Sam wakes up groggily, but a bit later than usual, because not only was it a day off for him but also his birthday. And Redwing knew it. *Beep!*, Sam doesn't get much time In bed before Redwing's flying around him excited. "Yes Redwing, thank you and Good Morning to you too".
Redwing's still very excitedly flying over Sam, his excited beeping slowly morphing into the tune of 'Happy Birthday'. Sam breaks into laughter realising it, Redwing only sounding more excited as he... sings? Beeps? At the end Redwing rests on Sam's chest, like a needy cat, beeping happily as Sam hugs him. "Thank you Red".
They stay in bed about 10 minutes longer before Sam needs to get up.
Red's not happy with it, moping over having to do stuff. "Sorry Red, but there's still things to do on my day off". He showers quickly, changing his grey sweats and black tank top for a pair of jeans and an ironed SI polo; "See you for lunch Red", Sam waves before leaving him behind in his room.
In his general gentle giant ways, Steve greeted Sam first. "Sam! Happy Birthday!", he bear hugs him, Sam laughing at his friend's overt and suffocating affection, "Thanks Steve". Steve walks him over to the kitchen, putting back on his apron, Steve and Bucky dancing around moving food and plates in a near choreographed routine. "We made you breakfast, hope you like it".
'Breakfast' was a 3 course meal; a fruit salad, a gourmet omelet with home made croissants, and marmalade beignets.
"Thanks Steve, Bucky, This was great!", Sam has to agree, the super soldiers went all out with the breakfast. "You're welcome, and it was a nice way to try some new beignet recipes", Steve replies, Bucky walking out of the kitchen with a bowl full of chocolate, marmalade, peanut butter, orange jam, blue berry jam, caramel, apple butter beignets. They had many many more in the kitchen. "Welcome", he mumbles through a mouthful of food.
Steve chases after Bucky wanting more of their delicacies, Sam leaving the pair for one of Tony's many private nooks to get a bit of work done (it's always good to have many smaller private areas in a shared house, keeps violence down, they quickly learned in 2012). "Fri? What's my schedule today?", he asks into his Stark-Pad, Friday pulling out the list while narrating. "T'Challa scheduled a meeting at 11, you've got your video lunch with your family at 1pm, and so a training session at 12pm depending on if your meeting with T'Challa runs long".
Sam takes mental note, answering a few emails from his Military connections and a few SI urgent emails, and still he ends 45 minutes early and gets an idea. "Hey Fri, where's Abe Brown?". She answers through the Pad speaker, "He's in your lab with Mr Rhodes, he took over your shift".
Jumping from his seat he heads to the elevator, he descends down to the physics labs to meet the two. "Rhodey!", he hollers through the room, startling a couple people — one of which was Abe — with the teen and avenger specifically turning around and addressing him. "Happy Birthday Sam!", Abe waves as Sam walks up to him and Rhodey.
"What are you doing down here? Took your shift so you could take the day off", Rhodey 'bro hugs' Sam as the latter turns to Abe, "had to come say hi to my mentee". Abe smiles, "thanks Sam, but you really didn't need to come down here".
Sam returns a challenging look, "I wanted to, had to say hello". He winks, kneeling and opening his arms, Abe coming in for the hug. "Thank you, and Happy Birthday", Abe whispers over Sam's shoulder, pulling out of the hug and passing Sam a little gift bag from his pocket. "Sorry it's not much, it's what I could make in my uncle's workshop". Which wasn't bad as he was a jeweller, but it doesn't compare to SI's workshops.
Inside a little keychain with a redwing charm and a falcon charm. And regardless of where it came from, Sam was pretty impressed by the detailing of the mechanisms and the feathers. "Peter said something about helping you and redwing, got the design from him", that explains the accurate model. "Hey, You made this and it's really awesome, so it's more than I could've asked for".
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