WinterIron one shots

Ex- Boyfriend

Word count: 1700

Summery: Tony needs someone to look out for him whist at a business meeting- and who better than the 'Winter Soldier'

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It was a favor; just a small one.

It's subtle and doesn't ask him much, but Tony's grateful. And thankful. And he doesn't want to toot his own horn, but Tony Stark being grateful and thankful to you comes with some serious perks.

No one can ever accuse him of being ungenerous.

In fact, quite the opposite.

It can be said his generosity is occasionally without a lack of boundaries which. He's working on it. He may have unceremoniously adopted several teenage geniuses, but that's not important here. But as rewarding  it is to raise kids with the love, attention, and support he didn't get as a child from his own father, this particular favor and the subsequent rewards are entirely of a selfish variety altogether.

Tony never claimed to be a saint.

"Is there a reason he's..."

"Glaring?" Tony supplies above a stage whisper.

"Attempting to murder me with his face?" Tiberius corrects in a hiss that he's doing an excellent job of disguising as a politely sneering whisper.

Of course, with Super Soldier hearing, Bucky has no problem replying to the accusation with frank finality, "It's just my face."

And Tony has never been more delighted to be alive until this very moment. "It's just his face," he echoes in agreement, a grin on his face no matter how hard he tries to soften it into a soft smile.

"Well," Tiberius begins expectantly, raising his eyebrows, waiting for an explanation that Tony's not going to give until it's specifically asked of him. He so hates speaking in innuendo with assholes who misunderstand or misinterpret what he's saying, and so gleefully misdirecting the meanings.

Pointedly, Tony compliments the sound of the steak on the menu before subsequently telling the waiter with a thumb over his shoulder to where Bucky is sitting that, "He'll have the same, medium-rare."

"Sir?"

"He's not much of a talker," Tony explains, flippant, and if the waiter is concerned that what had appeared to be a romantic date has been ambushed by a man in full 'winter soldier' uniform , with the face to match-  he's too well-trained to say anything but agree with a bow of, "Yes, sir."

Turning back to Tiberius with a smile like ice , Tony proceads, "You were saying?"

"What is he doing here?"

Ah, that didn't take long at all. Though, Tony supposes he can't fault Tiberius for it. He never did like getting caught off guard, least of all in public, and with so many cameras blinking at them from the window overlooking the street.

"Bucky is a little...overprotective," Tony chooses to settle on.

"Really," is Ty's sarcastic reply. "The same man who killed your parents is overprotective?"

"He has a lot to make up for," Tony dismisses easily, . It had taken the better half of two years to get to that point, and while Tony is much more subdued in the accomplishment of that feat, he doesn't mind flaunting it every now and then. Being the bigger person is strangely freeing once you've accepted what is and isn't your burden to carry anymore.

"I could never forgive Rogers for the betrayal of hiding it from me, but Bucky isn't without redemption especially since it's something he's asked for."