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IMPORTANT!: The chapters with actual new content are 3, 4, and 5, though all have been rewritten/corrected, some extensively so. The reason for this is that I realised that some scenes which I should have covered from JARVIS's POV were missing, and I wanted to keep in chronological order.
1)Sincere thanks for reviews and all the encouragement goes to: CookieGirlLOL, LightNote16, Wolfy, Zuzanny, cm, Life's a dream, Avrice the Demigod, Daldi, Gaaraxluvr, TheGoldenTrioLivesOn, Katherine, ShadowDragonPhoenix, and MaraudingSnitch1314. As usual, I'll respond via PM to anyone I can.
Also, thanks for all the faves, alerts, etc, it is most encouraging.
2) Anyone who loves Tony/JARVIS interaction might want to check out my fic "Too Late", which has quite a bit of that.
I know it's a bit of shameless self-promotion here, but "Too Late" is one of my favorite two fics that I ever wrote (the other being "Stark Realizations") though to be fair it is also the single most miserably depressing thing I've ever written (which paradoxically also makes me sometimes hate myself for ever writing it in the first place).
3) I made the mistake of showing my collected writings to my family... and erm, well, lets just synposize by saying that my muse (and my ego) was thoroughly trampled underfoot... though its possible that a major problem was the fandom not my writing itself... I think... I hope. Either way...Youch!
Anyway, thanks a milion for all your support, dear readers... you certainly have a way of brightening crappy days and without you all this would not be possible.
4) Wolfy and Daldi (since I can't PM you), thank you for the suggestions... I'm working on them (whether or not I can find a way to fit them into this particular fic is another story) but you're right, both would be scenes worth writing, so check back on occasion if you'd like, sooner or later I'll come up with something!
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JARVIS knows the truest meaning of fear when he watches his creator be hurled through the thick glass of Stark tower with nothing to break his fall and stop fragile human flesh from being crushed against the unyielding concrete.
He's done the computations, knows there is a good chance that the Mark VII will reach Tony and complete the boot sequence before it is too late, but though the feeling of the alloy plates enfolding the vulnerable human beneath as the armor forms around his creator comforts him in some strange indescribable way, the fear burning within him does not entirely abate because in the end he knows that neither he nor the armor can protect his creator from what will most likely kill him in the end: himself …. and JARVIS does not know how to envision an existence without his creator.
Ever since his creator decided to stand between the defenseless of the world and those that would harm them, JARVIS has known fear and grief far too intimately for his own good…. because he's been there on each of Tony's Iron Man missions… he's been there each time his creator has stared death in the face and somehow the human biological fear response that Tony never heeds anyway but the suit's sensors pick up nonetheless makes it that much worse - that much more horrifically real.
He's felt it in his own way each time Tony's been injured… and it hurts in ways that the computer cannot even begin to describe, yet all this time and all these risks has also formed a bond between himself and his creator - a bond forged in blood and flames and too many near-losses which is too strong for words to express and reaches too deeply into his own consciousness for JARVIS to be able to fathom surviving when sooner or later it breaks.
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