Dear "The Man in the Box".
Thank you for all your beautiful reviews! I truly appreciate the extra input that you're putting into each chapter. As for being like the comic, I only know tiny bits of the real comic (blame my broke teenage girl on a babysitting budget and gaming addiction syndrome, long name, yea we're working on that) most of what I knew of the characters (even before the movies) came from my big brother, he's kind of my best friend haha, I really have actually wanted to be a comic book artist since I was 5 XD. And as for rush hour 3, never saw it XD thought I was being original there haha. Most of my little prompts are slid in there though, there is the arc reactor removal from the headcanon tumblr, also the thing with Tony's mother came from that to so feel free to use it as you will XD and that like "everyone feel inadequate next to you, god knows I always have. Came from a line in the comic I believe. I just really love little inputs about them I find here and there on the internet. Now to address the reviewers in general so we can get this started. (and sorry about the spacing thing, like a said before this is my first Fanfiction XD)
As for my other reviewers, I just have to say thank you so incredibly much. I always avoided writing Fanfiction (well writing in general) because I was afraid no one would read it. But last year I took park in NANOWRIMO and wrote a Zombie apocalypse story and so when Avengers came out and I enjoyed it so much and then I saw the reactor prompt I was quick to jump into action. Thank you for making me feel like I'm not wasting my time on this : )
Vanilla Twilight Part: 1
Tony awoke with his alarm and began getting ready for the morning. He felt oddly well rested for the first time in a while. He showered shaved his goatee back to perfection, dressed himself and then headed out to the kitchen.
"Morning" He chimed to Steve, who was just as the morning previous sitting with his coffee and paper, only something else had change, there was a slight difference with today's picture. "Morning Tony." Steve smiled over his news paper then returned to reading.
'what was it? What was it, oh...' Tony noticed the second coffee cup sitting on the table and looked around to see if anyone else was around. "It's for you." Steve said without even looking up from his paper. "Oh, um… thanks" Tony said and sat down in the seat that the coffee was placed by.
It was still hot… as if Steve had poured it knowing Tony would just be getting here about this time. How had he known Tony planned on getting up early today? Tony took a sip of the beverage and enjoyed how it warmed his insides and slowly awoke him for the morning. "You have fun last night?" Tony question and Steve folded his paper and set it down onto the table. "Yea I did, thank you" Steve said and leaned forward onto the table and drank from his own mug.
"Good, good…" Tony smiled back. "Mrs. Potts is on her way up Sir" JARVIS's voice came on over the intercom. "Alright I'll be waiting." Tony said and took another drink.
The doors to the elevator opened and Pepper walked in with her phone to her ear and clipboard at her side like always. "Thank you, see you soon." She said to the person on the phone and ended her call. "Good morning Tony." She said with a smile. "It's nice to see your actually awake." She shared a laugh with him. "Pepper have you met Steve yet?" Tony gestured to the captain across the table from him.
"No I haven't it's nice to meet you." She said and they both shook hands. Without missing a beat Pepper turned to Tony. "You have a meeting with the board of directors tomorrow in Chicago." Tony froze… he didn't want to go, he wanted to stay home, he was a fucking super hero.
"Isn't that your job? That's why I made you CEO Pepper." He stated. "They were insistent that they needed the famous Tony Stark to be present, now your plane will be ready for you arou-"
"I'm not going." Tony interjected.
"Tony yes you are."
"No I'm really not."
"Tony yes you are your plane will be ready at one"
"Five…"
"why?
"Because it's my plane and I will not bored it until five Pepper…" Tony finally deadpanned the conversation. Pepper shook her head and held her hands up in frustration to the older man. "Fine Tony you win, the plane will be ready at five I don't care anymore, Sign this!" Pepper held out the clipboard long enough for Tony to sign it then stomped back to the elevator in her tiny black heels.
"Are you always like this?" Steve said with a slightly upset look on his face from across the table. "What do you mean?" Tony asked as he looked back over to the captain. "A child Tony, that was childish." Steve commented. "What? At least I agreed to even go Steve." Tony said in his own defense. "Oh yes how could I forget, but only under your own conditions! Didn't your parents ever teach you any manners?" Steve questioned and suddenly the atmosphere in the room became very tense.
"I guess not…" Tony finally said in a dead voice and stood to leave.
"Tony c'mon I didn't mean it like tha-"
"Oh I'm pretty sure you did Steve, sorry I'm not a piece of perfection like you." Tony said as he began walking away.
"Tony!" Steve called and began after the dark haired man.
"I don't want to hear it Steve." Tony said as he approached the stairway to his lab in Stark Tower.
"I'm not perfect Tony, at least I wasn't when I started this!" Steve said as he easily caught up to the man. "Ah yes well I guess you're just a lucky one Steve Rogers." Tony said as he went to enter the lab but instead found his face smacking into the muscular forearm of captain America.
"Lucky? You think I'm lucky?" Steve voice broke a bit and Tony went solemn but refused to look at him. "I'm lost Tony, I don't know a fucking thing about where I am or what I'm doing, I joined the army as a scrawny kid from Brooklyn who wanted to prove he could do something." Tony looked at the dismayed captain.
"Steve I.." "Do you have any idea who I really am? My parents both died in the army, I got the shit knocked outta me daily, I'm stuck in a time that I don't even come close to understand, do you have any idea the people I lost? The people I.." Steve swallowed hard his eyes were beginning to redden. "The people I left behind?"
Tony's heart fluttered before it began to break, "Steve listen I didn't me-" "of course you didn't, you only mean it until it offends somebody right?" Steve said and then took off down the hall leaving the genius billionaire asshole behind.
Tony sat in his lab… no drinks… no food… just thought… him alone with his thoughts again. "Hi Tony" he said aloud. "I just thought you should know you are the most disgusting human being on this planet and that if your reactor suddenly stopped working for some odd unkown reason that I would be more than perfectly okay with that." He stated to himself…
"Yea… me to.." He replied… "Me to.."
He wandered around the lab for a bit, not all the boxes had been emptied yet from moving from one lab to another. He rummaged inside the boxes throwing small trinkets here and there, when all of the sudden he unearthed one of his dads old projects. A shield, only about half done, with red and blue and half a white star in the center, the rest was just a metal wire frame, a gift… a welcome home present from Howard Stark to Captain America when they found him… only the search had been stopped and so Howard never bothered to finish it… a gift for his long lost friend… well the Captain had been found maybe it was time he got his present.
Tony worked meticulously all day on the shield, ignoring many a called from a Mrs. Pepper Potts in order to get the shield done by the time he had to go. When it was finished painted and polished he crept out from the kitchen hoping the team wouldn't be out there making dinner yet. It was about four and he had to get going soon (ho would just clean up on the plain). He set the shield on the table and propped it up a bit on the napkin holder in the center and stepped back to look at his work.
His phone rang again and this time her answered. "Hello?", "Tony we have to get going, get to the plain!" "uhh" he quickly dove to the counter and grabbed a post it note and a pin from the cup holder above the sink. "Yea yea I'm heading out the door right now, just one more second I've been working on something." He quickly scribbled down a message and stuck the note to the shield on the table. "Yea yea Pepper I'm walking out the door right now I promise." He said in a hurried voice as he grabbed his jacket and keys and hopped in the elevator leaving the shield on the table with the note attached to it reading. "To Steve Rogers, From Howard Stark. Welcome Home."
ANNOUNCEMENT: so I am going on a trip and will not be home until Thursday evening. I will try and write more tonight but I can't promise anything.