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as a two time beggar i will go (where I know i can be forgiven) by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
21 May 2026
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A snatch of an old prayer sings through Tony’s veins:
"I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do—"
There is more to the prayer than that. More about the Virgin Mary and the saints and god.
But the bit that always hit Tony, when he was a kid with a kneeler digging into his knees in between church pews, with the scars and bruises of his father’s fingers staining his skin, with a hope in his chest that was being torn apart by the pressures put on him by Howard Stark and Obadiah Stane and the board—
There are so many sins that have buried themselves between his ribs, actions taken by a man who had to suture together a heart of iron.
But it is not God that he needs to ask forgiveness from.
No—the only people that Tony needs to beg forgiveness from are the people that he hurt.
And top of the list is this boy, who he has somehow led to the conclusion that he would ever take his suit away again.
(When Peter breaks down on the anniversary of Ben's death, Tony is there to commiserate—and maybe to help, in his own way.)
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