Intimidation Time... Again
“Sir, you’ve just recieved a text from Miss Potts.”
“Bring it up on the screen, buddy.” Tony set down the wrench in his hand and wiped some grease on his jeans. He’d heard through the secret agent grapevine that Sage had called an emergency girl’s night, so he was assuming this was related to that. What was he greeted with was a background check on some fifteen year old girl named Adeline Collins.
He texted her back, What the hell, Pep
You may want to do a real meeting for this one.
His brows furrowed. “JARVIS, where’s Loki?”
“MIster Laufeyson is in the study. Shall I tell him you were asking after him?”
“Yeah, please.” He took another look at the file. There was nothing out of the ordinary, really. A normal girl, going to Christian school with his daughter, apparently. She was from Florida, so she probably illegaly wrestled alligators or something. Who was this girl?
“Anthony.”
Over the years, Tony had gotten used to Loki teleporting places instead of moving like a normal person, thank you very much; but today he was so lost in thought and confused that he jumped at the sound of his lover’s voice. “Dammit, Lokes.”
The god smirked and approached to wrap the smaller man in a hug. “What’s the matter, love?”
Tony shrugged, melting into the embrace and motioning toward the screen. “Pepper just sent me this. I have no clue why she’s sending me a background check on a fifteen year old. Even if this girl applied for one of the SI internships, I stopped having to deal with that when I signed over the company, so…”
Loki hummed in thought as he looked over the screen. “She goes to school with Sage.”
Tony’s brows furrowed as he thought about the significance of that fact. “Do- do you think-”
“A romantic interest, perhaps? You heard Hawkeye tell Coulson that Sage called the ‘girl’s night,’ did you not?”
“Yeah… He was complaining because apparently, he and Nat were getting down and dirty and she left him high and dry when JARVIS told her. Then he and Phil left pretty quickly.”
Loki pulled a face. “That part I really did not need to know.”
Tony snickered, then sighed and buried his face in Loki’s neck. “We should look into her; have another assembly. Cap’s gonna kill me.”
Loki chuckled and ran a hand through Tony’s curls, pulling gently. “I’d like to see him try.” He murmured lowly in Tony’s ear.
The inventer let out a groan.
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Phil cornered Natasha at breakfast the next morning. Normally the girl would all go to brunch the morning after, but it was a school day. He wrapped his arms around her from behind, and began kissing up and down her neck until she relaxed in recognition. There were still some days when he couldn’t do this for either of his lovers, and every time they tensed in his arms because of unexpected contact, his heart broke a little bit more.
“We missed you last night,” he murmured against her neck. “Clin was pretty put out that you abandoned him.”
She laughed softly and rolled her eyes. “Well, you know the saying. ‘Chicks before dicks,’ ‘bros before hoes’ and all that.”
He pinched her on the hip. “Clint is not a hoe… Or at any rate, he wasn’t yesterday. Yesterday was Monday.”
Natasha’s shoulders shook in a silent chuckle, and she turned from her toast to give him a proper kiss. “Sage has a crush,” she offered finally as an explanation as they parted slowly.
Phil hummed, a hand coming to rest on her neck, thumb stroking her jawline. “I get the feeling this is going to be a recurring problem. Has anyone told Tony yet?”
She nodded. “Pepper sent him the poor girl’s background check. I know they all want to protect Sage, but honestly, the kid’s only fifteen.”
He groaned. “You know, if it weren’t for you and Clint, I’d have my own private jet by now. Maybe my own SHIELD team.”
Natasha smiled at him softly. “I know. But you love us.”
“I really do.”
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“What are you looking at?”
Wanda jumped so hard she nearly smacked Pietro in the face as he startled her. “Dammit, брат! We’ve talked about this!”
The speedster shrugged unapologetically, peering farther over her shoulder at the profile open on her instagram. “Who is danhowellslefttit?”
Wanda barely contained an undignified snort. “Sage’s new crush at school. I was stalking her instagram to make sure she’s not a garbage human being.”
Pietro frowned and slid over the back of the couch to sit beside her. “I’m helping. Sage can only be interested in people that I directly approve of.”
“Oh you worked that out with her, did you?”
“Yes. She’s agreed to do the same for me.”
Wanda’s laugh made Pietro’s face light up.