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Forty Days of Flash Fic: Day THirty-Six
Jul. 25th, 2012 05:05 amIN which I indulge in fanfic for the first time (this month)
Tags: Avengers, Ciniverse, gen, Steve, Tony, Natasha, Clint.
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Between being woken up and recovering from his long frozen sleep, assimilating to life in the 21st Century, defeating the Chitauri invasion and moving into the repaired Avengers nee Stark Tower, it had taken Steve Rogers almost a year to get his new library card.
He'd never considered himself much of a reader when he was growing up. His obsession with overcoming (okay, ignoring) his physical problems had obsessed him. But he'd gotten into the habit of reading the hospital, and also during the long moments of boredom in the field during the war, where a squad of men would read obsessively through the same months old copy of Stars and Stripes just to have something to do while they waited for the call to action.
The great New York Public Library in Midtown had thankfully avoided taking a hit during the Chitauri assault, and Steve had given the old stone lions, Patience and Fortitude, guarding the entrance a friendly pat as he went in. The familiar smell of old books, paper, glue and a bit of dust, hit him as soon as he went inside. The interior hadn't changed all that much from his memories, aside from the computer terminals and florescent lights that were a constant in this day and age.
He had to go through the usual rigamarole of getting his card of course. Yes, that was his real age on his driver's license, here's his special ID countersigned by both the President and the Secretary of Defense, yes he's that Steve Rogers (pause for ten minutes of autographs, pictures, and some Grip & Grin) and he'd finally emerged from the library with his new card and a hefty pile of books in his rucksack.
When he got back to Avengers Tower, he found Tony kneeling on the floor of the common room, the center carpet cut away roughly with an eXacto knife to allow him access to the maintenance hatch.
"What are you doing?" Steve asked, setting his rucksack down on a table with a thump.
"Hi, Frozone." Tony gave him a wave without actually looking up form his work. "I figured out a way to improve the efficiency of the in-house fiber optic network by accelerating the transmissions through the arc reactor. I'm gonna give a test run through the common room's entertainment system tonight."
"Didn't you just finish installing the network last week? And didn't you say it was the most efficient on the planet?"
"Well that was last week."
TBC
Tags: Avengers, Ciniverse, gen, Steve, Tony, Natasha, Clint.
* * *
Between being woken up and recovering from his long frozen sleep, assimilating to life in the 21st Century, defeating the Chitauri invasion and moving into the repaired Avengers nee Stark Tower, it had taken Steve Rogers almost a year to get his new library card.
He'd never considered himself much of a reader when he was growing up. His obsession with overcoming (okay, ignoring) his physical problems had obsessed him. But he'd gotten into the habit of reading the hospital, and also during the long moments of boredom in the field during the war, where a squad of men would read obsessively through the same months old copy of Stars and Stripes just to have something to do while they waited for the call to action.
The great New York Public Library in Midtown had thankfully avoided taking a hit during the Chitauri assault, and Steve had given the old stone lions, Patience and Fortitude, guarding the entrance a friendly pat as he went in. The familiar smell of old books, paper, glue and a bit of dust, hit him as soon as he went inside. The interior hadn't changed all that much from his memories, aside from the computer terminals and florescent lights that were a constant in this day and age.
He had to go through the usual rigamarole of getting his card of course. Yes, that was his real age on his driver's license, here's his special ID countersigned by both the President and the Secretary of Defense, yes he's that Steve Rogers (pause for ten minutes of autographs, pictures, and some Grip & Grin) and he'd finally emerged from the library with his new card and a hefty pile of books in his rucksack.
When he got back to Avengers Tower, he found Tony kneeling on the floor of the common room, the center carpet cut away roughly with an eXacto knife to allow him access to the maintenance hatch.
"What are you doing?" Steve asked, setting his rucksack down on a table with a thump.
"Hi, Frozone." Tony gave him a wave without actually looking up form his work. "I figured out a way to improve the efficiency of the in-house fiber optic network by accelerating the transmissions through the arc reactor. I'm gonna give a test run through the common room's entertainment system tonight."
"Didn't you just finish installing the network last week? And didn't you say it was the most efficient on the planet?"
"Well that was last week."
TBC
