elevator and pressed the button for the roof. JARVIS asked confused (If a machine could be confused) "Sir, what are you doing?" Tony didn't go to the roof a lot, why would he when he had windows on every level overlooking the whole of Manhattan, he may be reckless but he's not stupid.
Slowly he walked across the roof and stood on the edge, leaning dangerously forward so that he could see the ants below him that called themselves people. A hard wind blew and he teetered slightly almost falling off but some invisible force or maybe just dumb luck kept him on the smooth surface, he realised how precariously he was balanced and even though his brain was screaming at him to take a step back or even get off the roof completely his body wasn't complying. He heard a shriek and saw the glint of cameras catching in the sunlight as they faced towards him, he was Tony stark he liked an audience. He stared, not knowing how he felt about all this or even why he was there, something had just compelled him to get up and stand hazardously close to the edge, now he was there he wanted to leave but his body stood frozen.
PEPPER POV 3rd PERSON
Pepper was returning from a meeting with Happy and she screamed when she saw Tony. Several cameras pointed at her and Metro news was already broadcasting live. Pepper yelled "Oh my God! Tony!" Every single camera and pedestrian had swivelled to face in the direction Pepper was looking and gasped when they saw Tony Stark standing on the edge of a 90 story building.
"This just in Tony Stark is standing on the edge of Stark Tower, is he thinking of jumping or simply admiring the view? Judging from CEO Ms Pepper Potts reaction I would say the former rather than the latter. Mr Stark was recently possessed by a world dominating Norse god so maybe that's the reason behind Mr Stark's spell of madness. More on this story as it develops. Now back to Claire at the office with more news on Hilary Clinton running for president."
PEPPER POV 3rd PERSON
Pepper was frantically searching through her purse until she found her phone, she rung Natasha knowing she'd be the first to pick up.
One ring
Two ring
"Hello? Pepper what-"
"Tony's on the roof."
"WHAT!? Oh my God! I'm on it!" she heard the muffled sound of her waking up the Avengers and then a thump as the phone was dropped then it cut off abruptly.
NATASHA POV 3rd PERSON
Riiiing
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing
"Uuuuuug." Natasha woke up and was fully alert in seconds but her neck hurt her from sleeping on a cramped sofa filled with people. She rapidly answered her phone before whoever it was hung up. She looked at the caller ID "Hello? Pepper what-" she was cut off by Pepper's panicked voice
"Tony's on the roof!"
"WHAT!" she yelled making Clint stir "Oh my God, I'm on it!" she shook the Avengers yelling at them that Tony was on the roof and was probably about to jump, dropping her phone in the process she heard the screen crack and the beep sound that came when you hang up, she ignored it and concentrated on getting to the roof as quickly as possible.
She burst out of the French doors with Thor and Steve directly behind her and a few seconds later Clint and Bruce appeared "Tony!" they all yelled as they made a mad dash towards him but he didn't even acknowledge them. Despite having a super soldier, two agile highly-trained spies/assassins and a Norse god they weren't fast enough and Tony stepped of the roof and started his descend towards the cold hard ground. (Who else thought of Taylor Swift's Trouble)
TONY POV 3rd PERSON
Tony stared down at the city, at the car's and the people moving around like tiny ants in an ant hill. He should be ruling those ants, he should be squashing them under his boot. Well not him personally more Loki than him. Tony didn't want to do any if that, if anything he wanted to do the exact opposite.
He heard the Avengers burst out of the door behind him screaming at him. They were worried he didn't want them to worry but he couldn't tear his eyes from the streets below him. Was that Pepper? It was hard to tell, she looked so tiny but if it was Pepper than that guy next to her must be Happy. If he jumped like his mind was telling him to do she would see his body splattered on the floor, he couldn't do that to her. But despite his train of thought he was already stepping off the building and plunging towards the ground. As soon as he had stepped off the building he got his sense back and realised exactly what was happening. He felt the wind in his hair and starting screaming and flailing around like a crazy person the ground rushing towards him. It was Pepper. He decided now that he was closer. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Suddenly he felt a strong arm around him and he stopped falling, that didn't stop him fron screaming though. He screamed and screamed and screamed.
PEPPER POV 3rd PERSON
Pepper watched in horror as Tony stepped off the building and started plummeting towards the Earth. She saw him start to flail and heard him scream. he was looking directly at her. She had tears in her eyes but then suddenly Clint jumped off after him and he was shooting a rope arrow to the top of the tower. He grabbed Tony with his free hand and held on tight. Tony continued to scream his heart-wrenching, bone-chilling, blood-curdling scream.
CLINT POV 3rd PERSON
Oh no. They were too late Tony had jumped off already. He set his face, it was never to late to save a friend. He leapt off the building ignoring the other Avengers sounds of concern and fired a grappling arrow back at the tower he felt it latch on to something and spun around mid-air twisting into a noise dive and catching up with the flailing Stark. He wrapped an arm around his waist and held them both steady as the decent came to a jerky stop. Stark continued to scream, maybe it was Loki, maybe he was just that scared of what he had almost done who knows. He doubted even Tony knew why he was screaming right now. "Tony, you can stop screaming now."
Slowly Tony's screams faded away and he lay limp in his arm staring wide eyed at the ground as he felt the others pulling them upwards "Did I just jump off a building?"
"You did. Did you know what you wete doing? Do you remember?"
"I did but it was like a dream. I only became lucid when I started falling." he shuddered "I am never commiting suicide ever again. That stuff is scary as hell."
"glad to see you're not a grease splat on the pavement-oow!" his head bumped on the ledge of a window "HEY WATCH IT UP THERE!"
"SORRY!" Steve yelled back
STEVE POV 3rd PERSON
Clint just jumped. Off a building. "Clint just jumped off a building." Steve stared at Clint as he dropped
Natasha shrugged nonchalantly "Don't worry Spangles, he's got this. You're not the only man with a plan ya'know."
Under different circumstances Steve would have rolled his eyes, maybe even laughed but he was too tense and worried for his team mates. He was relieved to see Hawkeye shook a grappling arrow and grab Tony. "Thor help me get them back up here." the two muscly blonds grabbed some rope and started slowly pulling them upward.
They heard a thump and Clint yelled up at them "HEY WATCH IT UP THERE!"
Steve cringed in sympathy "SORRY!" He yelled back genuinely meaning it.
A/N: Question of the Day: Do you guys actually read my Author's Notes?
Age Of Ultron UK Time: 8 Days *Shrieks super duper loudly and jumps up and down* *Starts planning cinema trip with friends about a month ago* *Talks about Marvel all the time* *Says random comic trivia I know from researching for fanfics and from Marvel fact accounts on Instagram* *Hates that no one at skl seems to care about the Avengers*
Expect some sort of AoU Fanfic or short story/One shot in my fic Avengers Shorts and One Shots.
Word of the Day: perfidious-I believe it means deceitful or untrustworthy
***AGENTS OF SHIELD SPOILERS***
I can't believe Riana can tell the future! And Skye can move a mountain! And Fitz is just brilliant I love him so much.