Chapter 7
"-at happened to you?" Clint asked, motioning to the bandage on Tony's hand. His head was sore and he wasn't paying attention to part of the question.
"He tried to blow open the door to the workshop," Natasha said as she appeared behind Tony, "Isn't that right, Stark?" she asked annoyingly.
"As a matter of fact, yes, it is. Because someone decided to lock the doors to my workshop!" Tony yelled, lifting himself from his chair and heading back down toward the hall toward the workshop.
"Wait." Natasha ordered, grabbing a water bottle out of the refrigerator's door.
"What?" Tony questioned, turning on his heel.
"I'll make you a deal," Natasha began, as this point thinking it'd do more harm to Tony to leave the doors closed than to open them, "I'll open the doors, but... You have to admit that I'm right, about locking them in the first place," Natasha said, then taking a short sip of her water.
"You know what? I wouldn't trust you to keep up your side of the deal even if I were interested," Tony said angrily, leaving the room filled with a dark silence.
"You've gotta let him back in," Bruce said once Tony was out of earshot.
"Why?" Natasha asked, not interested in third party suggestions.
"He's going to kill himself trying to get in there, not to mention destroy the entire building!" Bruce said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"I know," Natasha began, "But if I let him back in now, he'll think he was right, was he?"
"At first, keeping him out helped, but now? Now it's more dangerous for him to be locked out than to be let in," Bruce finished.
"I agree, but I want him to realize that he was wrong," Natasha said smartly.
"This seems like a risk that isn't necessary," Clint said evenly.
"Well, maybe if by the end of it he stops acting like a jerk when we try to help him, it'll have been worth it," Natasha said, then left the room to go to the training room.
"It'll only be worth it if we survive to the point at which Tony is willing to admit himself wrong," Bruce said dramatically, trying to form together an alternate universe in which Natasha's plan plays out perfectly.
"You wanna split the price of a cheap hotel room?" Clint asked sarcastically.
Bruce for split moment considered it, but then denied the likelihood of being able to escape the careful watch of Nick Fury, who wanted them to stay in the tower.
"No... Someone has got to be here to make sure he doesn't kill himself," Bruce said, voicing his thoughts.
"Good luck with that," Clint answered, making his way to elevator to join Natasha in the training room.
Shorter chapter, a lot of avengers. Although, you guys seem to be saying you enjoy having the avengers in the story, so I hope I'm making everyone happy!
Next chapter will be a breakthrough in the ongoing Natasha vs Tony battle, I promise.
Should he concede? Or should he get the doors opened on his own?
I'm not entirely sure yet, but I'm leaning in one direction heavily. XD
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