Round Robin Fic: What Happens In Vegas... (Part 3)

[obsession_inc]

So this is still technically a round-robin, but the part where it's supposed to be rounding some kind of robin has not happened yet because I got an idea on the train and stole it back. I promise I am letting it go after this point.

As per usual, I am mining the hell out of the comments in the original crackthread, by amonitrate, quigonejinn, and gabby_silang, and comments made

Comments

[destro]

Oh my god RACHEL. Between you and Rhod, my crazy-shouldn't-be-this-awesome-crack-fic quote is filled for the day, nay, the WEEK:

he has a retractable stripper pole on his private jet for the flight attendants that double as dancers. On his plane for God's sake.

ASld;as;djasad;l BECAUSE PEPPER IS PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS JUST HOW UNSUITABLE A HUSBAND TONY'D BE. Oh, and the way she owns him with the "You don't get to apologize" speech. Hungover, stressed out of her mind, and Pepper still manages to own Tony Stark's ass any day of the week. YES.

[obsession_inc]

Hee, thanks! The stripper pole thing was amonitrate's; she started writing this scene once upon a time and donated her bits to the cause.

The part I like best about that speech, in retrospect, is that while it's all accurate, it's also her taking the question of "what did Tony do?" and making into a question of whether or not Tony gets to apologize for his unspecified sins. Ladies and gentlemen, the queen of distraction, Pepper Potts!

[atrata]

I think *my* heart stopped with the ring bit, god. TONY FIGURE IT OUT YOU ARE A GENIUS.

Of course, him figuring it out will ruin the massive hijinks that really must be in the works, but whatever.

Man, these two.

[obsession_inc]

To his credit, when applying Occam's Razor to the question of why he has his ring on the wrong hand, I don't actually blame him THAT much for picking "huh, must have switched it at some point for no reason while I was drunk" over "I must have spontaneously married Pepper and used this as the ring!" That sort of leap is more appropriate to Occam's Stubble.

THESE TWO. Yeah.

[catechism]

No, I am not surprised he didn't think, "oh, my ring is on the left hand, I must have got married," but I thought it might trigger *some* memory. He's got, what, eight missing hours? That's a lot of time, I think, even if we assume that, at this point, he has a very serious drinking problem. Is he worried about the lost time? Does it happen often?

(CRACK IS SRS BSNS.)

[obsession_inc]

Well, most of those hours he was asleep, really. As for the rest of it, assume what you must, but since we've seen nothing yet from Tony's point of view there is no certainty that he doesn't remember anything. (Then again, we've heard from Yinsen that an exceedingly drunk Tony Stark once did some sort of lecture where Yinsen met him, although it certainly seemed that Tony doesn't even remember the lecture in question. Soooo...) And since there's no law on this crackfic saying that the only POV used must be Pepper's, then I suppose if someone wanted to do a Tony-POV section (hint hint), someone might.

Also, CRAK R NT SRS BSNS. CRAK R CRAK.

[katanath]

This has gone beyond crack and into pure top-grade Afghani heroin. Tony is so completely unaware of what he's in for. And they're doing such a great job of playing Id vs. Superego, but having Pepper being just a bit ambivalent...ouch.

[ithildyn]

This was awesome! I can hear the voices. Now I'm really going to bed!

[emmy_bemmy]

OOOOOOh!

Hahaha, love it.

Would there be, like, a part four or something?