Did y'all miss me?
Natasha looked over at Clint. He had the same expression on his face as Bruce and Thor next to her. They had the expression that would kill most minor enemies, and for their chosen target, maim. They were all very pissed with Fury.
They could understand him hitting Stark when he started going Tesseract. But to prevent Steve from sitting beside Tony's dying body? That was just harsh and to them, a death wish. Even Maria Hill looked sceptical about his commands.
'Agents?' the woman in question said.
Natasha turned around, 'yes?' she said in an annoyed tone.
Maria looked left then right down the corridors of the hellicarrier, before motioning for the Avengers to follow her into an empty lab.
After Thor closed the door, Maria spoke, 'Tony's state is critical, it seems as though the Tesseract has bound itself to Tony's DNA and it can't be removed without killing him and even then it wouldn't fully remove the Tesseract'
'You came here to tell us what we already know, Tony is dying, and unless you have any way we can get Steve with Tony then I suggest you move away from me before I get out my arrows' Clint snarled.
'Agent, I don't need to remind you that I have a higher authority than you, but I didn't come down here to tell you about that, what I came here to tell you is that Fury is currently updating his bosses and Steve is currently in medi cell 2. The combination is 447520.5F. I'll see how long I can get you before Fury notice's that Steve is out of the cell. But you have to lock him with Tony when he does. Only I know the combination to both cells so I am putting myself at risk so Dr. Banner?'
'Yes?'
'You owe me that drink'
Bruce smiled, 'yes ma'am'.
'Anyway,' Maria continued, ignoring Clint's wolf whistle. 'The code to keep him and Tony together, is 547994.34E, it's not far from Steve's cell. Just go left, then right then left, left and forward for 20 metres until you go right again and it's the first cell you come to'
'Oh no, that's not far at all' Clint said.
Maria shot him a look before touching her ear. 'Fury's nearly finished go now, remember Steve's code is 447520.5F, and Tony's is 547994.34E. Hurry' Maria said, making shooing gestures with her hands.
Natasha paused as she left the room, 'thank you Maria, Bruce likes the colour blue'.
Maria blushed briefly and she walked out of the room and turned right, towards a furious Fury.
Steve paced his cell, clutching his side gently, he'd healed, but it was still a bit tender so he wasn't allowed to do any heavy lifting for a day or two. And he really wasn't allowed to walk. But he was on edge, Tony was dying and Fury had banned him from seeing him, even gone as far as locking him in a cell away from Tony.
I really don't want to be in Fury's shoes when Tony wakes up Steve thought, he looked at his bed. It was a standard issue cell room bed, not really suitable for someone with injuries and super serum like himself. He kicked at the bed and kept doing so until it fell apart. Still enraged he kicked the door and punched the wall beside it, not caring that his knuckles were fastly becoming bloody. He closed his eyes and every time he punched he thought of Tony's face, pale in colour and slightly translucent, his brow, sweaty and hot, his chest rising and falling too slowly. The arc reactor, the most lightest blue that you have ever seen, so light you had to get up close to check that it was still on.
He started punching faster when he thought of Fury, hitting Tony repeatedly, and the Avengers were holding him back, not letting him get to Tony.
The heart monitor next to Tony started to flatline. When Tony's chest stopped rising, Fury turned to look at Steve and he smiled, before raising his gun to shoot Steve in the head.
'Steve?'
Steve whirled around and came face to face with Clint. He raised his fist, but in anticipation of this Clint ducked and kicked at Steve's shins. Forcing him to the floor, Clint placed his foot on top of Steve's torso.
'Cap! Wait, just follow us, and we can get you to Tony' Clint said, as he removed his foot. Steve nodded slowly and accepted Clint's hand when he extended it.
'Captain' Thor said, 'the agent of the Hill said we have to hurry'.
Steve nodded and through misty eyes followed the rest of the Avengers, through the corridors of the helicarrier.
'We may need to knock some guards out' Natasha said nodding to Clint. He swiftly pulled out a knock out gas grenade, and ran ahead of the group. Steve walked side by side with Thor. Thor clasped his hand on his shoulder and said in a very quiet voice, 'Captain, the man of Iron is strong as are you, but your love for each other is stronger than any love on Asguard and we take love very seriously. Do not let anyone keep you from Tony'.
Steve looked at the God and smiled, 'you know, you're right, thanks Thor,'.
'It was nothing Captain' Thor said as they turned the final right and saw Clint leaning against a wall watching Tony with one of his feet gently resting on one of the four guards.
'Seems like they wanted all of us away from Tony' he said as he punched in the code for Tony's cell. It triggered an alarm, which made the door start to close. Sprinting forwards, Steve just made it into the cell before it shut. And the alarms were silenced. He ran to the window and said, 'thank you, now run, get out of here before you get caught'.
The Avengers all nodded and left, Clint and Thor dragging the four guards with them.
Steve turned around and ran the short distance towards Tony's body. He sat in the chair by Tony's head and grasped his hand tightly.
'Oh my gosh, Tony, you…' Steve trailed off as he let the tears fall. He looked over Tony's motionless body and he saw how pale his arc reactor was and how he had to have one of those modern technologies that hospitals used for respiration.
His fingers traced Tony's bare chest, ghosting across the arc reactor. He rested his head against Tony's and whispered, 'Tony,' before clearing his throat and rubbing his face in Tony's hair, 'Tony, I, I never told anyone this but, when I found out that I was going to be working with Howard's son, I was sceptical at first because I didn't want anyone to replace Howard but I took one look at you, just one bloody look and you had me smitten, I was so scared, yet so intrigued, you made my heart jump whenever you spoke to me, and I couldn't help myself when I shouted and became a, well lets face it, a jerk. I was scared of my feelings, and so I tried to get you to hate me, when I was younger, I'd ask my mother whenever I was ill, to read to me, she used to read stories where everyone was happy and they found their soul mate. I remember asking her once about whether it could be another guy for me, and she whispered I was destined for someone great, someone smart, and I'd be happy. So I shouldn't worry about what the country thought, just about my feelings and I'm so glad she said that, I regret not going to see her before I went under the ice but, when you wake up, if it's okay, I'd like to visit her grave and talk to her. I'd like you to come too. But you needn't if you don't want to. Look,' Steve paused as he sniffed Tony's hair, 'I love you Tony, more than any other person I have ever loved combined and, just,' Steve started to choke up, 'don't die, please, God don't let him die!'
Behind him, the Avengers and Maria had Fury at gunpoint and only heard snapshots of Steve's speech, they were too focused on keeping Fury from Steve.
So no-one noticed when Tony flat lined.
Thank you A for giving me 'don't die on me'.
Could i ask y'all to review? I'd like to reach at least 100 by the time i'm finished with this, so please be nice and review... I may even have a mini scene with Steve's mom, and maybe her grave? Also Tony will be back and he'll punch Loki and hopefully annoy the heck out of Fury and JARVIS during recovery, cause this ain't a death fic... much. Please Review xx
