My editors have seem to have gone missing. So this one is not edited.
"You are my sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are gray.
You'll never know dear
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away."
The song had become permanent imprinted into Tony's brain, and he often found himself humming the stupid tune to Chloe's belly. He found it funny that when he sometimes hummed the tune, that Chloe's belly would go wild with movement. If she was sleeping she would swat him away, and tell him to leave the baby alone. This never stopped him. It was one of the only joys he had in the cave.
Chloe had barely gained any weight back, but eating smaller meals over a long period of time helped a little. She kept a lot more food down then originally, even if she made faces, and often got frustrated when her stomach wouldn't settle.
She still put in her share of working on their escape plan, if even she often fell asleep. Tony could never be mad at her small work load, because every bit helped, and he would rather her be stress free (if that was even possible), than to put in a large amount of work.
Chloe had been playing with the metal rose he had given her when there was a loud banging at the door. Yinsen and Tony barely had time to move into position before the door swung open. This meant that Chloe with her large belly struggled to stand, with her seven month large belly. The urge to run over and help her was strong, but he was frozen to his spot when a gun was pointed at him. A small cry came from Chloe, as her fear emanated from her chest. God only knew what they would do to her, if they became upset with her disrespect.
A man stepped into the middle of the room, a smug look on his face. It didn't take him long to notice Chloe's disposition. She became more panicked under his gaze, and even more so when he told her to sit. Which she did on the side of her cot awkwardly, waiting for the moment she would have to run to Tony for protection.
The man in the middle slowly walked towards Tony, pulling the top of his shirt down to peer at the glowing reactor in his chest. The man then started to go into a speech talking about how, Tony's technology was the key to power. They all stiffened when he stopped at their working table, picking up the thin papers Tony was using for the blue print of the suite.
In the blink of an eye, the man had motioned to his lackeys to grab Yinsen and force him to the ground. Chloe cried out, earning a glance from the ring leader and the men standing around him. She covered her mouth a few tears escaping from her eyes. The next few minutes went by in a confused cluster as Yinsen, and their captor screamed an unknown language at each other the hot poker slowly getting closer and closer to Yinsen's face.
A movement from Tony caused all them men to jump forward their gun's in hand, and for a moment Chloe could have sworn if there was a moment she were to watch Tony die it would have been that moment. Where all these men were holding guns at him, she bit her lip hard trying to stop herself from making any noise.
"I need him," Tony paused looking over to his wife for a second "Good assistant!" The man seemed to be less than impressed with the words coming from Tony's mouth, and dropped the hot poker he had in his hand. He stormed across the room towards Chloe. She stood up tipping over the cot and falling backwards before he could reach her. A thump could be herd while she landed on her back and scurried away from him.
He was in no mood to chase after Chloe and simply kicked the cot that was on its side hitting various objects in the room. "You have till tomorrow to assemble my missile!" he snapped, sending a glare over to Chloe, and the message he was presenting was very clear to Tony. If he didn't build the missile like he wanted, then Chloe would be the first person he would harm. She was after all the weakest of the three.
When the door was closed behind the group of men, Tony ran over to his wife and helped her up off of the ground fussing over her. He took her face into his hands, and used his thumbs to wipe the small river of tears rolling down her face. He pulled her into him as close as possible, which was hard with her large stomach.
"What are we going to do?" Chloe whispered into his ear, she was shivering in fear. His stomach recoiled a bit when the baby kicked hard. It wasn't uncommon for the baby to kick when Chloe was really stressed out, it was their way of telling her to calm down.
"We work very hard for the next few hours." He said simply, pressing his lips to her forehead. Chloe nodded her head, quickly rubbing the left over tears from her eyes. Tony gave her a fake smile before gently grabbing her shoulders.
"Let's get to work." He said kissing her one last time.
Chloe had worked just as hard as Yinsen and Tony. Which was a total surprise to both men, because she had always been on the back burner with work, not because she didn't want to help, but because they never wanted her more stressed out then she already was.
Chloe seemed to have this harsh determination to her, and worked quietly with her face scrunched up. Tony had never seen her like this, and thought that it had to be a mixture between frustration, determination, and the realization that they could all be dead in a few hours.
That tiny life that she had spent so many months holding so dear to her in her tummy could easily be wiped off the map in hours, and no one would ever know of the little life she and her husband had created.
They had finished their 3 month long project with shaking hands, and a thin layer of sweat on their bodies. This would have been the moment where Tony would have stepped back and taken in the work he had done. He had created this in a cave; it would be the hardest thing he had ever created, he would probably never again make something as challenging as this, their ticket to their freedom.
They had all been strangely silent as they hooked Tony up into the suite until they could hear a couple of men at the door screaming at Yinsen. Tony could feel the overwhelming sense of fear when those voices echoed though the room, and he looked at his wife who was typing in commands at the computer.
Chloe slammed on the enter button a few times, before swiftly turning to Tony to announce that she was finished. A sudden explosion and debris flew through the room and for a second Tony thought Chloe was going to topple over but she caught herself on the table behind them.
"That was quite the explosion!" Yinsen announced tightening something around Tony's neck. When Yinsen was finished he turned to look at the computer screen, the haunting cries of their captors echoing off the cave walls. Tony couldn't see the look of desperation that crossed Yinsen's face but Chloe could, and it would haunt her for the rest of her life.
Yinsen looked up to Chloe, before he muttered out that they didn't have enough time. He ran around Tony who screamed at him to come back, Chloe took a few steps to run after him when Tony stopped her.
"CHLOE! DON'T YOU DARE! GO HIDE NOW! STICK TO THE PLAN!" The tone of voice he used was absolutely terrifying to Chloe. She nodded her hear a few tears brimming in the corner of her eyes, and then went to hide. He didn't see where she hid, because his eyes snapped to the monitor where the bar just finished downloading. The lights flickered off, and the suite powered up.
The feeling was overwhelming, but a good overwhelming. For the first time in months, Tony had the power, and it was his captors who were terrified not him. He took one last look into the cave before he made his way out into the halls of the cave, killing any one in his way.
Chloe remained hidden between a couple of wooden boxes, her legs pulled into her stomach as tightly as possible. The baby was moving wildly in her stomach kicking organs she didn't know could feel pressure. She let out a soft cry when the baby kicked up under her ribs. With her hand she pushed the baby back down into a comfortable position. This seemed to work for them both because at this moment the baby stopped moving, and allowed Chloe to push herself off the ground, slowly following behind the pile of bodies Tony had created.
She tried to keep the vile down in her stomach, as she passed the most horrifying things she had seen in her life, even if she didn't feel sorry for these people, the smell of burnt flesh, and the sight of twisted bodies twisted in her stomach.
There were points where there was so many bodies, she had to step through the very small open spaces on the ground, the heat of their dead bodies making her ever sicker. The sound of gun shots, and a blow torch could be heard; she knew she was close.
The screams were louder the closer she got, her heart stopped when she entered the entrance of the cave, and this was the final straw for her stomach. Chloe leaned forward, and emptied her stomach on the floor right beside the bags Yinsen was laying on top of dead.
Chloe cried running the back of her hands over her eyes, and she would have continued to cry on the ground if Tony didn't call out for her from the mouth of the cave. She chocked one final time, steering her eyes away from the body of her companion before following through with the final steps of their plan. Which was wrapping, her arms around the neck of her husband, so he could fly them out of the cave.
A/N: These chapters take 100 years to come out, only because Ive been working on a lot of one shots.
Please review, it actually reminds me I need to write more.
