When they came to the waiting area it was decided that Pepper and bruce will go first. Then Clint and Natasha and Thor said that he will wait till all his fellow comrades were satisfied with their visit to Anthony.

Pepper stopped at the door and preparing herself for what she needed to face. She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked that it was Bruce.

"Pepper I want you to know that he will be attached to a lot of machines and would not look so good and truth to be told he's not fine. But don't worry he'll be okay. You need to keep your strength for him." Pepper just nodded, wiped her eyes and entered the room.

Bruce gently took Pepper's hand as they shakily walked towards the room both scared at what they were about to see.

When they opened the door nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sight before them.

Tony lay unconscious in a hospital bed with wires and tubes hooked up to him just like Bruce said. But even preparing for a year wouldn't have made it any easier to see their resident mechanic lay so still.

Pepper (who looked like she was about to faint) slowly slid down in the chair next to him and clutched his hand and closed her eyes.

It broke Bruce's heart to see them like this. It was all Bruce could do to keep from hulking out.

Pepper was murmuring somethings to Tony and Bruce felt the emotions swelling up inside him.

It has been 5 hours Bruce has made everyone go back to the tower and rest promising that he'll give them an update every now and then.

But of course Pepper refused and stayed refusing to leave Tony's side even for a min.

Bruce watching Pepper nodding of near Tony's bed excused himself to bring some coffee for when the poor girl wakes up.

Pepper heard the beeping noise and instantly woke up. She saw that Tony had started to panick and gently pushed him down.

"Tony calm down. Its me Pepper."

All the credit goes to #steelate for this chapter

Thanks a lot steelate as for without you this chapter wouldn't have been possible

Jimenush-thanks for motivating me to write again.

ANd from now on this story would be updated regularly .

Sorry for the inconvenience guys!