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amonitrate

Fic: Sentinel, part X -- Iron Man

Jan 14, 2009 23:58

Sorry for the delay. Holidays and family stuff.

Previously

10.

"You can't keep doing this,” Pepper said. She curled around one of the pillows on the couch, tugging her robe closed over her nightgown.

Tony didn’t respond, didn’t look up from the piano, just picked out an anemic, one-handed melody she didn't recognize. She’d woken to the high tinkling ( Read more... )

sentinel, fic:iron_man

Comments 28

anonymous January 15 2009, 06:22:32 UTC

Love it. Ouch, though - I see what you meant a few days ago about feeling bad throwing more pain at Tony. There are echoes in this. :)

- Chief

amonitrate January 16 2009, 18:24:19 UTC

well, I must not feel *too* bad, because it doesn't stop me.

thanks!

agilebrit January 15 2009, 14:53:46 UTC

Ow ow frakking ow. In a good way. Oh, Tony...

"The last person who tried to help me bled out in front of me on a sack of rice."

I physically flinched at that line.

amonitrate January 16 2009, 18:24:36 UTC

thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

elliblue January 15 2009, 17:56:59 UTC

So excited to see this show up on my FL. Love it!

amonitrate January 16 2009, 18:24:45 UTC

thanks!

curls January 15 2009, 18:25:19 UTC

Damn, this is good. And you just twisted the knife in my belly with this part.

Amazing stuff.

amonitrate January 16 2009, 18:25:10 UTC

thank you for reading despite the sharp object in your belly.

destro January 15 2009, 21:42:21 UTC

Tallying her mental to-do list, Pepper turned away from the window and went to wash the bits of glass she knew weren't really there out of her hair.

...man. I love the way you're dealing with Pepper's own version of PTSD, all the things she doesn't even recognize need processing, because she's so wrapped up in getting Tony better. And man. Just the slow, sad creep of this new status quo, all the little ways they are at once both more honest with each other and infinitely farther apart as whatever Tony's trying to make himself into now begins to set.

"When you quit this time," he said, "you'll mean it."

That kills me, just utterly and completely.

amonitrate January 16 2009, 18:26:56 UTC

thanks! I've been trying to work it in, even if the focus is on Tony and his Endless Man Pain, without calling a lot of attention to it, so I'm so happy it works.

all the little ways they are at once both more honest with each other and infinitely farther apart as whatever Tony's trying to make himself into now begins to set.

yeah, I think that's one of the things that really gets me when watching the film. They cross all these boundaries like whoa, but in so many ways, yeah, they've never been farther apart.