Biography | Quentin Beck

Wednesday, June 11th, 1985

Tony struggled to open the door to their dorm as his hands were full of bags. Quentin was close behind his hands also full of bags and his pill bottle hanging out of one of his pockets since Arya was sitting on top of his friend's shoulder. Tony wanted her to be a college cat and Beck couldn't really argue. The Stark dropped his bags once inside and dusted off his hands. Quentin carefully parked his up against the wall.

"It's nice right?" Tony asked while of course checking out the bed.

"Yeah it is, you did a good job." Tony had paid for everything, obviously. He went ahead and sat down on the unclaimed bed while dragging his suitcase and unpacking right away.

"You know what the best part is?"

"What?"

"Watch this," Tony sat up and pressed a button to open up a secret compartment. Their dorm had it's own mini lab and needless to say Quentin's jaw was on the floor.

"We have our own lab?!"

"Yeah! You can work on your personal project there and such."

"That's so cool! Do you also have our schedules?"

"Yeah," The future Avenger walked over to his friend and grabbed the rolled up paper out of his back pocket before handing it off. "We both have electrical engineering and I think you have chemistry while I have physics and then it's," Tony gave a thumbs down with a fart sound. "Stuff left."

"So we have Engineering, Science and Math together and then we split off at the last two classes?"

"That's what it looks like yeah. Hey I was going to go walk around campus, you want to come?"

"Oh uh," Quentin glanced at his bag and the exposed lab before hearing Tony chuckle.

"Want to work on your project?"

"A little bit.. I'm getting closer, you know? "

Tony gave him an assuring head pat. "Don't worry I understand. So should I tell you about what I saw?"

Quentin thought for a moment before sitting up. "You know what, I can work on it tonight, let's explore."

"Alright now we're talking." He tossed him his hoodie before slipping on a jacket and opening the door for his friend.

"Ladies first."

"Very funny." He walked through anyways with a snickering Tony walking behind him.

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Tony almost immediately regretted going out once word got out that Tony Stark was not only on the  property but would also be staying at MIT for the school years. As soon as the two made it back they were exhausted. Having to zig zag and other things just to lose the crowd so that nobody found their dorm room. Once Quentin slipped in Tony slammed shut the door and locked it. Both boys were panting heavily.

"How about we.. watch a movie instead."

"Good idea, Q-Tip.."

The two boys  went as far to barricade the door just in case anyone were to have seen them enter. Once people were locked out they started to set up their movie night. Tony of course was setting it up with the Stark Laptop that his dad had made recently. Quentin was shaking blankets out and making a fort. Tony had packed quite a few movies so he went ahead and took them out of his bag.

Quentin moved some chairs to hold up the blankets and dusted his hands off.  "Fort is ready."

"I think I'm all set up too." Tony picked up the contraction before wedging into underneath the blankets. "You did an awesome job with this."

"Thanks Tones," Quentin scooted in next to him, dragging along a small backpack. "I brought the snacks in here too, hopefully that's okay."

"Yeah that's fine. What movie did you want to see?"

"What are the options?"

"Uh," Tony opened up his bag and fished out a few VHS'. "I snagged The Dark Crystal, which is the same guy who made the Muppet movie, I have E.T, Milo and Otis and.. I have more but I also brought a horror movie, just incase you wanted to try it."

Quentin let out a nervous sigh. "What horror movie?"

"The Shining."

"You know what.. Let's do it."

"Really??"

"...Yeah?"

"Are you sure?"

"....No, but, I want to try it."

"Atta boy, Beck, I'm proud of you." Tony ruffled his hair before putting the tape in. "Jarvis hit the lights please." Silence.

"Uh Tony.."

"Hm?"

"....This is our dorm room, we don't have Jarvis.."

"Oh- right.. I'll get it."

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After a bunch of back and forthing they were finally ready. The lights were off. They were all comfy and the snacks were open. Finally the movie was starting and boy Quentin was already nervous. Tony reassured him everything was okay by holding his hand, in a best friend way of course.

All was actually going good. Nothing scary was happening and surprisingly the movie wasn't what gave Quentin a spook. It was the all of a sudden out of nowhere thunder. It actually caused him to scream which Tony quickly slapped his hand over his friend's mouth to muffle it. They didn't want anyone finding them.

Once all was calm he let go. "What was that about? Nothing even happened."

"Sorry.. it was the thunder."

"Pfft," Tony soon ate that laugh when another loud rumble came out of nowhere causing him to flinch and fall over on Quentin, who did indeed giggle at the karma.

"You alright?"

"What the fuck was that-"

"The thunder I was telling you about."

"...Okay listen," He began. "I didn't mean to laugh."

"Was this before or after it jumpscared you?"

"Sorry."

"That's what I thought." Quentin was just teasing him.

That's pretty much how their day went. Some parts of the movie startled the young Beck but mostly it was the sounds of the thunder, and he wasn't the only one. Tony was startled too which made Quentin feel better about himself. If the great Tony Stark was also scared of thunder than maybe he wasn't as much as a coward as he used to be after all.