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[stupidcupid]

[ slipping back inside quietly, cradling his left hand after this went down ]

[ he ruffles through his cabinet to get the bandages . . . ]

Comments

[biggerstick]

We'd get you back.

[and he says it casually but there is absolute conviction behind it]

Not that it would happen, but we'd get you back if it did.

[stupidcupid]

There might not be anything for you to get back.

[biggerstick]

...

You're getting top floor.

[stupidcupid]

This is really not the time to be hitting on me, Tony.

[biggerstick]

Please, like I'd let anyone on top of me. I'm talking about the tower— which is not, before you go there, a nickname for my penis.

[stupidcupid]

Okay, I'll bite. What's the tower got to do with anything?

[biggerstick]

I'm rebuilding it. You're getting— not top floor, actually. That's Thor's because of the whole flying in thing, you get the next one.

[stupidcupid]

And here I thought you don't like to bottom.

[biggerstick]

Do you really want to go there?

[stupidcupid]

No.

[he sobers up] How is getting a floor going to make a difference?

[biggerstick]

... depends, what are we talking about?

[stupidcupid]

See, this explains why Nat bitched about you all the time.

[biggerstick]

I'm glad I made an impression.

[stupidcupid]

... I'll be fine, Tony. I just need to get out more. Put it behind me.

[biggerstick]

I know. I'm not worried.

[stupidcupid]

Then what's with all this tower business?

[biggerstick]

I've been setting that up since New York.

[stupidcupid]

... Wait, Stark Tower?

[biggerstick]

Yeah, what did you think I was talking about?

[stupidcupid]

Some other crazy building you were going to make.

[biggerstick]

Nah, I'm fixing up the tower for us.

[stupidcupid]

Why?

[biggerstick]

I figured we're gonna need an HQ. Hopefully not for a while, but everything will be set up by the time the next big threat shows up.

[stupidcupid]

Makes sense.

[biggerstick]

Yeah, I think of everything.