A Wonderfully Terrible Idea

Tony sighed as he walked away from Winter. Nothing good ever happened when Wanda was in the room. What was originally going to be a lighthearted dinner, as well as seeing what Winter liked, turned into mots of the team complaining and Winter getting forced into the Hulk containment chamber.

They did have the movie night, Tony wasn't sure what movie they would be choosing and if he was being honest, he didn't really care that much. He walked back into the commons, everyone was already setting up for the movie. Popcorn was being made and cushions and blankets were being rearranged. Tony picked his way over to the edge of the couch, not wanting to be close to most of the team.

With some small bit of luck, Tony ended up next to Sam, who was steadily becoming one of his favorite members of the team. "How's Winter?" Sam asked quietly as he sat down.

Tony shrugged. "He really didn't seem that bothered by it, all things considered. It mgiht have helpd that I told him I'd get him out of the cell once Steve wasn' tgoing to tell me to stop," he said.

"You sure that's a good idea?" Sam asked. "Not wanting to make sure he never leaves again, but if he was threatening someone out of no where..." his voice trailed off. Tony reminded himself that Sam didn't exactly know what Wanda had done to the team, so he was more likely to not have that biased of an opinion on her. Tony knew that he was harsher towards Wanda then some of the other people on the team. Although Tony bet everyone would if they had made a homicidal robot after she planted a vision in their heads.

Tony had tried explaining that to the others, after Wanda admitted to it, but they still thought that it was entirely his fault and blamed the whole Sokovia mess on him. Although Sam did have a point. It would be very bad if Winter decided to act on his threats. Of course he probably wouldn't if Tony told him not to with the whole Handler thing. "I'm pretty sure it will be fine, probably will be safer if I'm with him," he said.

Sam turned and looked at Tony. "No offence, but what about you will keep him from kililng all of us in our sleep," he said.

Tony glanced around, he didn't exaclty want anyone on the team to know. Especially not Steve, that could end very badly. "He decided that I was his new handler," Tony said.

Sam was silent beside him. "So he decided that he wanted you to be his handler?" he asked. Tony nodded. "As in, the guy who tells him what to do that he'll never question?"

"Wait, that's what he meant?" Tony asked. Well that could be much more problematic than Tony first thought.

"Well, yeah I'm pretty sure," Sam said.

Tony flopped back into the couch, staring at the screen as someone started it up. Maybe he could try to convince Winter that there weren't going to be any more handlers. Actually, that shouldn't be a maybe statment, Tony was going to have to. Until that point he just had to make sure he wasn't taking advantage of this or acting like HYDRA handlers.

"That's great," Tony said sarcastically.

"What's great?" Natasha asked as she suddenly appeared behind Tony. Tony startled up, how long had she been standing there?

"Uh, nothing!" Tony stammered out. Natasha raised one eyebrow and gave him a very judging look. Tony crossed his arms and met her gaze head on.

"Sure," Natasha said as she walked around the couch to find a seat. Tony doubted that she was going to just let his slide, and he would probably be asked about this later. Hopefully not directly after the movie. He did have things he needed to get done.

Granted, taking an assassin out of his cell for a walk around the compound probably wasn't the best idea. Eh, Tony rarely made sensible choices, why start now?

Tony grabbed a bowl of popcorn as Thor passed in front of him and settled down to watch Star Wars Episode V. They had been watching them with Steve, since he hadn't seen them yet, and they were once again continueing. They had gotten through the prequals and were now on the best Star Wars episode, as Tony kept telling everyone.

Today, however, Tony's mind wasn't focused on the movie as the beginning rolled across the screen and the room filled with the theme. Tony was thinking about how Witner was sutck in teh basement, unable to really do anything because he had noticed the Witch using her powers and got angry. He wasn't just threatening Wanda, Tony realized, he was trying to protect him.

Tony was distracted throughout the entire movie, completely missing all of Steve's reactions. As soon as he realized that he made a mental note to make Friday show him them. One of the best parts of movie night was seeing Steve's reactions to the movies he had never seen.

The movie ended and everyone slowly started getting up and putting empty food containers on counters. They never actually cleaned up after a movie night, Tony was pretty sure Friday made sure everything was cleaned by the next day but she never told him if he was correct when he asked.

Tony wandered his way down to his room and sat on the bed. "Friday can you tell me when everyone goes to bed, or af least when mostly everyone is asleep?" he asked.

