Chapter 11: sleeping over

Jessica ended up falling asleep at stark towers that night so once the film ended Thor carried her and put her into one of the spare bedrooms. Tony requested Jarvis to let him know when she woke up. The only people who were still up was Tony, Steve, Thor and Clint.

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"So how is everyone's dates going with Jessica?" Tony asked pouring himself another scotch. "I mean I known of your dates can compare to mine and all"

"Well not everyone is able to get in to restaurants that have a year waiting list stark" Steve told him his arms crossed as he leaned back on the sofa.

"And technically not all of us have had their dates with Jess" Clint pointed out, "we still have our lunch date Saturday"

"Ooo lunch date?" Tony said, "bad break Legolas" Tony chuckled.

"What's wrong with a lunch date?" Thor asked, Steve and Clint shrugging at him.

"You seriously don't know?" Tony asked and after a pause he continued, "if a girl asks you out for lunch it's because they aren't that into you. It's more like a friend date."

"You mere mortals and your dating rituals are confusing" Thor chuckled amused.

"Oh and what do you over at Asgard then that's so much easier?" Clint asked chuckling,

"I am a prince it's rather easy for me," Thor said moving towards the kitchen and grabbing some pop tarts, "or I just battle and during the celebrations ladies would come to me,"

"That sounds almost similar to my 20's," Tony chuckled, "and 30's"

"You missed out your 40's" Clint laughed,

"Not technically out of my 40s yet" Tony smirked.

The four of them chatted and laughed for a while more, they were quite surprised at how they weren't actually jealous of each other. It kind of felt natural for them, they weren't interested in each other but as a whole they always had a bond, including the other members of the avengers. They were family, but they each had a bond with Jessica which were all different.

"So, have any of you kissed Jessica yet?" Steve asked, "I have and wondered if anyone felt -"

"The electricity that ran through your body?" Tony finished, and Steve nodded, Clint agreed that they had felt it too.

"Well, it's slightly different for me. As the God of Thunder electricity feels normal to me, but for me it felt like a flame." After a while of talking, Steve, Clint and Thor said their good nights and Tony took himself down to the lab.

He was still having trouble sleeping, he wouldn't ever admit it to his team mates but he was still having nightmares about the attack on New York and going from that wormhole. He tried to keep himself distracted as much as possible and when he felt like he was going to collapse through exhaustion that's when he would sleep, oh and the alcohol helped.

A couple of hours later, "sir, Miss Wilson is waking up," Jarvis said interrupting his tinkering.

"Tell her I will be right up" Tony said as he now made his way see Jessica.

Tony made his way out of the lab and up to the spare room that Jessica had been sleeping in, Tony knocked on the door first before entering. "I didn't want you waking up not knowing where you were" Tony told her, he found it quite cute how groggy she looked just waking up.

"You didn't have to stay up this late Tony just on my account" Jessica told him yawning while stretching on the bed.

"Oh I was up already working" Tony said sitting on the edge of the bed. "I do my best work at night"

"And on as little sleep as possible" Jessica added making Tony laugh at her comment.

"I can't sleep so I do what I know, I tinker" Tony said sounding like the weight of the world was on his shoulders, "since New York things changed" Jessica could tell he wasn't being his usual self. She didn't need to be told why he couldn't sleep, it was clear to her that he was having nightmares over the attack.

Jessica crawled to the end of the bed that Tony was sitting on and positioned herself behind him, wrapping her arms around him over his shoulders, letting the back of head rest against her chest. Tony sighed as he rested against her and Jessica could feel the tension release from his body.

After a while Jessica released Tony from her arms and crawled off the bed, "come on" she said holding out her hand, "let's get some sleep" Tony looked at her confused as he took her hand and stood up. "I'm taking you back to your room" she told him after seeing the look on his face.

Tony wanted to protest, he had explained to her he had trouble sleeping and taking him back to his room wasn't going to solve that problem. But it touched him to see how much she cared enough for him already to at least try. He continued to hold her hand as they made their way up to his suite and once they were in his bedroom Jessica let go off his hand and made her way to his wardrobe. "Get yourself into bed" Jessica told him now taking a shirt and making her way towards the bathroom.

"I hope you're not going to damage my shirt!" He called out to her unsure on what she was doing as he took off his shirt and jeans replacing his jeans with pj bottoms. He had only just got into bed when Jessica emerged in one his shirts and boxers. He hadn't even seen her go through his underwear drawer.

Jessica didn't say anything as she crawled into bed next to Tony, "why are you doing?" Tony finally asked and Jessica looked at him confused,

"I'm going to sleep" she told him as she slid down into the bed and positioning herself onto her side, "are you going to lie down?" she asked smiling at him.

Tony slid down the bed lying on his side and Jessica snuggled in closer to him, Tony wrapped his arms around her as she rested her head on his chest. He hadn't felt this calm for months while Jessica enjoyed the feel of his arms wrapped around her and for the first time in months Tony had managed to get some proper sleep.