It was just after Serenity had finished setting it so that Tony would be recognized by her system so he could have access to her command center as well as giving him a remote that would allow him to store and retrieve his suit without needing her that the system raised the alarms alerting them to trouble in the city.

Right away she pulled up the map on the interface as well as nearby camera footage to show a group of three youma draining unsuspecting passersby of energy. At the sight of the youma, she groaned.

"And here I was thinking I'd have a day of peace and quiet." She muttered, obviously reluctant to leave even though she knew she had to.

"Something I can help with?" Tony asked.

Serenity shook her head. "I can handle them. It just felt like we were having a nice little mini vacation from our heroic sides." She held her hand out and her white and gold brooch appeared in it. She then focused, saying her henshin phrase in her mind, as she transformed into Sailor Cosmos

"You sure?" He asked.

She smiled at him fondly. "I'm sure Tony. I've handled higher intelligence ones on my own. These three should be a piece of cake. I'll dust them and be home before you know it." She gently caressed his cheek before pressing a soft, chaste kiss to his lips.

"Ok." he said as he watched her go. Normally, stubborn and egotistical, he would have ignored her statement, jumped in his suit, and followed her to the battle, but she didn't want help, and he didn't want to bruise her pride by following her like she was some damsel. So, he would go down to her garage and inspect any cars there.

There weren't many cars in her garage but the few she did have did have variety amongst them. A classic car that she probably used when interviewing certain high class people. A faster and sleeker black car that was known mostly for its speed. A simple sedan for when she just wanted to run errands. But just past all those cars was a black motorcycle.

He saw the motorcycle and walked over to inspect it. "Nice." he murmured checking the chassis and wheels. After he checked the motorcycle over, he started looking at the cars and seeing what they had under the hoods, trying to keep himself occupied while Serenity was gone.

By the time he started looking under the last of the cars, a portal opened up and Serenity stepped out of it before it closed behind her. She didn't seem to be worse for the wear other than the tiredness that showed on her face. "Why am I not surprised that you came to explore my garage?"

"Have car, will plunder." he said with a wink. "How did it go?"

"A little tougher than I first thought. But still got them in the end." She smiled tiredly. "Considering your love of technology and upgrades, part of me wants to be concerned of letting you near my babies as I call them. But then the rest of me still prefers the possibility of your tinkering with them over a valet fucking them up."

"Trust me, I love cars and I'm very gentle with them…..unless I'm racing…..I drive kinda fast anyway. And there was the time when I was first testing out the Iron Man suit that I crash landed in my garage and smashed one of my cars, but other than that, yeah. Totally safe."

She chuckled. "I guess you and I will have to race each other some time. "So am I gonna get a proper welcome home?"

"Of course." he said with a grin before walking over and kissing her deeply. At the same time, he picked her up bridal style and headed back into the main part of the house.

She smiled softly as he kissed her and giggled when he picked her up. "Now I really feel loved and apparently highly missed even though I was gone maybe an hour tops."

"It was an hour too long." he said grinning more.

"I'd hate to know how you'll react if I have to fight an enemy with more power because that would be highly likely to be a confrontation that would take more than an hour." She giggled. "Now tell me, what percentage of you wanted to jump in your suit and follow me anyway?"

"About…..99%" he said chuckling. "If you knew the self control I had to exert and I'm not really good with self control, you'd be proud."

She kissed him again before smiling. "Considering that it sounds like you had to use a lot of self control, I am definitely proud. I also find it cute."

"Cute, huh?" he asked smiling. "I may can get use to that."

"Your manhood's not insulted by that?" She teased playfully.

"Nah. I am very secure in my manhood." he responded with a wink.

"Good." She grinned. "Guess for your sanity, we'll have to work on getting that tracker together."

"Yes. That would be a very good idea." he took her to a couch and sat her on it.

She chuckled as she pulled a notebook and pen from a drawer in the coffee table and started writing. "With communication possibilities. For you and me mainly. By the way, you're getting a tracker too...Something discreet enough where they won't look out of place." She then sat back against the couch and hissed in pain, muttering extremities.

"Hey! What's wrong? What hurts?" he asked as he started looking her over.

"My back. Guess I got tossed against that bank harder than I thought." She muttered and undid her transformation, putting herself back in her normal clothes.

He made her turn sideways so he could lift her shirt and look at her back.

