Inescapable

Ch. 36

Tony was in the lab with the young princess and Bruce, working on a way to remove the stone from Jocasta, without essentially killing Jocasta. Y/N had asked them to do this as a next phase in their plan. A plan that has had Tony uneasy for the past couple of days now, not that he has voiced this out to anyone else in the team. It's just that Y/N was giving a lot of orders, but not telling them about the true purpose for the things that needed to be done. And Tony couldn't get over the feeling that she was keeping something from him. The breakdown she had the other day, while a normal reaction for someone who has been through what she's been through, felt like something more to him. That nagging feeling was constantly in the back of his mind, frustrating the hell out of him. It only grew when he saw her stride into the lab with fire in her eyes, and a small white sundress that barely covered anything at all. He knew that look, that fire in her eyes. He usually didn't like what came after it.

"How's it going guys?" She said as she approached them, trying to downplay what Tony could tell was some kind of trouble headed his way.

Shuri stopped what she was doing and smiled up to Y/N. "Yes. I had to school these white boys, who think they're so smart, that we just need to reprogram Jocasta's synapses to perform collectively, not non-sequentially."

Tony side eyed the young genius. "And I keep reminding the princess here that I would have thought about that, had I had a hand in constructing Jocasta's body. But, as we all know, she was built by Ultron. Not us."

"But didn't you guys build Ultron?" Shuri quipped.

Y/N laughed. "She's got you there hun."

"Technically we really didn't even build Ultron though..." Bruce pipes in, removing the glasses from his face, smirking my way.

"Bruce - bud – you trying to help our cause, or just make it sound worse?"

He chuckles and places his glasses back on, focusing on the schematics in front of him. "I just call them like I see them, Tony."

Tony groans and rubs a hand on his face. "And here I thought we were friends..." Tony looks up at his fiancé and smiles. "So sweetheart, what's up? I can see the wheels turning in that gorgeous head of yours."

She sends him a sweet smile and Tony shakes his head, turning his attention back to the screens before them. "I need to go to New York." she finally says, causing the three scientists to stop what they're doing and look at her in shock.

Tony was the first to snap out of it. "I'm sorry. I think all this science mumbo-jumbo has fried my brain a little today. Did I hear you correctly? You want to go to New York?"

"Yeah. There's something I need to do."

"And you want to share with the rest of the class what this something is?" Tony says gritting his teeth, his annoyance slipping out. The room was a little thick now with tension. Tony could tell Bruce was uncomfortable being present, while Shuri just watched intrigued.

Y/N narrowed her eyes at Tony, practically teasing him. "No."

"No?" Tony's grip on the edge of the table is the only thing keeping him from running up to Y/N and bending her over his knee for acting like such a brat.

She smirked at him. She fucking smirked! And then he realized that her pupils were blown, and her breathing was coming out quicker. Fuck it all to hell... The bulge in his pants was starting to grow and before long it would be visible to the rest of the room. He had to act. Now.

In two steps he was right on her, grabbing her forearm in a firm grip but not harshly. "Excuse us for a second guys. The missus and I need to talk." He pulled her to follow him, and he could feel the skip in her breath in excitement.