Iron Man AU fic: Concession
Title: Concession
Characters: Christine Everhart (who interviews almost everyone else)
Word Count: aprox. 28,000
Rating: PG-13 (language, implied violence)
Spoilers: goes AU after the first movie; no spoilers, assuming you've seen that one
Author's Notes: If you didn't already know, Stan Lee created Tony Stark while thinking of Howard Hughes: "an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-millionaire, a ladies man and finally a nutcase." I originally started writing this for a Halloween challenge, six months ago, with the idea of taking the Tony Stark = Howard Hughes comparison to its logical conclusion. This is for the Hive, who nurtured and encouraged this insanity, with extra special bonus points going to dafnap, who hands out ideas of pure wrong like normal people shed skin cells, and atrata, who hauled me out of a pit of despond by pure will and then beta'd this out of the goodness of her heart. This AU's for you, gals.
"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are." - Howard Hughes
(Christine Everhart gets assigned the story the same day that the search for Tony Stark begin to focus on French Polynesia, and she finds the parallels apt.)
Characters: Christine Everhart (who interviews almost everyone else)
Word Count: aprox. 28,000
Rating: PG-13 (language, implied violence)
Spoilers: goes AU after the first movie; no spoilers, assuming you've seen that one
Author's Notes: If you didn't already know, Stan Lee created Tony Stark while thinking of Howard Hughes: "an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-millionaire, a ladies man and finally a nutcase." I originally started writing this for a Halloween challenge, six months ago, with the idea of taking the Tony Stark = Howard Hughes comparison to its logical conclusion. This is for the Hive, who nurtured and encouraged this insanity, with extra special bonus points going to dafnap, who hands out ideas of pure wrong like normal people shed skin cells, and atrata, who hauled me out of a pit of despond by pure will and then beta'd this out of the goodness of her heart. This AU's for you, gals.
"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are." - Howard Hughes
(Christine Everhart gets assigned the story the same day that the search for Tony Stark begin to focus on French Polynesia, and she finds the parallels apt.)