I own nothing. For the wings, look up the wings from Maleficent.

Night owl: Write about staying up at night

The next three weeks passed and Elena got closer with all of her new teammates. They'd shown Fury her wings, but she refused to have them inspected by their scientists. It was a new morning about a month after she'd met Tony when JARVIS woke Elena up and she decided she was going to have to talk to Tony about his AI's tendency to do that.

Slipping into the shower she spent some extra time standing with her back under the spray before getting out. The second she stepped up to the closet, wrapped in only her towel, JARVIS spoke and scared the crap out of her. She still wasn't used to having a butler, let alone an automated one.

"Mrs. Hartley, Mr. Stark has asked me to ask if you could come down to lab so he and Dr. Banner could talk to you."

"Tell them I will be there in about 20 minutes. What floor are they on?"

"They are on the top floor of the Lab, research, and development section of the building."

"Thank you JARVIS." She slipped on her favorite black skirt from the night she'd arrived, the shirt with the lowest back that happened to be yellow, and a pair of black combat boots. Her hair was put in a pony tail and she left for the labs.

Upon her arrival she was greeted by the two very curious, cautious, and excited scientists. They dragged her across the lab and to a bench before sitting across from her.

"Can we see and inspect your wings?" Tony asked

"That could've been phrased better." Bruce stated "But the idea is still the same."

"You're lucky I like you two." Maybe one more than the other, and maybe that one more than I should when I only met him four weeks ago.

"So is that a yes?" Tony asked, she nodded and closed her eyes. When she opened them she had wings and the two scientists were smiling. "You're awesome. Can you lie down on your stomach?" Elena sighed but rolled her eyes and complied. They began to inspect, measure, poke, and prod at her wings and she laughed at their enthusiasm. After half an hour of this she got bored and began asking questions about what they were doing, their current projects, and anything else she could think of. That is how she spent her day, laying out on a bench in the lab. The let her eat and stretch her legs and anything else as long as she promised to come back after a certain amount of time.

At the end of the day she was dismissed when Bruce went to bed. She sat and stared at Tony for a little while before finally asking the important question on her mind.

"Do you like pizza?" He smirked and turned to look at her.

"Yes, why?"

"Just seemed like a good icebreaker question. Why aren't you going to bed?"

"I'm not tired." He said around a yawn.

"And I'm an elephant. Speaking of elephants, I think there's one in the room."

"Is it pink? Because if it's not then I'm not interested. And I'm not talking about it."

"We could get one in the room, but only after you tell me why you don't sleep."

"What do you mean, why I don't sleep?"

"I may have asked JARVIS a couple days ago when I saw you inhaling coffee why you drink so much and he said it was because you only slept when you passed out from exhaustion."

"JARVIS is a traitor."

"JARVIS was telling the truth and I want to know why you don't sleep."

"And I don't want to talk about it."

"I'll make you a deal. You tell me and then me and you can go upstairs and drink ourselves into oblivion and see if we can see a pink elephant."

"Fine, but only because I never can get you to drink."

"Good, now start talking."

"I get nightmares. I can't sleep because I'm terrified to close my eyes."

"Nightmares about what?"

"Well, the torture I endured in Afghanistan, New York, the Mandarin, AIM's projects, Sokovia, and my parents oddly enough."

"So you have nightmares about pretty much every instance where you or someone close to you almost died or did die?"

"Yup, now how about that drink; or two hundred?"

"Fine, a deal's a deal." The two of them walked to the elevator and Tony brought them to his penthouse. Elena was in awe for all of five seconds before she was dragged to the bar tucked into the corner. She'd never actually been on Tony's floor before and was suitably impressed, especially with the view.

They drank well into the early morning and talked about their lives in general. Both had big sob stories and both had hilarious moments. Tony had just told a big secret and now it was Elena's turn.

"I've never been kissed."

"Wait, never? That means you've also never..."

"Nope."

"Well then, I guess we should remedy that." Tony said as he leaned in and kissed her on the mouth. She melted into him and they kissed until the need for air was far too great. Tony smirked and gave her another drink. The alcohol was flowing like water down a cliff and both were very inebriated by 1am when they went to bed.