Apartment Above Stark Industries, Tuesday Morning

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Tony had managed to hide some pie after yesterday's class and was now having the breakfast of kings... half of a pumpkin pie whole pretending it wasn't still summer.

So, pie, coffee, and the usual message checking as he woke up.

Which... okay, one of them was weird. And after a little (more than a little) effort at decrypting, he found himself sighing about how annoying spies were.

"Looks like it's time for a field trip into the city," he muttered under his breath, giving up on his pie.

Life was cruel like that.

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"Are you eating pie for breakfast?" Steve asked, arching an eyebrow at him as he came into the room.

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"No..." Yes. Yes, he was.

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"Is there any more left?" Steve asked, heading for the fridge.

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"You can have mine," Tony said, clutching his coffee protectively close. "I have to get going soon anyway."

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"Where you heading?" Steve asked.

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"Baltimore." Which would be better than his trip to New Jersey, at least. "I'm meeting some of Fury's people."

Talking around it too!

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"Jan?" Steve asked, smiling. "Is she still giving you grief about the cheese fridge?"

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Tony had to snicker at that. "No, she talked about joining SHIELD for a bit, but Hank was... Hank about the military industrial complex."

And now to make sure this was extra awkward.

"It's, uh, my Romanoff and Barnes."

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And now Steve looked all puppy hopeful. "Bucky's gonna be there?"

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NO. BAD PUPPY. BAD.

"Yeah," Tony said, making it into a sort of strained question with the magic of vocal inflection. "Did you want to come?"

Wow, he was making bad choices on autopilot now. That was to power of those eyes, Rogers.

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Steve's whole face lit up. "Could I?!"

Oh, Steve.

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"It's not--he's not the same as your Barnes," Tony said because that enthusiasm could only be ruthlessly crushed by this meeting.

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"Oh, I know," Steve said. "But it's better than nothin', right? Maybe he'd have some ideas about where my Bucky could be going. The last few leads have gone nowhere."

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Tony nodded slowly.

"Alright," he said. Then repeated it again possibly just for himself. "C'mon. Before they decide I can't be trusted to go to a coffee shop."

Which. Ridiculous. He possibly had a sixth sense for caffeine.

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"Go to one, sure," Steve said. "It's coming out again that's your problem."

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"I think I still have that Mets hat to disguise you," Tony replied.

Because he was a cruel man and his coffee was sacred.

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Steve gave him his best "Captain America is disappointed in you" face. "And I thought we were friends."

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"Red Sox?" Tony offered with a thoroughly unrepentant grin.

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Steve reached out to smack him on the back of the head as he came back into the room. "You're terrible and should feel terrible," he told him.

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Tony snickered, rubbing the back of his head like it actually hurt.

"You're so angry, sunshine."

Honestly it had been a level of restraint that Tony hadn't really slipped into pet names before now. Just ask Pepper and Rhodey.

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Steve chuckled ruefully. "Maybe," he agreed. "Let me finish the pie and then we can go. Without your terrible hat. I have a plain one around."

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"I bet it's either red, white, or blue," Tony called back, going to find an outfit that wouldn't draw attention to him.

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"Dark blue's different!" Steve called in reply.

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"You keep telling yourself that." Said the guy who though accenting his suits with red or gold was clever.

He had none of that now, though. Which was just soul-crushing. Didn't even touch up the goatee. He was going native as a poor person.

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After eating his pie embarrassingly quickly, Steve came out in a gray t-shirt (size smedium), a pair of jeans that Natasha had picked out, and a super stealthy ball cap with Black Widow's symbol on it.

He thought he was hilarious.