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Blue Eyes Angel 2

Let me take care of you

"Move in with me."

Those words made Steve look at Tony like he had just announced that he no longer loved women.

"What?"

"I want you to move in with me," said Tony like it was the most brilliant idea in the world.

"Why?"

"Because who doesn't want to live with me," commented Tony.

Steve gave him a look.

Tony rolled his eyes at Steve's look. "I'm asking the whole team to move in the new tower I built. You've seen it right? It's big, shiny and new and not ugly." He added the last part with a hint of annoyance. Nice to know that Tony didn't let go of the comment Steve made about his last tower. "I'm calling it the Avengers Tower, now all I need is the Avengers."

"Have you asked anyone else?" questioned Steve.

"We'll Bruce has already moved in, he's been staying with me ever since we all went our separate ways. I haven't been able to get in touch with Thor because of the whole other world thing, and I figured if you move in, Natasha and Clint will follow," explained Tony.

"You want the Hulk, a God, two SHIELD agents, me and you to live under the same roof?" asked Steve lifting one eyebrow at Tony. "Oh yeah, that sounds just as good as when Fury put us all together in the helicarrier. All we need is Loki, and we are a complete set again."

Tony rolled his eyes again. "Don't be a smart ass. Just move in with me."

"No" answered Steve.

"What, why not?" asked Tony.

"Because I live here. I just got my apartment settled in Brooklyn," stated Steve, taking a sip of his coffee.

"I've seen your apartment; it's crappy. My place is better," commented Tony.

Steve stared at Tony. "When did you see my apartment?"

Tony looked away from him. "Um…"

"You broke into my apartment, didn't you?" it wasn't a question, Steve knew Tony Stark, and Tony Stark did what he wanted, even breaking into people's place.

"Fury let me in. He has a key," stated Tony taking a sip of his coffee.

Steve choked on his coffee. "What!?"

Tony shifted the sunglass on his head. "Yeah, oh come on, you really think he just let you leave the shelter of SHIELD without being able to have some control of you, did you?"

"But why did he let you in?"

Tony huffed "Now I'm offended, what does that mean?"

"Tony" warned Steve in a growl.

"Okay, to be honest, he's worried about you. Which is surprising because he didn't think that was possible for him. But he and I know Coulson, god rest his soul, would feel better if you didn't live on your own." explained Tony "That's why Fury gave me his blessing for me to take you in. Well, he gave me his legendary one eye stare and threaten me with bodily harm if anything happened to America's national treasure while under my roof." he commented.

Steve was seriously annoyed now. Since when was he a possession that needed to be "look after"? And when did Fury and Stark believe they had the right to decided that they could make these decisions for him?

Steve stood up and threw a 20-dollar bill on the table to cover his half of the bill. He grabbed his jacket, keys, and phone and proceeded to walk out of the café.

"Hey, where are you going?" asked Tony. "We weren't done talking. And by I mean talking, I suggest you sitting here listening to me until you finally agreed and let me have my way.

Steve huffed and continued his way out.

"Seriously, where are you going?"

"To get new locks for my door."

Steve slammed the door to the café door.

"My place is not crappy," mumbled Steve.

A few days had passed since he last had his discussion with Stark. But the man was determined on having Steve move into the Tower. He was bombarded with text messages and phone calls from Tony Stark. They kind of went like this.

"Hey Cap, did you change your mind about moving in?"

"Please move in Cap!"

"How about now, do you want to move in now?"

"Stop being so stubborn and just move in already!"

"You can't escape forever, Rogers! Soon you will be mine! MUHAHAH! "

"I will buy your whole apartment building and blow it up unless you move in now!"

"Okay, I'm sorry that was mean. But seriously I have a room ready for you when you're ready to move in."

"Please, Please, Please, Please, please come to move in!"

And it wasn't just occasionally; it was all day, every day. Steve had to learn how to empty his voice mail and text messages because Tony had filled them both full. He was almost ready to throw his phone out the window. Except for the one time he got a call from someone else. At two o'clock in the morning, he woke up to his phone ringing. He reached over to his flip phone and after staring at it for a few minutes, to make sure it wasn't Tony, he answered it.

"Hello?"

"Good morning Captain!"

Steve shook his head confused for a moment. "Thor?"

"Yes, it is I. I decided to call you on this fine morning."

"Thor, its two in the morning," grumbled Steve. "Wait, how did you even get my number?"

"The Man of Iron gave it to me."

Tony

Steve plopped his head down on his pillow. "Great." he groaned

"I heard that you refused his request to come live with us."

