I'm sure I'm not the first to say so, but this just begs for a sequel. Anywho...lovely pre-Iron Man story. Tony was perfect and Nate was perfectly creepy (Watcher?) without knowing very much about him at all. Thanks for sharing!
Review By [Vashti] • Date [25 Jan 13] • Rating [9 out of 10]
I honestly can't recall if I reviewed this before. Sorry about that. But I enjoy it and boy would I LOVE to see a sequel to it! One where the 'something important' that he forgot turned up again. In a big way. So I'm going to hold on to my hope that you do a sequel. Okay? Okay. Thanks for sharing!
A well written insight into Tony Stark and his demons.
Comments from author:
Tony Stark is a complicated, deeply flawed person. The sort that's fun to write about and would probably be exceedingly annoying to know in real life.
I wanted to try something a bit different, and I guess I just saw one too many fic summaries about someone finding out that they're really the illegitimate child of Tony Stark... So I tried it from the other side.
Please do not take that as a suggestion that there is a problem with the idea of a story where someone is Tony Stark's illegitimate child. It is no better or worse than many other ideas that have been used for fics. But it's been very popular lately, so you see it often.
Review By [eriktheviking] • Date [24 Jul 10] • Rating [8 out of 10]
Are you really going to leave this story as is? - with no idea of who the mother or child is?
Comments from author:
Most likely, yes. this one was intended as a one-shot stand alone.
That does have the benefit of allowing each reader to fill in the blanks in a way that makes them most happy. Some would want the baby to be Xander, or Dawn, or perhaps Willow. Others might want the mother to be Joyce, or Buffy, or Faith. Perhaps it was Cordelia.
Of course, if anyone wants to write a story that takes this idea and runs with it, feel free! Just let me know so I can read it and review.
Review By [Gulanticus] • Date [23 Jul 10] • Not Rated
That was a very nice one-shot story. I'm not sure if you'll be going anywhere with it, but I certainly had fun reading it.
Comments from author:
Glad that you enjoyed it.
I wasn't actually planning for it to go anywhere else, to just stay a one-shot written after seeing yet another someone in Sunnydale learns that Tony Stark is their real father (insert angst here!).
I thought 'now what would be his reaction to learning something like that? Okay, it might depend on when and how he learns...' and this was the result.
Review By [Dmitri] • Date [23 Jul 10] • Rating [7 out of 10]
What an odd, little story! Good . . .but, I'm still scratching my head trying to place the time line it's taking place in. Hm, is it after Buffy came home? The cursed, zombie raising mask? The really strange part of it all is that clues you're scattering around (the angst, the not wanting to be alone, and the need to lead a 'normal' life), seem to point to Buffy.
Review By [ReallyBored] • Date [23 Jul 10] • Not Rated
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