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23 IS WRITING IN LIBRARY BOOKS AU

He’s taking on of those stupid general ed classes, some English class that Tony most definitely doesn’t have any care for. Which is why he doesn’t buy the books, instead he gets the copies on reserve from the library and reads it sitting in one of the plastic chairs. There’s highlighting in the books and notes from previous students, so he doesn’t feel bad adding his own in, though rather than pointing out the important quotes, he critiques the book.

This isn’t even believable, Tony writes the in the margins of one of the romance scenes, Nobody actually talks like this.

On another page, he points out that the science between the whole “time travel” aspect of the novel doesn’t make any sense either. In the margins of the scene he adds numbers and charts and formulas, all showing how moronic the author is. Who the fuck would name their time travel medical condition chrono-impairment?

He doesn’t finish the book before his next class and five hours in the engineering lab can really take a toll on a person’s willingness to read crappy romance novels that his English professor seems to think will be a future ‘classic’ right up there with Jane Eyre and Tale of Two Cities. Both of which were awful books in Tony’s opinion, but nobody’s really asking him anyways.

When he somehow finds himself back in the library, the books still there, and as he flips through to find the page he left off on he notices a new set of markings in the book. A passionate red penned edition now sits before his eyes. He quickly flips to the page with her formula scrawled out on it, to find that there’s a reply along the bottom of the page in that same red pen.

Flowery handwriting reads back to him that based on the universe set up, the term would be plausible, particularly critiquing the clothing disappearing element as an organic versus non-organic matter debate.

In dark lettering he writes back, So if he was wearing a skin suit it wouldn’t disappear?

And the next day, the red pen has replied with Last time I checked we weren’t reading Silence of the Lambs.

When he shows up the next week for that English class, he has a quick glance around the room for anybody writing with a red pen, but his search fails. There are about thirty students, twenty-three of which are ladies, as he assumed the handwriting had belonged to, but none of them took their notes with a red pen.

So on an impulse while the professor is discussing the reading, Tony shoots his hand up into the air, speaking without waiting to be called on. “I just have a hard time believing the book,” he says, “I mean, chrono-impairment, that’s bullshit. The science doesn’t even add up.”

Before the professor can even try to explain another hand shoots up into the air, front row, French manicure, with strawberry blonde hair, who whips around in her seat to glare at Tony. Reciting an argument that he had already had on the pages of a school library book.

He’s never seen somebody so attractive and angry all at the same time, and a voice in the back of his head says he probably shouldn’t be that turned on by all of this.

“Hey, Red,” Tony says, cutting off her tirade and interrupting the class, “why don’t we debate this over a cup of coffee. You could educate me on the inner workings of fictional universes.”

“Not on your life, Stark.”

“Wait, how do you know my name?”

She doesn’t answer, just rolls her eyes and turns back to the front of the classroom as their professor attempts to take charge once more.  

Though when he opens the book of the next week’s readings and there’s a phone number scrawled in the margins along with a note that they should probably stop vandalizing school property, Tony can’t help himself from announcing his victory to the entire library. 

I think the problem is that Elsa’s pretty novel (for obvious reasons) while Anna is seen as the more-standard bubbly type. But I totally agree that there should be more Anna. A skewed fandom is not a happy fandom.

yea yea exactly 

it's just

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