"Live with us? Wait for your there?" asked Steve. He got out of bed and walked over to his kitchen.

"Of course, thou with my travels between Asgard and my visit with Lady Jane, I do not get to be at the Avengers Tower often."

Steve opened the fridge and grabbed the half gallon of milk; he frowned in confusion. "Who is Lady Jane?" he asked.

"Lady Jane is, me on how Earth you call it, girlfriend."

Steve stopped when he was reaching for the glass bowl. He didn't realize that Thor had a girlfriend. It suddenly dawns on Steve that Lady Jane was Jane Foster. Steve read the file on Thor, Jane Foster was mention as an astrophysicist that met Thor, but it didn't say anything about them being a couple.

His mind drifted to Peggy. SHIELD gave him a file on her with her address and number, but he hasn't made any attempt to reach her yet. Mostly because he was afraid. What would she say to him? Would she even believe that it was him? Did she even want to see him? Steve hasn't aged at all; Visiting Peggy might bring up some painful memories for her. Also, regarding her might be hard for him. The file mention that Peggy got married, had a family, she moved on without him. He's happy for her, but at the same time, it still hurts.

"Captain?"

Steve jumped at the sound of Thor's voice.

"Sorry, what were you saying?" he asked.

"I was saying that you should meet Lady Jane after you move into the Avengers Tower."

And although everyone else he once knew moved on, Steve wasn't ready to.

"I love to meet her, but I don't think I'll be moving into the Tower anytime soon."

A week after he talked to Thor, he came home to find Natasha and Clint sitting on his couch.

"How did you two get in here?" he asked.

"Were spies Cap, it's what we do," answered Natasha.

"Plus, Tony gave us a key," said Clint holding said vital up.

Steve stomped over and snatched it. "When did he get a key to my apartment, I change the locks!"

"He's Tony Stark, the first Iron Man suit he made was in a cave. He can get a copy key to your apartment Steve," stated Natasha.

"Well I'm keeping this," said Steve putting it in one of the kitchen drawers.

"Doesn't matter, everyone has a copy."

Steve turned around. "What do you mean everyone has a copy? Who is everyone?!"

"Ever think about getting a TV, this place is boring," commented Clint. "Stark Tower is so much cooler."

Steve knew what they were doing, but he was not going to give in to their little game. "Focus, the copy of the key, who has it?"

Natasha was checking the people off with her fingers. "Stark, Bruce, me, Fury, Pepper, Thor, Darcy, Jane, Rhodey, Sam, Sharon, Hill, Happy, Clint had one, but you took it-"

"Okay, forget it!" snapped Steve. There were some people Natasha named that Steve didn't even know. "Haven't any of you heard of privacy?"

"Hey, you wouldn't have to deal with this if you just moved in," argued Clint.

Nothing in that sentence made sense to Steve, but he just chose to ignore it.

"Tell everyone I want all the keys back," demanded Steve. "And no more copies."

Natasha and Clint looked at each other.

"So, is that a no on moving in?"

"Out"

Steve never did get those keys back.

When Steve woke up, he was not in the bedroom of his apartment. He wasn't even in his apartment. He jumped out of bed looked around the room confused.

"Good morning Captain Rogers."

Steve jumped and looked around to find where the voice was coming from.

"Who's there?" asked Steve.

"I am Jarvis, Master Stark's AI system for here at the Tower." introduced the voice.

"Okay" Steve was confused about why the voice sounded British, but he was more worried about other things. "So where am I exactly?" he asked.

"You are at the Avengers Tower Captain Rogers."

Steve's eyes widen. "What! How did I get here?"

"Master Stark had you brought here at exactly around 2:34 am. All your belongings have been brought here too."

Steve felt himself boil in anger and more confusion. How did he not wake up to being moved from one place to another? He stomped over to the closet and opened it to find all his clothes there. He got dressed and then charged out of the room looking for Tony.

He got to the kitchen when he saw everyone there eating breakfast.

"Oh, morning Cap!" greeted Clint. Natasha nodded her head at him.

Bruce looked up at him, and his facial expression changed to confusion. "Morning Cap, I didn't realize that you stayed the night over."

Steve folded his arms glaring at Clint. "I didn't, at least not by my choice," he grumbled.

Clint and Natasha were trying to not look at Steve while Bruce faces changed from confused to annoyance in five minutes.

"TONY!" yelled Bruce.

"That is our cue to leave," Clint said to Natasha.

Both quickly exited the room while Tony slowly walked in.