She bit her lip nervously as she turned sideways to let him look at her back. She figured she had some sort of bruise at least. But she wouldn't know just how big it was let alone how dark in color it was until he saw it, and it was quite big and quite dark.

"You got thrown into a bank!? That's a hell of a bruise there, Legs! We need to get that looked at!" Tony said in concern.

"It was either get thrown into a bank or get tossed amongst a crowd of random people and with the force behind it, innocent people would've made it out much worse." She sighed. "And just how are we going to get it looked at Tony? I can't exactly go into a hospital and say yeah I'm a superhero who got this bruise from being tossed into a bank, remember? I can't be as out there with my identity as you are. I go in a hospital with this thing and next thing you know, you're getting investigated for domestic violence."

"Who said anything about a hospital? I have friends you know. One call and I can have a doctor here to look at you who you could trust to keep his mouth shut."

She glanced over her shoulder and winced at the sight of her back. "Call him. I quite enjoy my backless dresses and such."

He nodded and walked out of the room. After a while he returned. "He should be here soon. Let me get some ice." he said and went looking in her kitchen for an ice pack.

"Ice pack's on the freezer door!" She called out as she sat still how she was.

Tony soon returned with the ice pack after she told him where it was. He then gently placed it against the bruise.

Serenity whimpered a little as the ice pack touched the bruise. "I'm sorry Tony. Right now you're probably regretting not going with me, aren't you?"

"Yeah. Next time I'm going too." He said in a serious tone.

She knew by his tone there was no point trying to argue, not with the bruise on her back. But at least she knew he was going rather than having him just follow her later. "You know you won't always be able to go with me, though. What if the Avengers need you at the same time?"

"I'll have Rhodey follow you." he said chuckling.

"Cute." She scowled. "Guess he needs access to the tracker too unless Jarvis is able to communicate with him too?"

"Yeah. Jarvis can do that."

"Good. So Jarvis can just tap into the tracker and direct Rhodey. Though I guess I should be prepared for Rhodey knowing my true identity too then. Quite sure you can't just tell him to follow a female without him asking questions."

"You'd be surprised." he said with a laugh.

She raised an eyebrow at that. "Very naughty, Tony. But I doubt you've had him follow one like me. And there's where the difference lies." She shook her head with a light chuckle. "And you can't go calling me Legs all the time. I didn't mind letting you figure out who I was. But god forbid if I meet say that woman you were with when we first met while I'm in civilian clothes and she hears you call me Legs. She'd quite likely put it together I'm sure."

"Hm. True. Let me think." he said as he tilted his head and looked at her.

"Oh come on now. It shouldn't be that hard to come up with something that adequately fits a woman with my looks." She teased

"Yeah, but I want something uniquely you." he said still looking at her with his head cocked to the side and his hand at his chin.

"And that's what should make it easy. Because it shouldn't be too hard for you to find something, besides Legs, to call me with such affection that no one else would use as a pet name. A compliment at most, but not a pet name."

"Hmm. I'll have to think about it. But in the field I'll just call you Moon."

"Fair enough Handsome." She winks with a grin. "Hmm...give me the ice pack, the coolness is starting to wear off."

"Ok." he said handing her the pack.

She takes the pack between both of her hands as her hands start to glow blue. A layer of ice starts to cover the ice pack as it refreezes in her hands. "There. Hopefully it's not too cold for you to handle." She hands it back to him. "How much longer until your friend gets here."

"Shouldn't be too much longer. He's not a medical doctor per say, but he can still patch people up." Tony explained as he took the ice pack from her and placed it against her back. He ignored the slight numbness to his fingers from the frozen pack.

Serenity chuckled and shifted so she was laying on her stomach on the couch which would allow for Tony to just let the pack sit on her back without him needing to hold it. "Well, better than nothing. I really am sorry if I worried you."

"Don't worry about it. I'm just going to be at every battle that I can manage to be at from now on." he said as he laid the pack on her back.

"At least you're not nagging at me." She chuckled. "And I think I can handle having my knight in shining armor nearby."

"Good. You have no choice." he teased. About that time a knock come to the door. "That'd be Bruce."

"Then go let him in. I don't have the luxury of having an A.I. answer the door for me." She teased. "And hurry before I make a wish to dress you like a butler."

"Yes, Ma'am." he said before going and answering the door. He soon returned with a man with slightly long curly hair and wearing a button up shirt and dress pants.

