Tony, Tony

TWO

"Brood..." Tony thought to himself.... Some would say he was brooding, which explains why he said that.

Stark clenched the wheel of one of his many expensive cars. He was sitting in it, sobbing. That pepper grinder was sitting, buckled in to the seat beside him. "Safety first." That's what his dad had always told him as a kid when Tony was playing near the missiles.... That is, until his dad died.

Stark sat, staring up at the starry night sky. He took a shallow breath and whispered, "Is this the end?"

(It's not.)