Together we got to work on building the new arc reactor that would be keeping him alive. Honestly it was like old times, but I knew he had changed. Phil had called me saying SHEILD wanted to talk to him about his escape. I already knew what he wanted, and it was to bring him in like they had done with me when I was in the army. I was the liaison for the army to shield and since I might have used them as some of my contacts they wanted to talk.

"hey Tony?"

"no"

"you don't even know what I'm going to say"

"Rodey told me you used some of your old contacts to find me. So, no I will not go and talk to your secret boy band"

"ok, one they used to be the SSR"

At that his head snapped up and was paying attention.

"and two, they just want to talk nothing more. I made sure of that"

He nodded but kept working which meant he would actually think about it. But the hard part was what was to come next.

"alright its ready, hey how small are your hands"

"small enofe. Go lay down and let get this over with."

Everything was going great until Pepper came in and screamed which cased me to pull out the magnet in his chest.

"crap ok just hold on and Pepper please don't do that while my hand is in his chest!"

"sorry"

Quickly I attached the new reactor and ta da upgrade.

"Wow that's"

"Tony don't"

"electrifying"

Pepper sighed and I just rolled my eyes after all it was a bad joke.

"Pepper you ok"

"I'm I ok is he ok"

"yep never better"

"ok well there's a shipment for Lilly to approve of"

Now that got both of our attention since I was technically out of a job. Unless.

"the ordnance disposal at the testing sight. Do you want to oversee it yourself or have someone else do it"?

"you better do it. Just incase"

Now I know there was something he wasn't telling me. But he was right.

"ill head out tomorrow Pepper"

After she left, we continued to work late into the night only to stop when I started to head to the coffee.

"NO! nope you are not drinking that. Lets just go to bed beside you have to be at the test site for a few days if not weeks"

"ok fine I'll go home"

"wait, I was hoping you would stay here for the night"

My heart broke when his voice quiver for a split second and all I could do was grab his arm and drag him upstairs. That night I could tell that he slept for the first time since he was taken from me. And truthfully so did I.