I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START. This is ridiculously PERFECT. You totally got me double-taking at the reveal in the beginning, with Tony in the humvee, and from there on it was- OK I JUST LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
I love the way you set up the parallels to the movie, so that all the little differences- the extra friction where Tony had to fight harder, be tougher, were completely apparent. And her relationship with Obadiah was so similar and yet so, so, so creepy. And PEPPER! Pepper doesn't like girls but then this:
Pepper remembers the time that Tony casually decided to sit on Pepper's knee while arguing with Rhodey about something; Pepper remembers the time she accidentally drank out of Tony's tumbler of Scotch and the way it burned the whole way down with Tony watching, knowing that Pepper had drunk out of her glass, but not saying anything and kind of smiling.
I'm going to reread this a million times. So brilliant. And I'm always glad when you don't give a summary or a pairing! I love not knowing what I'm getting into, reading your fic.
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Date: 2008-09-22 12:26 am (UTC)I love the way you set up the parallels to the movie, so that all the little differences- the extra friction where Tony had to fight harder, be tougher, were completely apparent. And her relationship with Obadiah was so similar and yet so, so, so creepy. And PEPPER! Pepper doesn't like girls but then this:
Pepper remembers the time that Tony casually decided to sit on Pepper's knee while arguing with Rhodey about something; Pepper remembers the time she accidentally drank out of Tony's tumbler of Scotch and the way it burned the whole way down with Tony watching, knowing that Pepper had drunk out of her glass, but not saying anything and kind of smiling.
I'm going to reread this a million times. So brilliant. And I'm always glad when you don't give a summary or a pairing! I love not knowing what I'm getting into, reading your fic.