Tony Stark x Reader

Part 1

It was late at night, the sun had completely gone and the moon was high in the sky. Darkness filled your room but unfortunately, silence did not. You woke to loud clanging and thrashing coming from Tony's room directly across the hall from yours, you were immediately concerned, climbing out of bed and wrapping yourself in a dressing gown before quietly rushing across the hall and knocking on Tony's door. There was no answer but the sounds of his movement still remained, so you decide to cautiously enter his room to check on him. When you finally got inside, all you could see was Tony grunting and thrashing about in his bed, clearly having a nightmare, so you made your way to the side of his bed and knelt down "Tony?" You whispered, but it was ineffective, his thrashing continued, so you spoke louder "Tony, wake up". Still, nothing happened, so you shook him lightly and called out his name over and over again until, completely out of nowhere, one of Tony's new suits appeared from the darkness and grabbed me harshly, pinning my body against the bedside table.

I let out a loud, terrified cry as the metal suit was gripping me tighter. Fortunately, my noise seemed to wake Tony from his nightmare as he immediately jolted out of bed and called out to his suit "power down!". Immediately, the suit shut down and I was left sitting on the floor gasping for air, trying to calm myself. Tony hit the suit and it all fell to the ground in pieces before Tony turned to me, panting heavily "I must have called it in my sleep" he explains, panicked "that's not supposed to happen... I'll recalibrate the sensors"

I still remained on the floor, leaning up against the bedside table, panting and gasping, desperately trying relax myself, but to little avail. Tony walked over to me and knelt down, about to speak when I suddenly climbed to my feet and ran out of the room "Jarvis, lock the door, do not let Tony in" I insist, dropping onto my bed and taking deep breathes, hoping to slow my spiked heart rate.

There was a knock on my door only seconds later "Katie, can we just- can we talk? I wanna explain what just happened in there" Tony requests, clearly out of breath.

"No, Tony. Go away, I'm going to sleep" I say just loud enough for him to hear me through the door. For a moment I half expected him to keep talking through the door, but after about a minute of silence I head his footsteps receding back to his room. With a loud sigh, i rolled over in my bed and pulled the blanket over me in an attempt to get back to sleep.

The next morning, I did my usual routine but an hour earlier than I normally would, hoping to eat my breakfast before Tony came down into the kitchen. Luckily, everything went well, but I still couldn't comprehend what happened last night. Tony had been acting strangely ever since about a week after the battle of New York, he spent all his time tinkering in his garage and distancing himself from everyone, not talking about anything, only making occasional jokes and sarcastic comments. I wasn't sure if I could take it anymore, so, instead of making life altering decisions, I headed off to work early to distract my mind, which was racing with thoughts.

Whilst at work, I heard on the news that Tony had threatened a terrorist and gave his home address to the national news; I was immediately frustrated and built up that anger over the course of my shift. When I had finally finished, I had a driver take me back home. I made my way up to my room and began packing my bags; I was angry at Tony, he nearly got me killed last night because of his obsession with his Iron Man suits and his complete lack of ability to share his problems. Unfortunately, no matter how angry I felt towards Tony, I still cared about him, and I was worried that he might get himself killed, so as his business partner and close friend, I was going to demand we move immediately.

It didn't take long, but I'd finally packed everything into three bags. They were relatively heavy, so I simply dropped two of them over the banister of the stairs and was about to walk down with the third to grab them when I realised that Tony was talking to someone "Tony? Is someone there?"