Tony Stark one shots

AA meeting

Bruce woke up in his room at 4AM and immediately ran to his lab to check on the progress of his latest chemical formula. He didn't surface until some time after 5, when the need for tea and some form of nutrience finally overcame him. He wasn't at all surprised to find Tony in the kitchen, nursing a cup of coffee. Bruce had quickly learned to appreciate the other scientist's erratic, non-existent sleeping schedule, as well as his high dependence on caffeine.

"Morning," Bruce whispered to the billionaire. Tony squinted at him.

"Is it? Huh," Bruce chuckled in amusement at Tony's curious reply.

"Hey Tony, I think I'll be free for the next three days if you want to do some more tests on your element. How about tonight?"

Tony looked pleased at Bruce's offer. He'd been badgering the physicist for a fortnight about doing tests on the 'Starkanium' element that he'd invented. He'd even promised to tell him the entire story that went along with it, which Bruce had to admit he was curious about. He'd been busy tweaking his COLUM formula though, so he'd had to keep turning to mechanic down. When he'd asked why Tony couldn't run the tests himself, the man had replied that it was going to be 'fun science', so of course he had to do it with his 'Science Bro'. Bruce would never admit that he'd spent the next hour with a massive grin on his face.

"I can't actually do tonight. I've got an AA meeting, but I'll definitely be there tomorrow," Bruce was brought out of his reverie by Tony's voice and he'd hummed an affirmative before he processed exactly what the other man had said.

"Wait, wait. Hold on," Bruce caught the other man's attention, "Did you just say that you're going to an AA meeting?!"

Tony looked kind of confused. "Yeah? Why?"

Bruce just stared at him. "You. Going to an AA meeting. You?!"

"Why do you seem so surprised? That group was literally made for people like me."

Bruce blinked, surprised. He didn't know what to think about that. He knew that the media painted Tony as a severe alcoholic, and he'd suspected that the man did used to have drinking problems, but from what he'd seen of the man he knew that his issues weren't that bad. He actually seemed to have a fair handle on his drinking, so he was surprised that Tony had felt the need to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He was also surprised that he hadn't tried to bottle up his issues, if he'd found any, and had actually seeked help. After another moment of contemplation, Bruce realised that he should probably say something.

"Sorry. I'm just... surprised is all."

Tony looked at him for a moment longer before nodding, "No problem, Brucie-bear. Anyway, I gotta go finish repairs on Pepper's car before she gets back from Japan. See ya later."

And the day continued on as normal, with Bruce filing the conversation as something to consider later.

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Naturally, 'later' occurred sooner than he'd expected, although to be fair that may have had something to do with the marshmallow man standing in front of the fridge. Actually, when had first walked into the kitchen, slightly disoriented after a whole day spent in his lab, his initial thought had been "when did the fridge get pregnant?" Once Bruce had shaken off the surprise, and realised that the fridge was not, in fact, pregnant, he took in the sight of what appeared to be a puffy, white robot-man staring at the fridge.

Bruce must have done something to alert the giant marshmallow to his presence, because he... (She? They? Does it have preferred pronouns?!) looked at him and waved and a friendly manner, before speaking in a slightly halting, but pleasant, automated voice.