ofironsoulsā:
@howwasthefunveeā - tony & rhodey!
āyou know, you missed allĀ the fun,ā tony said without preamble, coming up behind rhodey and clapping his shoulder like theyād just seen each other five minutes ago.Ā āwe were having this hugeĀ bash. really epic. music, dancing, booze, everything. made our MIT days look tame.ā
tony would have called it ābreaking the iceā; someone else (like rhodey) might have called it trying to avoid the inevitable awkwardness of having to sayĀ āhi iām dead ā but not reallyāĀ to your best friend;Ā āalso, i figured out that orange really isnāt my colour. by the way, howās morgan? she conned any juice pops out of you yet?ā
really, if he stopped and thoughtĀ about it, heād have to acknowledge thatĀ painful heart-squeezy feeling that was lurking in his chest at the sight of rhodey. rhodey. the one constant in his life, through thick and thin. the guy whoād been collateral damage of his craziness too many times. godfather to his kid. there were few certainties in life, but tony knew one thing - his death would have hurtĀ for james rhodes, and if there was one thing that tony had hoped never to do again, it was to break honeybearās heart.
ā¦.so much for that.Ā
if it were any other situation, any other point in their lives, rhodey would just... go with it. heād let tony play this off as just another day, another casual moment in their friendship, nothing to worry about. heād deal with the gravity of things in his own more subtle way. but this isnāt the same. this isnāt any other situation. this is... tony died. and yeah, he did it for a reason. sacrificed himself for the whole universe. but he still died. his best friend for basically half of his life. and there was nothing he could do. no way he could save tony, all he could do was... sit there and stare as the light left his eyes.
he stares for a moment, still reeling from the clap on his shoulder, from the voice he was so sure heād never hear again.Ā āorange is - orange is not your colour. at all. which makes this that much more...ā hilariousĀ is where thatās going, but thereās nothing funny here. not a thing.
itās the question about morgan that really breaks him, though. just picturing her face, remembering how hard sheād taken tonyās death, all the tears and the questions and the sadness in her eyes. before he knows what heās doing rhodeyās reaching for the man, pulling tony into a tight hug, squeezing his eyes shut.Ā āsheās doing good, tony. as good as.. she could be after what happened.ā rhodey pulls back from the hug after a few moments, resting a hand on tonyās shoulder.Ā āand she gets all the juice pops she wants. iām not a monster.ā











