The Bitty Version of Stark Tower, Sunday Morning

[imafuturist]

Well, Steve invited Thor to come live with them at the tower. Well, kind of Thor? Tony hadn't really gotten the details of that whole deal, but was different enough for him to assume this was another universe version, but who was he to ever turn down a friend? Alternate universes and all be damned!

Which was why Tony managed to go snag some pastries from the shop in town to bring as a sort of welcome basket. Also because it was an incredibly awkward holiday for him and he was just going to do some stuff to avoid it.

So he put the food down in the common area kitchen of the guest suites and then frowned at the lack of coffee before getting that started. "J, make sure to double the grocery delivery, okay?"

[for the folks who live therein!]

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"Well, I was dead, so..." You know how it goes, right, Tony?

[imafuturist]

"...that's a new one," Tony admitted. Look, his version was still fresh and new!

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"Really?"

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"Unless it's Hank, but he faked his death and it's... a thing." A whole ass thing.

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That sounded like Hank. "Where I'm from it feels like half the people I know have died and come back at some point." Because comics.

And then some people decided not to let the dead rest in peace and made cyborg clones of them, Tony. Ugh, he was just going to have to ask about it, wasn't he? "You don't...happen to have any of Thor's genetic material laying around anywhere or anything, do you?"

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"What?" No, seriously now. What?

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"Because if you do, you should destroy that. Now." Or Don would not be responsible for the consequences.

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"Okay?" Tony said, slowly putting a mug down for Don. "I don't think they'll ever be an issue?"

Look. He was but a sweet, baby child compared to your Tony!

[ifwebeworthy]

He'd only had his armors go berserk and try to kill Steve once, he was like an infant.

"I know it could be."

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Precious baby boy!

"Coffee?"

[ifwebeworthy]

Right, yes, coffee. "Please." That might have come out a little too emphatic.

Say hi to your new friend in caffeine addiction, Tony?

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It was just what he needed!

"Are you from New York too? Apparently Steve's Tony lived in California."

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"California?" Don echoed. "I...huh, I just can't picture that. And yeah, I'm from..." Oh, god. Thor was laughing at him, fully aware of what was to come. "I'm from Long Island," Don sighed, and reached for a jelly doughnut.

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"...I'm so sorry." DON, WHO HURT YOU?

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That would be Odin. "Yeah, yeah, yeah," Don said. "Go on, get it all out. Just remember: I've already done this once."

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Tony grinned into his own cup of coffee at that. "It's weird. Even when Thor was de-powered back home, he was still Thor. It's not like the Jane Foster in town."

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"He was depowered and he was still Thor?" Don repeated, like he was checking, although not just with Tony. After a moment where it seemed like he was listening to something, he said, "Jane is wielding the power of Thor." And he had about a thousand questions about that, but, "You know. Like the hammer says. My situation is...different."

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"I think she's from Steve's version of home," Tony replied like that would help. "Her and Wanda. She was not an astrophysicist back home for me at least."

Weirdly enough.

"Different how?"

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[ifwebeworthy]

"It's like I told your husband over there. I used to be Thor." And, like he hadn't told Steve, "and he used to be me. And now it's, uh...it's probably easier if I show you, actually."

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[imafuturist]

"Show me?" Oh no. Ohhhh no. This was gonna get weird, wasn't it?

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[ifwebeworthy]

Well, that depended on your definition of--no, okay, their situation was weird even for comics, that was true.

Don took a step or two back, then raised his walking stick and brought it down hard against the floor, and--

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--there was a bolt of lightning and crack of thunder inside the room, and when it cleared Donald Blake was nowhere to be found. In his place...

"Stark," Thor said.

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[imafuturist]

"...well, I'm glad that didn't destroy the room," Tony said with a fond expression. Because it felt like it'd been ages since he last saw his version of Thor. "But that's more the Hulk's thing. Hi, Thor."

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"It has been a long time," Thor agreed.

Since before he died and his universe's you cloned him, in fact! Man, Tony had no idea how narrowly he had escaped a hammer to the face. (Don't worry, 616 Tony still unknowingly had it on his schedule.)

Ooh, pastry.

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"Holy shit," Steve said, choking on his bear claw on the other side of the room.