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starkingenuity"You have my name. On your arm."
Tony hadn't been agonizing about it but maybe he had just a little and maybe he had driven down to DC to tell Steve Rogers what he was pretty sure that the blond already knew. A plane or the Iron Man armor would have taken much less time, but Tony needed to make frequent stops along the way so that he could try to get himself to turn back and just leave it.
It didn't always happen, the mythical arm writing, but that's what made it to special. Every teenager pretty much spent their years before college hoping for a name to turn up one day. Less than ten percent ever did, and that number was dwindling seeing as how people didn't really care if they had a name on their arm or not. If their parents and religion weren't going to tell them what to do, weird indelible writing appearing on their bodies was not either.
The thing one, Tony did not have a name on his arm. There was no corroborating Steve Rogers written in interesting patterns on his skin. There was nothing. Tony hadn't been a lucky one.
But he'd seen, accidentally, on Steve well after they had first met and it was pretty obvious that yeah, Steve would know that he'd just met Anthony E. Stark, fought beside him in New York, nearly watched him die, and then just moved away to DC after as if nothing at all happened.
Now he wanted answers,
Tony hadn't been agonizing about it but maybe he had just a little and maybe he had driven down to DC to tell Steve Rogers what he was pretty sure that the blond already knew. A plane or the Iron Man armor would have taken much less time, but Tony needed to make frequent stops along the way so that he could try to get himself to turn back and just leave it.
It didn't always happen, the mythical arm writing, but that's what made it to special. Every teenager pretty much spent their years before college hoping for a name to turn up one day. Less than ten percent ever did, and that number was dwindling seeing as how people didn't really care if they had a name on their arm or not. If their parents and religion weren't going to tell them what to do, weird indelible writing appearing on their bodies was not either.
The thing one, Tony did not have a name on his arm. There was no corroborating Steve Rogers written in interesting patterns on his skin. There was nothing. Tony hadn't been a lucky one.
But he'd seen, accidentally, on Steve well after they had first met and it was pretty obvious that yeah, Steve would know that he'd just met Anthony E. Stark, fought beside him in New York, nearly watched him die, and then just moved away to DC after as if nothing at all happened.
Now he wanted answers,
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Date: 2016-04-05 11:05 am (UTC)But he'd been denied. There wasn't any particular reason to harp on the past and certainly no reason at all to think of anything but the woman who had shared his bed and was...
She'd died. Ten minutes ago now. And all because he hadn't given this guy some attention thirteen years before?
He should stay down. He could barely move. But tony wasn't a slacker. He needed to see this through.
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Date: 2016-04-08 05:56 pm (UTC)Maybe she was gone but they couldn't say for sure. He refused to give up on anyone. They just needed to find her and then Tony could keep on being happy with her. She might actually distract him from the writing on Steve's arm. It was win-win all around really.
"Need a hand?" he asked, pulling back away from the hand on him. "Or should I just go?"
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Date: 2016-04-08 07:12 pm (UTC)"Be careful." It sounded crazy to say such a thing to such a man. "Go. I'll get there myself."
He just had to find his phone and JARVIS. He had a bay full of armors not too far away.
He watched Steve go before he pulled himself up, feeling like his insides had shattered. The pain wasn't entirely physical. He'd never told Pep about Steve. About the name.
If he had, she might have left him. And if she had left she would have lived.
He would indeed get to Steve eventually. And with him came the House Party Protocol.
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Date: 2016-04-08 10:43 pm (UTC)He was picking himself back up off the ground when the House Party showed up. He stared in surprise at the multitude of suits that suddenly surrounded them. How could Tony possibly have made so many different ones?
"Stand down, Killian," Steve said. He needed to give the man a chance.
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Date: 2016-04-09 02:04 am (UTC)How? He didn't sleep. He barely ate. Everything was the work shop. And it showed in the dazzling array of colors and specialities represented in the air.
Was wasn't in any of them. He couldn't stand well enough and trying to control the armors would be impossible if he was being flung around too. While Steve fought, the armor distracted.
"J, no collateral damage on the Captain," Tony said, sliding down to watch. "The moment you can get a clear shot though, just unload."
There was fire everywhere. Tony just hoped that Steve could dance his way out of it.