fic: Safe (Rhodey/Tony)
Title: Safe
Author: Not Applicable
Pairing/Characters: James Rhodes/Tony Stark
Rating: Mature (non-explicit sex)
Genre: Slash
'Verse: MCU
Word Count: 4184
Warnings: Arc reactor trauma and my first attempt at body horror.
Summary: A tumblr prompt fill for user wild-abyss. They requested Rhodey’s first time seeing the arc reactor, military hospitals, body horror, and mutual comfort. I tried to hit all of those points. Set right after Tony’s rescue in Iron Man.
“The casing is too big,” Tony said through clenched teeth as Rhodey used a cotton swab to carefully apply lidocaine and bacitracin around the circle over his friend’s heart. “Breathe too deep and it bumps my ribcage. I did the best I could with that I had.”
Rhodey put down the swab and ran a hand over his face. He was sweating and it felt like he couldn’t breathe. “I did the best I could,” Tony said again, and Rhodey nodded, and he wanted to talk about surgery and the Air Force hospital in Balad, a quick trip in a jet, but he just gripped Tony’s knee instead, squeezed him there before bringing his other hand up to the back of Tony’s neck.
[hosted on AO3]
Author: Not Applicable
Pairing/Characters: James Rhodes/Tony Stark
Rating: Mature (non-explicit sex)
Genre: Slash
'Verse: MCU
Word Count: 4184
Warnings: Arc reactor trauma and my first attempt at body horror.
Summary: A tumblr prompt fill for user wild-abyss. They requested Rhodey’s first time seeing the arc reactor, military hospitals, body horror, and mutual comfort. I tried to hit all of those points. Set right after Tony’s rescue in Iron Man.
“The casing is too big,” Tony said through clenched teeth as Rhodey used a cotton swab to carefully apply lidocaine and bacitracin around the circle over his friend’s heart. “Breathe too deep and it bumps my ribcage. I did the best I could with that I had.”
Rhodey put down the swab and ran a hand over his face. He was sweating and it felt like he couldn’t breathe. “I did the best I could,” Tony said again, and Rhodey nodded, and he wanted to talk about surgery and the Air Force hospital in Balad, a quick trip in a jet, but he just gripped Tony’s knee instead, squeezed him there before bringing his other hand up to the back of Tony’s neck.
[hosted on AO3]