Chapter 10

Tony opened his eyes slowly, suddenly feeling more rested than he had in years. The constant shaky feeling he had acquired from lack of sleep seemed to be gone. For a moment, he panicked and wondered how it was possible. The he welcomed the feeling, happy that he got something out of the sleep.

Then he had a really bad feeling.

He hadn't been asleep for like, weeks, right?

He opened his phone and reassuringly saw it'd only been a single night.

Then he saw the time.

3:24PM!

I slept all night?! AND DAY?! He threw his thoughts into the wonder of how the heck he managed it.

Then of course, there was the genius part of him telling him that it was because he was medicated.

He wondered what everyone else would think when he went out to the main room, surely someone was there.

But he dismissed his thoughts, he was Tony freaking Stark, he couldn't worry about what other people thought of him.

"Afternoon," Clint quipped from where he sat across a checkers board from Natasha, who seemed so into the game that she didn't even look up to see Tony come in.

She finally seemed to make up her mind about something. She grabbed one of her pieces and jumped every single one of Clint's.

"I win," she said flatly.

"Again..." Clint murmured.

Pepper was in her office, Tony could hear the familiar sound of the keyboard being typed away on.

Steve and Thor popped through the opening elevator doors, sweat on their shirts and faces.

They grabbed water bottles out of the fridge, "You're quite the opponent, captain of america," Thor said happily taking a sip of his water.

"Thanks," Steve said, as if he knew the demi-god was far stronger.

"Where's Banner?" Tony called from behind the couch, while he watched Natasha beat Clint again.

"The lab," Steve told him, emptying half his water bottle in one satisfying gulp.

Tony nodded as he turned on his heels towards the lab, which doubled as Tony's workshop.

No one said anything about his irregular sleep schedule, which probably meant they didn't know and figured he had just emerged from a night in the workshop, or they were just being super understanding about it.

He went with option number one.

"Hey Brucie," Tony called as he entered the lab, sliding down the metallic bench towards Bruce, who was wearing his glasses while he was bent over a microscope.

"Hey, where've you been? Expected you to be in here all morning," Bruce replied.

"Sleeping off whatever those damn doctors gave me," Tony told him, trying to sound just as normal as he usually did, but honestly, he thought to himself, he was glad he slept so late.

Bruce nodded, still absorbed in his project.

"Whatchu doin'?" Tony asked, seeing the black and blue gunk that Bruce was examining.

"You can't mention this to anyone," Bruce said seriously, knowing to keep anything from Tony would only amount to him finding out anyway.

"Promise!" Tony put his hands up teasingly.

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