Steve's POV

This week's mission for the team had come down to one thing- to make sure tony took his daily shots of iron, and to make sure he was eating and sleeping right. The blood test had come back positive for iron deficiency anemia. Bruce had explained that his hemoglobin was on borderline to severe. Tony was still fatigued but he was definitely doing better after Bruce gave him some oral iron supplements. He was yet to forgive us for the blood draw. Tony was a tricky patient, but together they managed. The genius brain of his had only one thing missing, he didn't know how to take care of himself. Bruce had initially suggested that tony take a few days off from his work. But everyone knew tony had the most work amongst the team .Between balancing his company and working with fury, developing weapons for the team he had little to no time for himself.

The whole team was sat down in the common room, only tony was missing .I had promised not to hover if he ate his entire breakfast this morning. That was the only push he needed to polish his plate clean. He had finished eating with little fuss and had gone down to his lab immediately after and was yet to emerge. Bruce had made sure to eat lunch with him today in the lab.

We decided to have a movie night, since clint had shield business for the next few days and Natasha and Myself had to go to shield, The training program was a success so Fury wanted to make it a weekly affair. Except this time they had to go to a different shield base. They were going to be gone for two days.

That left Bruce and thor in charge of Tony. Pepper had made sure to take care of SI business this week to give Tony a break. But Tony was not having any of it. He wanted a constant report of everything that was happening.

"Where is the man of iron? Or must I say the man lacking iron?" Thor has been spending too much time with Darcy. Clint snickered at that.

"Steve, go drag him up here, I want to eat the popcorn!" Clint whined. I nodded getting up to go find my genius. I hadn't seen him the whole day.

"Jarvis? How is Tony's mood right now?"

"Sir is seemingly excited, currently working on your shield's paint job. You may have to pry him away from it, I suggest some bribe with bacon" Jarvis always knew how to manipulate Tony into doing things that's good for him. Once when Tony had worked continuously for 72 hours with no sleep, Jarvis had purposefully shut down claiming malware and Tony had finally emerged from his lab with lack of anything to do since his AI was not working. He would have noticed Jarvis bluffing if he hadn't been so tired.

I entered the lab after punching in the authorization code. I found Tony sipping coffee in one hand and gracefully moving his other hand around controlling the screens in front of him.

I walked up behind him as silently as possible trying not to knock anything over and wrapped my arms around his torso trailing kisses up his neck and nibbled his ear. I felt him stiffen at initial contact, it made my guilt flare up from last morning but I told myself that it was for Tony. He dropped the bracelet remote thing he uses to control things and turned in my arms slowly reaching up, his hand grabbing my hair, I felt him lift up on his tip toes and pulling me lower and then smashed his lips into mine. I could still feel the tension and stiffness in his movements but this was progress for sure. I tightened my arms around his torso lifting him up of the floor his legs wrapping around my waist. I pulled back breaking the kiss and placing him on the nearby table trailing kisses along his forehead ear and neck. His breath was coming in pants and I waited till it evened out.

"I am leaving tomorrow for the training camp, I'll be back in two days" I said into his ear. I felt his hold on me tighten but he nodded his head. Lifting his head he pouted "Oh no! Whatever am I to do without my boyfriend?" He said in his most dramatic mannerism. Two can play at this game! I trailed my hands up under his shirt slowly and felt the shiver that ran down his spine and I removed them just as quickly.

Tony whined at the loss of skin to skin contact "we are going to have to wait and find out" I answered him letting go and backing up from the table.

"steeeeeve" he whined reaching out to grab for me but I was already out of reach. I turned my back to him and started walking towards the stairs and I told him without turning back "its movie night, if you want to claim any popcorn you better be quick"

I heard him fake gasp and hop off the table. I smiled to myself as I heard his footsteps in my pursuit.

Tony's POV

"Clint ,it's my tower. Therefore the bigger share of popcorn is mine!" I huffed as I dropped down between steve and Bruce.

I knew what was going to happen once the movie was over, I even knew the movie was only a distraction from the shot of iron that was apparently inevitable. Bruce had made that clear to me.

But that didn't mean I was ready for it. It's not fair that I am anemic. He was Iron man for god'sake! Nat had given me the "I will not hesitate to prick you with no foreseen warning!" I knew she was capable after she had once given him a shot when he had palladium poisoning.

So I was steering clear of Natasha for the foreseeable future. Which Is why I chose to sit next to Steve and Bruce. Bruce was a good man, always trying to get people to be comfortable around him.

Lifting my legs up on the couch I confiscated most of Steves blanket and he pulled my into his embrace. "So what are we watching?" I asked them hoping it was some kind of romance drama. I loved watching Steve Blush through the sexy scenes.

"The Lion king" Thor explained much too excitedly. I sighed, It must have been his turn to pick the movie. Thor was a sucker for animal movies with happy endings.

Halfway through, as simba was reuniting with Nala, Clint got up and expressed his need to use the facilities, and demanded the movie be paused. Thor gave an irritated sigh and paused the movie.

I was so comfy settled in between Steve and Bruce, so when I felt Bruce lift up from the couch I whined and snuggled closer to Steve my eyes starting to drift close. I heard Bruce muttering something to Natasha and walking out of the room. Steve ran a hand across my cheek and slapped me lightly "Tony I need you to wake up" He said gently lifting me into a more upright position my back resting against steve's chest comfortably.

He pulled the blanket down from around my shoulder letting it drop in my lap. I sighed knowing what was coming. I hated this. I was a genius for god's sake! A genius with a needle phobia! It brought too many memories of Afghanistan. I had hated anything to do with a hospital after the traumatic event of people cutting into my chest while i was wide awake.

Nat shifted from her spot on the adjacent couch to crouch down onto her knees beside me.

"Tony, I know you know what's happening" she said .I nodded my head in defeat the panic already evident on my face. Steve rubbed his hands up and down my shoulder and arms in comfort.

I could hear Bruce walking back into the room and my breaths turned into short gasps. Steve pressed his lips to the side of my head "You are okay tony, This will only take a minute and then we can go back to watching the movie." He whispered. "deep breathes, honey" he kept muttering comforting things as I pushed back into Steve's chest as much as possible trying to hide from the needle Bruce was now carrying towards me.

He gave me an apologetic look before nodding to Natasha, she pushed the sleeve on my shirt up to reveal my bicep and Steve's hand rubbing up down stilled holding my arm tight. I squeezed my eyes shut and voila! Next thing I knew Steve was saying "good job Tony!" "It's over" and Bruce had already discarded the offending object from my sight and was settling back into the couch next to me giving me a warm smile.

It was over? That's good right? Then why am I not able to catch my breath? Panic over took me and before I knew it Steve had pulled me into his lap and Nat was holding water to his lips.

"Tony! hey, focus on me! You are okay. Come on, drink this" My breath eventually evened out and and fatigue took over. I listed backward into Steve as he held me up while Natasha held the glass up once again. I drank the water feeling my heart rate start to slow. Nothing more was said. I settled back into Steve's arms and the movie was resumed and everyone's focus went back to Simba and Nala singing.

My eyes started to drift close before the song was over.