Fic: Tin Man (9/10)
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eumeliaTitle: Tin Man (9/10)
Author: Mel (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8.
Part 9
Pepper took a deep breath. She twisted the arc reactor and for the second time, despite saying she would never so this again, removed the reactor from Tony. She reached inside and unplugged it from the plate and could feel that it was skew. Not aligned flush like it was three months ago.
She tried to think what could have caused such a drastic movement and almost kicked herself for not realizing the fight with Obadiah must have shifted the plate and made the other piece of shrapnel move away from it had originally been.
She gently placed the arc reactor on a surgical tray and held onto the empty receptacle.
She gently tried to twist it and as she did so, blood began to gush out from the flesh around the metal ring. She gave a yelp and saw that the doctors were on top of it, mopping up the blood and suctioning the excess fluids that surrounded the internal organs.
She suddenly felt as though she was stuck in a fantasy story, this was ridiculous!
Tony would have thought it was funny, he had laughed at her when she had been disgusted by the apparatus when she had first replaced it.
She snickered, causing all the doctors stare at her. She quickly composed herself and went back to the task at fixing Tony's broken heart.
Tony felt his blood seep into the soft sand beneath him. Iron Monger's shadow shrouded him. The robotic arm pulled him by the leg, the sand sifted through Tony's fingers.
"You're pathetic" the rumbling voice vibrated through Tony. His chest hurt and the vulnerability of his nudity and soft chest was not enabling him to fight back very well.
"Your last act of defiance, eh, Anthony?" Obadiah lifted him into the air and smashed him back into the sand.
Tony groaned and stood up, looking up at glowing eyes of the helmet.
"I'd like my heart back, you stole it!" this was a dream.
This whole thing was a dream.
He couldn't actually die here.
Iron Monger was shifting and changing, surrounding Tony in a tarnished grey cloud.
Tony stood in the dark.
"This is ridiculous" Tony muttered.
It was the most ridiculous procedure. Pepper tried to twist the receptacle back flush onto the plate but it kept slipping out of her hands and she kept panicking that she's hit an organ Tony might actually need.
She could see his lungs and the stitches that closed the bottom of his wind pipe. The sound of suction, not unlike the kind one heard when the dentist sucks out the spit in ones mouth, filled the room.
One of the machines that was attached to Tony gave a shrill beep and Pepper was unceremoniously pushed out of the way as the doctors began to check everything and shouting at each other in Medical Jargon.
Pepper blinked and swallowed convulsively.
This was worse than not knowing whether Tony was alive or dead.
She was watching him die.
The darkness would have been suffocating if Tony hadn't been so angry.
As angry as he felt when he realized Obadiah's double dealing and betrayal.
Tony knew what he was looking for and walked towards it.
Pepper was breathing harshly. Tears streaming down her face for the first time since Tony had lost consciousness. The machines around the table were screaming and loud, she felt dizzy and ill. She wasn't sure if she could handle this.
"Potts!" shouted Medina "Show me what to do! His blood pressure is too high; he'll go into cardiac arrest if we don't fix this tin can of his!"
Pepper stood next to the doctor and said shakily "Th-the receptacle has to be flush against the plate. I can't move it, the bone-"
"I'll handle that" said Medina and pressed her fingers between the rib cage and the titanium.
Tony heard thumping sounds and knew he was close. He ran towards the sound and as it grew louder he leaped and landed squarely on Iron Monger's shoulders, clad in his exoskeleton, the center of his chest dark and deep.
"Give me back my heart, you bastard" he hissed and plunged his hand into the Monger's helmet.
The large hands gripped Iron Man.
Tony gave a heave and pushed down, managed to keep his balance behind Iron Monger and shove him into the white sand, the darkness that surrounded them slowly dripping into the crater Iron Monger's sinking was creating.
There was a loud click as the receptacle was attached to the plate.
"Any leaks?" Medina asked, she was sweating, moving the canister was harder than it looked, bone and titanium were not malleable materials.
The thoracic surgeon stuck his hand deep inside the chest cavity and sucked out the excess fluids.
"Looks like it's sealed up" though suddenly the heart monitor gave a piercing wail and the thoracic surgeon swore loudly "get me the fucking paddles!"
"Are you crazy!? There's an electrical socket attached to him!" Medina shouted over the din "Shocking it will fry him! Not to mention there's a piece of freakin' steel lodged in his heart!
Tony kept hitting the Monger over and over again, until just the helmet was situated above the ground. Tony took off his own helmet and threw it away.
He reached for Obadiah's when a sharp pain brought him to his knees. It was a different pain, not like the one that had been accompanying him throughout his strange journey.
This pain permeated through every organ, his empty chest felt as though it was filled with acid that was spreading throughout.
"Not feeling too well, m'boy?" Obadiah sounded kind, the way Tony remembered him from his childhood.
