tony and rhodey being MIT babies
dumb MIT babies. who wear dumb MIT hoodies. and cuddle and smooch a lot
#all I can see is sixteen year old Tony#21 year old Rhodey#In the living room of Rhodey’s frat house#They’re not together because holy shit Tony is SIXTEEN and Rhodey is ROTC#and it is entirely possible that Howard Stark has hired someone to trail Tony#and Howard can’t stop the one night flings but he sure as hell could make life miserable for a kid with his eye on getting his wings#But Tony arrived on campus so full of promise and life and a desperate need to either do something brilliant or burn the world to the ground#That Rhodey loved him before he even knew it was happening#And Tony was so absolutely starved for anything like affection that he grabbed onto Rhodey and NEVER let go#Rhodey got shit for how touchy he and Tony were for exactly five seconds#Because both of them had spent their early teen years being cleverer than anyone else around them#and had learnt how to take down someone twice their size as a result#Not to mention in a school full of the best and the brightest Tony Stark was still fucking light years ahead of them#And he was a creative vindictive little fucker#Plus#There was just no hiding the fact that the Stark kid was kind of a pathetic mess#and anyone with eyes could see it was Rhodey that was keeping him together#So if Tony ended up wandering in and out of the frat like he lived there pretty quickly everyone just got used to it#He always brought the best booze anyway#Let him hug it out on the couch with Rhodes#And if the entire fraternity pooled their money to send flowers to the Stark memorial the year Tony never came back from Winter break#It was mostly because they knew Rhodey would spend the rest of his senior year looking like he really needed a hug#and not because they missed the little upstart at all#whoops look at the tags
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GODDAMMIT I don’t usually ship Tony/Rhodey, but THIS IS PERFECT. *sobs*
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