Strictly Business | Stephen Strange x F!Reader

Chapter 15 : Too Much

The day greeted you with a stinging headache. You groan as you fall off your bed with a loud thump.

"Morning" Stephen says as he passes by your room "Fuck you" You grumble, getting out of your room, now changed into your work attire

"You look awfully horrible today"

He takes a sip of his coffee "Why didn't you stop me from drinking" You hit your head on the wooden table over and over until he stops you

"Okay, stop that. Did you take the aspirin near your bedside table?" He asks and you nod

"Good, now go off to work. I'm sure you'll be fine" He shrugs going back to whatever he was doing

"I hate you" You mumble with a scowl.

~~~

"Jesus, what happened to Y/n?" Jack stares at you from Vernons desk "I think she's hungover. Probably from Mr. Starks party last night" Vernon replies, mindlessly typing away

"She looks like a zombie. Which is ironic cause halloween was yesterday" Jack smiles as he watches Vernon snicker

"Vernon, can you get me some water please!" You yell as you look for another painkiller in your bag

"You know, you should stop drinking painkillers, you might overdose" Vernon jokes as you roll your eyes "Good. If I do get an overdose, I won't have to deal with this fucking headache" You take to bottle of water from Vernon and chug it down along with the painkiller "Do you want to take a lunch leave later?" Vernon sits down

"No, I have to cover some of the deals I have here" You go back to your computer

"Wear your glasses, staring at that screen might burn your eyes out"

"It already has"

~~~

You look at a blank sheet of paper, contemplating whether you should've took Vernon's offer earlier

"Ms. L/n?"

You jump, snapping you out from your crisis "Uhm, yes?" You look up to see one of your managers "I have our monthly reports, but it seems it's not really a good time right now?" He holds the files tightly, slightly afraid you might scold him

"Oh, it's fine Matthew. Hand them over and I'll do the check up myself next week, get everyone ready please" You try to mutter up a nicer tone.

Matthew was a good employee, you didn't want to scare him away. Unless he did something that actually would falter his reputation.

You read over the file, seeing that the work accomplished statistic has gotten higher than last time. You sign the document, adding it to the awfully organized file cabinet

"Okay, I'll admit that letting you go to work was a little mean" Your head turns to your office door to see Stephen

"What the hell are you doing here?" Walking a little closer to him, your eyes dart to the plastic bag

"I passed by Lily's and I couldn't help myself" He shrugs, looking to you for permission to lay the bag on your desk.

You gesture at him to continue and sit down "What did Lily say?"

"She was kind of pissed she wasn't invited to the party and told me to nag you about it, but she felt a little better when she found out you have a killer hangover"

You hold back a laugh "Yeah, and yet she still gave me her famous 'hangover remedy'" You dip a piece of toast into steaming tomato soup

"Not gonna lie, it actually works" You hum as take a bite out of it "Here try it" You try and offer him some

"No thanks"

"Come on. If you eat it, I'll forgive you for letting me go to work" He sighs giving in "Here comes the airplane~" You coo teasingly

"I'm not a child-" The piece of toast interrupts him and he chews it

"You are" You smile slightly.

"Look at them, so sweet to each other yet they're denying it" Vernon rolls his eyes

"What are they even doing?" Prue asks as he watches Vernon pick up his phone, pointing her to you and Stephen

"Aw, that's so cute!" She goes and whispers something to Bucky as he mumbles 'that's great sweetie...' and goes back to his nap.

"Anyways, are you doing anything tonight?" You turn to him after throwing your trash away

"Well, I was planning on cleaning the rooftop later"

"We have a rooftop?"

"Yeah, Wong told me about it and it's a mess" He sighs

"I can help. I might as well since I'm leaving work for a bit" You offer

"What you should do is rest"

"No thanks doc. I'm fine now... I think" Mumbling the last part, you go back to your desk, packing some of your things up

"Let's go, I'm sure that Vernon won't mind"

You grab his hand as you both leave the office, saying a quick goodbye to Vernon of course.

"And there they go" Vernon shakes his head "What happened?" Prue ask

"They just left"

~~~

"Alright doc, what's the agenda-" You stop yourself as your eyes land on the very place you were supposed to clean

"Holy shit. This is worse than my room" You let out a breath of disbelief before watching your step

"It looks like it was pulled straight out of an apocalypse movie" You turn back to Stephen and he shrugs

"Let's get started then" You begin to pick up stray pieces of trash and Stephen follows.

~~~

The was something about cleaning that makes it so... Calming. Some may find it annoying, but you think it's a therapeutic experience.

Like a rebirth.

What once was considered an apocalyptic mess can be turned into a beautiful sanctuary.

It just takes time and patience.

After a few more minutes of sweeping, you look up to see the sky turning gold as the sun sinks into the horizon "I'd say we did a pretty good job" You look at Stephen

"I can put a lot of plants here" You comment, the cleared spaces makes your mind turn, looking for a way to fill them in "I'm sure you would"

Your eyes drift off once again into the sky "Sunset's are so nice" You walk over to the ledge

"I could watch them forever" You sigh dreamily

"Yeah" Stephen decides to look over to you.

It was always your eyes that mystified him the most. The way light bounces of whenever you look at something. How peaceful they look whenever you're asleep.

Though one thing he didn't notice was the way it dilated when it was your turn to look at him.

And you don't really plan on making him notice.