Chapter 6: Search and Rescue

I'm in a good mood again (my first motorbike lesson on the street went extremely well despite the fact that I had been ultra nervous) and so I thought to give you guys chapter 6. ^_^
Oh and before I forget it: I'm probably going on a 2-3 week vacation (at least that is the plan...) and thus won't be able to post new chapters but don't worry I will give you chapter 7 on Sunday. :)
I will also try to continue writing on this story while on vacation and maybe I can even finish it since I'm planning to make it a 12 chapter story and I'm currently on chapter 9.

Anyway, review are as always welcomed! *hint* :D

The next few days went by relatively normal, which meant in the Stark-Hogan-Yinsen-Coulson household that they would talk about everything that came to their minds, watch movies together and after they had made a big shopping tour, eating traditional dishes from Yinsen's homeland.

For Tony and Phil it also meant staying in contact with Fury about SHIELD's progress, testing the new 'Iron Man' armour and spending time together when they should be sleeping but just couldn't.

Phil learned many things about Tony during these nights: his favourite colours were red and surprisingly not gold but green, he loved to drink hot chocolate because it would remind him of his time with his deceased mother and butler, he would read everything that he got into his fingers be it novels, technic magazines or books about all kind of myths, he didn't drink much alcohol (even if the press said otherwise) only for really important things like birthday parties of people that were important to him, he loved the feeling of wind on his skin because it was comforting to him and Tony had also developed a fear of his head being under water.

In return Tony learned a few things about Phil: his favourite colour was blue, he was SHIELD's handler, which meant that normally he was responsible for newer recruits and outside relationships (to other government organizations or important people), his favourite TV show was 'Super Nanny' (which Tony had found hilarious because he could imagine Phil sitting in front of the TV and taking notes), he was a Captain America fan and even collected the trading cards.

They got along pretty well and almost even forgot why Phil was even staying with Tony (but the daily updates from Fury reminded them) and then after a week...

Happy and Yinsen had gone out to pick up the food they had ordered (because the place didn't deliver it home), Phil was under the shower after the training session Tony and he had taken, which left Tony alone in the living room.

He was lounging on the couch already showered and working on the newest tablet for SI when the lights darkened. Tony wanted to ask Jarvis what was wrong when he heard it; a high pitch sound that freezed him up. The tablet tumbled down to the ground and black shiny shoes appeared in Tony's line of vision. His eyes travelled upwards and he locked eyes with the one man that had played the role of godfather for the last thirteen years publicly: Obadiah Stane.

"Well Tony, you really didn't make it easy for me to get to you. These government Agents you send in my trail and you yourself being the whole time surrounded by these low lives." Obadiah sat down next to Tony but angling himself so that he could look comfortably down on him. "My contact from Afghanistan showed me something really interesting that he dug out of the desert but what we couldn't find was a power source for it and I am pretty sure that you wouldn't leave something like that lying around. So where is it, mh?" Tony just glared at Stane and tried to move something, anything but except for a slight twitch in the shoulder that cause his lose shirt to slightly slip down and the light of the arc reactor was made barely visible. Stane saw it and moved his and Tony began to panic. Trying to access his magic he thought panicky 'Happy, Yinsen, Jarvis, Phil, help. Anybody help me. PHIL!'

Phil had finished his shower and had already changed when the light went darker. "Jarvis, is everything all right?"

When he didn't get an answer he slowly opened the door to the hall and checked if it was clear, when it was he silently sneaked his way to his room and got his gun.

Once he had his gun in his hand, he checked the hallway again and began his search for Tony. He heard a voice coming from the living room that wasn't Tony's and he could have sworn that he heard Tony's panicked voice in his head calling he name (which was preposterous but he still quickened his step a bit).

He peaked around the corner and what he saw made his heart speed up a tad: Obadiah Stane was leaning over Tony, inspecting something on Tony's chest that seemed to glow in a light blue.

