Apartment Above Stark Industries, Saturday Afternoon

[imafuturist]

The storm outside had knocked out the power, but Tony had worked hard on having reduncancies in place for his lab and the apartment.

Sadly that didn't seem to matter when Fandom was being Fandom, so he was bundled up in a winter coat as he worked on converting a lamp into a space heater. It was at 1.0, so there was still room for improvement there. Possibly five different iterations before he would be satisfied with what he'd made.

"It's supposed to be spring," he muttered under his breath angrily.

[For the half frozen guy!]

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[imafuturist]

Tony couldn't help but laugh and lean in to kiss him again as he put his coat back on. "I'll show you what I'm doing. Who knows, it may come in handy sometime."

[heroic_jawline]

Steve grinned. "Plus watching you work is really attractive," he added.

[imafuturist]

"Is that so?" Tony asked, grabbing a little took box to head into the freezing cold kitchen.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve grinned at him. "Very much so," he said. "You get all focused and intense. I like it."

Because Steve had a major competency kink.

[imafuturist]

"You are just good for my ego," he replied, pressing a kiss to Steve's cheek.

[heroic_jawline]

"Very, very rarely, your ego needs boosting," Steve teased him.

[imafuturist]

"Rude," he replied with one last kiss before settling onto the floor to get things running.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve sat close enough by to share the space heater but not be in the way.

And then burritoed himself back under all of the blankets, only his face poking out.

[imafuturist]

Luckily this was more a case of tapping into back up power rather than creating new stuff.

If only Fandom wasn't out to get him and his many, many back up plans for these instances.

"You still good there?"

[heroic_jawline]

The blanket fort nodded. "It's better when I can see you and not just focus on looking out the window," Steve admitted.

[imafuturist]

"Once I've got this, I'll get another heater going," he promised, glancing up to offer a quick smile. "They should be able to warm up one room between the two of them."

[heroic_jawline]

"One of the other reasons I live with an engineering genius," Steve said, smiling back.

[imafuturist]

"The other reason is showing you what remote to use, right?"

[heroic_jawline]

Steve laughed. "How'd you know?"

[imafuturist]

"Genius," he replied as the light in the oven came on.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve applauded under the blankets. "Waffles for everyone!"

[imafuturist]

"Maybe heating it up will also provide some warmth here," he suggested, smiling despite himself at the clapping.

[heroic_jawline]

"That would also be a bonus," Steve said, glancing out the window."It's really blowing out there."

[imafuturist]

"I guess we had it pretty easy this winter compared to other places," Tony said with a little sigh.

[heroic_jawline]

"Maybe," Steve said, "but there's a reason I don't live in South Dakota."

Mostly due to the dearth of decent pizza, but the snow didn't help.

[imafuturist]

"Sweetheart, there are so many reasons for that," Tony replied with a laugh. "Not that you dressed up like a cowboy isn't appealing."

[heroic_jawline]

"I could grow a really big mustache. I'd look amazing."

Mmm, not really, Steve.

[imafuturist]

It would be terrifying and Tony wpuld be forced to shave him while he slept.

"Oh, you've figured out my secret fetish."

[heroic_jawline]

Or at least half, forcing Steve to get rid of the rest.

"Really big mustaches?" Steve said, snorting. "Really."

[imafuturist]

"Really into those mustache rides," he teased and tugged Steve into a kiss.