Chapter 1

Tony Stark

"Mmmmmm. Yum! Shawarma!" Tony Stark mumbles as he stuffs more in his mouth.

"Tony! Manners please." Pepper Potts sighs unhappily as he shovels more food into his mouth.

He shrugs at her and she buries her head in her hands and starts to shake uncontrollably.

"Excuse us." Tony says to the rest of the Avengers team.

He gently grabs Pepper's arm and leads her out of the restaurant.

"Pepper, what's wrong?"

She buries her head in his shoulder and starts crying even harder.

"Shhhh. Pepper?" He whispers comfortingly and strokes her hair.

"I almost lost you. You go around acting like nothing happened but you don't know what that felt like. I thought you weren't coming back. You scared me." She cries and mumbles.

"Oh Pepper. I tried calling you but you didn't answer. The last thing I saw was your face. Pepper, I'm here now. That's what counts."

"I know, Tony, but still. Promise me you won't leave for a while again. Promise." She says fiercely.

"Okay. I promise." He murmurs softly to her.

Tony wraps his arms around her and they stand motionless outside in the rain. Pepper cries softly and a couple tears escape Tony.

Normally he would die if his team saw this much emotion escape him but right now he doesn't care.

They head back inside and sit down at the table. Tony takes Pepper's hand under the table.

"We don't have another mission coming up soon do we?" Natasha asks.

"Not that I'm aware of." Clint answers in a gruff voice.

"Good. Stark, we're staying at your place." She says directly to him leaving no room for comment.

"Really?" He questions.

Natasha glares at him.

"Okay okay! I surrender!" He holds up his hands in mock terror.

"Let's go. I'm beat." Steve says while paying the waitress.

They all stand up and walk out the door. Someone hails a cab and they all pile in. When they reach Stark Tower everyone just stands there and stares at it.

It is practically falling down. An A is all that remains of the Stark. There are holes in the walls from the Hulk.

"Well! Let's see how we can fix this baby up." Tony says and heads for the door.

When they reach the top everyone looks at Tony for directions.

"Okay so. Bruce, you might as well demolish the top floor. Steve, start cleaning up the other floors. Pepper, drive to my workshop and get me the essentials. Since Thor isn't here we will leave some heavy lifting for later. Natasha and Clint, do me a favor and go shopping."

"Shopping?" Natasha screeches.

"For electrical stuff and other important things we are going to need to remodel." Tony rolls his eyes at her and turns away.

She raises her eyebrows and turns away.

Tony talks to JARVIS and has him get the robots out here to help put on the suit. He does some heavy lifting before sitting on the floor staring gloomily at his precious building.

"Natasha." He calls her over.

"Yes, Tony?" She asks.

"You know Barton loves you right?"

I had an idea for this but I don't know if I want to continue with it. So please review and let me know if I should keep going. If I keep going it would be a different POV from every member of the Avengers.