A Floofy Murder Kitten
It's almost surprising how easily a bad day can change it's tune. Especially if you manage to get a metal armed assassin to try increasingly ridiculous onsies in the name of finding the perfect clothes for a movie marathon. It was some of the most fun Tony had participated in for a couple weeks now.
There was a little difficulty, namely in finding the most crazy onesies in the entire city of New York. So far, Tony and Rhodey had managed to find several cute animal onsesies that they had got Witner to try on a couple times. Winter looked a little confused when they had first dragged him to the changing rooms, but he appears to have accepted that they weren't leaving until they found a properly eye melting onesie.
Winter had caught on for what they were looking for and was carefully leading them to brighter onesies. Tony didn't think Rhodey had noticed that Winter's 'wandering' wasn't actually wandering, but leading them trhoughout the store. It took multiple times of Winter wandering before Tony realized what he was doing.
Tony looked around the racks of pyjamas around him before his eye caught on a bright red onesie. It was designed to look like a dragon, the underbelly being some weird cotton candy pink and blue. Tony picked one out in Winter's sized and studied it, trying to decide if it was properly eye melting enough. He was really hoping they woudl be able to find a neon rainbow onesie, but if they couldn't then they might have to settle for this one.
He browsed through the racks, keeping the dragon onsie in his hand. Suddenly, Tony spotted it. The perfect onesie. It was a bright rainbow, which already made it perfect, and had fuzzy cat ears and a tail on it. "Rhodey! Winter!" Tony called excitedly.
They joined him and looked at the onesie. Rhodey looked excited at the thought of Winter waering it, while Winter looked vaguely frightened. Tony quickly grabbed one of the onesies and held it up. "Behold! This is the perfect thing for a movie marathon!" he said.
Winter grimaced slightly. "It seems very bright," he said.
"Well of course! It's one of the most ridicolous things we could find in this store!" Tony said happily. "We're buying it, it's going to be awesome," he declared, shoving the onesie at Winter. Tony waved over at the dressing rooms, "We got to make sure it fits," he said happily. Rhodey was snickering behind Winter as he looked down at the onesie, then over to the dressing rooms. Winter sighed and walked over, coming out a couple moments in the rainbow cat onesie.
He stared blankly at Tony and Rhodey, coupled with the onesie he was wearing, Winter looked hilarious. Tony cackled at Winter and nodded. "Yep, it's perfect," he said. "Get back into your clothes and then we'll get back to the tower," he said.
Winter sighed and turned back to the dressing rooms. Rhodey was leaning heavily on one of the clothing racks. "I take back any complaining I did on the way here, that was worth it," he said.
Tony nodded, WInter came back out holding the onesie. He handed it to Tony and looked aorund the store. "It was very soft," he grumbled, shooting a glare at the onesie.
Tony chuckled and they left the store, heading back to the tower. Once there, everyone got into the comfiest clothes they owned. Winter wearing his new onesie. Tony was pretty sure he still had weapons on him, although he certainly looked more firendlier than when they had first brought him into the compound. Chuckling, Tony quickly snapped a picture of Winter and sent it to Sam.
He grabbed a bowl of popcorn and sat down on the couch, Friday dimmed the room and Rhodey and Winter sat next to him. "Alright, we'll start with Star Wars, because you've already seen that, and see where that takes us," Tony said. Friday brought up the first Star Wars. Tony snuggled shifted into a more comfortable position and watched Winter's reactions.
"Boss, Miss Potts is heading up to the penthouse," Frieday interrupted the beginning of the second movie. Tony sat up and Friday lightened the room. Rhodey blinked a bit at the new lighting change.
Pepper walked in, her heels clicking on the floor. "Normally when you come back here you interrupt anything I'm doing," she said. She looked at scattered food and back at Tony. "I have things you need to sign, and I'm sure you haven't done anything to show Winter his room," Pepper added.
Tony cleared his throat awkwardly. "Well, we were having a movie marathon," he said. Pepper raised her eyebrows.
"What about Rhodey can show him to his room and you and I can talk about work," she said, more of a demand than a suggestion, if Tony was being honest. Rhodey and Winter stood up and walked away, obviously seeing the way Pepper wanted Tony alone.
Pepper dumped a couple forms and a pen on his lap and sat down. "So, brainwashed super soldiers," she said.
Tony sighed and picked up the pen and looked down at the form. "It's not the worst thing that could have happened," he said. "And I didn't actually do anything this time." Pepper stared at him. "I didn't!"
