𝙩𝙪 𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨 - p. jackson [₂]

𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒊𝒊.

"𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓."

killian's voice woke me.

for the first time — in what felt like a long time — there was no pain.

"oh and you're awake. welcome back to the land of the living, riley," killian grinned. 

i groaned, feeling weird. even though my body was fine, i actually didn't even have a scratch on me, i felt like i was missing something.

"what did you do to me?" my voice was merely croak.

"oh, i just tried some of the extremis serum on you, and i gotta tell you," he clicked his tongue, and continued. "it was unlike anything i've ever seen before. there was this... thing inside of you. it fought extremis, and it fought it well. we were up to four doses. we actually made it up to seven, until finally, that thing went dormant. and your body's finally accepted extremis."

"he's not going to help you," i told killian. "unlike you, my dad's got morals."

"well, they don't matter to him if you are pepper are involved," he said to me, a smile still on his face. "we both know that."

and as killian walked away, i couldn't help but wonder if that was true.

a thud sounded a while later, waking me again.