InsaneJournal

dreams: reveal
WHO: tied tight
WHAT: Reveals
WARNING: No?

Angry.

He'd been so angry.

Snapping from tense control (that he'd clung to with all of his ability) to a hot rage in seconds. All because that invader (Death?) had threatened to turn off the metronome. The clicking pace that never wavered, that gave him something to focus on. He was never one to analyze dreams for meaning, but some of the things - symbols or reality - were hard to miss. The tie that dug into his throat like a collar, the rope around his waist, the glass cage of a penthouse high above the city. It had been his life for years, and especially since returning.

But all of that was pushed away by the anger that carried over from the dream (if that was truly what it was) to the present. He could feel it bubbling up inside of him, the background static from that penthouse growing louder and louder, and he knew it wasn't static. It was everything in him that he tried to push down, everything that tore away at a calm he'd learned to cling to with every rational fiber of his being. But the dream snapped those threads of control like spider silk in a hurricane.

It wasn't the non-dream's penthouse, but he was high above the ground, in a different chair, looking out at a different city far below. He knew that outside the windows were millions of people just looking to go about their day, people that didn't deserve destruction, injury, and death. He told himself that, a litany of desperate words in his mind as he tried to breathe through the creeping rage. Those people didn't deserve…

It was out of his control. The years he'd fought to find a center of calm, to keep the destructive monster locked away inside of himself, all ruined by something that wasn't quite a dream.

"No…"

He could deny it all he wanted, but there wasn't a way to stop it. The buzz of rage continued to grow louder, eating away at his control until all he could do was stumble out of the chair, hands pressed to the glass of the windows before clenching into fists.

"JARVIS... Tell Tony…"