"Hey, kiddie, you got a few coins?"
Peter blinks over his gelato. The crowds around them ebb and flow like the very waters in the Trevi fountain that they stand before. Somewhere far to the left, May, Pepper and Happy are trying to take pictures.
"Yeah, what for?"Tony flexes his fingers in a gimme motion and waits for Peter to drop two small euro coins into his upturned palm. "I'm not a huge on traditions, you know that, but my mom and I did this every time we used to visit Italy when I was little. Thought we'd give a try. C'mon." He guides the kid through the crowd by the shoulder, stopping so they're dead center in front of the fountain, and then spins the Peter so his back is to the water.
"Toss it with your right hand, over your left shoulder, and make a wish."Peter closes his eyes, as if that'll make the wish more powerful. "What if I toss it with my left hand over my right shoulder?"
"You sell your soul to the devil."
"Ah. Messed up when you were a kid, did you? That explains a lot - ow!" Peter laughs around his fake cry of pain when Tony reaches over and flicks him on the nose. "You gonna make a wish, too?"
Tony stands so he's side by side with Peter. "Yeah, I'm gonna make a wish, too. On three. One -"
"-two-"
"-three!"
They toss the coins over their left shoulder. Peter's quick to spin around and see if he can find where his coin lands, but Tony's not sure he ever finds it. Still. Doesn't seem to bother the kid too much. He's all smiles.
"What'd you wish for?" Tony asks.
Luckily, he's not hit back with a if I told you it wouldn't come true. "I wished that we could come back here again. One day. This has been a fun vacation."
"Yeah?"
"Oh yeah."
"Well, you're in luck." Tony grins. "The whole point of the coin toss is to also ensure that you can come back to Rome one day. The wish thing was just a bonus."
There's a beat, where there's nothing but the crowds and the fountain roaring in his ears.
Then Peter says, "....so I wasted a wish, is what you're telling me?""Not necessarily." He's still grinning. "Now it'll come doubly true. Or something."
Peter ends up shoving him when Tony laughs a little too loudly at his expense. He almost collides into some innocent bystander, but Peter's spider skills allows him to catch Tony by the wrist He pulls him back in time, and that just makes Tony laugh even harder.
"Well," Peter says, almost laughing himself. It's all pretty silly and in good fun. "What did you wish for?"
"Easy," Tony answers. "That one day, they put my face on the one hundred dollar bill."
"Oh my god."
"What? I have enough of them. Seems fitting."
"Oh my god."
"I mean, a lot of them."
"I hate you."
"What? Not good? Would the twenty be better, or....?"
"I'm leaving. Where's Pepper?" Peter starts standing on the tips of his toes, trying to look over the crowds. "Pepper!" He waves his arms back and forth, hoping to get her attention wherever she may be. "Come save me."
Tony keeps going. "Look, I'll settle for a ten but I don't want you ripping any more of them in half -"
"I'll give you ten dollars to stop talking!"
Tony grins, flicking his sunglasses down from the top of his head and holding his hand out. "Deal. Pay up."
He does.
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