"I'm just saying", Tony observes, spitting out half coherent words as he dutifully munches on a handful of popcorn, "that it would be cool to teleport, or read minds, even."
He turns his head to glance at the man sitting on the other side of his very large sofa, and Pepper giggles at Tony, her strawberry locks falling into her face as she puts a hand on his.
"Wouldn't it, Phil?"
Coulson, for all of his stern professionalism and impassivity, finds himself smiling. "Huh, what happened to 'Agent'?"
Tony cracks a grin, made lopsided by his constant chewing, and he turns his attention back over to the giant, wall sized television before them, his face lit up with the glow emanating from the screen, and points a buttery finger at it with excitement as an 'X-Men' movie plays on, nearly tipping his bowl over as he jumps up from his seat.
"No, no, no. I want to be Magneto," he murmurs breathlessly, eyes glued to the action, and Pepper has to admit, Magneto is pretty cool.
Coulson can't help but laugh, and he just barely catches the widening of Tony's smile out of the corner of his eye.
Fury never smiles, and he certainly never laughs, and the constant scowl residing on his face bores Agent Hill even more than the creeping progress of their ascent into the sky, seated in a rather low class plane as they head off to some remote, god-knows-where part of the country to investigate a spike in energy levels.
She puts her chin on top of her palm and gazes longingly out at the dimming sky as the world below moves on, the daily hustle and bustle of life laid out for her to see. She blows a strand of dark hair out of her eye, only for it to flop back down, and she angrily tucks it into her messy ponytail, hoping that it will stay long enough to give her some much needed peace.
Beside her, the Director hasn't changed his expression, or position, since they took off, and his posture his ramrod straight. She glances back over at him and sighs, getting tired of having known the man for so long and never seeing an ounce of anything but anger and stoic expressions, and turns back to the window, frowning.
"Too bad Stark isn't here to blow stuff up-god forbid anything interesting happen here," she murmurs lowly, and sees, in the hazy reflection of the window glass, an expressionless Fury, watching in shock as the corners of his lips turn up a fraction.
Please R&R! I just loved the idea of Tony watching an 'X-Men' movie. xD Feedback is always appreciated! If you have a word (since I'm basing each chapter on a word, if you haven't noticed), just let me know and I'll try to come up with something involving that.