Captain America 2: discontinued

Iron shambles

..........part 3.............

In 2014

I don't know what to think anymore. I can't sleep. I barely eat and I'm so scared of closing my eyes because if I do I'm afraid that when I wake up you won't be there. I have lived a wild and extremely reckless life style and now I want to change, not for me but for the one person I fell for years back. I just wish that I could say how I feel.

I'm tony freaking stark and I have feelings. It's weird, I know, but I have to be able to just vent. The way I vent is by building so don't get mad if you find me passed out down in my lab. I want to be a better man because of you.

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We had been in the air for a little over eight hours. Steve had been in the front with the pilot for about two hours now And i sat in the back working away on new designs for my armor. I already built 46 Mach armors, another one wouldn't hurt.

When the plane was about an hour out Steve came back and plopped himself on the couch and put his head in my lap.

"What are you working on?"

"Designs for a new armor."

"That's cool"

Steve smiled at me and I back. When I set my tablet down I could see him smile again.

"So tony, what are we going to do first?"

"There are a few things I'd like to show you. They were places I loved as a child. I think that you might like them too."

"Ok."

Steve's smile never left his face. It was all I could do not to lean down and kiss him. He was captain freaking america, he'd never be interested. Even if he were it wouldn't be with a guy like me.

"So tony can I ask you something?"

"Yes" I looked at him with a weird look on my face.

"What's so important that you lock yourself up in that lab for days?"

His eyes never stopped looking at me.

"Truth is..." His eyes never left mine as I looked away from him. "The truth is..." I got up from my seat and he sat up.

"Tony what aren't you telling me. What's wrong?"

"You experience things and then there over and you still can't explain 'em. Gods, aliens and other dimensions. I... I'm just a man in a can. The only reason I haven't cracked up is because you probably moved in. Which is great. I'm happy about it. I'm lucky, but Steve... I can't sleep. When you go to bed I go down to my lab. I do what I know... I tinker."

I sat down at the small table on the other side of the small jet. Steve came and sat at the seat in front of me. His face was a little more concerned.

"Tony why didn't you tell me."

"I didn't want anyone to know."

"What you did in manhattan. What that must have been like. Tony I don't know where to begin to tell you that everything's going to be okay. Tony talk to me. If you won't tell the avengers then tell me." Steve placed his hand on mine before continuing. "I'm your partner tony. I'm here for you. Please talk to me. I don't want to come back to the tower one morning to find out that you died over lack of sleep."

I tried to get up and go sit somewhere else in the jet but he grabbed my hand.

"Tony you need to promise me."

"The worst part of all of this is the one person I care for doesn't even notice that i do. Steve how do you expect me to cope when I can't even sleep."