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A Soulmate Cannot be a Mutual Acquaintance by lovelyirony
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Aug 2023
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Tony and Rhodey are soulmates. They're in love with each other.
You'd think, at some point, that they might tell each other that.
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A Soulmate Cannot be a Mutual Acquaintance by lovelyironyThis author's writing style is... Something
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There is no name for this coffee shop. In a fit of caffeine-induced anxiety and rage, Tony has decided, “Fuck this, it’s just going to be called ‘The Coffee Shop.’ What the fuck else do you need to know?”
Tony decides that SI can survive without him, but a late-night coffee shop needs to be opened. Tony also does not shut up about being a small business owner.
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The Coffee Shop by lovelyirony-
“You’re supposed to take over a company.”“And?” Tony says. “I was also supposed to keep my parents but they died in a car accident.”
“Okay, bad move to use your dead parents against me, you know that.”
“I think, actually, that I just made a great move,” Tony answers. “Because now you can’t feel bad about my choice.”
“Well, I can feel bad about your decision, you’re majoring in business,” Rhodey says. “You’ve taken all of those classes when you were four.”
“Yeah, which means I can get the major done in a semester if the dean signs off on it and my parents can’t say no because they’re…you know.”
“Tony.”
“Come on, I’m not going to die.”
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Pepper visits the shop before it opens.“Tony, what the hell.” There are no matching mugs. Or plates. Nothing is matching. The machine looks like a goddamn Dr. Frankenstein project. “What have you been doing?”
“Being a small, independent business owner?” Tony answers, bending over the sink. “Whoever put these pipes in was a total loser, by the way. How was work today?”
“Fucking awful,” Pepper says. “But also great. My PA is quitting in two weeks to go get married.”
“Ugh, just hire Rhodey.”
“You think he’d quit being in the military?”
“I mean we’ve been lectured that you never stop being army or whatever the hell he phrased it as,” Tony says. “But maybe if you bribed some government official, you might get an honorable discharge for him.”
“Done.”
And she does. That’s the odd thing. Pepper actually does get it done--well, she convinces Rhodey to be her PA.
“I am sick of top secret missions and the brass being on my ass all the time,” Rhodey says. “Now I get to pick up coffee and lunch and work for the real equivalent of Miranda Priestly.”
“Miranda Priestly was a bitch,” Tony says.
“And?” Rhodey says. “You don’t become a top CEO and well-known name in an industry without being a bitch. Just look at your dad. Massive bitch. At least Pepper respects and is nice to me.”
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“Tony.”“Janet Van Dyne-Pym.”
“Okay, I did not last-name you,” she says, perching her sunglasses on top of her head. “I thought you said once the shop was steady you’d ask him out!”
“I definitely did say that,” Tony says, wringing his hands. “But I also told myself I’d ask him out after we roomed together freshman year. And after he dated Carol. And then when he became Pepper’s PA. I have said I’d ask him out on dates a lot, Janet.
And almost none of it has ended up happening. Also, I have no clue if he likes people romantically other than women!” Tony says. “I think he still has a thing for Carol. Who wouldn’t have a thing for Carol? Maybe I should set them up. I’ll ask Carol, she’ll definitely say yes. It’s Rhodey. They didn’t even end things that badly, she just signed up for NASA, so maybe--oh shit, maybe not--”
“Tony,” Jan says, putting a hand over his. “Calm down. Also, Carol’s bi. Which Rhodey could also be, if you asked him. And she’s married. I think her wife has a kid.”
“Wait, we didn’t go?”
“Well, like you said, she signed up for NASA when they broke up.”
“Shit. I could’ve given them a great wedding gift.”
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So he asks her over a video chat as he’s closing the shop. Pepper looks at him flatly. “Tony. I run the company named after you. Of course I know.”“Okay, well the company wasn’t named after me, my dad didn’t even like me enough to remember my birthday.”
“God, I’m so glad he’s dead. Have you been going to therapy for that?”
“It is tough being a small business owner," he deflects. "Trying to get decaf beans has been worse than whatever trauma I have."
“You can’t keep using that as an excuse, Tones,” Pepper says, exasperated. She looks at him fondly through the camera lens.
“Watch me,” he says, sticking his tongue out. She doesn’t catch it as she yawns, turning her head.
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“You’re the best,” Tony says with a grin. “Come on, Bruce’ll have your drink ready in a bit. Did you know he has a PhD in physics and in some kind of math? Oh, he also studied gamma radiation for a bit for the government and it didn’t go well. Technically, I think he has a warrant out for his arrest, but I’m a small business owner so I take what employees I can get.”“Wait, Dr. Banner?” Rhodey asks, eyes bugging out of his skull. “The Dr. Banner who has seven PhD’s?! And General Ross hates?”
