A/n: Things have become normal for the most part...but...

He thought he could do it, he really did, but in the end, he was just another broken person after all.

I'm sorry for how short this one is. Honestly, I wrote this one up a few days ago, to be for another chapter, but I ended up using it for chapter 10. It is shorter though since it has a point to be made that end…

This chapter has been BETA'd by Daiya Amaya

Metallic Heart 10

Broken Man

Many people believed Tony Stark not to have a heart. Slowly, he himself began to believe it when he found himself pushing away the other Avengers...just as his father did to him. But is there one man out there that can change his mind? FrosIron.

"JARVIS I have a meeting at 11:00am right?" Tony called as he ran up the stairs from his workshop, working on fixing his tie. He was a mess, having fallen asleep in his workshop earlier than morning. He had been getting nagged at constantly by Pepper for being late to meetings. It appeared, everything had mostly gone back to normal finally. It took about a week or two before it was all normal, yet some things were still off. Rogers and Tony were getting along really well, Thor was not too thrilled for being around him for the reason of what him and his brother had done, Natasha and Clint were neutral, and Pepper had forgiven him…somewhat. She was working him harder than before now, and she threatened him about Loki more than naught. It was all normal now…except for him and Rogers. That was the new thing. At least they trusted him to be on his own now.

Sir, that meeting was supposed to be at 10:30am…you are going to be late if you do not hurry Sir. JARVIS replied and Tony cursed as he hurried for the door, hoping Happy was out there with his car. He saw it, and quickly got in; Pepper huffed, having been waiting for him inside of the car.

"Finally." She complained. "You are going to be late again!" She snapped at him and he rolled his eyes in response as the car started moving.

"Says the one that told me the meeting was at eleven not ten thirty!" Tony snapped at her and she groaned. Apparently he had misheard again. "After all, last night that was what you told me." That explained it; she had told him this morning that it had been changed. She sighed softly and shook her head. The car came to a stop to pick up two of the Avengers, Rogers, and Clint that were also involved in the meeting.

The two Avengers got in quickly, Clint still armed despite that he was told not to bring the arrows. Rogers sat down next to Tony by the door, and Clint in between Tony and Pepper. They had chosen the small car of all days. "I'm taking it we are late?" Rogers said and Pepper sighed, shaking her head. Tony rolled his eyes. Rogers chuckled and adjusted his tie, and then sighed. "Well, we just got outside, so I guess we were late as well anyways." He shrugged. "Natasha insisted we needed to wear suits…" He sighed softly.

"Well, she was right." Pepper replied and shook her head some. "This is a meeting, and I expect everyone there to be well dressed. Boys in suits, and girls in nice clothing." She nodded and smiled. "Which, all of us are in thankfully." She smiled at them all then glanced out the window. "Well, we have five minutes to get there and we are at least fifteen from the place. Great."

"Happy!" Tony called. "Go you're normal speed!" He got a reply over the roar of the engine as the car picked up speed. He smiled and nodded. "Well, that is now fixed Pep!" He said with a laugh and Pepper shook her head. She groaned, he always went to the extremes that she really didn't need him to go to. She could have told them why they were late instead of going above the illegal speed!

However, they did happen to get to the meeting on time. Pepper sighed and got out, followed by the other men that looked at the building. Pepper smiled and walked inside, singing them in before they headed to the meeting room silently.

"Anthony!" Rogers called after the man as he ran from the meeting room, hands clenched in his fists. Everything had gone wrong. It had started with a fight between Tony and the person that headed the place that they were at. But you know what? It was not Tony's fault damn it! The man had accused him of worrying the whole world and he was just working on a weapon to destroy the world! How had it gotten to that? He had no idea. He was sick of it all though, people telling him what to do, telling him lies, telling him things he hated!

He ran, and didn't look back. He wasn't planning on going back either. He could hear footsteps behind him, and could only guess that Rogers was following him. He felt himself pushed up against the building as he was caught up to. They were outside, and he was gazing into the super soldier's eyes. Rogers took a deep breath then frowned. "Anthony…it's alright...everything will be alright. I promise you!" He said then kissed the man. Tony shivered and then hesitantly kissed back, still not used to this treatment from the solider. "You're not alone in this…not anymore…" He pulled back and smiled at the other as Pepper and Clint came out. Pepper hugged Tony and he hugged back, closing his eyes for a moment.

"Come on, how about we go home now?" Pepper murmured and smiled weakly before she called for Happy to bring the car around. The partnership deal with this company was now off. For good.

"Anthony, what is wrong?" Rogers asked as he sat up, frowning. The younger man had his eyes closed and was looking down over the side of the bed...sitting there silently. Rogers sighed and shook his head before he pulled the other into his arms. "Come on, you can tell me." Tony shook his head some.

"Can't sleep..." He muttered, his dreams were haunted by his childhood memories. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "I'm going to go work on my new armor." He muttered and moved out of the other man's arms silently. Rogers sighed and nodded as he watched the other walk out of the room, not caring he had no shirt on.

"Why did you replace me?" The cry of Loki was loud enough to wake everyone in the home, had all of the doors down to the lab not been sealed. Tony was lying on the ground, eyes darkened. He had a hand over his arc reactor in a protective matter as the god ragged. He hadn't even known where the god had come from, until he had been hit and slammed to the ground. "Why did you go for that damned mortal!" He grabbed Tony's collar and looked into his eyes, almost begging to understand what had happened between them. Tony stared at the god before saying.

"We were torn apart." That was all he could say. Loki closed his eyes and was about to ask something more, about in tears from the pain in his chest that he was feeling before another voice came to they're ears.

"Tony! Are you alright!" Pepper yelled and knocked on the door, trying to get it opened. "JARVIS! Open the door please!" She cried.

"I will demand answers when I come back Stark." Loki whispered and turned around before vanishing. Tony's eyes closed and he whispered something before he brought his hands to his head and let out a cry. He felt like a broken man…like this...a shell that had been broken was now reveling what he was really feeling. Now he was not a man to cry…but right here and now. He was starting to let the tears fall from his eyes. Pepper came running down and saw him. Her eyes darkened and she ran over, hugging him. She whispered things he did not understand at all. Rogers came down shortly and his eyes widened. He took the man into his arms as well, both trying to comfort him…a broken man.

He was a broken man now...and someone had to pick up the pieces for him now...but who was going to do that? He had nothing more to go to, nothing he could trust...and Loki now hating him...