When something hit Natasha Romanov in the back, she didn't expect what she found.

The collision at first made her nearly drop the jug of turpentine she was carrying but when she looked back, she discovered the possibility of dropping it and making a mess was worth it.

The person that had ran into her was the local rich boy Anthony stark, thought of as a little bit of a playboy by the majority of female students Natasha thought he didn't look it with the way he was sitting on the floor.

When he ran into her, she had barely even stumbled and she was both smaller and slightly shorter than he was.

Of course, his reputation around school wasn't what made her raise her brow and neither was the fact he was on his ass while she was still standing.

What caught her attention was the shirt he was wearing, it was blue and had a white star in the center and it was too large for him by about two or three sizes.

She actually recognized some of the stains and had to press her lips together to keep from smirking as the young man looked at her nearly terrified but also marveling at her beauty.

If anyone asked she wasn't vain, she was just telling the truth.

"interesting" she said to herself as she looked him over again before discreetly readjusting her backpack "what's where you're going" she recommended before turning to walk away, she was already late because her class ran late and now she was curious.

Why did stark have her bosses shirt.

Well she knew a possibility of why and she was pretty positive she knew how but as she walked out of school toured the parking lot she couldn't help wondering why Steve didn't say anything, after all.

It was supposed to be his lucky shirt.

After school and a scolding from pepper about sassing the teacher and watching where he was going, he went home.

He managed to avoid his father but that was no surprise, the man was getting drunk or at a meeting, tony went to his room where his robot was waiting in its charging station.

Dum-e looked up when tony closed his bedroom door and whirred in greeting.

"Hey dum-e break anything while I was gone? Who am I kidding of course you did let's see the damage you bucket of bolts" he went to his computer and took off the casing of the brain, his computer wasn't exactly like most peoples, and not just because he was rich.

He built it himself, programmed it himself and all but added spinning wheels and a cup holder to it, he could use it for anything he wanted so long as the second hard drive was attached which out of security conservers was a pain in the ass to install and damn near worse to uninstall.

Even for him and he build the damn thing.

Nevertheless, better to put up with five minutes of connecting wires and restarting the computer than spend several years in jail for hacking the pentagon.

Although he had a perfectly good reason for that when he did it, if anyone asked he was sure he could think one up.

Maybe, pepper told him he had a horrible poker face.

Once it was installed, he powered up the machine and waited for it to boot up then went back to his project from the night before.

Truth be told he was surprised it had taken so long as it had to get in, it took him like 10 minutes to get into a local police stations systems to take care of one of his speeding tickets, it shouldn't have taken almost half an hour just to get into the directory of his collage.

Whoever it was that build the schools systems didn't make the backdoor nearly as obvious as he could have, not that it mattered tony was all but hardwired into the systems now, hopefully, hopefully.

Thankfully, the alterations he had needed to make only took five minutes if that and getting his teacher reassigned to a different school took less than that.

Honestly, a reassign was long overdue the woman who had been in charge of one of his classes had been being a royal bitch, especially to the male students, the last straw had been the fact she nearly failed everyone in the class that wasn't a female, even him, especially him.

It just wasn't cool.

Once he was finished, he shut the system down again and pulled out the drive, he placed it in a case and then slipped it into his bag.

Spinning around in his chair he nearly bumped his head on DUM-E's claw, the bot had taken a liking to sneaking up behind him while he was working and either dropping something on him or pulling his hair.

Tony knew it was just DUM-E's way of saying he needed to take a break but damn he hit his head on the robots metal frame more than anything else recently.

"maybe I should donate you to a city collage" he said reaching up to pat DUM-E's strut, the robot whirred in what he would guess to be over exaggerated dismay, then again tony built him so everything he did was over exaggerated.

Shaking his head tony stood up and walked to his bathroom to start a shower but after the water started he paused with getting undressed taking the shirt he wore he lifted it up to smell it.

Cordite pencils, turpentine, frosty mint and a musky scent that was just Steve.

