[Avengers: Drabble] "The Present" [slight Steve/Tony, G]
Title: The Present
Prompt: writerverse challenge #07 weekly quick fic #2 (‘out of time’)
Word Count: 300
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Avengers (movie-verse)
Pairings: none (maybe, kinda Steve/Tony)
Summary: It took Steve a while to get used to the 21st century.
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
The Present
It took Steve a while to get used to the 21st century.
The technology he actually got fairly quickly. Most of it was just smaller, faster models of what he already knew- TV had way more channels, but his new cell phone still made calls (except, from anywhere) and texting was kind of like a telegram (except, no one really remembered those). Cars were flashier, computers were everywhere, and he had only just begun exploring the ‘internet’, but those were all things Steve knew he could get used to.
It was the human element that was still confusing.
No matter how much he got to understand the technology or brushed up on the latest lingo- slang, they called it now- there would always be some small cultural thing that would trip Steve up and remind everyone that he hadn’t been born in this century.
He spent so much of his non-saving-the-world time trying to catch up on what he’d missed that it took him a long time to realize that there was someone else who felt out of place in this time, too. Except that where Steve would have been perfectly ordinary back in the forties (well, when he wasn’t Captain America, of course) the time that Tony Stark belonged in hadn’t happened yet.
Maybe that was the difference.
Steve stubbornly held on to his past, but Tony created the future. He saw things that weren’t there, things he thought the world needed, and he made them, because no one else could. But Steve knew that, sometimes, Tony was just as lost in the ‘now’ as he was, and made it a point to drag the genius out of his lab every few days for some old-fashioned fun.
And for a little while, they could both just enjoy the present.
THE END
Current Mood:
creative
Prompt: writerverse challenge #07 weekly quick fic #2 (‘out of time’)
Word Count: 300
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Avengers (movie-verse)
Pairings: none (maybe, kinda Steve/Tony)
Summary: It took Steve a while to get used to the 21st century.
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
The Present
It took Steve a while to get used to the 21st century.
The technology he actually got fairly quickly. Most of it was just smaller, faster models of what he already knew- TV had way more channels, but his new cell phone still made calls (except, from anywhere) and texting was kind of like a telegram (except, no one really remembered those). Cars were flashier, computers were everywhere, and he had only just begun exploring the ‘internet’, but those were all things Steve knew he could get used to.
It was the human element that was still confusing.
No matter how much he got to understand the technology or brushed up on the latest lingo- slang, they called it now- there would always be some small cultural thing that would trip Steve up and remind everyone that he hadn’t been born in this century.
He spent so much of his non-saving-the-world time trying to catch up on what he’d missed that it took him a long time to realize that there was someone else who felt out of place in this time, too. Except that where Steve would have been perfectly ordinary back in the forties (well, when he wasn’t Captain America, of course) the time that Tony Stark belonged in hadn’t happened yet.
Maybe that was the difference.
Steve stubbornly held on to his past, but Tony created the future. He saw things that weren’t there, things he thought the world needed, and he made them, because no one else could. But Steve knew that, sometimes, Tony was just as lost in the ‘now’ as he was, and made it a point to drag the genius out of his lab every few days for some old-fashioned fun.
And for a little while, they could both just enjoy the present.
THE END
Current Mood:
creative