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littlemsstark3000 · 4 years

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Another request by @queeenpersephone from the 50 Kissing Prompts list. ❤️

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46. A lingering kiss before a long trip apart.

AU where Natasha was the SHIELD representative to Stark Industries in Iron Man 1 instead of Phil Coulson. She and Tony ended up dating and this story is set between IM1 and IM2 - he had just discovered the arc reactor's defect.

"Tones, don't give me that look."

Natasha stopped stuffing her duffle bag and stared straight at Tony who just walked into their room and sat lazily on the couch to watch her. His face void of emotion, but his eyes and the tensed jaw gave away what he actually felt.

"Why? Any kind of look won't work on you anyway." Sarcasm laced his voice.

"Is this some kind of a guilt trip?"

"Nope," he bluntly said before checking his watch and adding: "But look, you might be late for your own trip."

"Hey," she dropped a shirt on the bed and crossed arms on her chest. "We talked about this. If I get called, I go."

He stood up and walked slowly to her smirking. "You do. You always do. I can't count how many times anymore. Did I ever stop you?" Then his face turned dead serious again. "No. Just this once."

Natasha pursed her lips and shook her head. Tony was already right in front of her, they were almost toe to toe.

"Everything's settled, we're leaving tomorrow, then you get just one message from Nick effin Fury and you've changed your mind." His tone was flat; he did not need to do anything more for her to feel how dejected he was.

She sighed heavily. This was not a time to argue, and she considered where he was really coming from.

Trying to calm him down, she placed both of her hands on his shoulders, grabbing them gently as she ran her thumbs on his chest. "Don't make it sound like I'm excited to go just like that. This is duty, Tony."

He fell silent, looking away from her, then let out a resigned breath, too.

"Babe," she reached out to cup his face. He wrapped his arms around her waist in return.

"I'm sorry that I have to cancel last minute, but we can reschedule, right? We can still go when I get back."

"And what if they call you in again?" this time, his voice sounded vulnerable.

"I'm turning off my mobile for a while after this op."

"Can you take a leave?"

Natasha could not blame him for doubting. He knew how much her job meant to her. But he still needed convincing on how much he meant to her as well.

"We will. And we'll go for that vacation, not because you think you are dying but because I just want you to rest your mind."

Tony froze. "What -"

"The palladium poisoning? Blood toxicity test? I've known it for a couple of days now." Natasha cut him lightly and forced a smile. "Come on, I'm not your girlfriend and a spy for nothing. I notice everything. And I know you."

He had to see that she was not mad at him for keeping it, and she also would not let him suffer alone any longer. She pulled him into a hug.

"We're getting through this, Tony. But you gotta tell me all about it. We'll pull all strings, even if I'd need to use SHIELD."

Natasha felt more than she saw him agreed. He nuzzled her curly hair and they stayed like that for awhile, before he walked them to bed. Tony sat on the cushion with her on his lap, facing him.

"You know that more than the trip, I'm also concerned about you, right? That's not your usual op. That's Hydra." His voice has completely changed. Gone was the indifference, all she felt was tenderness.

"I know that, too." Her fingers slightly combing his hair.

"Just... Be safe, okay?" Tony caught her eyes.

"What you said," she pressed a point finger to his arc reactor, indicating that he gotta do the same.

"I'm not kidding, Natasha. You update me or I'm following you to that other side of the world."

It was her who spoke seriously again. She knew that he could do that, too. "Don't be ridiculous. You're not using that suit until we figure out how it won't harm you in any way."

"Then update me. At least me know what's happening," he emphasized.

Natasha pressed a firm kiss on his cheek. "I'll try to be back sooner," she reassured, locking his focus on her.

She initiated another move, planting soft kisses to his lips to appease him, until he willingly took over. His arms tightened around her hips and her hands were on his nape and collar, pulling him even closer. She moaned softly when Tony bit a little, urging her to open up so he could deepen the kiss. It was an unspoken promise....

You're not losing me. I'm not losing you either.

They just linger for minutes, both catching their breaths, savoring the moment before they separate temporarily.

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techmaestro · 7 years

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Tics and Overlooked Details

Tony Stark is, by and large, a character known for his verbosity, his way with people, and his facades. So, this headcanon post will go into those things, and touch on exactly what he thinks of himself when he throws around phrases like ‘genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist’ at people. I’ll also be explaining the flag that’s been living on his mobile profile these days and why I feel it’s appropriate.

First, his four-word byline, his go to in the face of insult, and his guiding light when reaching for a shield of his own. ‘genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist’. This isn’t a self-praise. This is Tony holding up a line that’s been aimed at him over and over for years and going ‘don’t you know? This is who I am’.

