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“Cardinal,” Pope Innocent said without looking up. He was signing something, slowly. “Sit.”
Lawrence sat.
“I need a favor,” the Pope said. He didn’t sound tired, exactly. Just past the threshold of fatigue into some stranger, steadier state.
Lawrence waited.
“There’s a visitor,” the Pope went on. “He believes he’s here for an audience.”
Still, he didn’t look up. Just turned a page, signed again, then closed the folder and laid the pen down with the kind of care that made Lawrence nervous.
“Bellini can’t take the meeting. I won’t.”
A pause.
“You will.”
(In which Lawrence speaks on the Pope’s behalf, and learns that being heard can be its own kind of closeness.)
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15 May 2025
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the second resurrection of lingering demons by helloitisiafellowgay
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Dec 2022
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Harley’s phone rings, and it takes a moment for it to even register, a moment longer to pick it up from the bathroom floor and wrangle his fingers enough to accept. The resounding static on the other end threatens to swallow him whole, and he might just let it.
”…Harley?” Pepper’s voice cuts through the white noise, and she doesn’t sound like herself. He listens to her breathe on the other end of the line, a long shuddering exhale. “Sweetie, did you… did you—?”
The words won’t come out the first time, just a scratchy sort-of wheeze. Stale air, cosmic vacuum, migrating glacier— he tries again, coughs this time like that will help anything. ”I watched it.”
For one, fervid moment, Harley wishes that he’d just dismissed the email, kept working on his homework. Never elected to join this monstrous reality in which Tony Stark might be capable of sexually abusing Peter on camera and waiting eight years to send it to their entire family.
Willful ignorance has never been such a compelling siren song luring him out to sea, never tasted so saccharine tucked in his back molars as it does right now.
He’s ravenous for it.
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06 Feb 2023
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Mr. Stark's Home for Idiot Teenagers by OffToNewPastures
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
22 Dec 2019
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Peter is there, slumped over the kitchen island, slowly cramming spoonfuls of Double Chocolate Cookie Crisp into his mouth, hair tousled and sticking up every which way, and Tony realizes with sudden clarity that he’s fighting a losing battle. Maybe not today, maybe he can put it off for a while, but someday he’s just going to have to give up and love this ridiculous kid.
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In which Tony Stark learns object lessons about love, sacrifice, death, friendship, and parenthood; and makes his peace with the unfortunate reality that his penthouse will be crawling with asshole teenagers every weekend for the foreseeable future. Follows canon...loosely. Ahem.
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- Part 1 of The Idiotverse
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04 Nov 2022
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going up in the world (in your esteem, actually, but that's my world) by Sunpops1
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 May 2022
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But here he is. A pre-programmed contact in his phone like Peter put him in there himself. Tony Stark.
Peter guesses he shouldn’t be surprised. It is a Stark phone. Tony is an eccentric billionaire. This is a logical conclusion.
“Mr. Stark?” Peter says, in disbelief, after he picks it up. He asks: “Is it really you?”
“Hey, we need to take pictures,” Tony says.
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Or: The Stark internship becomes a real thing. They take pictures.
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29 Sep 2022
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the world is not kind by thwip--thwip (Trickster88)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
03 Jun 2019
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The first time Ben Parker meets Tony Stark, he punches him square in the face.
Tony bites back a curse and ignores the way his eyes water as he looks back up at the man. Ben’s not angry, which is part of the reason the punch took him by surprise. They’re lucky the door is closed, or Happy would have tackled him to the ground.
“Did that make you feel better?” Tony asks, the sarcasm in his tone biting, but Ben takes it as a serious question.
“No.” If Tony didn’t know any better, he’d say the man almost cracks a smile. It’s hard to tell, and Tony’s never met a man he can’t read, but Ben doesn’t look angry (seriously, why doesn’t he look angry?), even though that punch felt angry. “...Maybe a little.”
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Or, May dies instead of Ben. We’ve seen Ben’s legacy – but what about May’s?
Losing a mother is something different from losing a father, but either way, it hurts.
(Endgame spoilers but it sure as hell ain’t compliant.)
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27 Sep 2022