Fic- When He Dreams

[alaceron]

Title: When He Dreams
Fandom: Iron Man
Summary: Tony’s dreams, when he has them, are mostly filled with Pepper.
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Tony/Pepper
Length: ~1,000
Disclaimer: Iron Man (and all related characters, etc.) belong to Marvel, etc.
Notes: Movie-verse, unbeta-ed. Angsty, I think. (Though not completely, ultimately- yeah.)

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Comments

[jezunya]

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This was very touching...made me a little teary-eyed, which doesn't happen often.

I love the very direct cause-and-effect between his dreams and what he's currently obsessed with in his workshop. Like if he can improve this one project, maybe he can stop them from coming true, like he's sure they're going to come true, sooner or later, one way or another.

and prays to the God his mother believed in
I don't know why, but that phrasing just stuck with me. I've always had the image of Maria Stark as a quietly devout Catholic, even though her husband and son never practice or even think much about it.

Very, very sweet, my friend. I'm looking forward to reading more from you. :)

[alaceron]

♥ Very very glad to hear you enjoyed it. It's always a pleasure to get feedback from you. =)

I think Tony would be very much like that. Pessimistic enough to think that those situations warrant some sort of preventative action because it's either likely or likely enough that they'll happen. And he'd also be the kind of person who'd do something proactive to prevent/lessen the impact of whatever he's afraid will happen. (As opposed to a moper.)

You too with the Maria Stark!
I have my suspicions that it's her first name that does it...Maria is probably one of the most Catholic names out there. (But it still tickles me that someone has the same image of her as I do!)

[jezunya]

lol, yes. For some reason, from the moment I heard Tony's mom's name, my mind immediately went Maria == Catholic. My brain might even be drawing on a subconcious West Side Story/Romeo & Juliet reference... @_@

[alaceron]

Your brain draws on broad cultural references! My brain went straight from "West Side Story" into "I'm so pretty!" (or however that song goes) to Tony flouncing around singing, trying to weird someone (no doubt Rhodes) out. My brain is evidently on drugs.

(On a more outrageous tangent: I had the misfortune of watching part of Bring It On 4 last week, and they took team names from West Side Story. So that's the Sharks and the Jets, right? And then they had them merge...into not the Jarks, or even the Jet-Sharks, but the SHETS. I couldn't believe my ears.)

[lizbet0]

I agree with Jezunya: I love how Tony's dreams spur him to do something to fix whatever the dream left unresolved. Except for the last, of course, because he'd be so totally lost without Pepper that there isn't anything to do to resolve it. (Except ask her to marry him...Hey, wait, isn't someone named Jez-something writing a story like that? *snicker, grins madly*)

I do hope the blondes were just pre-Afghanistan, though. Maybe now he just picks an innuendo fight with Pepper and wonders what her underwear looks like! *grin* Ooh, or buys some for her just to get the reaction! *smirks, giggles madly*

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[alaceron]

Ah, that marriage fic by that Jez-person. *jiggly eyebrows* HO HO HO. My guilty pleasure, that one is. And while I wait for her to churn out the next chapter, I think I'll go re-read the existing ones...

I like to think the blondes are pre-Afghanistan too. =) And that these days, the bruises on his chest are from Pepper's stilettos.

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[jezunya]

You people are doing terrible things to my ego...

I like to think the blondes are pre-Afghanistan too.
Yes, definitely! Especially since such behavior might only heighten the likeliness of the last dream coming true... Hm, maybe that's why he becomes such an alcoholic...can't even drown his sorrows with women anymore, so he just goes and gets himself a stiff drink.

And that these days, the bruises on his chest are from Pepper's stilettos.
LOL

[lizbet0]

Jez, if pumping up your ego gets us more writing quicker, somebody pass me the air pump! Hmm, maybe I should get a couple of 'em - after all, there are alaceron, neondaisises, and 4persephone to consider, and many others, too!

**sighs happily** Oh, I so love how many fabulous, fabulous authors this fandom's sucked in!

As for the alcoholism, yeah. *sigh* Tony'd want to dull the edges somehow, and a brainless blonde just wouldn't cut it anymore. (Even if another woman didn't freak over the arc reactor, Pepper would just give him such a look the next morning.)

Honestly? I'm kinda glad the next movie will take a while to get here. It gives fic writers more time to come up with lots and lots of lovely, happily-ever-after-all-the-angst stories before movie canon shoots all the lovely plot bunnies. (Apparently, comic canon has already derailed the Pepperony ship, but since I've never seen the comics, I am remaining blissfully in denial!) *Pepper/Happy...lalala, I can't hear you!*

[lady_s]

Wow, very beautiful little peice of writting here. I loved how he reacts differently to the dreams making him do different things. I would love to see Pepper's reaction to all this, but I suppose she has no idea. But great job!

[alaceron]

^-^ Glad it worked for you, my dear, and thankyou!
(Unfortunately, I don't think Pepper's ever going to get any idea of this. Except maybe after one of the happy dreams, where she'll ask Tony why he's so chipper, and he'll say, "Of course it's because I dreamed about you last night," and she'll reply, "I'm sure you did, Mr Stark," and not believe a word of it.)

[lady_s]

Hehe, I could totally see them saying that too.

[4persephone]

Wow...this is very evocative and just a slam to the gutt for the readers. Beautiful summation of all the different aspects of Tony's psyche, and the slow, beautiful way Pepper has invaded all of them. ")

[alaceron]

I tells ya what, the language in your comment was beautiful, and not just because it was saying nice things!

I'm glad it worked so well for you. =)

[alaceron]

hehe, thankyou! ^^