The Man with no Heart (Tony Stark) - ON HOLD

Weak

I am going to die in here.

I kind of spoke to myself, but I was not sure where I was, anymore.

My head was inside a barrel of water, just a while ago.

It is one of the most panicking things you can feel, one of the moments of desperation that make you forget all the pain you are one.

The feeling you cannot breathe.

It was still happening to me.

“Tony?”

“P-Pep…” I turned, as an idiot, trying to see her.

Of course, she was not there.

“You are not going to here”

Oh, boy. She was there.

“P-P…” I moaned, as her welcoming arms embraced me “Oh…”

“Hey,” she smiled at me, caressing my face, drying all the water I still had “Are you going to give up now?”

I looked at her, desperately, begging for something even I did not understand what.

“You are Tony Stark” she smiled “You are a genius” she kissed my forehead “You always come up on top, remember?”

“That’s all the farce about me”

She lovingly looked down at me “I know”

My eyes locked with hers as she, once again, surprised me.

“But… do you?”

Oh God… what was the point when she started knowing me better than myself?

I closed my eyes, gulping as my breathed failed me, once again.

But she helped this time.

The next thing I know, I feel her lips over mine.

A warm, gentle and burning feeling invades my body. I can feel the sparks, I can feel my heart swelling… whatever is left of it.

I am surrendered to her and yet, I do not have the strength to move.

I just wish she does not leave.

“S-Stay with me” I begged as she caressed my hair “I-I don’t want to be here”

“Tony” she kissed my hand “I will be waiting for you”

“N-No…”

“Tony… come home”

“P-Pep…!”

“Stark?”

“P-Pep…”

“Stark”

I heard Yinsen’s voice, now.

Oh God, she was not there.

It was… just a dream.

Yet, it felt so weird.

“Hmmm”

“Stark they will come and take you outside. I know you are not in the best of conditions, but… I’ll be by your side.”

I don’t think I could realize how good of a friend Yinsen was, back then.

“O-Outside?”

“I am guessing they will show you all the machinery of yours they have”