Something I wrote on my dad's laptop because I'm bored. It's my first avenger's fanfiction(and the first one I am proud enough to post online)
Pairing: Can be taken as steve/tony if you squint.
Words: 543
A rambling page is what helps a writer with writers' block get over such a thing. Perhaps it's for the best for someone to have a time to just type out what is in their mind. Maybe not to the exact letter, but to a more generalized area; such as:
The Man who Couldn't Connect
For many people, the time in the past may mean nothing, but just what it is: the past, but to others, it is their whole world. That is how Steve Rogers felt when he was learning of the present. The present that was supposed to be his future.
He would connect things; present to past. Things like televisions would connect back to photos and radios. Microwaves back to ovens. Even new age ovens back to stoves and burners.
He connected people, too. Like Natasha reminded him a bit of Peggy(Though Natasha scared him a bit.) Bruce was like one of the scientists that used to check on him to make sure he wasn't dying(they both had very bad tempers.) Clint was like some of the snipers that he had seen, and befriended. Phil was like many of his fans (although Steve had never heard of anyone watching him sleep…) Heck, Even Thor reminded him of one of his team members from the Hydra duals.
Steve could connect everything and everyone with his past, except for Tony Stark. You might be thinking "But he is the easiest one! You knew his dad!" But it isn't like that. Steve doesn't connect people through their family or how they look. He connects them through how they act, and how he reacts to them.
No one in Steve's past acted the way Tony did. Sure, Bucky liked to flirt with girls, but he flirted with only girls. Tony doesn't flirt with just girls; he flirts with men, too! Well, he flirts with Steve, so Steve thinks he must flirt with anyone that comes within a ten foot radius of him.
No one in his past was as smart as Tony, either. His dad was smart, yeah. A genius, even, but Tony. Tony is something else entirely. He can always find a way to make something better, to find a way out.
And no one in Steve's past hid their true self like Tony did. Tony liked to act like a total dick(and he probably wasn't acting half the time), but Steve saw how he would sometimes just stare at people with hurt after they had an argument. He saw how he would steal things from people, upgrade it, then return it, denying that it was him. Steve would see Tony's eyes sadden ever so slightly when the team had to leave him alone. He even saw Tony helping people around town(he rescued a balloon from certain death for a kid, tripped a bully that was chasing another, and even helped an old lady cross the street. For the last one he tried to play it off as if she were an old friend of his, but Steve knew the two had never met by the way the woman called him "Cony")
Tony did things, good things, but didn't want people to know he did them. He didn't want people to see how he really felt.
So, for Steve, Tony is a special case. The man who he couldn't connect.
For some reason, Steve was fine with not connecting Tony to his past because, after thinking about all of this, the past is just the past. And that's all it will ever be.
A/n: Review please! I might add another chapter….
