Hey so here's Fury. I originally wrote something for him of which probably only some will be incorporated. Meaning most likely I will end up writing something completely different than what I planned. Yay. Oh well. Enjoy.
It was no secret that Fury barely tolerated Tony. The man was infuriating and had made it his life's ambition to annoy him. He made it a point to never arrive at meetings on time, play on his phone during debriefing and then proceed to recite word for word what had been discussed when reprimanded for not paying attention and adding his own input in between. He also made it a point to regularly hack into SHIELD, most likely why he was the first to find out that Coulson was still alive. That had not been a conversation he would like to repeat.
Tony was originally a means to an end. He may have been a potential candidate for the Avengers Initiative but he was a royal pain in the ass.
One of the most surprising things about him was the fact that as public as his life appeared to be there was little concrete information about it. Almost nothing was known of his childhood and literally nothing about Afghanistan. It also didn't help that he kept hacking into SHIELD and changing his file to suit himself.
Stark was an anomaly. he refused to listen to orders, going against them at any given opportunity, making up his own rules as he went. It was one of the reasons why he was such a major player. He refused to play by anyone else's rules, refused to let anyone dictate his choices. It was possibly the only definite thing known about Afghanistan, that he was told to make a bomb and instead he made himself a suit of armor. Tony Stark was not to be underestimated. He let nothing and no one dictate his actions. He took what he had and made something brilliant out of it. Proof required? Read: made a suit of armor and an arc reactor in a cave.
Years of dealing with Howard Stark, however, had left an impact and he did have some idea of how to deal with Tony, because as much as he denied it, he was like his father in some ways. On the topic of Howard Stark... He remembered the man when he had founded SHIELD, brilliant, enigmatic and charming. He had clearly loved his son and would boast about his achievements at any given opportunity. Yet he had begun to become withdrawn with time. Obsessing over finding the Captain, over expanding SI and ensuring SHIELD's strength. It wasn't hard to imagine the man Rogers remembered and called a friend, but nor was it hard to imagine the man Tony hated. He knew of Tony's need to prove himself, he had seen it when he was younger, trying to show something to his father only to be pushed aside for something else, usually the Captain. He of course knew of the way Tony decided that some attention was better than none and got it in ways that would not make his father proud.
Tony Stark's tells were ridiculously, unbelievably, obvious. He was easy to read and displayed his life for the world to see. Apparently. There was literally no real concrete information on the man. It was hard to tell, but after a while of trying to understand Tony, ignoring his playboy and idiotic ways, the man was more than just an enigma. He had the best goddamn mask he had ever seen. He wasn't sure if that included Romanov. He wasn't sure he wanted to know.
Tony Stark was a loose cannon. Tell him what to do and nine times out of ten he would do the exact opposite. It was much easier to give him some basic logical parameters which would agree with his scientific brain and let him do the rest. Tony Stark listened to nothing and no one and he was not afraid to let the world know that. The only one who had any chance of telling him what to do was Coulson and no one know why (including Coulson).
But hey, he didn't really have any reason to complain. All the Avengers were under one roof with a few additions (the Winter Soldier), Loki was undergoing his rehabilitation process at Stark's hands, Banner had somehow been convinced to stay at the Tower, a feat in itself considering the man's self imposed exile and irritating habit of going off radar, and Romanov was no longer ready to kill anyone at base for looking at Barton wrong. What could Fury say, the guy was good for the team.