Vanilla Twilight Part: 2
Steve felt like hell every since he had walked up to start making dinner for the team (Tuesdays were spaghetti day, and he made the best.) Only to find a new shield signed from Howard Stark… Tony must have found it and left it before he left, it's an understatement to say Steve felt More than a little guilty. If he could figure out how to use this 'cell phone' correctly he'd have called Tony and apologized on the spot but as it was he couldn't so he'd come up and wait for Tony to get home. He did this for the next two days not knowing the exact date of Tony's arrival.
He was sitting on the couch with the shield when the elevator made a ding signaling someone assent to the top floor of Stark Tower. "Jarvis is that Tony?" He inquired the machine, still not use to talking to a voice from nowhere.
"Indeed Mr. Rogers, Tony is on his way up." The Ai I replied.
Before Steve could reply to the machine however the doors to the elevator slid open and Tony stepped out. Steve shot up and faced him and both men stood in an awkward gaze for a moment.
"Hey" Tony said bluntly and smiled to the man across from him.
"Hey" Steve said with a small laugh of relief that at least it didn't appear that Tony hated him. "Um I got that shield." Steve gestured down and then decided just to pick the thing up; with clumsy fingers he held it caringly. His gaze rose back up to the man now slowly descending the stairway. "Thank you…" He said with a genuine and sad expression on his face, this shield meant the world to him now, knowing it was from Howard it gave him a small piece of his old life to hold onto, and that meant more than Tony could every even hope of imagining in what Steve would describe as 'that big brilliant stupid head' of his.
Tony paused at the bottom of the stairs, heart broken by Steve's expression. "It wasn't really anything Steve, I found it in my lab and well it was only half done but it was meant for you so you know I just thought you should have it." Tony tried to play it off as he opened the water bottle he held in his hand that he had brought with him from his car when he had arrived.
He took a sip and nearly choked and dropped the bottle when all the sudden two arms were wrapped around him and a chin had been placed on his left shoulder.
"No really, I mean it Tony, Thank you…" Steve said quietly as he continued to hug the slightly shorter man.
Tony didn't know how to react at first so he slowly just closed the water bottle behind Steve's back. When he realized Steve wasn't going to let go until he got a hug back he simply just dropped the bottle to the floor and wrapped his arms warmly around the other man. "You're welcome." Tony said and closed his eyes for a moment to enjoy the hug.
After the hug it seemed like there wasn't as much awkwardness as Tony thought there would have been. The sat down on the couch and talked about Tony's trip; Steve asked about the meeting and Tony told him about the whole scenario of him walking around the room talking about the power sources and how the company wanted to overprice them. The entire time during the story Steve just smiled and listen, he like this side of Tony and Tony actually looked thoroughly happy with his actions. Afterwards they shared a smile that warmed them both to the bone.
"You wanna watch a movie?" Tony asked and Steve looked hesitant. "It's not the blue alien one that Tasha had me watch with her is it?" Steve asked and Tony laughed. "No I think we've had enough aliens for a while." Tony replied to him.
"Alright then what do you suggest?" Steve asked. "How about… oh! We could watch the original Wizard of Oz?" Tony suggested with a question in his speech.
Steve laughed, "Are you serious?" He inquired, "Yea!" Tony said honestly. "Alright" Steve replied and leaned back on the couch.
"Jarvis!" Tony began to holler for the AI to get the movie started when the lights dimmed and the television began to play the opening of the classic movie. "Thanks buddy!" Tony hollered again to the AI.
As the movie grew shorter and short the men seemed to get closer and closer to each other on the overly long sofa. After Oz was over Tony had Jarvis start another classical movie and the subconscious scootching continued. The two men shared commentary with each other via whispers to the others ear in which the man receiving said whisper would chuckle quietly as if any noise at all would ruin whatever this feeling enveloping them was. Tony's arms were thrown over the back of the couch and Steve was slouched down beside him.
As the movie ended Jarvis asked if they would like another. "No thanks Jarv I think we're good for now." Tony said and yawned a bit. "Thanks" Steve said and looked over at Tony with a smile. "This.. this was fun." Steve nodded to himself then looked back at Tony. "We should do this again." Steve said and Tony looked over at him smiling. "Yea any time" Tony replied.
The two continued to stare at each other almost intimately, alright totally intimately, their face's were fairly close and they were both wore half lidded eyes from being tired. "Thanks again Tony, I'm gonna head out." Steve said smiling again. "Night Steve" Tony replied and then was pleasantly surprised went a kiss was place softly on the corner of his mouth. "Night Tony" Steve said and was up and out of the room before Tony could reply.
Tony whipped around on the couch as the doors to the elevator slid shut. A wild grin was on his face and he was now wide eyed and wide awake. "Hey Jarvis" Tony addressed the machine. "Yes Sir?" Jarvis responded. "Did Captain Steve Rogers actually just kiss me or did I have a sleep deprive hallucination?" Tony said still grinning. "It does appear so that Mr. Rogers did in fact kiss you Sir." The AI replied.
"Sounds good, put the last ten minutes of the security tape onto my private file will ya." Tony said and stood so he could go to his own room. "Right away Sir." And with that Tony went to find his own rest.