The man in the rain

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"Genevieve, can I please talk to you? I know you don't want to talk to me but I just need you to listen. I have something that I really need to say" Tony said while turning his body towards her. There was the tiniest sound of begging and pity in his voice and she noticed.

Genevieve's mind was going a thousand miles per hour but when he sounded so needy to talk to her she turned her head back forward and just continued to stare. She was broken. She didn't want to talk to him, she didn't want to listen either. She somehow made her mind up about how he was doing this just to be even more evil. Tony noticed her face forward again and he decided to go and stand in front of her and get his point across.

"Listen, I know I am the last person you want to talk to right now and once I say what I have to say you can move on, I just need to get this off of my chest" he said getting up and standing in front of her. "I never should have said those things about you. I never should have been so mean and malice towards you. I was just being extremely selfish and rude. I am truly sorry. I didn't know what all you have been through in your life and I should have gotten to know you before I made those nasty assumptions about you. I know you're tired of listening to me so I'll leave but I just want you to know how truly sorry I am. If there is anything that I can do to make up for the fact that I was a complete dick to you please let me know. I'll see you later Genevieve" he said wiping a tear that slid from his face. He knew that this wasn't going to make up for how rude and awful he was to her, but hopefully this would be a step forward. He turned away and started walking away.

When he started talking Vieve put her focus on him but he didn't notice. She saw his body language of being vulnerable and open. She saw that his eyes watered when he talked about her hard life and she saw that when he turned to leave there was a small tear that escaped. She could hear in his voice that he was truly sorry and the fact that he found her and apologized showed that he truly did want to apologize and that everything he said was from his heart and not from someone talking to him through an earpiece. She turned her head and saw him walking to the exit of the memorial and she got up and started after him.

"Tony, please wait" she said, calling out hoping that he would hear her. He did and stopped waiting for her to meet him. "Listen Tony I know that must have been hard for you to do, and I just want you to know that I do accept your apology. I understand that you are willing to do anything to fix what you did to me and there is one thing that I could only imagine."

He was so relieved that she accepted his apology and when she did he sighed out the breath he had been holding. He was worried about what she was going to make him do to make up for his awful behavior.

"I'm listening," he said cautiously, hoping not to sound too worried.

"You guys never came to the dedication of this memorial, and it was crushing to all of us who lost people in that battle. So what I was thinking is that you guys could come and just let everyone who lost people know that your intentions were to never harm anyone and that you do care about each person who lost their lives" she said hoping that he would understand why she was making him do that.

"You know" he started "we really did want to make it to the dedication but it was so hard on all of us because we knew that you guys who lost people were counting on us and so we thought that if we were to show up you guys would hate us for not protecting your loved ones" he said with his voice cracking.

"Tony, no. We would have understood. It was hard for all of us, but when you guys didn't show up we just thought you guys didn't care about all of the lives that were lost. I understand if you don't want to do that but it would mean the world to all of us" she said waving her hand to signal all of the people that were in the memorial visiting their loved ones.

"Consider it done. I would love for you to come back to the tower and help me prepare my speech that I will give, since you know how to say words so gracefully and I could really use your insight" he said, reaching out his hand for a hand shake.

"You've got a deal," she said, smiling from ear to ear and shaking his hand.

He lead her back to his car and they rode together back to the tower,

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"Have you guys seen Tony, he's not in the lab and he's not answering his phone" Nat said entering the common room where everyone else was.

Everyone turned their heads towards her and wondered why she was looking for Tony. They all gave each other looks as to who was going to tell her where he was because last they knew he was in his lab. The only one that knew anything was Bucky. He got a message from F.R.I.D.A.Y. about he should be expecting a visitor soon, but that was it.

"So nobody knows where he is?" Nat asked again, getting extremely annoyed.

"I might know," said James, earning a bunch of stares from the group. "But I could be wrong. When you left he went and locked himself up in his lab and that was where everyone knew he was last. About an hour and a half later, I got a message from F.R.I.D.A.Y. saying that I should be expecting a visitor, but that was more than 45 minutes ago" James said while looking at everyone.

Just as Nat was about to ask another question the elevator opened up revealing Tony and Genevieve talking and working up a plan to get the memorial speech going. They were met with all sorts of looks but one that Genevieve was wanting to see was James'. She felt so bad about how she left him and what she said when she did.

"Welcome back doll" James said with a small smirk when the pair had locked eyes. He wanted so badly for her to rush into his arms so he could never let her go again but he would just have to wait for that moment.

Tony and Vieve exited the elevator and the rest of the team decided to give Bucky and Vieve some room to talk seeing that when Vieve got out of the lift she made her way right to him. 

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