Who: Tony Stark and Bruce Banner NPCs: -- When: Saturday, September 19, 2009, afternoon Where: Avengers Mansion What: Tony finally faces Bruce after the Abomination's destructive path. Rating: PG-13
What other excuse did a grown man have for sleeping curled up on the floor in the middle of the living room rather than on the couch other than he was extremely exhausted? That was the question anyone probably would have asked themselves when they walked through the mansion to find a very worn out Tony Stark curled into a fetal position just on the floor next to the long, overstuffed couch. He'd sat down on the thing just long enough to take a small breather and grab a bottle of water but before he knew it, he had been stretched out on it, snoring before he'd rolled off of it.
Ever since she'd been hospitalized, Tony had pushed himself to his very limits, running on caffeine and little to eat as he researched the nanotechnology more, spending as much time as possible on it in between his visits with Pepper and working with her doctors about the upcoming arrangements for when she would be released and her physical therapy and what not. Meetings and mundane company business was left to his temporary assistant Natalia. He couldn't be bothered with them right now, not when he was working so diligently to getting the technology to fix Pepper closer and closer to a breakthrough.
So on the plush carpeting he lay, every so often mumbling Pepper's name...