I'm not sure if this chapter is actually violent or not...but I thought I'd warn you anyway.
By the time they had arrived back in Malibu, it was the next evening, and they both knew that whoever was coming after Tony were also back, and they had to be careful. Tony checked in with Jarvis every twenty minutes to make sure no one was around the mansion or inside, making sure that it was safe to go back. Logan was finding it difficult to stay awake when they got to the workshop, and Tony immediately laid her down on the couch.
''Logan? Hey, stay with me here, how do you feel?'' he asked, walking out of the suit as the bots assembled it for quick repairs.
''I told you I'm fine.'' she mumbled.
''Right, that's why you can't keep your eyes open.''
''I'm tired, but I'm fine.'' she argued. ''I just want something to drink.''
''You need to get checked out by a doct-''
''No.'' she told him firmly. ''You're not leaving me here or wherever so you can go off on your own to find Obadiah and the others.''
Tony sighed and ran his hands through his hair. ''Well what am I supposed to do? I can't leave you here on your own and I can't find Obadiah without going looking for him.''
''Then don't go.''
''I have to-''
''Not yet. We don't even know what's going on at the moment. Where is everyone? Have those people done something we don't even know about? You can't just take off without thinking.''
''I am thinking!'' he stood up. ''I'm thinking 'Hey, this guy got me kidnapped, ordered a hit on me, completely betrayed me and left you in a desert to die.' So excuse me for being a little pissed off at him.''
Logan stared at Tony, watching him walk around and try to calm himself down. His hands were shaking and he couldn't help running his hand through his hair multiple times before walking back over to her with a bottle of water. He sat down on the floor next to her couch and pushed her hair back from her face as she took sips of the water.
''Look, I know you're scared.'' he told her, and Logan looked over to him sadly. ''But I can't let him get away with it.''
''I don't want you to let him get away with it.'' she shook he head, grabbing his hand. ''But I don't want to lose you either. I've seen the people he's got working for him, they're dangerous. They've got all of Stark Industries weapons, and my bet is they're planning something right now to get to you. That's what I'm scared of, that you'll go out looking for him, and you won't come back.''
Tony hated hearing how he worried her. Ever since she found out about the suit she was worried he was going to go out somewhere and not come back, whereas this time, she could have been right. Obadiah was dangerous, and so was everyone that was involved, but he couldn't let that stop him. This man couldn't get away with what he had done, but he didn't want to leave Logan feeling so scared.
''I have to do this Logan, I have to stand up to him.'' he told her. ''But I don't want to leave you, because I don't want you to be here thinking that I'm not coming back.''
Logan nodded her head sadly, understanding. There was no way she could ever tell him not to go, because she knew what this meant to him, and she wasn't going to take that away from him. As scared as she was for him, she had to let him go.
''I want you to go.''
''You don't have to lie...''
''I'm not lying. I want you to stop him. Of all the people Obadiah has wronged, you deserve to be the one to stop him from going any further.'' she told him seriously. ''I know you'll be careful, as for me...I'll rest, I promise.''
''I don't want to leave you here on your own.''
''Tony, I'll be fine.'' she insisted. ''I'll probably just sleep, and eat.''
''Sir, incoming call from Ms. Potts.''
Tony immediately turned serious again. ''Put her through.''
''Tony?''
''Yeah, where are you?''
''At Stark Industries.'' she told him sadly. ''We were too late yesterday. But I've got five other agents here, we're leaving to go arrest Obadiah in about an hour, we know where he'll be and he's got no idea.''
''Call me right before you go. I'm gonna make sure he doesn't get anywhere.''
''I will. How's Logan?''
''I'm fine Pep-''
''She needs to rest, she's exhausted.'' Tony answered for her, cutting her off. ''She's gonna stay here until all of this is over, if any one of them see her here, they'll know I got her out of that desert, and I can't risk them finding her.''
Logan listened in, realizing how Tony was worrying over her right now when he should be worrying about himself. He was the one who was about to go and take on Obadiah and the others, Logan would be fine here. Under Jarvis' protection, nothing would happen to her here.
Once their phone call was over, Tony looked over to Logan to see her eyes closed on the couch, her arm slumped over her stomach and the other hanging off the side. He walked over quietly and pulled her into his arms, waking her up in the process.
''What are you doing?''
''Getting you into bed.'' he told her. ''You need to sleep.''
''I have to help you get ready.'' she shook her head tiredly.
''I'll be fine, what will help me is if you got some rest.''
Logan didn't protest anymore, finding comfort in Tony's bed as soon as he laid her down. He pulled a blanket around to cover her before pushing her hair from her face, kissing her softly.
''I'll be back before you know.'' he told her. ''Love you.''
Logan couldn't believe that he was saying that to her now so casually, she would never get sick of hearing it. She was the only person to get to hear him say it, and she knew how much it meant to him. If anything happened to him, he wanted those words to be the last he said to her.
''I love you.'' she mumbled tiredly before Tony walked out the door, and he looked back with a grin as he was glad that no matter what happened tonight, they both knew that.
Tony had been in the workshop for just over two hours working on his suit, upgrading the weapons and making sure the armor was stronger than ever. A few times he would walk upstairs and make sure Logan was alright, adjusting her blankets or the room temperature to make sure got a good sleep. She needed to rest from walking through that desert, he just hoped she would be okay.
It wasn't long before the phone began ringing as Tony was up from the workshop, and he knew who it was going to be. Pepper and the agents were ready to go arrest Obadiah, and he had to be there to make sure it all went to plan and he got what he deserved. Tony walked over to the phone sitting on the couch and saw it was Pepper calling, but before he could answer, he put the phone to his ear and heard a nerve-splitting noise that made his body cease up and his eyes go wide with fear. He couldn't move his body, he couldn't move anything and all he could see was a man walking in front of him, pulling out ear-buds as he smirked.