"Serenity, Bruce. Bruce, Serenity. Now get with the doctoring." Tony said motioning to Serenity.

"He's not subtle. I give you props for being able to stand him this long." Bruce said.

"No he's not subtle. Helps that he's willing to appeal to someone else's ego other than his own." She chuckled with a glance at Tony before removing the ice pack from her back so Bruce could see the full damage.

"Hm. That's a nasty bruise there. Tony said you were tossed against a bank. We may need to x-ray." he said before reaching into his bag and pulling out what looked like a clear tablet. He turned it on and scanned it over Serenity's back to see if there were any internal bleeding or broken bones.

"Yeah. Don't think that bank was made of concrete. Still amazed I didn't cause damage to the bank when I hit it." She muttered while staying still as possible. The X-ray machine would show one of her bones healing itself. And it seemed that other than the bruise, that damaged bone had been the only other damage she'd taken.

"Your bone is healing itself. Not the strangest thing I've ever seen, so that's not bad. Other than that all you have is the bruise and that'll probably go away soonish." Bruce reported.

Serenity chuckled. "The benefits of having celestial magic at my fingertips. Thank you Bruce for soothing Tony's 'Mother hen' syndrome even if it is temporary."

"Mother hen syndrome? Tony?" Bruce asked blinking.

"Yes well that's all real well and good, thanks for stopping by, Buddy. We'll have to do this again real soon." Tony said putting the items back in Bruce's bag and thrusting the bag into the man's arms. He then pulled him to the door. "Bye now." and with that, shoved the man out the door and closed it.

Serenity burst into giggles as she watched Tony hurry Bruce out the door. "Now Tony, wasn't that a bit rude? Or is it because you don't want to be known as being capable of being a 'mother hen'?"

"What? Rude? Pft no! If I'd been rude, he'd have hulked out." he said with a dismissive wave while he acted like he didn't hear the second part of her question.

"What if he was still too confused by the thought of you being such a way to realize you were being rude though?" She sat up and looked at him in amusement.

"Would you like something to drink? I'm sure that fight knocked more than a bone loose. Might have stirred up some thirst or something, I dunno because I'm not making sense now, going to the fridge." he said with a grin before walking off.

She raised an eyebrow before standing and following him to the kitchen, grabbing the ice pack to put back in the freezer. "Just avoiding questions now, I see. Two can play that game you know."

He chuckled and turned around. "Ok. You win. I was rude. No, I don't want them to know I worry. I have a rep to protect." he said chuckling a little. "What can I say, you make me want to behave…..sometimes."

Serenity rolled her eyes. "You men and your reputations." She blushed. "Really now? Only sometimes? Guess I gotta work harder." She winked as she continued on to the freezer and put the ice pack away.

"I thought you liked the times I was bad." he said grinning.

Serenity smirked as she turned back to face him. "Didn't say I don't like it." She grinned. "You're lucky you gave in when you did, or you would've been forced to really test your self control while on the couch tonight."

"I was afraid of that." he said smiling sheepishly.

"Good. Because I wouldn't have made it easy on you either." She walked over and kissed him.

"I figured that too." he said before kissing her back.

"Good. You're learning well." She teased.

"Keep this up and the Avengers might recruit you. Or at least Shield. The only person who can actually get Tony Stark to do as they say." he said smiling.

"Don't tease me with that possibility Tony. Especially if they recruit me because of that. They'd never let you live that down."

"Tell me about it." he said shaking his head as he made a face.

"By the way, how did Fury take the news about you and that woman practically getting y'all asses handed to you until I stepped in?" She raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Oh you know, Ol One Eye kind of bitched for a while, then talked about getting said woman to join the group. I told him you were probably not interested."

Serenity giggled. "Wasn't even gonna volunteer to try to convince me? Or was he not told that you worked some of your infamous charm on me before I'd left?" She teased.

"He was not included in the much teasing that went around Avenger's HQ after the mission." he said smiling.

"Really now? Now I want to know all about that teasing." She grabbed a soda from the fridge. "Want one?"

"Sure." he said. "Ah, but I'd rather not. You see, they all think they're cute when really they're not."

She handed him a soda and chuckled. "Doesn't mean I still don't wanna know what was said that day."

