Apartment Above Stark Industries

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It was Tony's birthday, so Steve had splashed out by getting delivery from Delmonico's (a restaurant so old and posh that it had been around even longer than him): porterhouse steaks, crab ravioli, and a giant thing of fried onions because Steve had been hungry when he'd placed the order. And a baked Alaska because it sounded very fancy to Steve, placed safely in the freezer to be set on fire later.

He glared down at his feet. "Patriot, I love you, but not enough to feed you Tony's porterhouse. Back off."

The puppy was undeterred. Surely if he looked cute enough, he'd get a piece?

"Tony! Dinner!"

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[imafuturist]

"Jan wouldn't hit you," Tony replied. "Carol might. Hell, she'd probably smack me."

Then added a sly, "If Rhodey didn't do it first."

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"Why would Rhodey do it?"

Steve. Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeve.

[imafuturist]

Tony shot him a pitying look. "Sweetheart."

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"I'm missing something," Steve decided.

[imafuturist]

"Rhodey and Carol have been circling each other since they met," he said with a laugh. "Though, honestly. I was thinking Jan might get Carol first."

Still too hung up on Hank, though.

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Steve blinked slowly. "I've been missing a lot."

[imafuturist]

"Told you the dating pool is incestuous," Tony teased. "He finally got the balls to ask her out recently."

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"Did she say yes?" Steve asked.

[imafuturist]

"Made him sweat a little bit." Tony was grinning like it was the best thing in the world.

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Steve snorted. "So she hasn't said anything yet?"

[imafuturist]

"Nope."

Poor, poor Rhodey.

"She's going to say yes, but winding him up is fun."

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"That's kind of mean," Steve said with a little frown, "stringing him on like that."

[imafuturist]

"She's in space," Tony said dryly. "He asked her once she got back to SWORD."

Like a coward.

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"Ohh, so he finked out," Steve said.

[imafuturist]

"Finked out?" Tony asked with a delighted laugh.

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"Is that not something people say any more?"

No, it was not, Steve.

[imafuturist]

"No, no. Let me text this to Rhodey." Tony, no.

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Steve put a hand over his eyes. "Tony, no."

Steve did not really mean it.

[imafuturist]

"He'll like it." He would not. He would wonder why he was friends with any of them.

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Well, he probably wondered that a lot.

"Well, if he'll like it--"

[imafuturist]

"I'll tell him you said it." Again... Tony, no.

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"I kind of figured you would," Steve admitted.

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Tony beamed, putting his phone aside to kiss him for that. "Like he didn't tease me for dating you."

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"He did?" Steve said. "Why? I have been reliably told by you that I am a catch."

[imafuturist]

"And he remembers scrawny teenage me with a crush on Captain America," he replied. "Not that he didn't have a little, patriotic man-crush on him too."