The Never-Ending Why: Chapter 27: Back To The Sky (Part 2)

Clea returned to Agamotto's dimension. She searched for Stephen as soon as she arrived, and she thought about the visitors that showed up on her door step.

The discussion with Stephen's sister bothered her. Clea didn't like her attitude, or the doubt that she had about their marriage. That actually aggravated the young ruler of the dark.

She peered into the room that she shared with Stephen and Agamotto, but she saw no one in it. She kept looking, until Stephen was finally in sight. He was standing beside a stream of water, and it looked like he was letting the water run over his head. She could also see bruises all over his body.

She made her way over to him, and she asked if he was done for the day. He kept listening to the flow of the water. It covered his head, because it felt like his mind was on fire. It also helped him tune everything out.

Clea's voice made it through the water, and Stephen glanced in her direction. He wasn't sure if he was done, but he had been thrown around the dimension for hours.

He brought his head out of the water, and he made an attempt to fix his hair.

"I'm not sure."

"Are you alone?"

Clea wasn't sure if Agamotto was in his body. She had to double check. The young ruler kept looking at Stephen's body. He was partially covered with his dark pants, but she always liked to see his skin.

He was not wearing a shirt, and she smiled.

"I am alone. He said that he needed to contemplate my idiocy."

Agamotto thought that he was superior to every passing person or thought. Well, Stephen thought that he could be pretty damn stupid as well. Agamotto got on his last nerve.

Clea just held her smile, and she fixed his hair a little. She thought Stephen was very handsome, and she knew how he normally had his hair.

Her eyes settled on all the bruises for a moment. Stephen stepped away from the water, and the two of them headed to the room that they shared. He needed some warm clothes.

"I saw your siblings today. They showed up in my dimension, with one of your friends. The one in the orange suit?"

Stephen stopped short. Tony? He looked over at Clea as he entered the room, and he processed what she said. An orange suit clearly meant Tony. His emotions were finally his, and now Stephen was in a state of debate.

He was glad that she saw his siblings, so he decided to only comment on them.

"Did you talk to them?"

"Yes. They want you home, and I told them you will go back when you are ready."

Clea didn't want to mention anything else. She wasn't going to say anything about their plans to encounter Agamotto. She wanted him to just focus on returning home. Clea intended to help them, and her first step was getting him out of that realm.

"Why would I, go back?"

Stephen was teasing her with his comment. He wanted to go home to his siblings, but something currently didn't feel right.

He put a shirt on when he entered the room, and Clea wasn't too happy about that. She turned her head to the side and refused to answer his question.

He knew exactly why he needed to go back. The almost-sorcerer-supreme was fully dressed. He gently touched Clea's wrist, and he pulled her close to him. She started touching his arms, and focused on one of the bruises.

"Did you talk to Tony?"

Stephen suddenly became curious. Clea looked up from his bruise and she gave him a puzzled look. Did she talk to, who? Clea didn't know Tony by his name. She barely interacted with him at the Kamar taj.

"The person in the orange suit. His name is Tony. Did he talk to you?"

The curiosity continued. It strengthened a little more, because Clea shook her head no.

"Why would he talk to me?"

She had to ask. Stephen just closed his eyes for a moment. He remembered every emotion that he fought to hold onto. He knew that he needed to explain what happened with Tony at some point.

Clea dropped the question. She moved in while his eyes were closed, and Stephen allowed Clea's advance. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and asked him if they could kiss.

Of course they could. Stephen didn't know why she asked for permission. He smiled at her, and gently gave her a nod of approval.

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Over in Brooklyn, Tony took Steve through every little thing that happened between him and Stephen. He explained that he slept in his bed after the fire alarm, and then he went to Stephen's room after Steve shacked up with Bucky.

Tony didn't know that Steve went to Bucky, or how all of that developed. He just felt alone that night, so he ended up going to Stephen. Then, suddenly ...Stephen started knocking on his door.

Something shifted between them, and Tony realized it was because Stephen knew about STEVE's shenanigans. He never told Tony that he wanted to be with him, because of Steve.

Thanks to STEVE, Stephen finally made a move. So... Tony brought the blonde all through that development, and he finally got to the part where Stephen asked Tony if he still needed a ride home. He still wanted to finish the silly road trip.

Steve had no idea that happened, because they agreed on him figuring things out with Bucky. Tony was feeling a little antsy about what he was telling Steve.

When he was describing Stephen's behavior, he was afraid that it would spark a competition. He didn't want them feuding. Plus, when he was telling Steve about what went on in the hotel, Steve started saying that he wanted to really know how it went.

Steve took over the conversation, because there were some things that he needed to know. For him, the devil was in the details. Steve was sitting on a chair in their bedroom, just like Stephen did in the hotel, and Tony was pacing around the room.

Steve kept watching Tony pace around, and he did some thinking. Apparently, Stephen Strange was making moves on Tony in their vulnerable moments. Steve was actually contemplating Stephen's behavior, not Tony's.

He felt like putting himself in Stephen's shoes. He listened to everything that happened between them so far, but now he wanted to feel it. He sat in the chair, and patiently waited to feel the rest of the story.

"So, Stephen sat like this... and then what happened?"

ACKkkkkkk... Tony already talked them through the kiss that they had at the door. Now Steve wanted more details, and Tony was a mess. Tony recalled the encounter, and memory told him that he was already getting undressed.

He really went for Stephen... yeaaahhhh Tony did not hold back at all.

"I got undressed, and I sat in the chair with him."

Tony climbed all over that lap. He remembered everything, and the situation was making his skin buzz. Tony was boiling, and Steve still looked all chill and cool. He kept looking up at Tony, and a small smirk stretched over that face.

"Can you show me?"

Steve was officially pretending to be Stephen in that moment. Tony didn't need to know that, and Steve didn't intend to stop doing it.

Tony gently bit on one side of his lip, and then he stepped over toward Steve. He wasn't undressed, but he maneuvered onto his lap exactly like he did with Stephen.

Tony remembered that he kissed his neck first. He went through the motions of what he did, and he started re-enacting his behavior, for Steve.

Chapter: END

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