"Of course Boss," Friday answered.

Tony layed back in his bed and stared up at the ceiling, there wasn't much to do until he was able to go see Winter again and he didn't want to just wander the compound aimlessly until everyone was asleep.

That would give a higher chance to someone noticing and talking to him or trying t figure out why Tony was still up. Or why he wasn't in his workshop. "Boss, the only people who aren't currently asleep are Miss Romanoff and Vision, however both are in their rooms," Friday said. Tony nodded and slipped off his bed, making his way over to the door.

When he reached the commons, Tony stopped and contemplated if he should make coffee or not. After about a minute of hesitation Tony continued on towards the basement, he would just have to make the coffee later. He walked down the stairs and opened the door, the bright light of the cell hurting Tony's eyes.

Winter looked up at his as he entered, seeming to not have moved since Tony left. Tony waved and opened the cell doors and motioned for Winter to walk out. Winter got to his feet and walked out, his eyes studying the room.

"It is quite boring in there," Winter said, turning back to Tony.

Tony nodded and looked into the cell. "Yeah, I'll work on finding more things for you when I can't take you out," he said, starting up the stairs. Winter followed behind him, clearly not anxious to start a conversation. As they reached the commons, Tony headed straight for the coffee maker. Winter paused and looked around, before taking a seat on one of the stools around the counters.

He poured the coffee in a cup and looked over at Winter. "You want any?" he asked. Winter stared at the coffee and nodded hesitantly. Tony got out another cup and passed it over to Winter once it was full. He took his cup and moved to the seat next to Winter. Tony cleared his throat, "So, to clear some thigns up, as your handler you would do whatever I tell you to?" he asked.

WInter looked over at him, a slightly hopeful expression flitting across his face. "Yes," he answered.

Tony nodded and drank a bit more of his coffee. "So, hypothetically, if I told you to kill someone, you would do it?" Tony asked.

"Я бы убил за тебя," Winter said. Tony looked over at him, was he, excited? He did realize that Tony wasn't actually going to tell him to kill anyone, right? Maybe he should clear that up, otherwise he might end up with a couple of dead bodies because Winter misunderstood him.

"Uh, can you speak English please, and translate what you said?" Tony asked upon realizing that he didn't actually know what Winter had said.

Winter's happy expression fell of his face and he dropped his gaze to the counter. "I'm sorry," he said. "I will do better. I said that I would kill for you," he said quietly. Tony wondered if Winter thought he was mad at him. Judging by what Sam had told him about Winter's past Handlers, he probably did.

"I'm not mad at you," Tony said. "I just can't understand Russian." Winter didn't seem to be any happeir, bt there was a more relaxed stance to him. "However, I would lke to know what I'm expected to do as your handler," Tony said. "You know, so I don't accidently tell you to kill someone," he said.

Winter nodded and looked up. "Anything you tell me to do I will do," he started, "if I disobey then you choose my punishment so that I will not make theh same mistake again," he said.

Tony clapped his hands together. "Okay, first off, I'm not goign to punish you for making mistakes. We're human, and everyone makes mistakes," he said. "Second, if you think I've ordered you to do something please ask me before doing it so I can tell you if I atually meant it," Tony said. There, that should help to clear things up.

Winter lsowly nodded. "So I will not be punished for speaking Russain when you can't understand?" Winter checked.

Tony nodded . "Yeah, you can speak it if it is more comfortable, I just can't understand it, so I'm either going to have to ask Friday to translate, or get you to translate if Friday can't," Tony said. Maybe it would just be easier if he learned Russian himself. He glanced over at the clock, trying to figure out how much time they had before Steve would wake up for his horrid run. Everyday at 5 in the movrning Steve would get up and go tot he gym. It was terrible.

He never actually woke anyone up, but just the thougt ofit made Tony shudder. Speaking of the gym, Tony doubted Winter had managed to get through the compound, and one of the reasons to this was to show Winter around.

"Hey, Winter, when you're done you feel up to a tour of the copound?" he asked. "It seems like the last one got cut rather short.."

"Yes," Winter said, setting his cup down. Tony nodded and quickly drank the rest of his coffee before standing up. Winter followed his lead.

