Smiling to the Mirror (джен)

Tony Stark meets Flash Thompson at a formal event neither of them wants to be at. He's not exactly expecting to see himself in the kid dressed to the nines and doing calculus at a back table, but life is full of surprises that way.
He's also not expecting the two of them to have a mutual friend, of sorts, but he's good at rolling with the punches—or knives, as it were.
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Or, Tony Stark and Flash Thompson meet without knowing what they have in common, and this leads to some interesting situations.