Wait, wait, wait, who was it that came up with the Obadiah telling Minnie bedtime stories? And when Minnie asks for her mother's favorite story, he tells her the one about the boy that flew too close to the sun?
Oh. THAT'S RIGHT.
Also. You know, later in the years, when the children are older, Michael in boarding school, Minnie being difficult so Obadiah has someone come to the home to talk at her while she goes about her own business anyway. And Minnie gets an email from her old friend Jarvis, now stored on SI computers, having been moved after the contents of the mansion where dispensed according to the (updated) will Tony had left -- the property and its environs to her children of course, but the tech and advancements in the workshop to Stark Industries Labs, for further study.
In the email is a video, pristine because digital copies don't fade with age, so Minnie has no trouble at all at making out her mother against the backdrop of men with guns. Minnie watches it twice through, and cuts out when it begins on the third loop. She sits for her lessons with the tutor, goes about her day, her week, her month, her year being her usual brilliant self and waits and waits and waits until Obadiah Stane is old enough where passing away quietly in his sleep seems like a small blessing.
Minnie is fifteen and her hand doesn't tremble when she holds down the pillow.
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Wait, wait, wait, who was it that came up with the Obadiah telling Minnie bedtime stories? And when Minnie asks for her mother's favorite story, he tells her the one about the boy that flew too close to the sun?
Oh. THAT'S RIGHT.
Also. You know, later in the years, when the children are older, Michael in boarding school, Minnie being difficult so Obadiah has someone come to the home to talk at her while she goes about her own business anyway. And Minnie gets an email from her old friend Jarvis, now stored on SI computers, having been moved after the contents of the mansion where dispensed according to the (updated) will Tony had left -- the property and its environs to her children of course, but the tech and advancements in the workshop to Stark Industries Labs, for further study.
In the email is a video, pristine because digital copies don't fade with age, so Minnie has no trouble at all at making out her mother against the backdrop of men with guns. Minnie watches it twice through, and cuts out when it begins on the third loop. She sits for her lessons with the tutor, goes about her day, her week, her month, her year being her usual brilliant self and waits and waits and waits until Obadiah Stane is old enough where passing away quietly in his sleep seems like a small blessing.
Minnie is fifteen and her hand doesn't tremble when she holds down the pillow.