Sue sat in her office with her head in her hands. The contract under her waited impatiently to be signed, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. With one stroke of her pen, Reed's company would be in the hands of someone else. It would be the last thing that Reed left behind, and she was giving it away like it was nothing.

'Susie, just sign it,' Johnny groaned from his chair. He sat in a grey t-shirt and black jeans; his head thrown back as he stared at the high ceiling. He agreed to come to Sue's office to give some emotional support, but he thought it would be done and dusted by now. The contract was left unsigned and after thirty minutes of Sue staring at it, Johnny was prepared for forge her signature so they could leave.

'I can't, Johnny,' she pulled her head up to stare at him. 'Reed worked so hard for this. His life's work came from this company and I'm giving it away! I feel so awful.'

'Nothing's going to change,' Johnny shrugged as he looked at his sister. He leaned forward to pull the pendulum back on a newton's cradle decoration that sat on Sue's desk. The silver ball collided with its neighbour and sent the momentum into motion. The click of each ball irritated Sue, but she knew it would be offensive to Pepper, who gave it to her as a present, if she threw it out.

'They could change everything,' Sue swung her roller chair around and stood up to stare out the window. 'Reed would be rolling in his grave right now...'

'Technically he'd be floating through space so...'

Sue shot around and glared fiercely at Johnny. The Storm shut his mouth and put the back of his hand to his lips. His elbow sat on the armrest of his chair and he lowered his head. Sue's pencil skirt and blazer made her feel hot in the cool office, but Johnny's insensitivity made it worse. She yanked off the blazer and threw it down on her chair, now in her white button up.

'It's like giving away his legacy...' Sue mumbled with a sigh. 'But I can't keep running it half-heartedly.'

'Look,' Johnny sat up in his seat and stared at his sister. 'Do you remember when Mum died? How we kept her and Dad's room locked up all the time?'

With their father out gambling away their fortune, the Storms were left at home most of the day. They left for school in the mornings and came home to the same empty house. Sometimes, their father would be passed out on the sofa with a drink still in his hand. In order to stop him ruining anything of their mum's in his drunken state, the siblings kept the bedroom they once shared locked. Johnny hid the key under his pillow and made sure that their drunken father couldn't ever ruin anything that Mum had left behind.

'Yeah...' Sue mumbled; her attention strained from the view outside to her brother.

'When we sold the house, you were the one that went into their room,' Johnny pointed at her with a growing smile on his face. 'You were the one who cleared it out. You knew that we couldn't stay there on our own. You knew we had to let it go.'

Sue bit her lip and remembered the days she spent packing her mother's things into boxes. Their father had been put away in a penitentiary for murder and they would need to sell the house. Their Aunt Marygay helped, but Sue felt like she needed to clear her parents' room alone. It was hard and painful, but it had to be done. Sue was forced to grow up that day, despite only being ten-years-old. Accepting their mother's death aged her, but it made her stronger. It was easy to fall into the depths of sadness from her death, but it was hard to pull herself out of it.

'So... let this go,' Johnny finished, and Sue grabbed the pen. In one movement, she signed the paper where she needed and grabbed her blazer off the chair. Johnny raised an eyebrow with a smile as she stood up straight, her shoulders rising and falling to let out a loud breath.

'Forgive me, Reed,' she looked up to the ceiling and knew that this was the final farewell. Despite the slight guilt that remained, Sue felt a weight fall off her shoulders. The company was out of her hands, leaving her to focus on what currently mattered.

Johnny stood up from his chair and clapped his hands together. He was proud of his sister, even if it did take her longer than expected. Reed was his friend too, but he obviously didn't have the incentive like Sue did. At least he knew that she would have some more time on her hands now.

'Let's go see Potts,' he said as they walked to the door. 'Is it a conflict of interest if I asked her out on a date?'

As the two left the office, the contract laid signed and ready for handling. The bold letters of 'AIM' stood out on the paper and the new owner of the company would soon reign hell on the Storm siblings.

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Rhodey rushed to dial Sue's number on his phone as he ran out of the bar after Tony. They were sat having lunch at a high table when two kids came over, asking for Tony to sign their drawings. The young girl named Erin asked if The Invisible Woman was with him, holding up a drawing of Sue with a blue circle drawn around her. The circle was meant to be a forcefield and Tony loved how the drawing captured Sue's essence of her scribble of brown hair that sat like a ball of string on her head

'She is. She's right behind you,' he had said, and the girl turned around.

'I don't see her, Mr Stark.'

'That's the point.'

Rhodey saw when Tony broke the crayon he tried to sign with. The young boy who stood next to the girl named Erin whispered something into the man's ear, and he lurched out of his seat and ran for the door.

'James?' Sue's voice came through as he made it outside.

'Sue, I don't know what's going on,' Rhodey said into the phone. Tony stumbled down the stairs that led down to his suit that waited in a carparking space. He gasped and panted as he fell into its awaiting hold, Rhodey stopping on the curb just as Tony fell to one knee.

'Tony's having some sort of episode. Do I need to call an ambulance?' he asked and bent down to knock on Tony's helmet.

'What?!' Sue exclaimed. She and Johnny had just left her office when she felt her phone buzzing. She was shocked to see James Rhodes' name on her screen and put her hand out for Johnny to stop beside her once Tony's friend said what happened.

'What's wrong?' Johnny raised his eyebrows at her exclamation.

Her phone buzzed again, and she pulled it away from her ear, seeing Tony's name run across the screen. She said to James that Tony was calling her and that she would call him back, before hanging up and answering the other line.

'Tony?'

'Sue... Sue, JARVIS just said I had a...' his voice was rugged, and his breaths came through the line in bursts. She could the sound of his pants blowing against the speaker and she wondered if he was about to fall unconscious. He still barely slept and maybe his body was about to collapse from exhaustion.

'What? What did you have? James just called me and said you had an episode of some kind?'

'A severe anxiety attack, ma'am,' JARVIS answered through the phone. He ran the test once Tony entered the suit and called Sue as per Tony's request. He was now flying away from the bar he was at with Rhodey and heading back to his house, where he could distract himself with more Iron Man suits.

'Oh my god, Tony,' Sue gasped lightly, and Johnny bounced on his heels at the anticipation. She put her hand over the mic on her phone as she turned to her brother, her face filled with worry.

'Tony's had an anxiety attack.'

'What?!'

'Don't tell the flaming hot Cheeto!' Tony's voice cried from the phone.

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'Can you come pick me up later?'

'Johnny, I'm not your chauffer. I don't know what I'll be doing later.'

Johnny rolled his eyes in the passenger seat of Sue's car. The two were supposed to be seeing Pepper together at the headquarters of Stark Industries, but Tony's phone call changed the plans. Johnny was adamant on seeing Pepper, to which Sue raised her eyebrow at. He replied with a shrug and wouldn't elaborate further on why he wanted to see the woman so bad. But Sue needed to check on Tony in the flesh, so she would be enroute to his ocean-side house once Johnny was out of the car.

'Happy's waiting for you,' Sue gestured her head out the window. Johnny turned to see Happy Hogan descending the stairs from the building. He noticed how the new head of security's eyebrows sat low over his eyes and the way he pulled the passenger door open was rigid.

'Hey, Happy,' Sue greeted with a small glance. She unclicked her seatbelt and reached over the centre console to grab her bag from the backseat. She wanted to have Tony on the phone when she drove to his house. She was worried he would do something stupid after his anxiety attack. He wasn't a stranger to supposed self-destructive tendencies.

'I need you both to see this,' Happy bent down to look at the two in the car.