"Well, let's see…...Natasha said I was a womanizing ass. Steve asked if all women in this era wear such short skirts and if perhaps you were cold. Bruce said leave it to me to chat up the new hot super hero because I have the hormones of a teenage boy. Clint said he didn't know you, but already he knew you were too good for me. I think that sums them all up. Oh wait! Thor. Thor said that besides Lady Sif he has not seen such a powerful and beautiful warrior before and that you were too good for the man of iron."

Serenity burst into giggles before opening her soda and sipping from it. She set it down on the counter and went to wrap her arms around him. "Aww poor Tony. Just keep in mind it's not their opinions that matter on whether or not you're beneath me. It's mine. And I happen to think you're worthy." She claimed his lips with hers for a deep kiss.

He returned the kiss just as deeply and with passion. When he come up for air, he smirked. "Worthy, huh? I didn't even have to lift a hammer."

"Nope. Didn't even have to lift a hammer." She smirked. "Plus I'm sure you can keep those hormones of yours in check enough to not have to come home to a pissed off princess."

"Oh totally. I want a turned on princess. Not a pissed one." he said nodding in agreement.

"So that takes care of Natasha's, Bruce's, Clint's and Thor's comments. And to answer Steve's comment...funny thing about that, I was cold while in the north pole to fight Beryl and Metalia but I was just fine the multiple times I went into space and you would expect space to be colder." She chuckled.

"Very true. Even my armor starts to ice over the closer to the atmosphere I get to. Or well it did until I figured out how to fix it."

"Though by the way, damn what era Steve is in, let him make one comment equating me to a whore of his era and he'll find himself on the business end of a glaive. Senshi have no choice in how their fuku look. And on top of that, different galaxies and even different planets have different styles. My fuku is one of the more modest ones actually."

"Heh. He'd never call you a whore. He's a choir boy almost. He was probably genuinely worried about you being cold because he's….weird."

She raised her eyebrow. "I'm sure he'd never outright say the word. But he might still say a phrase that is just as good as saying it. That's why I'm giving you the heads up as to what likely happened should you ever find me pointing a glaive at his throat." She snorted. "Worried about me being cold because I'm in a short skirt as in not almost fully covered. Bet he never asks that about Natasha with her skin tight outfit. He comes from an era where it was likely a scandal for a woman who wasn't 'of the night' to be in something so revealing."

"I think I'm falling in love with you." Tony said grinning.

"Are you now? And why exactly is that?" She took another sip of her soda with a grin. "I know I'm loveable and all but I'd like to know exactly what's making you fall in love with me."

"You rag Steve more than I do." he said laughing.

"Really. It's kinda sad don't you think? I haven't even met the guy and I'm talking about him. Take him in a Vegas strip club but don't tell him that's where you're taking him. Bet he'll be in conflict then." She grinned. "Now surely that can't be the only reason you think you're falling in love?"

"If I tell you everything now,where would be the surprise?" he asked as he opened his soda and began to drink it.

"Long as that's not the only reason. I can wait for the rest." She smiled.

He winked as he finished his soda.

"How is it that you can look so innocent one minute then look every bit a roguish bad boy the next?" She teased.

"It's a gift." he said sticking out his tongue.

"Clearly. And I can think of a few ways to put that tongue to use if you keep sticking it out at me." She smirked as she finished her soda.

"I have no problem with that." he said with another chuckle.

"Oh I know you don't." She chuckled. "Anyway, mind checking on that bruise for me? I'd prefer not to go stand in a mirror."

"Yeah. Let me see." he said as he stood and walked back over to her.

She turned around so her back was to him and lifted her shirt in the back so he could see.

He checked the bruise to see if it had gotten any smaller or maybe cleared up it would seem that like her previously broken bone, that it hadn't needed long as it had cleared up completely.

He gave a surprised whistle before telling her, "You're all cleared up. That's some trick you got there."

Serenity sighed in relief. "I wasn't sure if it would heal that fast. Never had a bruise that big before. But otherwise I've been used to healing fast since my early days as Sailor Moon. Came in handy when I'd have minor injuries healed by the time I got home. Some of those I would not have been able to explain to my parents."

"I bet not. They never learned you were Sailor Moon?" he asked.

"Nope. Apparently there's some magic around when I'm transformed that sort of protects me from being recognized without me either transforming right in front of people or my actual name gets called out or I actually want a person to figure it out." She shrugged. "Probably for the best. My mother would've likely tried to get me to stop fighting and focus on schoolwork and my father would've wanted me to stop altogether."

"True." Tony said nodding.

She turned and kissed him with a smile."You know, I think I'm falling in love with you too."

