Falling - A Stony, Avengers FanFic

11. Affair

"Tony! Please! You have to get out of there! It's been three days." Steve yelled through the lab door.

"Hang on." There was crunching noises and then the door swung open, to reveal thousands of pieces of paper, screens everywhere with footage and information on random topics.

"Honey, you know you can do the research at HQ lab." Steve said to Tony who clearly hadn't slept for even his usual schedule.

"My lab is better." He mumbled as he typed in hundreds of numbers into a pin code sort of thing.

"Tones," Steve whispered into his ear as he hugged his boyfriend from behind. "How you feeling?"

"Too much."

"What?" Steve asked genuinely confused.

Tony took his tired hands away from the computer and stared at them, "I feel like everything has hit me right in the face, I'm mentally bruised and battered, it's just painful," he started nervously fiddling with his fingers, "that guy... he was the guy Pepper was with."

"Do you think Pepper knows that?"

"Fuck no. Her standards are higher than the Empire State Building, well, they were.

Steve bit the inside of his lip, "Do you know his name?"

"What? Pepper's boyfriend?"

Steve shivered, "Can't we just call him the-bad-guy-who's-working-for-Loki?"

Tony gave a snort of laughter, "His name's William Kanin but he's been called Golden Sight in the pass."

Steve thought to himself trying to see if he knew a anyone by those names, "I know a Grace Kanin but isn't she dead?"

"Uh," Tony made an awkward noise in the back of his throat. He didn't want to break it to Steve that everyone he knew back in his days were either dead, or doddery old fools. "I think so."

Steve nodded, "I've never heard of this William though."

Tony frowned, "You missed quite a bit. Here, I'll explain it to you."

"William was involved with a dodgy experiment back in the 1991 because he was nearly blind and they said they could 'cure' it but he was lied to so they could test their eye based computer and it actually made him blind in his left eye though the golden plate of computer that let's him have a computer screen scanning in his left eye and it looks like Loki 'upgraded' the computer so now he can time teleport!" Tony spat out very fast.

"Got it. Nearly blind, lied to, golden sight, Loki."

Tony looked expressionlessly at him.

"What?" He defended, "It's true."

Tony sighed, running his hands over his face.

Steve gave him a sympathetic smile and kissed his cheek. "Come on, Tones. We need to tell the rest of the crew."

"Just wait." Tony said as he turned back to the computer screen and started typing up an essay like document.

"You hate but love you computer don't you." Steve signed rested his head on Tony's shoulder.

"It's like a unexpected child. It ruins your life but somehow makes it better."

Steve gave him a strange look, "You absolutely need sleep."

Tony inhaled through his nose, "Yeah, I know."

Steve nodded, satisfied, as Tony logged off his computer, using Steve as a rail to help him get up.