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Almost No One Makes It Out (Iron Man)
"Potts meets him at the airfield, looking tired and worried and happy and upset and confused. Tony has no idea what to say, so he stares at her as she fidgets and tries to reconcile the South and the desert and the cave as places he knows. None of it seems real, not even Potts. The sweat beading on the back of his neck is real enough, though, so he stretches his lips into what he hopes is a smile.
"Hey," he says. Her eyes are red.
Potts doesn't say anything for a long while, either, just stares back at him, chewing on her bottom lip, twisting her hands in front of her. They must look like idiots, he realizes, and his voice breaks as he laughs, the moment breaking with it. She grins, rolls her eyes.
"Come on," she says, and they go for cheeseburgers."
This is an excellent Iron Man AU based on the first movie and the idea of 'who would Tony Stark be, if he wasn't born with more money than god?'
The author does a great job reweaving the plot of the first movie while starting from a different point and I really enjoy Tony's arc in this. In some ways, without the buffer of wealth, he comes out more sane than in the movies, while still being snarky, heroic, assholish Tony Stark.
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"Potts meets him at the airfield, looking tired and worried and happy and upset and confused. Tony has no idea what to say, so he stares at her as she fidgets and tries to reconcile the South and the desert and the cave as places he knows. None of it seems real, not even Potts. The sweat beading on the back of his neck is real enough, though, so he stretches his lips into what he hopes is a smile.
"Hey," he says. Her eyes are red.
Potts doesn't say anything for a long while, either, just stares back at him, chewing on her bottom lip, twisting her hands in front of her. They must look like idiots, he realizes, and his voice breaks as he laughs, the moment breaking with it. She grins, rolls her eyes.
"Come on," she says, and they go for cheeseburgers."
This is an excellent Iron Man AU based on the first movie and the idea of 'who would Tony Stark be, if he wasn't born with more money than god?'
The author does a great job reweaving the plot of the first movie while starting from a different point and I really enjoy Tony's arc in this. In some ways, without the buffer of wealth, he comes out more sane than in the movies, while still being snarky, heroic, assholish Tony Stark.
~~~
FYI, I have a handful of fics and a couple of media commentary posts to upload, so prepare for flist spam.
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Also, if I wanted my journal entry pages to look like this:
with the command bar (no idea what it's actually called) up at the top and then my tags and then the text on a white background, is there any way to see what layouts would do that without having to try layouts at random?![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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