Nat decided to go with her, at the request of Steve, since he couldn't go. She hated leaving him, but he needed to oversee training new recruits, so he couldn't exactly leave. The jet landed and Cassidy put in her access code to get in. When they walked into the living room, they saw a suitcase on the floor. "I guess Peppers mad." Nat said. The doorbell rang behind them and they both spun around to see the door opening for a brunette woman/

"Uh, who are you?" Cassidy asked.

"Right there is fine." An Iron Man suit said to their left. "Really Tony?" Cassidy told him. He stepped out of the suit and looked at the three women. "Okay, what the hell are you two doing here?" He asked, pointing to Nat and Cassidy.

"Well, you decided to blast your address on live television tony and I'm still your handler. She snapped. He turned to the other woman. "You're not the Mandarin. Are you? Are you?"

She scoffed. "You don't remember. Why am I not surprised?"

"Don't take it personally. I don't remember what I had for breakfast," He told her.

"He probably didn't have it." Cassidy teased.

"Hey!"

"He didn't." Jarvis added. Tony rolled his eyes and looked back to the woman. "Okay look, I need to be alone with you, someplace that's not here. It's urgent." She told him.

"Normally I'd go for that sort of thing but now I'm in a committed relationship." He said as he walked toward the living room as another suitcase came falling from the sky, barely missing him.

"Tony?" Pepper called out. "Is someone there?"

"Yeah, it's Maya Hansen, old botanist pal. Also, Romanoff and Forbes are here too, it's a good time." He told her. Cassidy walked over to Pepper and pulled her into a hug, eyeing the giant bunny that was now on the stairs. "Are you okay?" She asked her. Pepper shrugged. "I honestly don't even know."

"Sorry with Happy in the hospital I didn't know we'd be expecting guests, and old girlfriends!" Pepper exclaimed, standing next to Tony. Cassidy and Nat both winced, they knew things were bad when Pepper used that tone.

Cassidy followed Nat over to the windows to excuse themselves from the awkward conversation. "Do you hear that?" Nat asked. Cassidy closed her eyes and she could hear the faint hum of a helicopter.

The sound got louder and Cassidy opened her eyes to see several helicopters flying toward the house. "Oh crap." She grabbed Nat's arm and started backing up towards Tony.

"Guys?" Maya said.

"We gotta get out of here!" Nat yelled just as the first explosion hit. Cassidy was thrown into a wall and blacked out for just a second. When she came to there was a ringing in her ear and she could tell she probably had a concussion.

"Tony?" DS

She called out, attempting to stand. She saw Nat a few feet in front of her, and she staggered over to wake her up. Two more blasts came in and knocked Cassidy and Tony across the room. They went to get back over to Pepper and Nat when the floor gave out, separating them.

"Get them out, Cass and I will find another way around." He told her. She nodded and went to get Nat and Maya up and headed for the door. Cassidy turned and glared at Tony. "Was pretty sure I told you not to do anything stupid while I was gone Tony, I think this qualifies!" She yelled.

"While I would agree with you, can you yell at me later? Look, there's a way, go now." He said, pointing to a beam that lead to the other side. "I'll be right behind you go!" She stepped onto the beam and turned to see if he was behind her when the back half of the house started to lean down the cliff.

"Tony!" She yelled. "Go Cassidy, I've got this! Get out of here! Cap's gonna kill me if anything happens to you." She turned and ran out of the house in time to see the suit being torn off Pepper and flying back into the house to Tony.

"Cassidy, where is he?" Pepper asked. "He said he was right behind me." She told her, running after Pepper as the whole back of the house fell into the water. Cassidy covered her mouth as she heard Pepper scream out for Tony, but they didn't see him leave the water. She pulled her watch up to her mouth.

"Jarvis, connect me with Tony, right now." She commanded. She only heard static and took in a shaky breath. "Pepper we need to get out of here." She told her. She took Pepper's hand and slowly led her back outside where Nat and Maya were. She shook her head at Nat and the assassin covered her mouth with her hands.

"We have to stay, for the police, and you'll have to talk to the press." Nat told her. Cassidy nodded, letting Pepper sit down and called Steve.

"Cassidy, sweetheart, I saw on the news, are you alright?" He asked. She took in a shaky breath and closed her eyes. "I'm okay, a little banged up, but Steve, Tony…he's gone"

"What do you mean gone?" He asked. She wiped a tear from her face trying to calm down. "We all got out of the house before it went into the water, but Tony didn't Steve, and we didn't see him come back up." There was a silence on the phone for a minute before Steve spoke.

"Oh God. How's Pepper?"

"She's…quiet. We have to wait here for police and I'll have to talk to the press." She told him.

"Do you need me to come to you?" She smiled. "No, I'll be okay, thank you though. We'll come home as soon as we can okay?"

"Okay sweetheart, be safe alright?"

"Okay." She hung up the phone and leaned her head back, closing her eyes, trying to calm herself as she heard the sirens coming up the drive.

Everyone gave their statements to the police, and then Cassidy retold what happened to the press, letting them know that they did not think Tony survived the fall. She knew they would print his death in the papers and she wasn't sure she was ready for that. In the short time she'd gotten to know Tony, he'd really become a close friend.

They had sat up late and talked about their anxiety, well Cassidy would talk, and Tony would drink and listen, because heaven forbid, he talk about his problems. He was always excited to show her a new suit or gadget he'd made, even though she didn't understand anything that he said to her, and usually had to have Bruce explain it to her later.

Bruce,

Oh God. She wondered if Nat had called him yet.

"Cassidy!" She spun around to see Pepper running toward her with a cracked faceplate, tears streaming down her face.

"He's alive. Tony's alive."