"Really now? And for what reasons?" He asked.

"Well the way you fussed over me since I got home for starters."

"Only a heartless bastard wouldn't and look, not heartless." He said tapping his arc reactor.

"Definitely not heartless." She smiled. "Which is more than I can say for someone else." She muttered.

"Hm?" He asked tilting his head a little.

She looked up at him and shook her head. "Nothing. Don't worry about it." She pulled away and started going through the cupboards to see what she could make for dinner. Though it was obvious on her face that she was bothered by whatever it was that she'd just told him not to worry about.

"Hey...come on. You can tell me." He said as he watched her.

"It's nothing. Just another realization about how naive and stupid I once was to put such faith in someone that clearly was a heartless bastard." She responded grimly.

"I won't pry, but if you ever want to talk about it, I'm here. I also don't mind blowing up small cars and houses as warning." He said the last part with a smile.

She sighed and placed her hands on the counter as if trying to brace herself but didn't look at him either. "Imagine that you were there when I had that big battle that cost the lives of my senshi and you saw me sobbing heavily on the ground in grief while a man in a tuxedo just backed away….what would you have done?"

"Pushed him out of my way so I could check on you." He said.

"And remained until you knew for sure that I was okay, right?" She half-chuckled. "Score ten for Tony Stark. Zero for the heartless bastard prince in a tux."

"I'd make you feel better myself if I could manage. Heh. You're talking to Tony Stark, Woman. I'd find a way to make it better. No matter what." he said with a wink.

"Make that twenty for Stark." She smiled and looked to him. "That charm's good for more than just talking women into bed with you." She teased.

"You know it. So, you going to tell me about prince uncharming?" he asked.

"And give you reason to slip out while I'm sleeping to pummel his ass?" She half-joked. "Or so you can brag to him if you ever meet him how his loss is your gain?"

"Both?" he asked grinning.

At that answer, she giggled. "There's the Tony Stark I've come to know."

He walked over to her and kissed her.

She kissed him back with a smile. "I guess I can tell you about him then. And give you free reign to brag should you ever run into him. As far as pummeling him, I think it's a few years too late. But if he does surface and try anything on me, I won't stop you then. Deal?"

"Deal." he said with a nod while holding out his hand to her.

"Good." She placed her hand in his. "And now you've got something else to brag about to the Avengers. That this warrior princess found the knight in red and gold armor to be much more worthy of her heart than the prince who once had it."

"Sounds like a plan." He said shaking her hand, then leading her to the garage. "Come on. Let's go have some fun."

She let him lead her to the garage with a smile. "Just what is it you have in mind?"

"A night of your choosing." he said as he opened the passenger door for her.

"Really? It'd be too easy to collect on that dinner date you still owe me. But considering it's you, I doubt we're dressed properly for any place you might've planned to take me." She smiled and slid into the passenger seat of the car, which she wasn't surprised was her sleeker modern car.

"Well, we could, but they may think it's one of those times where I'm visiting drunk." he said with a small laugh.

"Well then, there is always a simpler dinner date that still allows some drinking. I'm sure there's gotta be a bar and grill restaurant somewhere in the city." She giggled.

"Sounds like a plan. I like slumming." he teased before getting into the car behind the driver's seat and starting the car. He drove them to the nearest Long Horns.

"Really now? Since when?" She smiled and leaned against his shoulder for the drive.

He kissed her hair while he drove. Once there, he parked and got out of the car before going around to her side and opening it for her.

She slipped out of the car with a smile. "Hope you're ready for camera phones going while we're in there. We've been quite the talk of the press since this morning's papers came out."

"Oh? Lovely." he said before closing the door when she was out and taking her hand as he walked with her to the doors of the restaurant.

"Well what did you expect? From your splendidly well-timed entrance at the dinner last night to when we left, we looked every bit the next hot celebrity couple." She giggled as they walked to the doors of the restaurant.

"True." he said opening the door for her.

"Thank you." She kissed his cheek as she walked into the restaurant and looked around, already noticing the attempts to be discreet at pulling out camera phones by some of the other customers.

"Just ignore them and they'll go away." Tony joked as he led her over to a table in a corner where it was a bit harder to see them because of high back of the booth seats.

"Hard to just ignore them." She whispered. "I'm just naturally on alert. At least most of the time anyway." She chuckled and was glad for the corner he'd picked out anyway.