Genius, because Tony is a genius. His brilliance is undisputed and has long been touted as his best feature, and never let him fool you that he’s not aware of that. He’s long been taught, unintentionally through family and the media, more intentionally through Obadiah and those like him, that if he wasn’t smart, he’d be less valuable. This is, in some ways, even later perpetuated by the Avengers on accepting gear without, in some cases, seeming to even properly get to know him.

Billionaire is self-explanatory. Everyone knows Tony has money. Because they know he has money they expect him to use it, and to be out of touch. He contributes funds to everything in the team, and without his money he wouldn’t have had nearly as many resources to make his suits from. He can live in comfort and he knows it, but he also knows many people only see the money and where it came from before anything else.

Playboy. This one is both a point of pride and a point to sigh over by Tony I think. On the one hand, he put a lot of effort into being approachable, and in making sure that his partners never feel cheated by the experience when he leaves him.

And then we have Philanthropist. I always found it interesting it’s the last thing on the list. It’s the thing he adds for himself, that he is but that he doesn’t tend to talk about. It’s the thing people rarely are willing to admit to like the other three, and the one that he’s most proud of. So on the one hand, he wants it to be the one that lingers in the mind, but he also knows it won’t be.

So, above I mention Tony’s tendency to please his partners. There is more to the playboy thing. I think there is genuine proof that while Tony is incredibly reactive, he’s not actually in it for the sex. Thus, asexual. With Christine, for example, he puts his proposition forward in a relatively tactful way, but uses it as a deflection. Similarly, with Maya, he seems genuinely more interested in the science until she makes an overture, at which point he’s wilingly distracted.

Meanwhile, with Pepper, he never moved in for the kiss. No, this is important. It’s not because he didn’t like the idea of kissing her, but he was letting her determine when and if it will happen. The only reason he moved in for the rooftop kiss was exhilaration, but the immediate ‘is this okay?!’ is actually quite important. Everything we see shows even if he expresses any kind of interest, he only follows through on turning it from friendly to sexual if the other person first shows that they want to treat it that way.

It’s all very passive, and not something someone whose interest is sexual would probably default to when dealing with interested parties. Especially when it wouldn’t be difficult at all to be more forward and get a favorable reaction. Of course, none of this is concrete proof of his inclinations, but it makes sense given, in my head at least, that he’s a man who is easily distracted from sex with thoughts of science, and can easily live without sex as much as with it without giving it a thought.

As for the non-asexual parts of the flag on his profile, that’d be the Polyromantic indicator. That isn’t as obvious as it looks. While yes, my Tony is happy with Poly relationships, in this instance it’s more that gender has no real impact at all to his romantic inclinations. The actual definition of this flag is as such:

Polyromantic is a term which is typically used by open-minded people who was to disregard the idea that there are only two sexes or genders (male & female).

I feel this very much fits Tony.

Now, for something a little lighter but no less important. Tony talking.

No, bear with me. Tony talking is important. As seen in Civil War, he talks. A lot. Natasha noticed something was wrong in his silence and Steve just... failed to get it, instead making a smart remark about how Tony had his mind made up. While true, that wasn’t the reason he was quiet.

Tony has a long history of silence when something is wrong. He wasn’t silent because of the Accords. He was silent because he’d had the death of a young philanthropist shoved in his face. Tony presents it as a reason, rather than something that pains him, and the others just don’t get it.

Tony’s silences cover for him when he doesn’t trust himself to talk, when he might risk giving away a soft spot or saying something too personal. They mean something is wrong more often than not, and this applies to all situations. If something is off in the bedroom, it’s very unlikely he’ll say anything, and he’ll instead just ease back into more passive behaviours. If he’s dying then he won’t say a word, and wait for people to notice. If he’s hurt, he’ll watch, and wait, and work around it.

His silences cover distress. That’s not to say that’s his only reaction to things being wrong, just his most common, and it’s something to keep in mind. After all, he did ask Pepper, then Natasha, for alternate choices about his birthday in IM2. That was an alternate version of silence, where he skips around the topic and hopes to get out of something he doesn't really want to do. He ends up doing it anyway because he can’t make himself clear.

Part of that is because his facade is such that silence just seems like he’s holding himself aloof, but part of it is that I rather think he simply doesn’t know how to convey things that he finds so very important when he’s not sure other people would find them equally so.

It’s easy to talk someone into fighting hunger, when hunger is a tangible, visible thing. It’s harder to talk someone around to letting you have a quiet birthday.

#headcanons

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