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

Happy Birthday

"I am sorry, Sir" Jarvis spoke as I watched my small Iron Man suit in a hologram, dying during the experiment "The element tested is not a suitable replacement for palladium"

I looked down, the panic was starting to grow in me.

I don't think there will ever be a break for me.

The events in Afghanistan seemed like yesterday to me.

As all the messed times that followed.

And just as everything seemed to be settling down, just as I thought I was having a relatively good phase in my life... a break... this happened.

I took a deep breath as I moved my hand to get the arc reactor out of my chest. You could see the smoke coming out, you could sense that burnt smell in it.

Obviously, out of options, I simply exchanged the palladium core and put it back in my chest, before grabbing the bottle of chlorophyll.

Oh, the symptoms had started to show.

Gosh, they had.

And, little by little, the awareness I might not survive this started to stuck in my mind.

I joined Jarvis in the experimentations, myself.

It was useless.

I had no solution to this poisoning.

I created this to heal myself. Yes, firstly, Yinsen's idea, but I created the arc reactor.

Now, I am dying of the, back then, cure.

Of course, you know me, I hadn't brought myself to talk about this to anyone.

However, I did notfeel good.

My body ached, all over.

Food seemed to make me feel sick.

I vomited frequently.

My intestines hated me, at the moment.

My urine was pure acid.

I will not talk about the weird dark lines that have been spreading on my skin. Dying cells, I'd say.

I was not sure for how long I could hide it, particularly from Pepper.

However, even Pepper seemed to be crazy mad at me.

Particularly after Stark Expo kicked off and I succeeded in not handing my suits to the US government. I had to admit I had so much fun in there.

However, I had been drinking a little, as well, I had to admit.

Do not blame me. I didn't know what else to do.

I guess it was my way to deal with all the situation.

Besides, Chlorophyll was horrible to drink.

If I was going to leave this hell of a world, then a few drops of alcohol are not going to harm me more, would they?

I guess I still need to do things right, though.

The company was my father's legacy. I had to make sure to keep that in good hands.

Of course, I knew exactly what to do with it.

Pepper.

In fact, I guessed I wanted to leave everything to her.

There were not better hands to handle all this.

Happy and Rhodey too, of course, but Pepper... she would know exactly what to do with all that.