Iron Man: Resurrection

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picture:Dylan Geick
Role: Archie Evans

Thomas's POV

I enter Bob's warehouse and go straight for the front desk like I always do every time I enter this bitch. It's like a second home to me.

I place today's deal on the table and watch as Bob looks up from the motherboard he's incorrectly wiring. "What the fuck is that? what does it do and where the fuck did you get it?" He asks looking at the device I brought him today.

"Well good afternoon to you too. First of all I found it where I find everything-"

"The junkyard so it's trash," he interrupted. Seriously this guy has no manners.

"One man's trash is another man's treasure. And this Osborn Encryption device must have been the trash of some rich fool who doesn't know how to fix a simple short circuit. Hook this baby up to your main hard drive and your shit is virtually impenetrable. Not even S.H.I.E.L.D would be able to hack in if they still existed," I say and I notice his attention lift from the motherboard in his hands.

"If it's so impenetrable why are you selling it. Your friend tells me that pile of mold of yours is real techy. Wouldn't you want to protect your shit?" I close my eyes in irritation. Archie talks too much.

"My encryption is good. You and Archie should stop gossiping. Plus what do I have to protect or hide?"

"Your collection of vintage gay porn," he says bluntly. Seriously too much gossip.

"Why would I hide something so beautiful," I answer. "You taking it or not?"

"50 bucks," he says.

I laugh a hysterically forced laugh. "Do you know how much it cost?"

"When in comes from the trash?"

"And is working perfectly thanks to the genius who fixed it. $300," I counter offer.

"You're not as smart as you claim to be if you think I'm paying you $300."

"You're not smart at all if you're letting something that can easily go for a $1000 slip through your fingers."

"$1000?"

"In this condition yeah. Brand new one probably $3,5k. You budging?" I ask and he sits for a while and thinks. He takes too long. I grab the motherboard from his hands and correctly wire it while he thinks and then place it back in his hands.

"Fine," he grunts and cashes me the $300. I smile and nod and I make my exit.

This is my life: Find junk , fix it, f sell it , eat ,sleep , fuck Archie and stay hidden. Yeah I'm living the dream. It all started when I blipped back. It was the craziest shit. This European couple that bought my house were having a threesome with the mail man in the living room. They didn't even question how I got in, to be fair they were high. They even asked me to join. I was too freaked out to even consider it all I wanted to do was find my mom.

Then I heard she died in the five years I'd been missing. Isn't that crazy I'd been gone for five fucking years.

If that wasn't heartbreaking enough the next thing I knew I was seeing a whole lot of Iron Man memoria shit. I couldn't deal with any of it so I ran, ran from everything. I knew that Pepper was worried sick and probably searching her ass off for me but I just couldn't stay. She would remind me to much of him and I didn't want to be reminded of either of them.

So I've been an orphan for two months and I have to say it's been kinda good. I found this abandoned apartment building in the not so safe side of Boston and became best friends with another homeless teen who had found it before me, Archie.