Above Stark Industries, Saturday morning

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Steve woke up swimming in his pajamas--not really new--and warm--which was new. He blinked his eyes open, glanced around and then padded out into the kitchen. "Hello?" he called as he opened the huge icebox, which was full of food.

"Anyone here?" he asked, pulling out eggs (why were they being kept cold? So weird) and milk and fruit and carefully avoiding the giant bottle labeled "protein drink" which sounded super icky.

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Tony brightened at that. "We could! Is there bacon?"

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"Maybe?" Steve said, opening the icebox back up and staring at basically a drawer full of bacon. "Wow!! There's LOTS!"

Perils of living with a supersoldier: protein in all the forms.

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It was a shame that Tony was much too young to know or understand any jokes concerning that. A real shame.

"Can we make that too?" They would undoubtedly managed to burn and undercook it at the same time.

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"Well, some of it," Steve agreed. "Then we can have some for lunch and dinner!"

So healthy.

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Tony bit his lip wondering if someone would come find them before then and sort of hoping they wouldn't.

"Okay. It'll be fun. Like going away to school," he decided with a nod.

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"You can do that?" Steve said. "I just walk down to the local one."

He shoved the eggs to the side of the pan and plopped a couple of pieces of bacon in because those would totally be ready at the same time.

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"I live at my school," Tony said, watching him cook with far too much fascination before remembering he needed to start the toast.

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"Ooooh," Steve said, deeply impressed. He scooped the slightly scorched eggs onto a plate and then added more bacon to the pan.

Because bacon.

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"It's not that fun," Tony assured him, shoving some aggressively healthy, wholegrain bread into the toaster. Because the bad for you bread was hidden away out of shame.

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"Because of your mean friend?" Steve guessed. "There are some of those guys on the walk to school, too."

[imafuturist]

"There are?" Hopefully Steve's bullies had hilarious pageboy caps too.

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And really, really thick New York accents.

"Course there are," Steve said. "There are jerks everywhere."

[imafuturist]

Steve was bullied by the cast of Newsies. That was the only answer.

"Yeah," Tony replied placing a perfectly tossed piece of bread next to the scorched eggs. That was possibly because JARVIS had access to the toaster controls. "What do you do about them?"

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They were the kings of New York, you know.

"Stand up to 'em when they're being jerks and tell 'em so," Steve said.

So...got beat up a lot.

[imafuturist]

Damn it, Christian Bale!

"That works?" Tony's method was hiding somewhere else. And aggressively reading all the Arthurian literature because that would clearly help his development.

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Not really.

"Sometimes?" he hedged. "Bucky helps, too."

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"I'd just walk on the other side of the street." Of course he would.

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"But that's not where the school is," Steve said stubbornly. "Why should I hafta move?"

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"Because it's not worth it." Unless they were picking on other people. In which case, Tony would be running headlong into a split lip.

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"It's always worth it," Steve said. "Once you start running, they never let you stop."

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"It's not running," Tony replied hotly. "It's... it's... strategy."

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"It's bad strategy," Steve declared.

Steve was a seriously aggressive checker player.

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Of course he was. This game would end in a board being flipped, wouldn't it?

"Is not."

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And there would probably be sulking.

"Is tooooo," Steve said, taking out some of the bacon, miraculously unburned.

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Tony sighed, rolling his eyes at the kid who would somehow be his idol at one point. IT DEFIED LOGIC.

"Getting into a fight every day is stupid."