Hello!
I am so sorry if you're waiting for me to update Vents, it's really hard for me to write, but I do promise- I pinky swear- to finish it!
I am planning a very long work that focuses on Maria Hill, but I do not plan on begining it for another few weeks (the first draft of the first chapter was shit)
Anyways, I have seven parts of this written and edited, but I'll spread out my posting.
From this point forward, unless I say otherwise, all of my work relating to Maria Hill is true to my larger story. I think I'll call it my CMDRHill Verse.
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Maria Hill, Tony decides, is who Pepper would be, if she had absolutely no affection for me. If Pepper was her same focused, efficient self, with no attraction to him, then she and Maria Hill would be the same person.
This realization shook him.
Just a little.
It was impressive, watching them work together, before and after the shit storm called H.Y.D.R.A.. They were equals; powerful women who knew what they were doing and how to get it done. They would go head-to-head on disagreements, but would come out of a long, intense meeting with a laundry list of things checked off and genuine, if not quite friendly smiles.
Pepper was C.E.O. of the largest and most powerful technology and security company in the world.
Maria Hill had been the Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D..
Which -while Mr. Eyepatch was intimidating (not that Tony thought that) and busy- really meant that she ran the place.
Both women had iron fists, sharp eyes, quick minds, and a demand for respect that was conveyed not through words but from their very presence.
So maybe Tony was a little bit terrified of Maria Hill.
A little fear never stopped him from being an annoying little shit before.