Love in the Dark

That night part 2

Warning: some smut

Song for this chapter: middle of the night by Elley duhe

Tony pov

C'mon tony you can do this, what are you afraid of?

That she won't feel the same way

I don't get scared so easily, but if there's one person who scares the shit out of me, it is Brooke Ryan, the way she captured my heart so fast. I was mesmerized by her since day one. She was so closed of when barton brought her in, and i tried warming up to her so she could let me in and get her to come out of her shell. It took a good year for her to get her guard down and hang out with us without having barton being the icebreaker.

But i didn't realize as i was trying to get her to let me in, I let her in. We spent time together in the lab, she helped me with little things here and there and we always drink coffee together.

I try to shake my thoughts away as i make my way to the kitchen to go look for brooke, to confess my love for her. I love her, and when i realized i did, i told pepper, she wasn't angry with me. We both came to an agreement that we fell out of love with each other. We both fell in love with other people. The only difference is that pepper acted on it.

While i've been cowarding away till today. I'm much older than brooke, i'm 48 and she's 24, which is why i tried to stay away at first, i'm old enough to be her father, and not to mention we both have daddy issues. And barton was another reason. He brought her to me to care for, which i did but ended up falling for her.

"Tony!" I turn to natasha

"What is it, Stroganoff? i need to talk to brooke about something." I tell her as i try to continue.

"Well it's going to have to wait, nick fury is here with maria hill, they're in the conference room right now, waiting for us, team's there already," She tells me as i turn away from heading to kitchen and now walking with nat to the conference room.

Fuck

Damm you fury

This better be important

We enter the conference room and sure enough everyone's there, i go take a seat at the other end of the table with steve next to me in one side and nat on the other.

"I need you and the team to go to russia for a hostage rescue mission asap." Nick says

Well fuck me

My job always come first but i don't want to leave brooke here by herself, i know she can take care of herself, but it still worries me.

"You know i take all missions seriously, but nick i'm asking you this one time, let me stay, if we all go, brooke will be here by herself, we never left her alone before." I try to plead with fury.

"Stark, you know i like the girl but this mission need iron man, plus she won't be alone cause captain rogers isn't going, he's sitting this one out." He tells us and i see capsicle fuming. I'm a little relieve brooke won't be alone but i can't tell her how i feel well not atleast till i come back from the mission.

"What do you mean i'm not going?" Steve tells him

He's pissed at fury

But fury laid down the law with him and he gave in. Why is rogers so hellbent on going missions, he just got back from one.

I hear sam and buckster trying to cheer him up, which reminded me.

"Speaking of brooke, i'm going to call her down here to let her know it'll just be you two. I want her to be comfortable. She tends to get a little skittish."