Codependent

Chapter 43

60 minutes later

"Stop, you're killing the bag," I heard Tony say from behind me. I turned around sweaty from the exercise and noticed the sad and guilty emotions Tony was feeling.

"What's wrong?" I asked calmly hoping he knew I wasn't angry at him. Hell, I didn't even know why everyone else was angry, were they still angry?

"I just... I messed up big time," he spoke softly leaning against the wall I felt how anxious he was feeling but shut them out later.

"Are you sure you want to be here?" I asked him, he didn't owe me an explanation or something, but I found it pretty sweet of him to come to me in such a vulnerable state, maybe he did trust me more.

"Yes, I just want to talk to you," he said again.

"Okay but let's go somewhere else," I suggested and Tony nodded his head in agreement, so I took his hand and teleported us to the balcony on my floor. Tony looked confused and surprised, right, he didn't do that before. We set down on the couch and I felt the tension leave.

"What happened before I came?" I asked him. "Well, when Loki came and tried to kill us... he had a sceptre," Tony started.

"No, I didn't mean before you met me, but before this night's fight," I said chuckling. "No no this is the story, I'm getting there," he said chuckling back at me.

"It was alien and we found it later and decided to keep it here for a few... days to examen it before giving it to shield, we found out it was alive of some sort and we could do cool stuff with it," he said explaining it to me with terms I understood.

I listed carefully connecting the dots in my mind together, this was what he had been working on for a while. He told the whole story of how he wanted to program it to protect the world from the threats from outer space, and he didn't say it, but I felt how scared he was to lose everything he cared about.

How Ultron killed Jarvis and how he hijacked his suits, and now he wanted to kill the Avengers and the whole world.

"Wow, well, that's a lot, I mean," I said when he was done and he looked at me guiltily. "You can't keep blaming yourself Tony," I said and he frowned his brows.

"You didn't mean for it to escalate like this and you didn't try to kill everyone, like you said earlier, you just messed up, and whatever the mess was, you could clean it up, didn't you tell me that?" I told him smiling

"I don't know what to do, Pepper left after the fight, I can't blame her," he said laughing his pain away.

"Well, he is some kind of computer, so can't you track him? follow his signal?" I asked and Tony looked up at me with bright eyes already thinking about a plan.

"Oh my god you're a genius, and I love you," he said standing up and walking away happily. I just chuckled at him trusting he would figure it out.

"Why are you here?" I heard Loki say from the opening of the balcony, he was probably looking for me.

"I spoke with Tony," I said smiling and noticed Loki was still tense, what was wrong with him?

----------The next day---------

"We're going to Sokovia," Nat said standing at my door at 6 in the morning. "What? when?" I asked confused.

"Now, Bucky, Loki and you are staying here and you can't leave the tower, Jarvis is back up, we are gone for a while so don't make any more messes," she explained quickly already in her suit.