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Elena walked into the penthouse just before eight to see Tony pacing the floor and on the phone. He hadn't noticed her yet so she just leaned against the wall and watched him. Momentarily she debated giving him some privacy for his call but he looked aggravated and she was curious.

"Look Pepper, just because you're the CEO does not mean you can all of a sudden decide what the company sells!" He yelled in anger at the phone, he turned and saw Elena by the elevator and waved her over. "I refuse to let my company sell weapons of any sort! We are now a company specializing in clean energy and random inventions plus a massive science department that works under Bruce." He pulled her to his in a hug and she just stayed nestled in his side as he screamed at his ex-girlfriend CEO. "Don't even go there." he looked furious and Elena was curious as to where exactly Pepper went. "You know what? I'm done for tonight, I have plans and they just arrived. You and I will talk about this in person when you get back from your vacation." He hung up the phone before Pepper could respond and he immediately claimed Elena's mouth.

"Is everything okay?" Elena asked "Also, where are your glasses?" Tony sighed but turned to go to his bedroom. He returned a few minutes later, shuffling into the room, with his glasses resting innocently on his nose. He looked amazing in Elena's opinion. "Seriously, you look sexy." He rolled his eyes

"To answer your earlier question, no everything is not okay. Pepper has people digging up the records from when my company used to make weapons. She wants to start that up again, but I don't. I cancelled their search and called her. You witnessed the end of an hour long argument about this. I swear she's just trying to make my life a living hell because I forced her to go on vacation. Company policy dictated she had to three months ago because of how often she works but she refused saying that I was going to do something stupid in front of the press before she got back and it was going to ruin the company."

"She has lots of faith in you I see." Elena kissed his jaw, seeing as how that's as far as she could reach, even on her toes.

"You are way too short... I love it." Tony smirked at her and she swatted his arm.

"I love your glasses. They make you look very sophisticated." He huffed a small laugh and rolled his eyes. "Is there any way I could get you to wear them more often?"

"No, I refuse to wear them as much as I do, which is only when I'm alone and have no chance of seeing anyone, or when I can't get any contacts which hasn't happened since the third week after the Avengers moved in. Pepper doesn't even know and she was there when I started to realize I needed them."

"Well then... I'm determined to make you wear them in front of the Avengers." He rolled his eyes and brought her to the kitchen. Something only Elena knew, aside from the glasses, was that Tony couldn't cook to save his life but he was an amazing baker. He had ordered in take out and made dessert for them. She smiled and sat down beside him at the island. Little did Tony know, she was already planning how she would get everyone to see him in his glasses.

The next morning when Tony woke up it was already past 11am and Elena was gone. That wasn't really that surprising though, she usually left around 7am so she wouldn't get caught going back to her room. He put on his glasses and went to the bathroom for his contact lenses. Today they were having a team lunch as opposed to dinner because it was Clint and Natasha's anniversary and they had plans. That meant he had an hour to get ready and go down to the dining room. He looked for his contact lenses everywhere but couldn't find them anywhere. All of a sudden he had a sinking feeling about what embarrassment the day would hold.

"JARVIS, where are my contact lenses?"

"I do believe that Mrs. Hartley has them on her person."

"Are any of my backups still hidden or does she have them all?"

"She has depleted all stores of contact lenses on the premises. I am also to inform you that Lunch has been pushed up by half an hour due to a meeting that has been called that Captain Rogers needs to attend."

"So I have less than half an hour, no contact lenses, and a team lunch."

"Yes, sir."

"I'm going to kill her."

"I would advise against that sir, you seem to be quite fond of Mrs. Hartley."

"Traitor,"

"Just being a team player sir." Tony growled and got dressed. He went down to the dining room and 11:35 to see everyone sitting around the table waiting for him. Nobody had noticed him hiding in the shadows of the door except for Elena who smirked his way.

"What is taking Tony so long?" Natasha complained

"Maybe he's being his normal vain self." Elena suggested casually, Tony glared at her. She looked so innocent in her flower printed skirt and white long sleeve top. She even had those giant ringlet curls today and was the picture of innocence. He decided to let out a small secret in exchange for outing her mischief.

"I hate you so much." Tony growled as he stormed into the room glaring at Elena.

"Why? Are you wearing glasses?"

"Tony, since when do you wear glasses?" Bruce asked

"I met all of your conditions and you promised me you would keep this a secret!"

"I did keep it a secret." She said, dropping the ignorant act

"Then what do you call this?"

"I call that not being very observant."

"How?"

"You didn't notice when I snuck into your bathroom and stole your contact lenses, nor when I stole all the other ones you have hidden around."

"Where are they?"

"I hid them, I guess you'll just have to wear your glasses until you can find them or get new ones." She sighed and smirked.

"I hate you so much." He said as he plopped down into the only empty seat at the head of the table. When he noticed this he glared even harder at Elena.

"I've heard." She smirked.

"When did you get glasses?" Natasha asked, not used to not knowing things.

"What caused you needing them?" Clint asked

"They actually look pretty good." Wanda said

"And you tease me about needing glasses?" Bruce chuckled "Those look like a stronger prescription than mine, what prescription do you have?"

"Yeah, just how bad is your eye sight?" Steve asked his worry apparent.

"I got glasses about a month after I came back from Afghanistan because my eyes were damaged when I was being tortured. They weren't bad at first but one morning I woke up and could barely see a foot in front of my face. Thank you Wanda, but I disagree. Yes I tease you because you are constantly playing with them and looking uncomfortable, my prescription is... let's just say it's very strong. My eyesight sucks but I can see fine with contacts, my suit, or glasses. I programmed my suits eyes to be like my glasses."

"That's why you only let me work on the rest of the suit, but not the head!" Bruce exclaimed.

"How does nobody know about this?" Bucky asked

"How did Elena find out?" Loki asked with a grin.

"I can keep a secret and I'm pretty good at making things, glasses included. As for Elena, I'm sure you already know Loki, but she found them in my room."

"Why was she in your room?" Steve asked

"To ask me a question, I was wearing them and she saw them where I hid them because of her stupid eyesight being better than perfect. Can we eat lunch now?" They did and the whole time the team made fun of Tony for his terrible eyesight. That night when Elena went up to Tony's rooms he kicked her out. She frowned when JARVIS wouldn't let her into the room or the lab the next day. By the time a week passed without Tony talking to her she felt very guilty and ended up crying herself to sleep.