"Shut up, Stane" Tony gritted out, stood up shakily and staggered to the huge helmet and pried it off.
"Tony, you were a liability" Obadiah's bald head reflected the colour of the sand, and his eyes were moist.
"You're a liar" Tony hissed "You broke my heart and then you had the gall to steal it!"
"I never wanted it to be this way" Obadiah said softly.
"No. I didn't want it to be this way" Tony replied and drove his hand down Obadiah's throat.
"Fuck, his heart is giving out" the surgeon said.
"Potts, get that thing into him now!" Dr. Medina said as she massaged the exposed heart.
Pepper took a deep breath and with shaky hands she picked up the arc reactor from the tray. The wires dangled over the hole and as she inserted her small hand, she smiled to feel the plug in the right place, dead centre, just as Tony had designed it to be. She plugged in the reactor to the plate and carefully placed the reactor in its receptacle, gave it a clockwise turn and locked it in.
Tony's hand was covered in black grease as he brought his arm out of Obadiah who was sinking slowly and silently into the sand. Only a few pieces of the Iron Monger suit lay scattered around Tony's bare feet.
In his black hand was his heart; beating, bleeding and glowing cerulean blue.
"It either kills him or it doesn't, but he's dead if we do nothing, so hand me those fucking paddles and clear!"
Tony blinked as his heart changed colour. The glow was leaving it. A bright red shimmer surrounded it.
Pepper watched Tony's heart being pulsed with electricity, trying to jump-start it like Tony would to his engines. She couldn't help but stare at how beautiful it looked bathed in the cerulean glow.
Tony smiled and looked up to see Pepper standing right next to him.
Without a word she took the pulsing heart from his hand and gently pressed it into the soft spot of his chest, which hardened as he heard the thumping beat surround them.
"Is that all?" he asked.
"Yes" she replied "that's all"
"Close him up. There's nothing else we can do"
TBC in Part 10
Previously
Feedback is love and I reply with great devotion.
Yes, rhyming ain't my forte.
Author: Mel (
eumelia)Disclaimer: Marvel owns it all, I just like to play with other people's toys and get no money from it.
Rating: PG-13, here be some language and violent imagery
Fandom: Iron Man (Movieverse) - this happens approx. a month after the events of the movie.
Characters: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.
Previous Chapters: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8.
Part 9
Pepper took a deep breath. She twisted the arc reactor and for the second time, despite saying she would never so this again, removed the reactor from Tony. She reached inside and unplugged it from the plate and could feel that it was skew. Not aligned flush like it was three months ago.
She tried to think what could have caused such a drastic movement and almost kicked herself for not realizing the fight with Obadiah must have shifted the plate and made the other piece of shrapnel move away from it had originally been.
She gently placed the arc reactor on a surgical tray and held onto the empty receptacle.
She gently tried to twist it and as she did so, blood began to gush out from the flesh around the metal ring. She gave a yelp and saw that the doctors were on top of it, mopping up the blood and suctioning the excess fluids that surrounded the internal organs.
She suddenly felt as though she was stuck in a fantasy story, this was ridiculous!
Tony would have thought it was funny, he had laughed at her when she had been disgusted by the apparatus when she had first replaced it.
She snickered, causing all the doctors stare at her. She quickly composed herself and went back to the task at fixing Tony's broken heart.
Tony felt his blood seep into the soft sand beneath him. Iron Monger's shadow shrouded him. The robotic arm pulled him by the leg, the sand sifted through Tony's fingers.
"You're pathetic" the rumbling voice vibrated through Tony. His chest hurt and the vulnerability of his nudity and soft chest was not enabling him to fight back very well.
"Your last act of defiance, eh, Anthony?" Obadiah lifted him into the air and smashed him back into the sand.
Tony groaned and stood up, looking up at glowing eyes of the helmet.
"I'd like my heart back, you stole it!" this was a dream.
This whole thing was a dream.
He couldn't actually die here.
Iron Monger was shifting and changing, surrounding Tony in a tarnished grey cloud.
Tony stood in the dark.
"This is ridiculous" Tony muttered.
It was the most ridiculous procedure. Pepper tried to twist the receptacle back flush onto the plate but it kept slipping out of her hands and she kept panicking that she's hit an organ Tony might actually need.
She could see his lungs and the stitches that closed the bottom of his wind pipe. The sound of suction, not unlike the kind one heard when the dentist sucks out the spit in ones mouth, filled the room.
One of the machines that was attached to Tony gave a shrill beep and Pepper was unceremoniously pushed out of the way as the doctors began to check everything and shouting at each other in Medical Jargon.
Pepper blinked and swallowed convulsively.
This was worse than not knowing whether Tony was alive or dead.
She was watching him die.
The darkness would have been suffocating if Tony hadn't been so angry.
As angry as he felt when he realized Obadiah's double dealing and betrayal.