The smell had faded in the time tony had been wearing the shirt but it was still there like it had soaked into the threads of the fabric, shaking his head tony pulled off the shirt and sat it on the shelf with his towels before kicking his pants off in the general direction of his hamper.

His shower was quick and he didn't linger even if the warm water felt amazing because he had work to do and to do that work he needed to go to his lab.

Preferably, before he ran into his old man.

Grabbing his bag he shoved a couple changes of clothes into it then looked at DUM-E and patted his frame "come on you klutz lets go do science" the robot beeped excitedly and rolled to his charging station.

As his robot companion made himself comfortable and shut down so tony could transfer his data chip, tony looked at where that damn shirt was laying then sighed and grabbed it, shoving it into his bag before he could think better of it.

Tony's 'lab' was what use to be a decommissioned stark industries warehouse nearly on the other side of the business district, it used to be used for storage of things like paperwork files designs and prototypes but a new storage building was build closer to the company with more advanced security and more shelf space.

It was going to be torn down and made into a parking lot or something but he had gotten ahold of the paperwork and altered it so it was given to him because he saw potential in it.

Therefore, it became Tony's home away from home.

So, basically his actual home.

It was two levels, the first floor was open with a support or two, some cars sat in the far right corner across from a small kitchen area he had labeled 'DUM-Es corner.

He also had an old couch he'd crash on sometimes when he didn't want to go upstairs, where there was a bedroom bathroom and another small kitchen area, along with some more sciencey work areas instead of the tool and part covered areas on the first floor.

Walking over to the mechanical claw body tony inserted DUM-Es drive and turned him on patting him on the strut before walking over to one of his desks.

While true, he didn't have much to do with his father's company sometimes the people in R&D would ask him to look over and subsequently fix their designs or work out a design that had been giving them trouble.

Currently there were three designs he needed to fix two he needed to fabricate and there were a few dozen ideas of his own he wanted to bring to life and send in to R&D because their designs had slowly started to taper off.

Then again, there were only so many times you could redesign a scope before it became asinine.

So setting his school shit aside, he made a pot of coffee and got to work.

Three days after the meeting Steve and the rest of his friends/gang/whatever, went to a local pizza place to get something to eat to celebrate a big haul.

For the last three days ever since the meeting Natasha had been giving him a strange looks, glancing at him and smirking to herself enough he nearly blurted out 'what?' in the middle of their recent robbery.

So now, after she was relaxed with a bottle of beer he called her to the side to talk.

"What have you been smirking at me about?" he asked finally hands resting at his hips.

She tried to give him an innocent look but gave up when he just perked one of his brows "I just find your reason for turning down all my blind dates amusing is all"

For a second he was confused before realizing what she meant and gave her an unimpressed look "I turned you down because I'm not interested in a relationship"

Now she was giving him an unimpressed look "how did you even find out about that?" he asked her lips twitched "a good spy never reveals her sources, the real question is are you going to see him again"

Steve rolled his eyes and huffed "it's been three days it's highly unlikely, I told you I'm not looking for a relationship"

"Steve" he looked toured Bucky who had called his name and was now waving him over "even for a lucky shirt?" Natasha asked and Steve rolled his eyes again as he turned away "it's not that lucky"

Natasha watched her friend return to the group and couldn't help smiling a little "I know that look" someone said from beside her and she looked at Jan who was holding a slice of pizza in one hand and a beer in the other.

It was amazing the woman could eat like Steve or Bucky but still be modal thin "what look?" Natasha questioned "the look you get before trying to set Steve up on another blind date"

She shrugged at Jan's comment, "Steve's the kind of man that needs to be in a relationship"

"Whether he wants one or not?" Jan asked and Natasha smiled at the brunet woman "exactly, besides he's already done most of the work for me"

Jan shook her head and sighed "well I want no part of this your last attempt got him shot at" Natasha shrugged "how was I supposed to know he'd slept with her sister"

Jan sighed again and didn't see Natasha smirking at her before looking back at Steve.

The read head really could help imagining him with the young man from her school and she had to admit they would make a cute couple.

Now just to make Steve figure that out.