My Head's Above the Rain and Roses Chapter Twenty Extended Author's Note

Review Response:

Thank you to FriedChickenNisha for your comment on AO3 and everyone who followed, favorited, and left kudos! It really means a lot!

Chapter Commentary:

This isn’t a note about the chapter, this is just something I want people to be aware of. We’ve had a rough few days here on the East Coast, first with Hurricane Florence slamming North and South Carolina and the horrific Merrimack Valley Explosions in Northern Massachusetts. All I ask is to keep the people affected by these tragedies in your thoughts and donate to the American Red Cross if you can. Thank you.

If anyone’s scratching their heads at the numbering of Tony’s armor, Iron Man 2 featured the MK4 (the one he’s wearing at the beginning and later when he fights Rhodey), MK5 (the briefcase armor he had at the Monaco Grand Prix), and MK6 (the new armor he’s wearing at the end). Supposedly, the MK6 armor survived until The Avengers (it’s the armor Tony used for most of the movie) as Tony had JARVIS working on the MK7 during his confrontation with Loki, but personally I can’t see Tony making an armor last an entire year (and we know it’s been a year since Iron Man 2 because Fury says that Thor “almost leveled a small town last year,” referring to the events of Thor, which canonically happened the same week as Iron Man 2.) The reason being is that I honestly can’t imagine Tony not getting into trouble and completely trashing at least one armor in that time. So, for now, let’s just say that the MK6 got trashed shortly after Stark Expo, the one Tony’s using now is the MK7, and he’ll be on the MK8 or MK9 in The Avengers. That sound good to everyone? Okay!

BTW, if I wrote Natasha out of character, someone please scream at me.

Mew-isms:

Fort Knox: A Military base which I believe is in New Jersey. It’s under very high security and hard to get in.

“Stuff, things…”: A reference to a line said by Rick Grimes to his wife Lori in Season Three, Episode One of the Walking Dead.

Willowbrook: I’ve mentioned it here before, but it was a school for intellectually challenged children that had a massive overflow of “students”, horrid conditions, and a rather uncaring staff. It was closed in the 1970’s.