a fire made from coals of regret (слэш)

Tony isn't a damsel in distress. He can rescue himself just fine. It's a bit weird when the self saving him isn't from this timeline, though.
Or: Tony from the bad Infinity War timeline ends up rescuing himself from that cold, dark cave in Afghanistan. IM1!Tony comes to understand Happy and Rhodey's perspectives a lot better. It's the actual worst.
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"Forgive me, Sir," JARVIS intones, sounding a bit confused. "I was not aware of the intruder until this moment. Shall I inform the authorities?"
"No. No, no, no - god no. That would be awkward to explain," Tony says, waving his AI off.
"Come on, be nice to JARVIS," the looming armor says, mechanical, just the slightest pitch of dry reproach in the words. "He's doing his best with the half-assed programming job you did. He's barely even sophisticated enough to be security at this point.