The house in Long Island is silent, and Tony sits in the middle of his father's old workshop as if the stillness has a secret that he's waiting to hear ( Read more... )

Did you know how much I looked up to you? How much I admired you? It wasn't because you were the patriotic hero everyone knew and loved, but because you were my father. Did you know that? Did you careI don't know when it all changed. Did I make it that difficult for you to be my father? I always tried to fit the mold you wanted me to be. I tried to ( Read more... )

It's supposed to be a test-run. That's his response when he's asked where he's taking off to - he's taking the new model of the suit for a test run. He has to, after all, considering the other one had been pretty much blown to pieces. There were no weapons built in it yet, because for now he needed to test the flying aspect of it. It's a test-run. ( Read more... )

"...nnection with home base has been unsuccessful. Third time rebooting systems will initiate in three ( Read more... )

Tony Stark had never been one for schedules or routines. After leaving for MIT, his thirst for independence made it hard for him to fly back home as much as his mother would want him to. Living away from home made it easy to take trips wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted. All his parents had asked for was for him to do well in school, and he was ( Read more... )

December 1991A bad case of jet lag. That had been Tony's excuse for not going to the holiday party his parents had gone off to earlier on in the evening. It had been a good excuse - after all, he had barely arrived from a vacation in Fiji - but once Howard and Maria had left for the night Tony didn't feel like laying down until sleep claimed him, ( Read more... )

Sixty-seven.

Sixty-seven.

Sixty-seven.Sometimes it's impossible to believe that it has been a year since that fateful night, when his Expo had been terminated by Anton Vanko's actions. The rigging of the suit Rhodey had stolen from his lab, the other armors he had created for the military ( Read more... )

[This is so very locked from other muses until further notice]

( Everyone is changing there's no one left that's real to make up your own ending and let me know just how you feel cause I am lost without you I cannot live at all my whole world surrounds you I stumble then I crawl You could be my someone you could be my scene you know that i will save you from all of the unclean I wonder what you're doing I wonder where you are There's oceans in between us but that's not very far )

2008Ever since waking up in a cave, Tony had lost track of time and now that he's free he's starting to discover that it's not coming back to him as easily as he had expected. It feels like it has been days, not hours, since Rhodey had found him in the desert, and despite how exhausted he is, and how he can barely move without his body burning with ( Read more... )

It's not a simple answer. He'll make it look simple by smiling that charming smile of his, the one that could almost be patented as the Tony Stark smirk, and he'll answer with superficial things. Like the fact that his charm is a very good quality to have. Or his sense of humor. Or his amazing taste in vehicles, motorcycles, clothes, and 'toys' in ( Read more... )