Five Times Obadiah Stane Cloned Tony Stark

[quigonejinn]

Yeah, I thought I was done with clones, too, but hrdazka started suggesting some variants that neither I nor jamaillith had thought of. Which, for those of you who are following along at home, jamaillith and me put together five fics about five different Clony Starks:

#1 - The Prototype. [PG - 490 words.]
#2 - The Golden Goose. [PG-13 - 404 words.]
#3 - The Ghosts In The Machine. [R - 4,871 words.]
#4 - The Patient Man. [PG - 1,440 words.]
#5 - The Happy Ending. [R - 2,584 words.]

#5 - The Happy Ending, which is 99.99% by jamaillith, is hands down my favorite. Read it if you don't read any of the others. It's just spectacular and heartbreaking. Seriously. She has an ear for the way that Tony and Rhodey talk to each other, and oh man. Oh man.

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[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Oh man, there's a story. There. Is. The story. Holy shit. And the setup -- Tony twenty years down the line, twenty years of being Iron Man and dropping out of the sky and saving people. He's in the limo and they pull over. A teenager gets into the car, and it's Obadiah. At, like, seventeen. And.

Man, the twist you could do with the reader expecting Pepper and/or Rhodey to just be furious with Tony. And they're not. Because it turns out this isn't the first time. Just a kind of resignation that Tony keeps going past the boundaries.