"You called Bruce?" asked Tony. Steve could tell that he just got out of the shower because his hair was all wet.

Bruce crossed his arms and gave Tony a look. "Is there something you want to share?" he asked.

"No, nothing that I know of." He glanced over at Steve. "Hey Cap" he greeted.

"TONY" shouted both Steve and Bruce.

"What?"

"Did you kidnap Steve last night?" asked Bruce gesturing to Steve standing there.

Tony placed a hand over his chest. "Why Bruce, I am hurt that you would even-"

"Tony"

"Yeah, it's true I kidnaped Steve," Tony stated bluntly. He looked over at Steve. "Don't worry Cap, no need to thank me."

"Why would I thank you?!" questioned Steve.

"Because this is the Avengers Tower, and last time I checked you're an Avenger, the leader of the team. You belong here. And don't worry you'll be safe here."

"I was safe in my apartment!"

"You weren't. I don't think this has sunken into your little blonde head yet, but you are CAPTIAN AMERICA, you seriously are like one of America's most precious treasures. When people start to find out that you are back because, to be honest, it's going to happen; people will come after you. Whether for revenge, the serum in your blood, or just because you are Captain America. That's why Fury put SHIELD agents in your apartment building again to watch you-"

"WHAT?" Steve asked, looking at Bruce for some truth in that statement.

Bruce just put his hands in surrender. Steve was speechless; he knew that Sharon Carter was placed in his old apartment building to keep an eye on him. But that was a long time ago; Steve didn't know that Fury was still doing that.

While Steve was trying to wrap his head around all this, Tony continued to talk.

"Yeah, he did, of course, I don't know how he was able to do when SHIELD is technically no more. I guess he still has some people who are loyal to him. Which is very annoying because I know if Stark Industries ever went down, my employees would just run out the door without a second thought-"

"Okay stop, just stop!" shouted Steve.

Tony stopped talking and stared at Steve. He reached his hand out towards Tony. "Give it" he ordered.

"Give what?"

"My key, my key to my apartment, I know you have it," said Steve. "Hand it over," he demanded

Tony rubbed the back of his neck, with a sheepish look on his face. "Yeah about that, I kind of, may have, I don't know…sold your apartment."

Steve curled his extend hand into a fist. "You what!"

"Tony, none of this was the right way to deal with getting Steve to come live in the tower. Everyone here agreed that we would wait until he was ready." scolded Bruce.

"Yeah, well it was taking too long," complained Tony in a five-year-old matter. "This was much easier, and now he has to live here because he has nowhere else to go."

Steve just stood there staring back and forth between Bruce and Tony before twisting around on his feet and walking away.

"Where are you going?" asked Bruce.

"To find a new apartment." snapped Steve.

He was almost at the door until Tony spoke.

"Jarvis, lock the door."

The clicking of the door locking went off.

"Door has been locked, Sir," replied Jarvis.

Steve spun around and was right in Tony's face, but that didn't lower his yelling any bit.

"Why are you doing this to me?!" question Steve. "You have been badgering me non-stop to come live with you, why?"

"I'm trying to help you."

"You have a funny way of showing it."

Tony sighed and ran his hand through his hair, making Steve feel a little guilty.

"You are as stubborn as my Dad said you were." groaned Tony

Almost.

"Nice to know I measure up to Howard's stories," remarked Steve.

"Come on Steve, why won't you let me take care of you," said Tony.

Steve thought back to when he last heard those words.

Flashback

"You want me to what?" asked Steve wit shock.

"When this war is over, I want you to come to live with me," repeated Howard.

"I don't know Howard," said Steve.

"Oh, come on Rogers, I don't know what the future holds for you and Peggy. But since your friend James died-"

"Don't-"warned Steve.

"You'll be going home alone." finished Howard ignoring Steve.

Steve sighed and turned away, Howard leaned forward.

"Come on Steve; you're too young to be living on your own, let me take care of you."

End of Flashback.

"Okay, so how about we do this," suggested Bruce.

Steve glanced up at Bruce.

"You stay here for six months, and at the end of those six months you can leave if you want to, and none of us will protest to it." offered Bruce.

Tony nodded excitedly "Works for me, Cap?"

Steve sighed. "Fine"

Steve walked back to his room.

Tony turned to Bruce.

"So, I have six months to convince Captain America to stay here forever," said Tony.

"You make it sound like you only have six days instead of six months," remarked Bruce.

"This is Captain America though," explained Tony. "My Dad said he was the most stubborn man he ever met. And I believe him."