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[quigonejinn]

Daghlian had died after twenty-one days of agony the year before, fucking with the same piece of plutonium, and Slotin had spent days at his bedside, Howard remembers. More than the rest of them.

They'd called it the Demon Core after that. Blew it up in the Marshall Islands less than two months later.

Prompt Critical by anvil_of_wrong. Tony, Howard, Obadiah, and Maria. It's the whole gang. Los Alamos stories on Howard's knee, Obadiah babysitting, and Richard Feynmann juggling open beer bottles at Tony's birthday party. I mean. Demon cores, the walking dead, and the characterizations. Tiny Tony building things on the floor while his father is away being an industrialist! Tiny Tony falling asleep in his scale model suit!

And have I mentioned the Los Alamos stories? And Howard being FAIL at parenting?

Also, if you read between the lines or go back for a second reading? Holy shit.