There were menus already on the table, so he picked one up and looked through it. "Pick whatever you like. I'm buying after all."

She picked up her menu with a grin. "You should be careful saying that to me. Or the next time you'll make the mistake saying it in a department store." She winked

"To see you smile, I don't think I'd mind the dent to my wallet." he said with a smirk.

"Good answer, Sir Tony." She smiled, the affectionate nickname being a referencing inside joke to him being her knight in red and gold armor.

He smiled a little at that. "Well, M'Lady, have you decided what you'd like to eat at this peasant establishment?"

She giggled a bit. "I do believe I have. Think I'll be getting a drink too."

"Sounds great. What's your poison?" he asked.

"Now that, I haven't figured out yet. I don't wanna be flat out sober but I don't want to be drunk as hell either. Just because you handle my ride fine sober, doesn't mean you're just as good drunk." She teased.

"I can pilot my suit drunk. A car should be no problem." he said chuckling.

She raised an eyebrow. "Piloting your suit drunk doesn't count if Jarvis can take over any minute."

"...Touche." he said nodding.

She chuckled and playfully blew him a kiss.

He smiled and waited for a waiter to come over to make his order. He ended up ordering a steak with a baked potato and some tea. Might as well stay sober. He was doing all this for Serenity anyway and wanted her to have a good time.

She raised an eyebrow for a moment before putting in her order with the waiter of a slab of barbecue ribs, loaded baked potato and a chocolate shake.

"Very nice choice." Tony said with an approving nod.

"I think so too obviously." She smiled as she checked her phone when it went off before shooting a quick response text to whoever had texted her and turning her phone off before putting it away.

"Business?" He asked.

"Just my assistant freaking out because all she's seen and heard about all day is about the adorable couple you and I make." She shrugged. "Poor girl. She's new. Told her to email me all her questions and as you saw, turned off my phone."

"Is she afraid that the terrible womanizing Tony Stark might hurt her new boss?" He teased.

"Probably." She chuckled. "But then, she doesn't exactly know that I have the terrible womanizer wrapped around my royal dainty little finger." She waggled said finger for emphasis with a grin.

"Too true." He said grabbing her hand when she waggled her fingers, and kissing it.

She smiled softly when he kissed her hand. "Cute, Tony. Really cute."

"I know." he said smiling back at her.

She giggled. "Cocky again I see."

"Anything to see that beautiful smile."

"And the Stark charm rises again." She giggled. "Honestly, as much as you remark on my beauty, I'm surprised you don't just call me 'Beautiful' as a pet name." She joked.

"Hm. Could call you Belle."

She smiled softly. "I like that. Fits that uniqueness you were looking for."

"It does." he said nodding. "Well now, we have that figured out." he added with a chuckle.

"That we do." She nodded and looked up. "Oh look. Here comes the food."

"These people have good timing." he said chuckling as he turned slightly to watch the waiter approach and then put their plates in front of them.

She chuckled herself and sipped from her milkshake as the waiter left. "That they do. That's a plus in my book."

"Completely. We may have to visit more often." he said as he started to cut into his steak.

"If for nothing more than a little escape from the extremely nosy press." She winked before starting on her baked potato.

"No kidding. They don't really expect us at places like this, but by the end of the meal, we'll have to leave out back." he said knowingly. "Youtubers probably have us up on every news site by now."

"By now? Probably, not to mention pictures on Facebook. And I bet part of the uproar is how did I manage to talk you into coming to a place like this." She giggled

"Yes...there will be Facebook." he said grimly, then laughed. "For real. I'll never live it down."

"Admit it. You don't regret it." She laughed.

"Not one little bit." he said grinning.

"Good. Wonder how long it'll take the public to realize the womanizing days of Tony Stark might actually be over." She teased

"I may just have to do some things to prove myself as a rehabilitated womanizer." he teased back.

"I'd say being in this place gives you quite the good start in that direction." She grinned.

"Well, thanks. I'm off to a good start then. Just because you say so." he chuckled before then finishing off his meal.

She giggled. "Of course I say so. Who'd know better than me." She winked as she finished off her own meal and started licking her fingers clean of the barbecue sauce from the ribs, doing it slowly because she could.

"You're an evil little minx, aren't you?" he asked as he watched her closely.

"I don't know." She looked at him innocently while holding out a finger covered in sauce, offering for him to try the sauce. "Am I?"

