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cap_ironman2011-07-11 05:02 pm
So its been a while...
Okay so it's been a while since I said I would post more in this universe but I finally got PC axcess again and even though I still dont have a beta (3 have had personal issues! Am I cursed???) I thought I'd post this.
Also thought I'd let anyone going to Dragon*Con know that I will be dressed as Toni this year and am desperately looking for a Steve to take pics with. My Steve is having costume issues :(.
So here we go:
Title: A Couple Called Stoney
Author/Artist: Fancy_Galloway
Summary: Toni has press issues, and for the first time actually cares.
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Toni
Word Count: 749
A/N: Pepper is awesome.
Universe: 3490/Movieverse
Rating: PG ('cause Toni's got a potty mouth)
Warnings: unbetaed
Beta: I'd love to write more in this universe. If anyone wants to be my Beta please volunteer! If not I'll start hunting for one tomorrow...AGAIN.
“They are calling you guys ‘Stoney’” Pepper says with a grin.
Toni glares at the holographic projection in front of her. “Don’t turn down my music. And that’s just stupid. I spell my name with an ‘I’ and there is no damn ‘E’ in my name either.”
“Tabloids aren’t known for their unsurpassed brilliance Toni.”
“Which is why they should be ignored. Or possible burned. Yeah, I kinda like that one better.”
“He’s called six times since TMZ this morning. And I’m pretty sure he gave Fox & Friends a talking-to about calling you ‘Mrs. America’ and ‘Cap’s little woman’.”
Toni sighed. “Yeah, that’ll help. I can just see it: ‘Cap Defends the Mrs’” She stood and began pacing angrily. “I’m just dating the guy. Dating! Me! Dating a guy. Trying for that thing called normal and monogamous and I get shit for it. I can’t win Pep. I just can’t fucking win! And him! Fuck! With those big eyes and that stupid assumption that people are nice and journalists fucking care!”
Pepper looked at her employer and friend with distanced empathy. “He’s just trying to help. He’s new to all this.”
“Exactly! He’s a fucking infant!”
“He’s a grown man who’s been through a world war.”
“He’s twenty-five. A fucking child. I’m thirty-eight—“ Pepper snorted, “I’m thirty-eight. And I’m deeply entrenched in this filth world, and he needs none of this shit.”
“So that’s what this is about.”
“Huh?”
“You. Not answering his calls, wanting to burn tabloids to the ground. In all the years I’ve known you, you have never once cared about what Fox or the Enquirer has to say. You’re Toni Stark. The most infamous and determined woman since Cleopatra. Who cares what the world thinks of you being with a younger man, or a superhero, or Captain goddamn America? He’s yours. And he thinks the world of you.”
Toni sat back down on the garage floor with a heavy sigh. Pepper moved to join her so they were sitting with their backs to the Roadster. “That’s the thing Pep. He thinks the world of me. Nobody thinks the world of me.”
Pepper shoved her. “Occasionally Boss, I do. And so does Rhodey. Even though you are the biggest pain in the ass on the face of the Earth, and a lawsuit waiting to happen. And if you ever said that about yourself in front of Happy, he wouldn’t speak to you for a week.”
Toni smiled weakly, “That’s it though, you guys are it. And unless you’ve had a massive change of heart about our working relationship none of you are willing to go further with that. Steve…Steve got it into his head that I was nice. Don’t ask me how. But he thinks I’m a good girl and he wishes his mother were around to meet me. This could change all that.”
Pepper burst out laughing. The kind of uncontrollable laughter that almost never escaped from a woman like her, and Toni stared, dumbfounded as she tried to contain herself.
“Oh my god Toni!” She gasped between cackles “You guys think you’ve all got him pegged. ‘Poor Cap, couldn’t work the cable without a helping hand!’ God, Toni! He’s had an e-mail account for the last ten months! We text about your schedule! He YouTube’s your senate hearings! He GOOGLES YOU!” She exploded with laughter again at the look on her boss’s face. “Trust me Toni, he has no illusions that you are anything but what you are. He just loves you anyway.”
Toni stared at her blankly and blinked a few times. “Pep…what do I do?”
Pepper wiped the tears of mirth from her eyes and gave Toni an indulgent look. “You get up and call Prince Charming and apologize for being an idiot while I pack and ready the jet so you can fly out to see him today.”
“Fly out? Don’t I have…stuff?”
“Yes. In New York. The board wants a meeting. You’ll probably be congratulated a hundred times for finally settling down—“
“We’re just dating!”
“Captain-back-in-my-day-we-married-our-dames-first-America. That’s who you’re dating. Face it. Any way you will get a ton of many happy regards and you wont tell any of them to shove it and then you can see Mr. Right and…”
“Fuck him senseless? Good plan Pep. I’m gonna call him. I’m an idiot right? In this phone call?”
“Utter moron. Jeopardizing such a wonderful relationship.”
“Thanks Pep. I owe you one.”
“I’ll add it to your tab.”
AN: Short, possibly sweet. Let me know what you think!
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This was both hillarious and adorable.
I love Toni not knowing what the hell to do with Steve admiring her, and being sure she's going to screw up at some point.
And Steve googling her. *lol* I love it when Steve is more adept at new technologies than people give him credit for.
Great fic
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I love putting Toni out of het element, and I feel like Steve is a smart guy and though our tech would seem alien at first he'd get it pretty fast.
Thanks!
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Loved the fic, btw!
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Thanks! And would you like me to pm you or e-mail?
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Should I pm you my address?
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