“I don’t know who the hell Ross is, but yeah. I think he has seven. I told him to go for eight, but he says I don’t pay him enough for that. As if I can afford more, I am a small business owner.”
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Tony doesn't know he's bisexual, Rhodey doesn't mention it until Tony figures it out himself, and Pepper is a goddess who is impossible to not fall in love with.
(Or: How Tony, Rhodey, and Pepper all came together.)
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Three's Company by lovelyirony-
About three months later, Tony comes back from a meeting, strange look on his face.“Rhodey, did you know about bisexuality?”
“Considering I’m dating one, yes,” Rhodey says.
Tony stills.
“You’re dating someone?” he asks. “Who? Why didn’t you tell me?”
Rhodey snorts.
“Tony, you are adorable. You, honey. I’m dating you.”
“We’re dating?”
“Considering you always kiss me and hold my hand and call me nicknames and you’ve met my family? Yeah, we’ve been dating.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I figured you’d figure it out. You also told me not to talk about it for five years. So I wasn’t gonna push my luck.”
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Virginia Potts is not exactly sure why Natasha asked her how she felt about chaos.“Why?”
“You’re about to meet it in human form.”
She did not think that the guy in the hoodie with a bouquet of flowers on front and the guy next to him in a plain white t-shirt were chaos.
At least, that’s until the guy in the hoodie flings a grape across the cafeteria and lands it in someone else’s drink.
“I’m playing God,” he announces. He zeroes in on Pepper. “Goodness, you look like a goddess.”
Pepper stills.
“You’re always like this, huh?”
“He is,” the guy in the white t-shirt announces. “I’m Rhodey. That’s Tony.”
“I am literally never going to call you Virginia, I think it’s stupid that you were named after a state.”
“It’s a family name.”
“Even worse!” Tony says brightly.
“He doesn’t mean that,” Rhodey says hurriedly.
“No, he’s definitely right,” Virginia says. “I hate it. I just don’t wanna go by Ginny because then everyone asks if I like Harry Potter.”
“Struggles,” Rhodey nods. “I understand. My dad wanted me to go by Jim. I wasn’t aware I was supposed to be eighty right now.”
Tony snorts.
“Sit down for now. We shall figure out your nickname in time.”
They figure out the nickname ten minutes later when Pepper is trying to shake some pepper and salt into her soup and the lid to the pepper shaker falls off and dumps the whole container into her soup.
“Pepper,” Tony decides. “It’s Pepper.”
“No.”
“It is kinda catchy,” Nat admits.
Pepper it is.
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When You're Not Next to Me I'm Incomplete by lovelyirony for desitonystark
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies)
03 Nov 2020
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Everyone knows that Tony would die for Rhodey. It’s as easy to see as green grass or a blue sky. He would burn everything down for Rhodey.
Something that others don’t catch onto is how willing Rhodey is to do the exact same. Rhodey doesn’t often tell people his side of the story of how the two met.
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When You're Not Next to Me I'm Incomplete by lovelyirony -
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Pepper has broken laws.
This may have been bad.
(Not really.)
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sweeter than honey (redux) by lovelyirony-
Pepper broke several laws because the company she was working for (Stane International) was technically breaking laws, but laws that do not apply to corporations because corporations do this thing called “funding campaigns” and also sometimes “doing favors.”She decided to do the same and suddenly she is a criminal. Not her fault she redistributed money back into the community, and now they can’t get any of it back.
It’s just how that worked out.
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There’s Bruce Banner, who enjoys taking over corporations for fun, and this is his second one. His first was some sort of health insurance scam, and apparently that was just to finish up his thesis for his third doctorate.“He has seven degrees, he’s weird,” Tony says.
“Oh like you’re any better,” Bruce says with a snort. “You learned twelve languages for fun. Including French, which is useless.”
“French is not useless,” Tony says. “It got us free food in Canada.”
“We would’ve gotten it anyway if we’d done it my way.”
“Stealing?” Rhodey asks.
“Yes!”
Pepper laughs.
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She waves as she leaves the office.What Tony misses:
Pepper pumps her fist as she leaves the office, nearly stumbles, and is quite glad that no security cameras were installed that day.
What Pepper misses:
Tony spins so hard in his office chair as a celebration that it topples over.
Yeah, they’re made for each other.
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