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Mr Stark ([personal profile] misterstark) wrote2013-05-30 12:23 am

21st Century Smash & Grab

Title: 21st Century Smash & Grab
Characters: Howard Stark, Jane Foster
Verse: Earth Zero

Howard Stark considers himself to be a patient man. You didn't build a better tomorrow by doing a rush job, after all. Engineering took time. So did making money. He could wait. He'd made an art out of waiting. The whole damn war had been a case of going nowhere fast.

That said, he'd been cooling his heels here for too long. They'd tried to throw a line about him being in a hospital in New York, but while this might be New York, this sure as hell wasn't a hospital. Too many concealed weapons for that. He'd let them have their sham, though. No skin off his back. The WAC on duty had been pretty. She'd had a nice wiggle, too.

That'd only kept him entertained for the first hour, though. After that, Howard had knocked the WAC out and stolen her gun, and then he'd demanded answers. That had been a little shortsighted. Being in the future was great. Being kept on a short leash wasn't. The most he'd seen is Fury's cellphone, the TV in his new room, and the cityscape outside the window. Which led Howard to where he was now: skulking through S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hallways, looking for a goddamn exit.

There had to be a way out of here. It was just a matter of finding it. Or suckering someone into leading him to it. Howard wasn't picky.
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[personal profile] sasstrophysicist 2013-05-31 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Jane unbuckled and scurried around to sit on her knees and get a better look at him. "To the left and straight. None of that matters right now!" She shook her head, bored with anything else. "You're really Howard Stark? Oh, my god! Does Tony even know you're alive? All the history books say you're dead! Your company was the leading company in the world for selling weapons, and now it's one of the leading forces in natural, clean energy! Your son is leading it all!" She was talking fast, excited, her voice almost squeaky.