Stargazing • MCU/S. Rogers Fanfic•

2-25: Awkward Meeting

Malibu, California

August 3, 2012

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"Babe." Chase whined. He sat upside-down on one of the arm chairs. Staring at his girlfriend who was curled up on the hanging chair, a book at hand as she soaked in every word of the mood. "Babe." He whine yet again, dragging out the word and calling a bit louder to grab her attention.

She replied with a 'mhm', not wanting to tear her eyes away from it. The only reason she did stop reading, was when Chase threw a pillow at her face. "Did you just-?" She stopped talking as she stared at him with and unbelievable expression.

"Yes, I'm bored." He groaned, sitting up correctly and slouching in his chair.

"Grab a book." She told him, looking back down and trying to find the sentence she was on.

"Or," He started, stalking over to her with a grin. "We could do something else." 

"Like?" She teased, a grin appearing on her own face.

"We could move to the bed." He hinted what he wanted.

"You know what to do right now?" She said in a seductive manner as she leaned in, their lips inches apart. "I want to read." She finally said, before their lips could touch, and leaned back into her chair. She snickered at his reaction and brought her eyes back down to her book.

Chase laughed before lifting his hand in surrender. "Alright, whatever. You win. Besides, I like watching you read. You're beautiful." Astra smiled at him sweetly.

"Guess who's home." A voice appeared from upstairs.

Gasp! "Tony's here!" Astra called enthusiastically and grabbed Chase's hand. "Come on you can meet him."

"You sound like a little girl." He teased.

"Hey Dork." She greeted as the couple walked into the living room.

"Scooter!" He greeted back and then realized there was another presence in the room and his smile dropped.

"Tony, this is Chase." Astra introduced her boyfriend.

"Hello, Mr. Stark." Chase greeted and held out his hand to shake.

"Chase." Tony greeted as well and shook his hand. "This is the guy you were telling me about? He isn't much." He mumbled to his sister and she nudged him in the arm. "Yeah, okay. Uh, Chase, tell me about yourself."

"Well," He started as they all sat on the couch. "I just graduated with my Doctorate in Dentistry. I work under my dad at his office. And my mom is a lawyer"

"And, uh... How did you two meet again?" Tony asked.

"My mom is friends with one of the racers at the Grand Monaco, so while I was there I met Ash." He answered and intertwined his fingers with Astra's.

Tony gave his sister a side glance, one that said 'really?' as it got dead quiet. "Okay." Astra broke the silence. "I think I'm going downstairs to my bike." She stood up and smoothened out her shorts. "Chase, care to join?"

Chase stood up and followed the brunette to the garage. Boy, I hope not all the meetings are like this.

*****

"Ow!" Tony delivered a painful sound as he injected himself for his new technology.

"Sir. Please may I request just a few hours to calibrate-" Jarvis attempted to advice before Tony interrupt with a "Nope." Then making a few more painful sounds and putting the injector down.

"Sequence complete." He told Jarvis.

Astra just stood there working on improving Natasha's widow bites. Yes, they already worked well, but there certainly was room for improvement. She spent months learning how to make them, there was no way she was backing down now.

"As you wish, Sir." Jarvis said enthusiastically. "I've also prepared a safety briefing for you to entirely ignore." The female genius laughed lighting at Jarvis's comment.

"Which I will." Tony responded. "Alright lets do this." He looked over to dummy, who was sweeping. "Dummy. Hi, Dummy. How did you get that cap on your head. Hey, hey. Blood on my mat handle it."

"Sir, may I remind you've been awake for nearly seventy-two hours." Jarvis brought up.

"Seventy-two hours!" Astra exclaimed, looking up for the first time. "Wh- why! I mean I know we can be hard-core but, that is not okay." She scolded him, all while he pretended to fight the camera.

"I'm fine, trust me." He replied to her.

"Focus up, ladies." He turned to the suits. Astra put down her stuff and leaned on the counter. "Good evening." He bowed to the suits and continued on like everything was normal. Which it wasn't. "And welcome to the birthing suite. I am pleased to announce the imminent arrival of your bouncing, badass, many brother." He spoke to the camera, "Mark 42 suit test. Initialize sequence. Jarvis, drop my needle."

Music starts to play Christmas music and Tony started to dance. Astra struggled to suppress a laugh as he attempted to summon the suit and nothing happened. He attempted some more until finally the hand found its way. Then the shoulder and other hand.

"Impressive." She commented.

"Yeah, I think we got this send them all." He got over confident.

"That's not a good Idea." His sister tried to warn. The leg shot into the air and made it's way nicely. But the other parts didn't really... cooperate. One piece launched itself into the glass and another broke a light.

"Probably a little fast, slow it down." He decided. "Slow it down just a-" He dodged a piece that flew past his face.

Finally letting it out, Astra laughed. "This is great." It may have been a little too soon though, because one moment later she got hit in the head by one of the parts, knocking her on the floor. "Ow." She rubbed her head while using the desk to help her up.

Another part hit Tony in the back, sending him flying forward and Astra laughed again. The other parts got in place and the mask hit the record player, stopping the music.

"Come on." He challenged it. "I'm not scared of you." The mask flew over and Tony flipped to get it right. "I'm the best." He complimented himself. And unfortunately for him the piece lodged in the glass bolted over knocking him down and the parts to scattered. Astra began laughing, yet again. "Not funny." He groaned in pain.

"As always, a great" giggle. "pleasure watching you," Giggle. "work."

"Glad this entertains you." He rolled hi eyes.

"Come on, Dork." Astra walked over and helped him get up. "I'm not a genius like you are, but lets see where you went wrong and fix it." She told him, receiving a light smile.

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