"Mhm, there was absolutely nothing you did to attract a mass murderer," she said. "Because that seems to be a common trend I've seen, the only difference seems to be that this one isn't actively trying to kill you right now," Pepper said.
"It wasn't concious but apperently being a responsible business holder who just happens to be absolutely amazing," Tony said. "Basically, he did say there were other reasons but I was trying to deal with the fact that Winter might take something I say literally and we end up with a murder on our hands."
Pepper looked at Tony. "I'm vaguely worried that's an actual possibility. If it does happen you are dealing with it yourself," she said.
Tony sighed and set the papers down. He had finished signing them. Tony had hoped that when Pepper had beome CEO he wouldn't need to sign papers anymore. Yet Pepper still managed to find things that required his signature. "If he does kill anyone I'll make sure it's worth it," he said.
"Because that's comforting," Pepper said. She picked up the papers and stood back up. "When I have more time I want to meet Winter, preferrebly when you have gotten the accidently killing more sorted out," she said. Pepper turned around and headed back towards the elevator. Winter and Rhodey walked back in just as he left. Tony had a feeling that Rhodey had been waiting until Pepper left or called them back into the room.
Rhodey looked at Tony. "Seeing as how you are still in one piece I guess that Pepper was actually busy," he said.
Tony pouted. "I'm almost hurt by the fact that you think that Pepper being busy is the only reason that I'm still fine," he said. Rhodey stared at him and turned towards the kitchen. Winter hovered by the couch, somehow managing to keep an eye on both Rhodey and Tony. Tony leaned back and looked at Rhodey. "Are you planning on actually making something for dinner," he asked.
"I figured that today we can finally catch up on the Tony-attempts-to-make-something-edible," Rhodey said. Tony groaned. Rhodey started doing this during college when he found out that Tony couldn't actually cook to save his life. Tony had gotten slightly better then the stage where everything was on fire, but he wouldn't go out of his way to make dinner. Much less for more than himself. "It won't be that bad," Rhodey assured him. "Winter and I already chose out a recipe."
Winter nodded. "Rhodes said that we should wait until after Pepper had left and we chose out a recipe for you to make," he said. Rhodey nodded and walked over to Tony, dragging him off the couch and pulling him towards the kitchen.
Tony sighed and looked around the kitchen. Rhodey and Winter walked in after him and started getting out the ingredients. Friday turned on a holographic screen displaying the recipe. It looked simple enough.
Tony jumped up and yelled as two dead fish flopped onto the counter in front of him. Why there were fish in the kitchen Tony didn't actually know. Normally Tony didn't buy seafood unless he knew that he was going to need it for something. He looked back up to the recipe. "Please tell me I don't have to actually cut the fish," he said.
Rhodey looked over at him. "No, I don't think I would trust you to cut the fish. Winter said he could do it," he said. Winter nodded and moved back to look at the knives. He flicked through them before choosing one and taking the fish over to a cutting board.
"great. Now, what's the first step," Tony said, turning back to the recipe. "Rhodey, can you preheat the oven?" he asked. Rhodey nodded and turned the oven on. "Winter you done cutting the fish?"
Winter set the cutting board in front of Tony. The salmon were cut into equal slices, the skin peeled off. Tony stared at them for a second before grabbing a bowl and mixing the lemon juice, salt, and pepper before dumping the salmon fillets into the mixture. He grabbed a sheet pana nd set it next to him.
"Tones, I think you're forgetting a step," Rhodey said. Tony frowned and looked back at the recipe. He had forgotten to spray the pan, that could have ended badly.
Tony managed to follow the rest of the recipe with little difficulty and soon the fish was in the oven.
When it actually came time to eat Tong's creation mostly everyone poked at it a little suspiciously. Well, Tony and Rhodye poked at it. Winter just watched them. Deciding to take one for the team. Tony cut off a piece of the fish and stuck it in his mouth.
The fish was not terrible.
As soon as he took a bite Winter started eating his. Rhodey, probably figuring out that there was nothing to lose, also started eating his fish. "This is actually good," Rhodey said in amazement.
"Friday, add this to the list of things I can make without giving someone food poisoning," Tony said. Friday made a sound of acknowledgment.
"Boss, there is an incoming call from Mr. Wilson," Friday said.
Tony sighed, "Send him through," he said. Something was probably happening back at the compound. There goes his calm relaxing weekend at the tower.
"You might want to come back now," Sam said. "Steve's called a team meeting about Winter."