Avengers: Jedi Master (CWAC Book Two)

Chapter 9: First Date??

Shea sits with Natasha who paints between a line of masking tape, her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth, Shea watches amused, it's the most relaxed she's seen the red head without Steve being around. Shea sighs and shakes her head going back to her blueprints, adding the last little details to it before they get too far into the ship to change. Almost there. She thinks, so close to finishing the Tempest. She touches the blueprint and sighs. Tony touches the small of her back as he approaches, she looks to him and smiles, she's feeling better about this project, she may have had a wobble but now she's....better. Tony helped. His easy smile and carefree attitude.

"How we looking?" he asks her, she nods.

"Pretty good" she answers, he smiles at her. "On schedule" she makes notes on the blueprint. He watches her, the way her eyes are sparkling, the way her lips are parted slightly, her tongue slightly sticking out as she concentrates on her work, like there's nothing greater in the world, he smiles. This is something new to him. He wants to sleep with her, that's nothing new. But he wants more than that with her. He actually wants a date. No, he wants to date her, he actually wants to go on more then one date with her. She looks to him and frowns. "What are you smiling like that for?" she asks him. "Are you constipated?" Natasha laughs and looks to them, Tony snorts and shakes his head.

"I'm not constipated" Tony tells her. "I just....I like working with you" he admits.

"Lucky" She teases. "I like working with you too" she nudges him, he smiles and looks down. "So I made an adjustment here to the door frames" she motions to the blueprint. "I actually measured Steve and Bucky's shoulders and these doorways are way too small....so I can't imagine what they would have been for Thor cause...I mean...I saw him on the news and he is huge" Tony looks to her. "Makes you wonder" she states breathily, her eyes glazed and on the wall ahead of them.

"Hmm" Natasha hums agreeing, Tony looks between them and wrinkles his nose. Yeah, how is suppose to compete with Thor? He sighs and looks to the blueprint. That man is an actual God, and yeah, Tony's good with women, always has been, but....for something meaningful, he's been unlucky there, most people want to sleep with him just to say they have. He looks back to the blueprint and makes his own notes.

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Later, once they'd finished, Tony watches Shea fold her work away, he'd been going over it the whole time they'd been working, he's going to do it, he's actually going to ask her out to dinner. On a date. Yeah, he's going to do it.

"You want to grab some dinner?" Tony asks Shea as she pulls out her ponytail, she looks to him and raises an eyebrow.

"What did you have in mind?" she asks back, he shrugs.

"Thai?" he offers, she smirks and grabs her jacket.

"Sure, I love Thai" she tells him, he grabs his own jacket and smiles, a date, he has a date with Shea. A dinner date with Shea. He should change. He thinks looking at his jeans and band shirt. Yeah, he needs to change.

"I need to change" Shea looks to him and frowns.

"Why?" she asks looking over him. "What's wrong with what you're wearing?" she asks him, he raises an eyebrow at her. "It's only dinner" she tells him, Tony's heart drops, it's not a date. He corrects himself. She doesn't think it's a date. "I know this great Thai place" she tells him.

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Tony looks around the Thai place Shea's picked out, okay, it could be a date, this place isn't fancy, so him changing would have made them stand out, she was right to stop him. He looks to her as she sits across from him.

"Okay, I talked to the bartender, he knows to keep a steady flow" she tells him, he chuckles and nods.

"Great" he responds and hands her a menu, she wants to drink, this could still be a date, he likes his dates to be semi-hammered by the time they leave, it makes them easier to sway into sleeping with him. And she's British, he knows they love their whiskey and he knows Shea does too. She smiles and opens the menu.

"I love this place" she tells him. He smiles.

"I never even knew it was here" he admits, she shrugs.

"Not many do, it's one of those places that you kind of have to stumble onto" she tells him as the bartender brings over their drinks. "It was...my first night in New York" she smiles. "And I got lost" he smirks, she looks down. "And then hungry" he chuckles. "And I stumbled into this place" she smirks at him. "I know it's no fancy french place...."

"It's great" he tells her. "Smells great" he sips his drink. "Oh...and this" she smirks. "This is amazing, what Scotch is this?"

"Bruichladdich Black Art 24 Year Old" she answers. "Imported all the way from Scotland" he sighs dreamily at the glass. She smirks.

"Tastes expensive"

"Oh it is" she tells him, he looks to her. "Don't worry about it" he raises an eyebrow. "Look, we'll split the bill" she assures him.

"Can you afford it?" he asks, she purses her lips.

"What? Cause I'm just a pilot?" she asks back. He looks to her. "And you're a millionaire?"

"Well....yeah" he answers, she scoffs.

"Just so you know.....I come from a family of means" she tells him. "The Skywalker name might not mean much in America....." he holds up his hand.

"All right" he tells her. "I didn't mean anything by it, I was just trying to...." he sighs. "I'm sorry" he offers, she takes a breath and nods.

"I'm sorry too" he raises an eyebrow. "Tempers run in my family" she explains. "Whole line of hot heads" he takes her hand and smiles.

"Are you ready to order?" the waiter asks reaching their table. Tony looks to Shea who nods, Tony nods too.

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"It's not like it's a date" She tells him setting her half of the bill down.

"I mean...." Tony rubs the back of his neck, Shea smiles softly at him.

"You intended for this to be a date" she whispers, he sighs and shrugs. She looks to him softly and smiles, wrapping her hand around the back of his neck and pulls him closer. "Tony" she whispers and then kisses him, Tony closes his eyes and kisses her back, his arm snaking around her waist.

Well that's what should have happened, instead, he lets her pay, and he doesn't tell her that he thought this was a date. They both leave the restaurant, Shea pulls her hair out from under the collar of her jacket.

"I had fun" she tells him. He nods.

"Yeah, me too" he tells her back slipping his hands into his jacket pockets. She looks to him and smiles.

"We should do it again" she gives him a look, he nods looking down. She sighs and tugs her jacket around herself. Happy pulls up in the car outside of the restaurant. Tony looks to him.

"You want a lift back?" he asks looking Shea her, she shakes her head.

"No, you're all right, I think I'm going to walk" she answers backing away from him. He sighs and throws his head back.

"Idiot" he mumbles to himself.