Stane said something that sounded like "Of course you would have the golden egg on you. You know, when I ordered the hit on you I worried that I killing the golden goose but you see it's fate that you survived then because you had one last golden egg. Good that I brought this along then." Stane picked something out of a bag that looked like a metallic claw and brought it to Tony's chest from where the light was coming. A click resounded in the silent room and Tony arched slightly upwards, letting out a pained groan.

Phil took that as his cue to take action and slowly tiptoed closer, weapon at the ready and trained on Stane. Just as he wanted to tell Stane to 'step the hell away from him', Stane ripped out the glowing device out of Tony's chest completely, the later letting out a pained noise that almost let Phil lose his cool Agent composure.

He took another step towards the two and said in a cool and calm voice that didn't tell even in the slightest how he felt at the sight of his friend lying there, death pale and his friend's godfather the one killing him slowly. "Step away from him and give me what you took from him."

Stane whirled around in surprise but masked it pretty quickly (he wasn't a business man for nothing). "Ah one of the dogs returns. Here to watch Tony die?"

Phil ignored Stane's words and instead repeated his demands. "I said step away from him and give me what you took from him."

"Oh you mean this little thing?" He turned the glowing device in his hand. "Beautiful, isn't it? It's Tony's 9th symphony and it will revolutionise the world if he wouldn't be so stubborn about it and keep it hidden from everyone." Tony let out another pained noise and glared daggers at Stane. Phil realised that Tony had grown even paler in the few minutes that had passed and wanted nothing more than to shoot that bastard in front of him down so that he could help Tony.
"I repeat it one last time: step. Away. From. Him. Or I will shoot you."

Stane wasn't really listening to Phil's words anymore and instead talked about how they would change the future of weapons technology with the little device he had ripped out of Tony's chest.

A shot rang cut of Stane's rambling and the older man crumbled to the floor – the device staying luckily in one piece. Phil hurried over towards the dead body and grabbed the devices out of the cooling hands. He kneeled in front of Tony. "How should I put it in?"

Tony moved his mouth slightly but no tone came out and Phil began to panic – outwardly he stayed cool to comfort Tony but inside he was a mess.
"We are back! Sorry that it took so lo-" Happy broke up midsentence when he saw the scene before him and Phil almost sobbed in relieve when he saw Yinsen behind the bodyguard/driver.
"Doctor I need your help here immediately!"

Yinsen hurried to them, sidestepping the dead body and took the device out of Phil's hands. Phil stepped aside to give Yinsen space and stuffed his hands into his pockets giving the picture of perfect calm but he just really wanted to run his hands through his hair in frustration (a tick he had begun to pick up from the one person that was lying pale on the couch). What god had it done that Phil had stayed with Tony for over a week when Obadiah still almost killed him?

Phil's train of thought was interrupted a small click resounded in the room after Yinsen had put the device back in and Tony arched upwards (again), seeming to be breathing easier now that whatever it was, was back where it belonged. Yinsen steered Tony in a more comfortable position since the later was still partly paralysed and now that the fear of death wasn't on the forefront of his mind, Tony drifted exhaustedly into an uneasy sleep.

"We better let him rest but maybe it would be better at least one of us stays near him. Just in case he needs someone…" Yinsen whispered and the other two nodded in agreement. Happy picked up the bags full of food he had dropped in shock and brought it into the kitchen before carrying the coffee table a bit more away from the dead body. He also put some comfortable pillows on the ground and set himself down, laying down a pack of cards, totally ignoring the dead body a few feet away from him and Yinsen sat down next to him after having checked Tony again. Meanwhile Phil called Fury and told him what had happened without mentioning the device, yet. (Tony should be the one to tell Fury about that since they seemed to know each other well enough.) After that he sat down opposite Happy (and thus closest to Tony) and they started to play card games till the SHIELD Agents together with Director Fury came to take the corpse away.

Fury stayed with them after SHIELD Agents had cleaned up (Tony had surprisingly slept through it) and took part in their little card game, waiting for Tony to wake up…