Tony knew what he was looking for and walked towards it.
Pepper was breathing harshly. Tears streaming down her face for the first time since Tony had lost consciousness. The machines around the table were screaming and loud, she felt dizzy and ill. She wasn't sure if she could handle this.
"Potts!" shouted Medina "Show me what to do! His blood pressure is too high; he'll go into cardiac arrest if we don't fix this tin can of his!"
Pepper stood next to the doctor and said shakily "Th-the receptacle has to be flush against the plate. I can't move it, the bone-"
"I'll handle that" said Medina and pressed her fingers between the rib cage and the titanium.
Tony heard thumping sounds and knew he was close. He ran towards the sound and as it grew louder he leaped and landed squarely on Iron Monger's shoulders, clad in his exoskeleton, the center of his chest dark and deep.
"Give me back my heart, you bastard" he hissed and plunged his hand into the Monger's helmet.
The large hands gripped Iron Man.
Tony gave a heave and pushed down, managed to keep his balance behind Iron Monger and shove him into the white sand, the darkness that surrounded them slowly dripping into the crater Iron Monger's sinking was creating.
There was a loud click as the receptacle was attached to the plate.
"Any leaks?" Medina asked, she was sweating, moving the canister was harder than it looked, bone and titanium were not malleable materials.
The thoracic surgeon stuck his hand deep inside the chest cavity and sucked out the excess fluids.
"Looks like it's sealed up" though suddenly the heart monitor gave a piercing wail and the thoracic surgeon swore loudly "get me the fucking paddles!"
"Are you crazy!? There's an electrical socket attached to him!" Medina shouted over the din "Shocking it will fry him! Not to mention there's a piece of freakin' steel lodged in his heart!
Tony kept hitting the Monger over and over again, until just the helmet was situated above the ground. Tony took off his own helmet and threw it away.
He reached for Obadiah's when a sharp pain brought him to his knees. It was a different pain, not like the one that had been accompanying him throughout his strange journey.
This pain permeated through every organ, his empty chest felt as though it was filled with acid that was spreading throughout.
"Not feeling too well, m'boy?" Obadiah sounded kind, the way Tony remembered him from his childhood.
"Shut up, Stane" Tony gritted out, stood up shakily and staggered to the huge helmet and pried it off.
"Tony, you were a liability" Obadiah's bald head reflected the colour of the sand, and his eyes were moist.
"You're a liar" Tony hissed "You broke my heart and then you had the gall to steal it!"
"I never wanted it to be this way" Obadiah said softly.
"No. I didn't want it to be this way" Tony replied and drove his hand down Obadiah's throat.
"Fuck, his heart is giving out" the surgeon said.
"Potts, get that thing into him now!" Dr. Medina said as she massaged the exposed heart.
Pepper took a deep breath and with shaky hands she picked up the arc reactor from the tray. The wires dangled over the hole and as she inserted her small hand, she smiled to feel the plug in the right place, dead centre, just as Tony had designed it to be. She plugged in the reactor to the plate and carefully placed the reactor in its receptacle, gave it a clockwise turn and locked it in.
Tony's hand was covered in black grease as he brought his arm out of Obadiah who was sinking slowly and silently into the sand. Only a few pieces of the Iron Monger suit lay scattered around Tony's bare feet.
In his black hand was his heart; beating, bleeding and glowing cerulean blue.
"It either kills him or it doesn't, but he's dead if we do nothing, so hand me those fucking paddles and clear!"
Tony blinked as his heart changed colour. The glow was leaving it. A bright red shimmer surrounded it.
Pepper watched Tony's heart being pulsed with electricity, trying to jump-start it like Tony would to his engines. She couldn't help but stare at how beautiful it looked bathed in the cerulean glow.
Tony smiled and looked up to see Pepper standing right next to him.
Without a word she took the pulsing heart from his hand and gently pressed it into the soft spot of his chest, which hardened as he heard the thumping beat surround them.
"Is that all?" he asked.
"Yes" she replied "that's all"
"Close him up. There's nothing else we can do"
TBC in Part 10
Previously
Feedback is love and I reply with great devotion.
Yes, rhyming ain't my forte.
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Date: 2008-06-17 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-17 09:42 pm (UTC)I kept getting confused ;)
Love the icon, very apropo.
Thank you so much for reading.
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Date: 2008-06-17 09:55 pm (UTC)"arghleuh!" will be my word for today :D
Can't wait for the next part :D
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Date: 2008-06-17 10:02 pm (UTC)You won't have to wait long.
I promise.
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Date: 2008-06-17 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-17 10:03 pm (UTC)I can't wait either!
:D
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Date: 2008-06-18 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-18 05:41 am (UTC)Thank you for what you said about the characters, I was worried I was making them OOC, so I had to really keep in mind what they would in the situation.
I'm so glad you (and everyone) is enjoying the story.