''Remember this one?'' Obadiah smiled proudly. ''It's a pity the government passed on it, there's so many applications for short-term paralysis.
Tony wished he could get up and throw his fist into Obadiah's jaw. This man had ruined his life, and now he was slowly getting away with it. How he knew Tony was home was a mystery, but all Tony could focus on right now was how he was going to get out of this one. He couldn't move anything on his body, and he just had to sit there and watch as Obadiah boasted about how he had won.
''So you figured it all out Tony. Or, your little girlfriend told you everything.'' he sat down in front of Tony. ''But I figured you all out too. That suit you built over in that cave, scattered all over the desert. That's right Tony, I found all of it. I know you're little secret, and I know what you do on those days you say you're not home, or you're busy. It's really too bad you'll never get to see how that endeavor would have worked out for you.''
''When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give.''
Obadiah stood up, leaning over to Tony and looking him in the eye.
''You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?''
Tony knew what was happening, but there was nothing he could do to stop it, and he wasn't expecting the pain he felt when Obadiah ripped the arc reactor from his chest, pulling every bit of it out right before his eyes. Tony's breathing hitched as he watched the only thing keeping him alive being pulled from his chest, and then Obadiah put it safely into a small case.
As if things couldn't get any worse, Tony looked over to the stairs when he hear the sound of feet on the tiles, and his hear immediately skipped a beat as he feared what was going to happen now.
Logan's eyes went wide, looking at the scene in front of her. By the time she reached the bottom of the stairs, it was too late to turn around, and she didn't want to. Obadiah was standing there looking at Tony menacingly, and Tony's chest had a hole in it around the metal plates where his arc reactor was. Obadiah was killing him, all the while she slept upstairs.
''Tony!'' she gasped, hurrying over.
Obadiah stood in front of him, his arm reached out as he held a gun toward her. Tony never thought Obadiah would be someone who would fight like this, who would raise a weapon to someone just to get what he wanted, but lately Obadiah proved to be one of the cruelest men he knew, and nothing surprised him now.
''So, got out of that desert then I see.'' Obadiah chuckled. ''No, you've really impressed me, I didn't see you getting out of that one.''
Logan narrowed her eyes at him angrily, looking back to Tony to see if he was okay. Tony could tell she was still struggling to walk with her weak legs and some of her skin looked bruised, but in front of Obadiah right now, she seemed stronger than ever.
''It was very stupid of you to go looking for something that didn't involve you.'' he told her, shaking his head. ''Now look at what you've done.''
Tony wished he could tell her this wasn't her fault as Obadiah tried to convince her it was. This was his fault, he brought her into this, and now he had to deal with the outcome.
''This is your fault.'' she shook her head, looking to Obadiah. ''You organized those weapons, you brought everything on yourself.''
''Brought what?'' he asked with a chuckle. ''Nothing's happened to me, I've brought nothing on myself.''
''You will soon. Do you think I'm just gonna sit here and let you walk out like nothing happened, and get away with it?''
Obadiah laughed. ''You think I'm going to walk out of here without taking you with me? I told you, you shouldn't have got involved, now we have to take care of that, don't we?''
Tony's heart skipped again as he imagined exactly what Obadiah meant. He hated being so useless right now, watching on as Obadiah was prepared to do whatever he could to cover his tracks, even hurt Logan, and he couldn't bare watching that.
''I'm not going anywhere with you.'' Logan shook her head, pushing past him quickly to run over to Tony. She needed to help him somehow, she needed to figure out if he had another arc reactor or something to help him.
However Obadiah was quick, and he wasn't letting her get close enough to Tony to help him. He swung his arm back with the gun and hit her across the face as she tried to put past, knocking her onto the floor with a yelp. Tony couldn't stand it, his blood was boiling with anger and he knew the moment he could get himself up, he was going to make Obadiah pay.
Logan wiped her lip which had a drop of blood on it from his hit, but then, unexpectedly, she fought back. Even though he had a gun, Logan thought smart and kicked him in his knee, hearing a disgusting crack as he fell to the ground in pain. As she stood up, Obadiah reached his arm out again and tripped her over as well, and she punched him in the face and wherever else she could reach. Tony saw Obadiah's hand go to his pocket where he pressed a button that almost looked like a detonator, and in a matter of seconds two men walked through the door and into the living room, pulling Logan up by her arms and holding her still.
Obadiah picked himself up off the ground and wiped the blood from his face as he walked over and swung his hand back onto Logan's face one last time, proving his point that he got the last say in their fight. As if to push her luck, Logan spat back at him in anger and Obadiah was about to strike back before someone else walked into the room, taking his attention.
''We gotta go right now, stop wasting time.'' Monique said, giving Logan a look. ''Guess leaving you in a desert doesn't work, does it?''
''Guess not.'' Logan bit back.
Tony was surprised by how strong she was being, and how unafraid she was. Everything had hit breaking point for her right now, and she was sick of being walked on. She was fighting back, not only for herself, but for Tony.
''Get her out of here,'' Obadiah waved a hand at the two men, and they began taking her out of the house, despite her protesting kicks and screams to Tony. He turned back to Tony then. ''Don't worry, without that reactor in your chest, you'll see her again shortly.''
With that, Obadiah walked out of the room, leaving Tony paralyzed on the couch, his eyes wide with horror as he realized what he was saying. Obadiah was going to kill Logan, and it wasn't long before he would be dead himself. There was nothing he could do. Without the arc reactor, he was a dead man.