galas bring out Tony's galaxy mind (tony, 19)
“Bucky’s eyes are really blue. Human Bucky yours are black.” Bucky Bear hears a lot of random comments about his human counterpart, it’s strange with so many people who care about tony living in this house he finds himself talking to his bear less and less but still as he wanders around his room trying on different suits for a charity gala he’s obligated to attend Tony finds himself sharing random thoughts with his Bucky bear. He opts for a classy navy suit with pale blue accents.
Tony leaves his room and has his perfectly straight tie fixed by Ana as he shares an exasperated look with Jarvis over her shoulder, he spots his date for the evening and her other two dates sitting in the day room aunt Peggy looks stunning in her floor length ball gown a beautiful blue number with black lace detailing and he makes sure to tell her as such as he walks over and kisses her cheek.
She smiles indulgently at his antics “and I've another beautifully turned out date, darling you look so handsome in that suit.” Tony quips “maybe together we’ll add up to a date worthy of you, no offense guys,” and gets a laugh from everyone. Jarvis motions for them to walk through to the garage, and they make idle chit chat Bucky remains somewhat quiet in the car, but it’s hardly noticeable as they soon arrive at the VA gala.
Inside the hall is wonderfully decorated, their table includes a lot of shield people that tony doesn’t know but there’s a couple of the Howlies that Tony knows a little bit for him to have some good conversation with.
The dinner is fantastic and Tony dances with a lot of people and makes several good contacts with retiring military personnel that will have jobs waiting for them when they’ve finished with their enlistment.
Bucky comes over to him in the middle of a particularly dreadful conversation with Justin Hammer who’s trying to make nice now that Tony is rich and powerful. Tony takes the excuse gratefully and then as Bucky grabs hors d’oeuvres with his right hand Tony breaks into uncontrollable giggles, he suddenly realises that Justin Hammer ripped the same arm of his bucky bear as the arm the actual Bucky Barnes lost during his hydra years.
When Tony regains control of his senses he realises that that is kind of an inappropriate thing to laugh about and short circuits because he doesn’t make prosthetics and he absolutely should be making prosthetics. Bucky’s hands are on his face and Tony hasn’t been answering him clearly. Tony manages to stutter out an “I’m fine, yeah sorry, fine sorry” as his brain trying to process the cool metal and warm flesh touching his cheeks. Those eyes really are blue.
Under normal circumstances tony would race down to his lab after the gala to get the swirling mass of ideas for prosthetic innovations out of his head and down on blueprints, but his head is filled with cotton, his ears are ringing and he’s only just barely managed to get through the last of the gala on auto pilot so, for quite possibly the first time in his life he goes straight to bed, no lab, no reading under the bed instead he just lies in bed staring at the ceiling.
He whispers to his best friend in the dark on what should have been a wholly unremarkable night, but isn’t at all “I think I like him..."