here’s the first soundtrack fill! it’s for @the-fallofperdix, who asked for winteriorn set to “gasoline” by halsey.
so here’s what happens if hydra kills howard but keeps maria alive so they can force tony to work for them.
this one is dark. warnings for violence, alcoholism, some gore, references to torture, and brief but recurring suicidal thoughts.
The first time he says it, it tastes like blood. Like his mother’s blood. Coppery and bright.
He looks at her blood while he says it. Not the clotted mess around her split lip or the dark ring of bruises around her throat. He doesn’t look at the picture at all.
He looks at the rusted red flecks on the Winter Soldier’s metal arm, and he says, “Hail Hydra.”
The Soldier nods and sets the photograph on the desk in front of Tony. Metal fingers brush over his mother’s face, blotting her out, and every muscle in Tony’s chest clenches up, because the newspaper she’s holding is from this morning, but it’s been hours, it’s nearly midnight, and she could already be dead.
Just like Howard.
“I want to talk to her,” he says.
“You will speak to her,” the Soldier says, “when you require inspiration.”
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This is ridiculously fucking good! I love it so much!
