Re: [Facility: Tony Triage]
[Pepper didn't leave. Not for the hours during which Penny, Bruce and Faol worked. Not as the machines hummed, nor as the cadre of expensive doctors and nursing staff hovered nearby, their approval a thick and physical weight at her back. If he died, she didn't know if she'd forgive herself. Selina had left as if by not being present for this last burgeon of hope, she could ignore it was the slimmest sliver. She stood by James's side and she waited.
Tony moved, and the medical equipment protested, with the lack of politeness Pepper associated with JARVIS and all the functions of Stark Industries technology. Her throat constricted words down to nothing, hot salt in eyes and she looked at Bruce, joy and fear very readable on her face.
And then at Tony. Stupid, much-loved Tony, surrounded by people who tried to drag him back from wherever his intellect had taken him.]
Well done. [A croak, words like sandpaper. Gratitude in them.] Well done, all of you.