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Marius didn’t mean to be late, but practice had run long. He rushed through a shower and threw on his gym clothes before rushing over to Mr. Stark’s classroom, his hair still dripping wet. He was out of uniform, but he didn’t think that should matter for an after-school tutoring session.

“Mr. Stark?” He knocked on the door and let himself in. “Sorry I’m late...”

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[onetruewidow]

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“You look familiar... let me think.  Something in my head is saying Hollywood.  Are you a director?”

[handmethatstapler]

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“... Howard?  I thought you were still in New York!  How did you get here ahead of me?”

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Marius had heard some bizarre pickup lines over the years, but “do you like hot chocolate?” had to rank up there as one of the strangest. “No, not really,” was his response, and if the cafe hadn’t been so crowded, he would have moved to a different table. Yes, the man who asked was very attractive, and he had a killer mustache, but it was still weird. Also it wasn’t winter, and who even drank hot chocolate when it wasn’t winter? And he clearly already had a cup of tea in front of him, so why would this strange and handsomely mustachioed man ask him about hot chocolate?

But he was raised to be polite, so he offered the man the remaining chair at his table and asked, “do you?”

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[gemsandgin-blog]

stark2pointoh:

“I thought they were romantic in nature.”

“Well, they were. That still doesn’t give her the right to assume.”

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[gemsandgin-blog]

Marius was in his element - dancing his heart out and surrounded by attractive men. He made sure to give each guy - young and older - plenty of attention, kissing everyone freely and making good use of his hands. He hadn’t found anyone he wanted to go home with, not quite yet, but the night was young. Still, he kept his eyes on the entrances, hoping to spot the perfect partner before too long.

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It was good to have Mr. Stark home. Well, it would be when he was finished with his phone calls. Maria didn’t understand how someone could be away on business for weeks and still have work to finish when they came home. Her father did the same thing.

But she could wait. She had the whole pool to herself, with Tony away at an engineering competition. Even Mr. Jarvis wasn’t around, which meant she could swim topless or kiss Mr. Stark without having to worry.

Yes, things were going well.

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[tonystark-boygenius]

1987

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Tony had been working all evening, and had lost track of time utterly - in fact, he still had no idea what time it was as he rummaged through a drawer in the archives, looking for more of his father’s work on the tesseract.  He wasn’t sure how much of it he could translate into something understandable to a layman, but Madame Director had given Tony the job of understanding it as thoroughly as possible, and he wasn’t about to fail her.  Not when his livelihood now depended on it.