Warnings: cursing bullying kinda.

Tony had just barely made to the top of the stairs when he had to us the wall to stop himself from ending up on the floor,  and a hand on his chest in some failed attempt to ease the pain, and that's the first time Logan spoke.

"you good bub" it was gruff and every clear that he didn't really give two shits weather Tony was good or not. 

in Lou of an answer Tony still keeping his hand on the wall and started down the hall he knew like the back of his hand. three doors down was the one he was looking for, the door had four laters carved into it. 

C.J and C.B.

and Tony didn't know why but seeing them made something deep down in him ache. how had Clint gone from being his best and only friend to hating his guts. Not that he could blame Clint much.

no. no your a stark man up. you don't need Clint or any of the other avengers to be your friends. he had pepper happy  Rhode and the bots. he didn't need the rest. or at least that's what he tried telling himself.

Tony opened the door but before he stepped in Logan spoke.

"You may be able to hide what you are from them rest of um but I can smell it, your just as mutant as I'm am bub. And one helluav powerful one at that, and I don't give a shit why your hiding it from them but when the time comes you best be ready to use'um."

Tony froze, he knew how the fuck?

"I'm sure you've term ripple affect."  

"When you own a multi million dollar company you affect hundreds of thousands of people in many ways shapes and forms."

"Let me tell you what would happen If someone was to find out I am a mutant. what would happen is I would have SI taken from me, which means no more funding for S.H.I.E.L.D , the avengers or the x-men, or any of the other hundreds of thing I fund. No more new weapons for the X-men avengers. No more new design's for my R&D department no more new designs means layoffs in the thousands. So now we have people out fighting to keep this world safe without updated weapons, thousands of people unable to pay rent or buy food for them selfie's and there kids."

"You my not give a shit why I hide my mutation but I'm gonna tell you anyway"

I don't hide it to keep myself safe, Or because I'm because I stopped giving two shits what happens to me a long time ago  and I could kill everyone within a mile of here without even breaking a sweat. I hide it because of all the people I'd hurt just because of what I am."

"I don't envy you bub" 

"So I'm guessing this means you won't be ready when the time comes?"

"When the time comes I'll be there, but not as iron man or tony stark, I'll be there as an X-men. I still can't let anyone know"

"That's good enough for me" I And with that Logan stocked down the hall. Leaving tony to let the reality of what had just been said to sink in.

Tony's been laying in bed for over an hour unable to sleep despite having not slept in the last 3  days. Between the overwhelming pain in his chest and the weight of the conversion with Logan tony just couldn't sleep. Because deep down he know that he wasn't going to leave this place without the rest of the avengers finding out what he was, and maybe deep down that's why he instead they come to help. Not just to try an keep them safe.

Because Tony lied to all of them about most everything. fury assigning them to help the X-men was a lie. Charles had called tony to warn him that magneto was telling his followers that he would soon have the most powerful mutant alive in there  control, and with jeans powers half locked away that left tony.

But as far as Charles knew the brotherhood thought they were looking for carter Jarvis, but neither Charles nor tony where able to find out how he was being tracked, only that the brotherhood tracked him to New York. So he'd sent happy and pepper to London for some SI business and brought the avengers with him here to keep them safe, for now. 

Sighing tony tried rolling over so he would be on his back. Bad idea.

Moving made the fire of burning tearing pain skyrocket and he could no long hold back, his pained scream or his powers.

Jean has been showing the avengers the grounds, and after spending an hour or so with her Steve knew he would never understand how someone could hate her because of her powers. She was nice and smart.

How could people, Tony, think someone like Jean where bad simply because she had power's didn't they  get that everyone was capable of good and evil, right and wrong, no matter who much power there do or don't have?

"Alright everyone". Jean turned to the team.

"The professor wants me to let you know that there's been a change in sleeping arrangements. They're's been a new arrival, so the professor has bad the new comer put in Mr Barton's room. And since the only other room that is housing one of your team  is big enough for and already as two beds that's where you'll be staying. Your thing will be moved there shortly"

"Who has the room with the other bed" Clint ask the rest of the team, they all looked at him and shook their head. 

"Wait. If none of you.... OH FUCK." 

"Language" Steve yelled because hey the  place is filled with kids.

"You'd be cursing to it you had to share a room with stark" Clint yelled back 

"We could swop rooms" Bruce offered. "You can take my room and I'll stay with Tony"  I'm afraid the professor insists that things start as they are" Jean replied.

It looked as if Clint was about to argue when out of know where the whole building started to shake violently. So violent that Steve the the house might come crashing down around them. But it was just the shaking  the fact that half the objects with in sight where floating  was unnerving but none of that was as haunting as the in human screaming that came with it.

The shaking and floating objects only lasted a few seconds before everything came chasing down.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Logan asked running into the room with Scott hot on his heels.

"Tony" Bruce breathed in horror and took off up the stairs yelling back down wanting to know which room was Tony's. Instead of answering Logan took off after him to lead the way. neither one of them heard the rest of the avenger and jean fallow.

