STEVE!!!!
"Harry's here!!!!" Stark yelled at the top of his lungs.
Harry, the bedraggled and wet looking thing, wrung his hair out onto the welcome mat in irritation.
The genius, billionaire, playboy- ridiculous time manager, had given him a call at one am, letting the petite male know that he had managed to book out the local zoo, but only for a few hours. Therefore, the guy had giggled down the phone, Harry had better arrive at Stark tower for seven thirty for Happy to take them to the zoo, or Thor would be very upset.
So, the guy had pulled himself out of bed at five am so that he could have a shower, get dressed and make his way over to Stark tower in time for Happy to drive them over to the zoo.
It had started tipping it down on the way to the subway, and Harry- in pure Harry fashion- had left his umbrella at home. Imagine that, the Brit forgetting the umbrella, who would have thought?!!
Pepper, who had slightly better manners than her husband, passed Harry a towel, lotion and some warm dry clothes, before ushering him into the same floor bathroom and turning on the shower.
Harry, hummed to himself quietly as he warmed himself up, and then used some of the nice soap that had been left for guests to use. As he lathered up his hands with some soap, Harry jumped as the door was opened and Thor entered the room. Harry could have sworn he had locked the door.
"Oh!!" Harry wrapped the shower curtain around his naked body. "I'm in here Thor!!" He squeaked.
The older male hummed and took a seat on the toilet seat lid. "I shall wait here young mage. It's just that I am exceptionally excited for our trip to visit the animals today."
Harry rolled his eyes to the ceiling.
"Get the fuck OUT, Thor. I'm showering and I don't need an audience!!" Harry shouted, and scowled at the blond as he meandered out of the room again. Harry almost threw a bottle of shampoo at the man when he muttered about shared baths on Asgard.
Once again, Harry found himself questioning his life choices as he stood outside the penguin enclosure with the two children.
Steve was pressed up against the glass panel practically licking the thing as he made faces at the intrigued penguins on the other side.
The zoo employees were also intrigued at the super soldier's behaviour, as they had come over one by one to see the man's toddler behaviour.
In other words, it wasembarrassing.
Thor stood by the door whining about wanting to see the petting animals- he really was a toddler in a thousand year old's body.
Once Steve had finished goading the penguins through the glass, Harry was dragged by an excited Thor to see the petting zoo.
Once they reached the soft area, Harry watched on helplessly as Thor jumped clean over the gates, and surrounded himself with the little fluff balls called rabbits.
It was kind of cute to see Steve also begging to hold the goats in the other section of the enclosure, and somehow- against his better judgement- Harry found himself taking pictures of the pair on his phone. Strictly on the other side of the barriers- because Harry Potter didn't do cute, but he enjoyed the enclosure too.
When Thor had had his fill of baby rabbits and gerbils and other cute fluffy things, Steve pulled them over to the Africarium.
This was where the problems started.
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"Look there Harry!! It's a lion!!"
"I want one!!"
"Harry, look at that elephant, I need that one. It would be nice in the corner of my room."
"Harry. Harry. Harry!!"
"WHAT!!!!!!!" Harry coughed and looked sheepishly to the side as the employee- Mary- who had been showing them around, whipped her red hair around to stare at them wide eyed.
"You're really annoying you know that?" Harry grumbled as he took Thor's hand into his own, and dragged him away from where a giraffe was putting its leg up in preparation for a wee.
"But I wanted that one. I've already named it Thelma." Thor whined again. Harry just pointed back at the giraffe that was in the process of relieving itself against the glass wall that they had been peering in to see them through. Thor's facial expression was a joke, and Steve pushed them through to the next enclosure before the god could decimate a poor defenceless giraffe for going about its daily business, because it dared 'insult a soon to be king!!'
When they finally reached the America exhibition, Thor had nearly bought the entire zoo on his non-existent debit card.
And that's where he saw them.
"Harry." Steve whispered, and then let go of the smaller male's hand (Harry had taken to holding their hands, because neither superhero could be trusted to not wander off after the third time Harry had lost Steve in the aquarium).
Harry dragged Thor after him as he sprinted after the super soldier.
Steve leaped right over the fence and began hugging Capybaras.
Harry teetered at the edge of the enclosure and then scratched his head incredulously. Of all the places to use the super strength, it would be a zoo to jump over a two metre tall fence.
The zoo employees were not happy with them.
Harry could barely speak in the car on the way home because he was so angry.
It had taken thirty minutes for the employees to coax Steve out of the enclosure, and then Harry had decided to cut the trip short.
Neither guy could be trusted to behave like responsible adults, and so time out would be enforced when they returned to the tower.
Harry finally turned around to look back at the idiots in the backseat when he heard suspicious giggling (he'd decided to sit with Happy in the front because Harry had been really looking forward to going to the reptile section of the zoo, but would now be missing out).
Harry narrowed his eyes in a glare at the innocent looks the super soldier and god were sending him, and blinked at the suspicious thrashing that the man's blue cardigan was doing. In fact, hadn't that thing been open showing off Steve's white shirt earlier?
"Got a snake in your cardigan or are you just happy to see me?" Harry quipped as the thrashing increased. Steve blushed a deep read, and then coughed.
"Just a uh... just a little tummy issue." He finally managed to wheeze out, before the thrashing reached it's peak, and then a little baby capybara head popped out of the neck of the cardigan just under Steve's chin.
He wasn't being paid enough for this.
"STEVEEEEEE!!!!!!"