This is for jaquelinelittle, once again x This is a bit different to my other chapters, a bit more serious x Please read and review x This has ben edited x
...Howard Stark
Tony Stark knew he had many faults, none the least that he liked to drink. A lot. It was a habit he'd picked up from his father, one he liked but hated for the reminder of the man who had always been so frustrated by him.
As a teen he'd told himself he'd be nothing like his old man. How the times change.
Howard was on his mind tonight, far more so than usual. He supposed it was because of the enormous fight he'd had with Captain Rogers earlier that day and the blonde man's disappointed look which reminded him of every time Howard had looked at him as a child. Oh, look the walls were moving. That was good.
Maybe he could invent something along those lines, most preferably when he was sober.
Actually, hadn't he already? Or why else were the walls spinning? The floor seemed awfully close, he thought. Yes it was, as his poor nose could testify to.
At least he had a nose. Voldemort didn't have one.
Damn Clint for having the Harry Potter movie day.
And then Steve had started asking all those questions, believing some of it to be real, and Tony couldn't help but reply in his usual sarcastic way, getting that disappointed look.
And then they were back to Howard.
"Perhaps you should put the bottle down Mr Stark? You've had more than enough."
In his drunken haze, with Howard on his mind, all he heard was further disappointment, his father's voice speaking to him. All he heard was his father's patronising voice, telling him to do better, to be better, because he was a Stark.
"Shut up Howard!" Tony threw his bottle across the room, where it shattered against the wall. Tony watched the glass scatter all over the floor entranced, watching where it fell.
"No Mr Stark, I'm not Howard. I'm JARVIS." JARVIS actually sounded worried, having not seen Tony like this in a very long time. "Perhaps you should go to bed sir?"
"You are not my father!" Tony screamed, both looking and sounding deranged.
Had Tony been sober, and they be discussing anyone other than Howard Stark, JARVIS would have shot back 'We've just established that'. As it was, all he could do was call Pepper worriedly and ask her to stop by the Tower as quickly as she could.
Tonight was not a good night for any of them.
