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starkingenuity) wrote2015-05-28 12:46 pm
starkingenuity) wrote2015-05-28 12:46 pm
The Darkside Has Cookies
It was supposed to be an easy fix. Sit back, let Loki do the work, clean up after. He didn’t understand how things could go so downhill, so fast. The Hulk was out and about, Thor was occupied, Black Widow-- She was a joke. The so-called X-Men were still trying to find their really terrible costumes and get to New York to help. Spider-man was cracking jokes somewhere—
Easy. It should have been so easy!
But nooooo. No, Loki had to take invasion a little too seriously and get in over his idiot head. Fury turned away from the console and glanced at the brooding blond to his left. “Suit up. Take the team. Help out with the Chitauri if you have to, but focus on the scepter. I’m not ready to welcome our alien overloads just yet, Rogers.”
Easy. It should have been so easy!
But nooooo. No, Loki had to take invasion a little too seriously and get in over his idiot head. Fury turned away from the console and glanced at the brooding blond to his left. “Suit up. Take the team. Help out with the Chitauri if you have to, but focus on the scepter. I’m not ready to welcome our alien overloads just yet, Rogers.”
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"You saved my life." Tony wasn't lying, though that had just been Steve's body. "Loki had me... You saved me and he threw you out of a window. You're extremely lucky to be alive but Cap? Memory loss?"
He would go to hell and enjoy it.
"Did you talk to someone about that?" Tony leaned forward. There was something strange in his eyes.
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His forehead creased as he eyed the other man. Honestly, he hadn't been too concerned about it.
"I mentioned it to the nurse," he replied and it was easy to rationalize the moments where the Soldier was in control. He was fighter; he got hit and most of the time it was hard. "She didn't seem to be worried. I fell out of a building. I don't think it's much of a surprise."
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It was amazing what people In Authority could do. There was no way memory loss was a good thing and yet if a doctor or a nurse wasn't concerned, why be concerned yourself? Tony found the whole thing fascinating.
Just like he thought it was fun to poke at the programming.
"Loki knows my identity," he said, almost off hand. That I'm Iron Man. He saw me leave the suit. That makes four people now that know who I am."
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He pressed his lips together at the admission. He knew Tony hid his identity for a number of reasons. He just wasn't sure what they all were. "Is that going to be an issue?"
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The genius turned away. He wanted to see the look in Steve's eyes but this power play was just too interesting. Tony should have been an actor. He was just they good at fucking with people's minds.
Shoulders hunched, he put on an air of dismay and rubbed a hand over his face, gaze far off and alone.
"I don't know what I'll do."
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"People find out? Try to kill me...? I'm nothing without the Iron Man suit, Cap. You know that," Tony growled. He really thought he was selling it. Standing up, he wrapped an arm around himself Nd kept his back to the blond. "My company will be ruined. I'll be kidnapped, tortured... Who the fuck knows what will happen!"
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People trying to kill him on the other hand? Okay. That could happen. "And it's not like the rest of us are leaving if you're outed. We'll still be here."
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"I don't need protection from naive little boys," he snapped, a flash of his true self morphing his usually pleasant features. He couldn't help that, he was angry. "You have no idea of how the world works. If support is pulled, and it will be because Iron Man has been used in some very controversial missions against terrorists, my company folds. Literally just like that. My money is tied up in investments. The company folds, I fold."
He rubbed a hand across his lips in annoyance.
"And the day I ask someone to protect me... No. I can't live in a world with all of you and be nothing."
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Of course, that was what he would have done seventy years ago. It still didn't make Steve naive, no matter how you sliced it. "While it's a possibility, I really do think it's a worst case scenario."