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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Feb 6, 2013 22:11:57 GMT -5
Continued from: Westminster+AbbeyJess hung up the phone, dropping it to the floor, and leaned her head against the couch. She barely heard Jarvis welcome Tony home as she closed her eyes.
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Post by Tony Stark on Feb 19, 2013 23:28:52 GMT -5
He'd been running the numbers, and if his calculations were correct, all it would take was a few more adjustments and--
He slowed as he spotted Jess on the couch.
"Hey, hon. You all right?"
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Feb 20, 2013 3:02:59 GMT -5
Jess didn't open her eyes as she all ready felt the tears threatening her lids. It had been so easy to tell Bruce, to ask him to take her out when it got out of hand.
Because it would, it always did with her.
"Tony," she opened her eyes and looked over "we need to talk."
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Post by Tony Stark on Feb 21, 2013 16:30:40 GMT -5
He moved quickly over to her side, winding an arm around her shoulders.
"All right. Let's sit down first, hmm?"
There were all sorts of alarms going off in his head, but he couldn't think of what it could be. With Jess, he tended to have a blind spot.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Feb 21, 2013 20:28:11 GMT -5
She moved sort of like the dead, her feet were too heavy for her body and it was hard to tell them what to do. Once they made it to the couch she looked out toward where the sun was now setting and her lip quivered, she barely felt Tony's arm.
"I've been, no" she coughed and took a deep breath, still unable to look him in the eye "god, okay, I've been pushing off this conversation for a while now. I thought, maybe if I could take care of it? Maybe it would just go away, but it hasn't." She turned to him, face full of fear, eyes brimming with tears "You, you remember, fuck."
She couldn't look him in the eye, she was about to destroy their bubble and it was killing her.
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She reached up and pressed her fingers swiftly to the bridge of her nose Fuck off! Just give me this you twisted bitch. There was no response "Tony, you, do you remember what I told you, about London two years ago? About attacking my brother and his girlfriend?"
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Post by Tony Stark on Mar 11, 2013 14:29:03 GMT -5
It wasn't until the spill of words that he got an idea of what this was about, but he wasn't going to interrupt until he was absolutely sure--and he was also feeling bad, considering that he had been keeping quiet on something major, too.
Knowing all of that didn't stop that sinking feeling from developing.
"I remember. You went into hiding, did what you had to do for the ones you cared about."
But the fact that it was being brought up, and her so upset...
"What's happened, Jess?" He asked softly.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Mar 12, 2013 2:39:32 GMT -5
"Tony she's not going away, I thought maybe I was just having flashbacks because of the PTSD? That they were just memories? But they're not, she was suppose to be gone" she turned her head so that he could see her eyes "it's only a matter of time before I can't hold her back anymore, or if I am even holding her back. She plays games, think's she's a comedian and I went to Bruce and I told him, Tony, fuck, I told him, when she came back to kill me, he won't Tony he's got his code and he wont I can't let her hurt you, I can't let her hurt anyone-"
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Post by Tony Stark on Mar 17, 2013 0:15:38 GMT -5
There was one, overriding thought in his head: No. No no no no no NO.
Not after finally finding a kind of happiness he'd never had before, not after all the terrible things that had happened to either of them, they both should have some time to themselves.
"Dammit, dammit. You don't deserve this--" He suddenly pulled her into an almost frantic hug, kissing her forehead. He slowed as what else she'd said filtered through.
"You...you told him to do what?" He asked incredulously.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Mar 17, 2013 1:40:11 GMT -5
She had managed to crawl herself partially in his lap and buried her head in his chest, the arc reactor shone bright even with her eyes closed.
"From what I understand" she damn near whimpered "she didn't manage to kill anyone last time, but this time, she seems angrier, she wants revenge and that means on my brother, that means on his wife and that means on me. She'll do everything in her power to destroy everything I love, and Tony" she looked up black streaks down the side of her face where her makeup had smeared "she has a lot of power, I can't let her, please don't let her-"
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Post by Tony Stark on Mar 25, 2013 17:23:56 GMT -5
"There has to be a way...I can't just...something...something to make her go away."
A cold chill was slowly making it's way through him, a horrible feeling of helplessness.
"You can't die on me."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Mar 27, 2013 0:15:04 GMT -5
Jess reached up and touched his neck to get as close to him as possible. She felt raised lines along him skin and her tears intensified.
"I guess we were both keeping something from the other" she laid her hand flat and looked up at him, attempting to keep her breathing under control. Tears were one thing but she didn't need a panic attack at the same time.
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Post by Tony Stark on Mar 28, 2013 1:10:35 GMT -5
It took a moment for him to answer, as what she'd noticed was also accompanied by a stab of pain. When it finally passed, and he could speak, he said in a strained voice:
"You're...right. I've been wanting to tell you, but not knowing how."
He looked down, right into her eyes.
"It's the palladium. It's...poisoning me."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Mar 28, 2013 22:08:16 GMT -5
"Oh god dammit" she pressed her face in to his neck and kissed.
She was visibly shaking and feared her breakfast of cigarettes and donuts were going to come up at any moment. She kept them down through force of will and cried.
She wasn't sure how long she cried before she managed to get herself together.
"I never wanted you to see me like this" she muttered.
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Post by Tony Stark on Mar 29, 2013 13:58:17 GMT -5
"We always want the ones we love to see us at our best," he said, kissing her.
"I don't even know how to solve it. I need a replacement for the palladium, but nothing exists that can do the job."
He glanced down at the blue glow on his chest.
"The thing that's keeping me alive is also killing me, and I don't have a damned solution.
I'm so sorry, Jess. For...hell. All this misery."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Apr 2, 2013 1:16:14 GMT -5
She laughed "Misery, needs, company" she tightened her grip on him and was quiet.
"I don't know how much time we have left together, but, I want you to know, I love you. I'm not sure why this is happening to us, I know that we deserve it-" she coughed and wiped her eyes "and neither of us can deny that. But the people we care for don't, Pepper, Severus, Jenn, they don't deserve the shit that's coming for them- fuck Tony you have to live, you have to figure this out."
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