Fall Slowly

Lock Out

I walked into the lab carrying the box with the present I had made for Tony.

"Hey you didn't hear the intercom?"

"Nope." He said and I looked at him to see him holding out his arm our with some sort of cannon on it

"I thought you were done making weapons?"

"This is a flight stabilizer, totally harmless."

"Obadiah is upstairs, he wants to talk to about the board meeting." I said eyeing the thing on his arm

"Hmm." He said then the thing started humming like a jet engine and the next thing I know Tony went flying back into the wall

"Oh my God!" I rushed over to help him up

"I wasn't expecting that." He said steadying himself

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"What is this for?" I asked looking at the thing on his arm

"Top secret."

'Ok.. it's time for you to take a break, Obadiah brought you pizza-"

"Wait he brought pizza?"

"Yeah."

"That's not good."

"Well clean up and come upstairs." I told him and he nodded then took the flight thing off his arm and I looked at him again then I headed upstairs and saw Obadiah at the piano

"He's on his way up." I said sitting on the couch and he nodded and kept playing the piano. I checked my texts it was from Jax Abel got out of the incubator today. I couldn't help but smile he was doing so great he might be able to go home in a few weeks I loved seeing his cute little smile and the adorable innocent blue eyes he looked so much like Jax it was crazy. I never looked forward to Charming but I really couldn't wait to hold him in my arms

"How did it go?" I heard Tony ask I looked up to see him standing in front of the piano, Obadiah didn't answer him

"That bad huh?" He said sitting next to me and grabbing a piece a pizza

"you have a bruise." I said pointing at the newly formed bruise on his cheek

"I think I'll live."

"Just because I brought back pizza doesn't mean anything." Obadiah said as he finally stopped playing

"Uh-huh."

"it would've went better if you where there." He said and I looked at Tony

"I told-" He cut me off

"Don't." He said and I chuckled

"You told me to lay low.'

"From the public, this was board of directors meeting." He told him and Tony looked up in disbelief

"This was a board of directors meeting?" He askew turning to me

"Yes, I told you."

"You did?"

"Yes!"

"Hmm so what did they say?" He asked

"They believe you have P.T.S.D so they are filing an injunction." He said I looked up at him in shock

"A what?" Tony asked

"They want to lock you out."

"Why? Because the stocks dipped 46 points?"

"56 and half." I corrected and he turned to me he was mad I could tell

"It doesn't matter we own the controlling interest." He snapped and I held up my hands

"Tony the board has rights too, and they don't believe this new direction is in the company's best interest."

"I'm being responsible, that the new direction for me!" He said and I looked him

"I mean on the company's behalf." He said and I looked at him

"Tony listen I'm trying to turn this around but you have to give me something." He said placing he hands on Tony's shoulders

"I'll tell you what why don't you let the engineers look at that." He said tapping his arc-reactor making me frown, he was up to something

"No, no, no this stays with me."

"It will give me a bone to throw to them." He said and I was wondering when did he become so interested in the arc-reactor, when he just told Tony it would be a waste of time.

"Forget it Obi." He said grabbing the pizza box

"Well this stays with me." He said taking the pizza box from Tony I just rolled my eyes

"Well here take a piece." He said and Tony took two pieces out of the box then headed back downstairs

"Can I at least come down and see what your working on?" He asked

"Night Obi!" He called Obadiah sighed then turned to me

"Can you talk to him?" He asked softly I raised my eyebrows I always got the impression he never liked me so the fact he was pretending to be so nice was throwing me for a loop

"I'll try but I don't think there much to talk about. We just need to just trust him he's never steered this company wrong before." I told him and he nodded

"Just keep him laying low, he's not going to the benefit tomorrow right?"

"No." I shook my head

"Good." He said then get sat the pizza box down and grabbed his jacket and left.