He took her finger into his mouth and swirled his tongue around it to taste the sauce before giving the finger a bit of a suck and pulling away with a smirk. "Yes."

She watched him intently, giving a quiet moan. "Admit it, you love this evil little minx." She murmured.

"Yes. Yes I do."

"That's what I thought." She teased.

"So, what else would you like to do this evening?" Tony asked.

"Hmm….Decisions, decisions. So many things I can choose from while I have the great Tony Stark to myself." She joked.

"The sky's the limit." he said chuckling.

"Forgot the type of woman you're seeing, didn't you? Sky's not a limit for me." She winked.

"Then the whole of creation." he said grinning.

"Don't get too cocky now. I can always take over driving and take you home knowing full well your suit's at my place." She grinned.

"Oh that's just cold." he said laughing a little.

"So is your suit when it's cold out but you don't hear me complaining." She teased.

"True."

"Anyway, why don't you take care of the check and then we see about getting out of here. Surely this city has some nice little romantic spots to just look at the stars, cuddle and make out like teenagers." She laughed.

"Have I ever told you I love the way you think?" Tony asked as he called the waiter over for their check.

"Yes. But feel free to say it again whenever you want."

"Deal." he said as he paid their bill, then took her hand to help her stand. Tony then led Serenity out of the restaurant through the back door where her car was already waiting for them.

She eyed him briefly upon seeing her car was already waiting for them in the back but let it go as they got in the car.

"I have my ways." he said grinning. He started the car and drove off just as paparazzi come around the corner with cameras flashing. "Heh. Fuckers almost had us."

She looked through the side view mirror at the paparazzi falling back while they drove off and laughed. "The key word being almost. Oh well. Better luck next time for them." She grinned.

"Yup. It's going to be even harder now. They can't send their young interns at me hoping that I sleep and tell." he said chuckling.

"Please. They'll just have their interns try harder in hopes of proving you're still a womanizer." She said with a snort.

"I'll enjoy proving them wrong."

"Just make sure you make notations of names and companies they come from. My magazine may be classier based than the gossip rags. But I have no problem calling them out for such dirty tactics."

Tony grinned even more. "I love you, Belle."

She grinned. "I gotta do something to protect what's mine. They're normal humans until proven otherwise. So no matter how much I might wanna give them a real shocking, I can't do it just because. So I work with my magazine."

"A very noble and yet sneaky way of doing things. I love it." Tony laughed.

"Hey if they wanna screw up any chance they have of making it in journalism, then by all means, let them try to seduce you. No reputable paper or paper will want to hire them once I'm through." She spoke matter of factly.

Tony couldn't help but smile. It was nice having someone care for him that much. Well besides his friends. Serenity was something special though and he planned to keep ahold of her for as long as she lets him or longer.

Serenity smiled softly at him before turning to look out the window and just enjoy the ride. She'd meant every word of what she'd just told him. She didn't approve of the dirty tactics that gossip papers used and if some of their idiot employees wanted to use a dirty tactic that was definitely a huge no-no in the journalism world then she was going to out them for even daring to try it on Tony.

He continued to drive taking them up into the hills and soon to a small area overlooking the city. "How's this for a view?" he asked.

She gasped softly in awe. "It's wonderful." She murmured before tapping on the screen in the dash to let the top down on the car like a convertible even though it clearly wasn't. "Custom made." She grinned.

"Very nice." he said nodding in appreciation.

"Thanks." She smiled softly as she moved her gaze between the view of the city in front of them and that of the sky above them.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Tony asked as he seemed to be more transfixed on her than the scenery.

"If I was in deep thought, my thoughts would definitely be worth more than a penny." She grinned as she looked over at him. "But what's on your mind right now?"

"That I didn't have to really drive up here to see something breathtaking." he said with a smirk.

She blushed before leaning over to kiss him. "Keep talking like that and my car would see action between us before your bed does." She murmured. "My bed and kitchen already saw it. You gonna let my car see it before your bed too?" She purred in his ear.

"I have no problems with that." he said before kissing her again.

"Oh really now?" She grinned as she moved to straddle him. "So we'll have a go here and then maybe swing by my place to get your suit and end at your place so your bed won't feel neglected." She kissed him deeply.

"I support this plan wholeheartedly." he said placing his hands on her hips and kissing her once more.

She giggled as they had fun in the car like hormone driven teenagers before following the rest of her proposed plan and ending at Tony's place for the night.