What they found when they got the door open made  Bruce's heart drop into the pit of his stomach.

The room looked as if a bomb had gone off. There was little bits of plaster, clothes and chairs littered the floor, but none of the was as bad as what lay on the bed. "Tony" it came out as almost a whisper, Bruce had never seen the man so still. He was unbelievable  pale clothes soaked though with sweat and his chest was hardly rising.

Bruce quickly made his way to tony and what he saw when he got closer only made it harder to keep the other guy from coming out to play, the other guy seemed to like tony the best out of the rest of the team, and Bruce could fell the other guys need to protect Tony.

Tony was still wearing the same sunglasses as earlier today and his face was fever  flushed, which if his earlier spell on the jet had truly been and migraine then this wouldn't be happening.

Bruce turned to Logan and said " you must know what's going on, Xavier must have told you when he told you to bring tony up here"

"He didn't tell me to bring him up here, he told me to make sure he got here safely. And he never told to what's wrong with him. But he almost collapsed at the top of the stairs and had a hand on his chest."

so it was what bruce had thought it was on the jet.

he'd only seen if once and Tony'd down played it of course, and of course  Bruce hadn't buy'd it for a second. the arc reactor was the only thing keeping Tony alive, but some day's it made him feel as if he where dying, that's what Tony had told him when he saw him unimaginable pain in the lab one day. and according to JARVIS it was the only time Tony had ever let anyone help him. 

"what happened in here" bruce heard Steve say from the door. " it looks like a bomb went off"

"Bruce what's going on, what's wrong with Tony" Natasha asked as she came to stand next to him.

and Bruce was unsure of weather or not to answer any of them, the other's didn't deserve to know after the way they all treated Tony over the last few days. and Bruce briefly wondered if anyone else had figured it out yet. that the man they've been accusing of hating mutants is in fact one himself.

Bruce laid his hand one Tony's sweat covered forehead, and could fell the heat of a pain induced fever. the moment his hand touched Tony the man started to stir. mumbling broken cry's of pain.

"hey Tony can you hear me, it's me Bruce"

the only response he got form Tony was another pained groan. Bruce wanted to take the sunglasses off of Tony so he got get a better look at him but he also didn't want to cause the man more pain if he had a headache to go along with the chest pain.

with a sigh Bruce ran a hand down his face then reached into his pocket and retrieved his phone.

" Bruce widow asked you a question" Steve now in captain asshole mode as Tony called it, said, and he looked as if he was about to step farther into the room but Logan stepped in front of him, arm's crossed wearing a look that said I don't think so mother fucker. 

and that's when Bruce gave in.

" nothing is wrong per-say, it's just that the thing that keeps him alive makes him feel like he's dying  sometimes."  

bruce thought it best to us tony's own words to explain it to them.

" you can all go there's know danger to Tony, the pain will pass at some point in the next few hours, seeing's how this looks to be the worst of it." 

bruce himself wouldn't have minded them staying so he wouldn't have to deal with this on his own, but he know Tony well enough to know the other man would want to be as far away from any living breathing being while in this much pain. because for some reason Tony thought himself weak for how he was now, where bruce saw him as one of the strongest people because of it. Bruce had asked JARVIS just how much pain Tony was really in when this happened, and he told him most people would die due to the pain. because yes it is interlay possible to die from being in so much pain.

"where not going anywhere's, you tell us that Tony  fells like he's dying then tell us there no danger and we can go. that's bullshit, and how the hell do you even know any of this." Clint yelled making Tony moan and roll his head. because he did in fact have a headache, bruce now knew thanks to JARVIS hum he'd been texting during Clint's little temper tantrum.

bruce slid his phone back into his pocket and turned his full attention to the team. 

" I know this because I was with Tony in the lab one day when it happened. and as for you leaving would you want a group of people around you while you'er in pain bad enough to kill you?" 

" where not just some people, where his team" Steve tried, in a claim voice that for some reason just pissed Bruce off more.

" oh really? his team, well way I see it none of you have any reason to be here, you've all been a bunch of assholes to him, and not just over the last few days either since the begging, always accusing him of only doing this for himself, of thinking he's above everyone, of being an arrogant self centered dick. when it was all of doing thing for yourselves, acting like dick's because he's smarter then all of us and acts it because that's just who he is. smart."

 "I can't even figure out why he let any of you stay. me included, but at least I try to got to know him before making up my mind. I mean what would you do if you had four people move in with and  you do everything for them, make sure they have everything they need and want, take care of all of there gear and keep there ass's off the hot seat of the media and government. would you let them stat and let them see you at your lowest."

by the end of bruce's tyrant he was more then a little green, and the rest of the avengers had all found something intriguing about the floor.

After talking a few deep claiming breaths Bruce spoke again.

"Everyone out" 

No one argued this time  because they knew they didn't have a leg to stand on. 

Bruce turned back to tony and removed his sunglasses after Logan, who hadn't left with the other's, closed the blinds. What he saw wasn't as shocking to him as it probably should have been. Tony's eyes where glowing blue.