Apartment Above Stark Industries, Sunday Afternoon

[imafuturist]

Tony had started the day working on some coding with the television on in the background to provide a little noise. And to make it seem less weird that he was mostly just staring at a tablet and coding with his brain. But whatever.

But that somehow turned into watching the background noise. Which turned into 'I could do that' after a few episodes.

And that would be why Tony had a fine dusting of either flour or confectioner's sugar turning his hair a bit grey as he frowned down at the collection of ingredients.

"I have a masters in chemistry, this shouldn't be so difficult," he grumbled to himself.

Stupid Great British Bake Off.

[Mostly for the housemate! GBBO owns many souls.]

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[imafuturist]

It was a sort of muffled boom as the microwave and their pie died in a blaze of glory. And only then the sprinklers started.

You know, a little late. But there they were.

Tony peered over at Steve as the kitchen was drenched and just started to laugh. Because wow. Just wow.

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"We are terrible cooks," Steve managed between giggles.

[imafuturist]

"We blew up the kitchen," Tony gasped between laughs, clutching onto Steve's shoulder for balance here.

Somewhere overhead, JARVIS was judging them and shutting the sprinklers off once once he deemed it safe.

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"I just rolled out pie crust," Steve said, wiping tears from his eyes. "You blew up the kitchen."

[imafuturist]

"Fine, you only take 30% of the blame," Tony replied with a teasing grin. "I really hope this doesn't make my hair turn to glue."

Then he really would have to shave off the beard.

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"It's not lookin' good, pal," Steve teased back. "I'm not going to touch it."

[imafuturist]

"You're a real help," Tony replied finally taking a step back to survey the damage and stop--well, it wasn't looming because he wasn't tall enough--leaning into him.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve missed the touch immediately but didn't mention it. "Well, I am a superhero, apparently," he said wryly.

[imafuturist]

Tony shot him an amused look, biting his lip to keep from calling him his hero again. "It's the costume that makes you super," he went with instead.

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"It's a much better costume now," Steve admitted. "The first one was terrible."

[imafuturist]

"Wasn't as tight, that's for sure," Tony muttered, testing the microwave door to see if it was too hot to touch as he suspected.

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Steve's hand reached out to intercept Tony's. "Without gloves?" he scolded gently.

[imafuturist]

Steve was never allowed into the lab when Tony was working with fire now.

"I've handled worse," he replied, looking more amused than annoyed than he normally might be in the situation.

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"That's not a ringing endorsement, Stark," Steve said.

[imafuturist]

"I'll let it cool down before figuring out how I turned it into a bomb," Tony promised, glancing down at Steve's shirt and the fact that he totally won the impromptu wet t-shirt contest there.

Which was only a little distracting.

"Want to grab some towels?"

[heroic_jawline]

Steve glanced down at his undershirt and blushed. Hard. "Sure," he said, taking the shield with him. "I'll go put this down, too."

[imafuturist]

"Unless we think the microwave will seek revenge," Tony teased, running his fingers through his hair to get it out of his face now that it was wet.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve came back in, completely shirtless, looking concerned. "That a possibility?"

[imafuturist]

Clearly it was laundry day and he was out of smedium undershirts.

"Well, our lives and this island," Tony said, eyes going a little wide for just a moment as he glanced over at him.

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Steve blushed. "Stopped halfway through changing," he mumbled, dropping his shield into a non-hugely-singed part of the kitchen.

[imafuturist]

"Of course," Tony agreed a little faintly before focusing back on the kitchen.

His full focus was on the kitchen. Yep.

"Towels?"

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"You need me to bring some?" Steve guessed. "Don't think it's gonna help your hair any."

[imafuturist]

Well, that certainly helped keep him focused.

Tony shot him a look for that. "To keep the water damage to a minimum," he replied dryly. "You have such a vendetta against my hair."

[heroic_jawline]

"You haven't seen what it looks like right now," Steve said with a smirk. "Back in a sec."

[imafuturist]

Tony took that time to attempt looking at his hair in the reflection of... well, there was nothing in the kitchen that wasn't wet or singed. "JARVIS?"

"...You have a good personality," JARVIS replied diplomatically as Tony attempted to frantically fix his hair with his fingers.