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A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them
And now it's left blind
- Cosmic Love, Florence and the Machine
Tony saw Steve leave with Bucky. Tony wanted to get up, to yell at Steve and Bucky, to scream at Steve as to why he betrayed Tony, to question his partner whether he knew what he was doing to his children. Tony wanted to beg him to stay, to apologise for all he had done. But Tony had no energy, he couldn't even move.
Tony knew that if Steve took one more blow that he would have been dead.
Tony knew he should try and get help, try and make a signal, or see if there was a way to communicate with others, but he was numb, and he couldn't even move even if he wanted to.
Tony's mind began to wonder, to when Peter first moved into Steve and Tony's home, how shy he was. Tony remembered their first holiday to Cyprus, he remembered helping Peter with his homework and Steve training with him (light training, Tony always insisted). Tony remembered when they adopted Sarah as a baby, after finding out that not only was she abandoned, she was nameless. Tony just looked at her and saw Steve.
Tony smiled weakly, despite his predicament, his eyes closed with exhaustion. Part of Tony just wanted to give up and slip into to infinite slumber that threatened his subconscious, but another, more dominant part wanted him to get back up and go back to his children - Steve may have left them but he certainly wouldn't!
Tony reopened his eyes, to see a black dot in the distance coming closer towards him. Panic took hold of Tony's body, unknowing if it were friend or foe.
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Peter looked around at the rest of the people on the helicarrier, anxiety keeping him on high alert.
"Is there no way you can hurry this up?" Peter demanded, looking at the nameless agents around him.
"Peter we are going as quick as we can! Now please calm down!" A blonde woman said, who Peter had no recognition of.
"How dare you! You my dad could be - could be" Peter was unable to finish his sentence as a sob had threatened to break out.
"Peter, please calm down, we are not to know of how your father is" Vision comforted, sitting down next to the teenager.
"Vision, I just don't know what to do, I mean dad may be dead, and, and Steve" Peter spat out, "just left!"
"You can't be completely sure of that yet, you can't just assume" Vision said, trying to be the voice of reason.
"Well what else would have happened? Steve left the shield and left with Bucky." The teen ran a hand through his hair, "I have Sarah to think about too, she's only 5, what if Tony is dead - we'll be orphans again"
"No one will allow you two to become orphans and if anything were to happen you'd be in Pepper or Rhodey's care, even I'm put down incase of an emergency! Now King T'challa said that Tony will survive, that he is not fatally injured!"
Peter rolled his eyes, knowing that he will get nowhere and turned around, going on to his phone.
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The helicarrier landed outside, and the opening slowly went down. Tony was close enough to see Peter begin running out. Tony gathered the remaining strength he had and sat up and called out to Peter.
Peter saw his father through the gap in the wall and he ran faster, uncaring of the way his muscles burned. He ran over to Tony's limp body.
"Dad are you okay?" Peter asked, hysterical.
Tony opened his eyes, and looked into his sons eyes, that were beginning to fill with tears.
Agents entered the room, spreading around to scout the area. Vision floated over to them, kneeling next to father and son.
"Peter we need to bring him to the helicarrier so he can get help" Vision said, putting his hand on Peter's back.
Peter nodded and got up, as Vision picked up Tony's limp body, and followed on the way back to the helicarrier.
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The helicarrier was filled with hustle and bustle, as doctors and nurses moved around Tony. Peter sat on a chair in a corner watching them move about, first trying to remove the suit.
The space was filled with tension as nurses started to put IV tubes into Tony and started taking his vitals. The heart rate monitor he had just been plugged into starred beeping like crazy, his rate jumping from dangerously low to incredibly high.
Peter spotted two doctors in the corner whispering to each other, looking concerningly at Tony. Anxiety knotted in Peter's stomach, and he found himself beginning to shake as he tried to stand up. Peter somehow managed it and walked towards the door. The boy took a few steps out of the room before his legs give out under him and he collapses in tears.
The blonde agent from earlier spotted him, and rushed towards him in concern, "Peter, are you okay?", she put her arm around him as she knelt be beside him.
"No! My dad's doing badly, he may not make it, according to some of the doctors, and Pops has just left us with - with Bucky" he spat out the man's name, " so no, I am not in fact doing ok." Peter looked up at the blonde and frowned at her, "I'm sorry, but who are you?"
"My name's Sharon Carter, and I used to work for Shield, and I'm friends with your father Steve" Sharon said, smiling warmly at the teenager.
"Oh." Peter said, remembering Steve telling him about the woman, how fond of her, he was.
"Well I have to go sort some things out, but I'll come over when we land, go get some rest" Sharon instructed, patting the boys back.
Peter nodded and got up slowly, "OK, I'll go find Vision."
They walked out of the corridor together and then went their separate ways.
Peter walked down to Vision's area and he saw the android staring into space.
"Vision, can I come in?" Peter asked, knocking softly.
"You can" Vision said turning towards Peter.
"I - I didn't want to be alone, I was wondering if I could stay here" Peter asked shyly.
"Of course" Vision said, moving to make room for Peter.
"What do you think of what's happened? I don't know what to think" Peter sighed, "I want to try and forgive Pops, but then I think of what he did to dad, I remember that he didn't even bother to listen to the reason's and I think of how he chose Bucky over his family and I -" Peter broke off, tears falling down his face.
"I feel the same, this whole situation was blown out of proportion, none of us truly wanted to hurt anyone, but we let our own agendas get between us" Vision sighed, looking out of the window at the stormy sky. "I don't know what caused the fight in Siberia, it was to my belief that your dad was going to try and help but then something happened."
Vision looked at Peter, and pushed down his own worries and upset, "get some sleep, I'll wake you if anything changes or we land"
Peter looked at Vision and smiled slightly, "thank you, Vision"
Vision smiled back, and went to sit on a chair at the desk, leaving the bed for Peter.
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The android looked down at the human boy and sighed. He never thought that the argument between the avengers would have gotten so far. It all blew up so quickly, one minute it was just tension, and then they were fighting in the airport, then it escalated to the fight between Steve, Tony and Bucky, which no one knew the meaning of.
Vision felt terrible for Steve and Tony's children. Sarah was so young, too young, for this all to be happening to her. And Peter. Peter always says that he is old enough, that he is all grown up because he is Spiderman, but Vision could see the pain that he was in. He wished that there was a way that all this could have happened without it affecting everything, that it could sort it out, but obviously that wasn't meant to be.
Now he'll just have to try and heal Tony and look after him and his kids, whilst all the broken relationships with the other relationships somehow sorted themselves out. Vision thought to himself, he may only be a year old, but he is already too old for this.