"Alright, first things first, the unholy rooms that I regret everytime I look at them," Tony said as he walked towards the press rooms. They had a roster of who was going to deal with the press whenever teh Avengers did just about anything. Or when Pepper decided that it would be needed so that Sthey could show that everything was fine. Luckily, they hadn't really needed to do any of those since teh Battle at New York. Although Tony was betting that if news got out that Winter was here, he was oging to have to have yet another, the Avengers have everything under control.

Which is a total lie, half the time they were argueing with each other and the other half is spent playing video games. Hoenstly, Tony is surprised tey manage to work mostly okay on missions. Maybe they should start working more on team building excerises.

As they walked through the compound, Tony noticed rooms that he had almost forgotten about after they had moved from the tower. As they walked, Winter slowly became more at ease and started talking more. Tony noticed that Winter loved looking at the technology surrounding him, the more there was the happier he looked.

Tony, noticing his excitment, led Winter towards his workshop. As soon as he opened the door, Dum-E came rolling over with excited beeps. Winter's eyes widened with excitment as he noticed the bot, U and Butterfingers following behind Dum-E. Dum-E's claw reached forward and grabbed onto Winter's metal arm, beeping inquisitvely. Winter allowed Dum-E to handle his arm, staring at the bots in a childish wonder.

He smiled as Dum-E started to drag Winter through the workshop, trying to point at random objects that he found interesting. Winter followed him happily and showig great amounts of interest in whatever Dum-E was showing him. Tony wasn't quite sure if it was because he actually found them interesting or if he was doing it to get the happy reaction from the bot. He figured that a couple of the items he was faking it, when Winter was excited by the ikea blender sitting on the counter.

"You enjoying yourself?" Tony asked. Winter looked over at Tony and nodded. Tony sat in one of the chairs floating around the lab and turned over to his desk. "It's fine if I work on a project? You won't kill anyone or anything?" he asked.

Winter nodded. "I will not kill anything," he said seriously before following Dum-E across the lab. Tony opened up his last project that he hsc open. Fixing up Nat's widow bites. He pulled up the schematics he had drawn up earlier and started on them. Tnoy had gotten Nat to lend him a pair as long as he returned it in the same or better shape before the next mission.

Tony told Friday to turn on some music and lost himself in his work. A couple hours passed before Tony managed to finish. He rolled back in his chair and reached out ot grab one of his mugs, pleased to find it full of hot coffee. Upon realizing that he hadn't brought any coffee down here with him, Tony looked aournd the workshop, spotting Winter near the coffee machine with the bots surrounding him. It looked like they were attmepting to teach him how to use the blender, which happened to be next to the coffee machine.

"Winter!" Tony called. Winter looked over at him. "Did you make coffee?" he asked.

Winter nodded and looked a little sheepish. "Dum-E seemed like he wanted me to," he said.

Tony nodded. "Thanks Frosty, really appreciated," he said, turning to check the time. Tony sighed, he should probably get Winter back down to the cell before Steve got up and freaked out. He sipped at his coffee and looked back at Winter. Dum-E was grabbing random food items, and some non edible things, and passing them to Winter to put into the blender. He sighed, once everyone was up he would convince them to let Winter out of the basement. He didn't deserve it.

"Winter, we need to go back to your cell pretty soon," he said. Winter nodded once, a little sadly, before making the smoothie that Dum-E was trying to get him to make. He poured it into cups and passed them to the bots, who then scooted directly over towards Tony. Smiling, Tony grabbed the smoothies and set them on his desk before standing up. "Sorry guys, but Winter needs to go now, he'll be back later," Tony said, if WInter wanted to come back to the workshop. Though judging by how happy he had seemed Tony doubted he would need to be asked to come more than once.

Winter quickly cleaned up the small mess he had made and walked over to Tony. "Will we be able to do this again?" he asked. Tony nodded and led him out of the workshop. THe bots waved at them while they left. Winter was quieter the way back down to the basement, although Tony really couldn't blame him. It seemed like being stuck in that room would be terrible. If he wasn't able to convince the team to let him out Tony was going to have to get Winter some books or something so that he had something to do.

They reached the cell and Tony opened the door. Without needing to be told Winter walked in and looked around the circular room. "I presume I'll be here until you come to get me out tonight?" he asked.

"Unelss I can get the team to agree to get you out, yes," Tony said. Winter sighed and sat down. Tony hesitated, wanting to stay longer, but it wouldn't end well if he was caught spending time with Winter. Not if he wanted a chance of setting Winter free. He walked cback up the stairs and into his room, determined to get at least half an hour of sleep before facing the team.