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[starkingenuity]

"Will someone please tell our resident Super Soldier that he's needed on 6th?  Like...yesterday?  Okay, yesterday the Chitauri weren't attacking and Banner and I were having freeze dried blueberries on the hellicarrier, but you know what I mean, stop being so critical and literal with everything I say.  You guys suck."  Stark burst across the sky over Thor's head and the blond turned towards the archer standing next to him.  A smash of the hammer into one foe did not even cause him to look away from Barton.

"I do not understand many of the words that he speaks," the Asgardian confessed.  "He has a conversation with no one but himself."

"Thank you, Captain Obvious," Clint said, shooting a flying mercenary through the eye while he watched Thor look even more confused.  He found a new pasttime, he decided.  But, like Tony, Clint wasn't exactly sure where Steve was.  He's seen him in one of the buildings but after that--  Clint touched the side of his collar.  "Cap?"

"Earth to Captain American, come in Captain America," Tony said, piping music into the background.  There was a reason Natasha had taken out her earpiece.  "Grandpa, you asleep?"

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Steve was...ancient. Okay, not ancient, but he'd seen two centennials. Tony couldn't get his mind around it. The intensity of the pleasure from the blond sucking -- yeah he noticed that -- didn't really help either. Tony's heart was in his throat as his fingers flexed around coils of towel. He was making a mess of it.

"So if I'm the freshest you've had... Does this count as me taking you to dinner?" The wit was so much less biting when he could barely string a few sentences together.

Steve was dangerous and maddening and Tony was finding himself on edge.

[starspangledspandex]

He didn't know what to think about Tony's reaction but it was very quickly affecting Steve too and he shifted uncomfortably. It shouldn't be nearly this sexy to lick... okay, maybe it was. The point was he didn't think Tony was interested and he wasn't sure if he could keep himself from biting him anyway.

"I don't know," he admitted. "It hasn't come up."

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Maybe but something else has. Tony pressed more fully against the towel in some hope of relief but absolutely none came. Each lick, each taste, each time Steve sucked at his skin, all Tony could do was whine in an impossibly enticing way.

"Then I guess it's never come up on how you're suppose to deal with someone who's taken you to dinner and is seriously--" He let out a shaky breath. "--Turned on?"

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Tony wasn't the only one with something up and interested. Steve's interest went up exponentially with the older man's squirming. He raised an eyebrow at the other man's question and shook his head, "No, I can't say it has but I'm a quick study."

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Tony, unfortunately, had to be a dick. It was sort of a pre-requisite to his very being. "I win the pool then!" he said, knowing he was likely going to piss his vampire team mate turn on right off. He couldn't help himself at all. "You are a virgin."

He probably ought to have checked to see how much blood he still had on his skin before he said that.

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He scowled, eying Tony and quickly finished up what he was doing. "I had other things to think about. I was always concerned I would have a control issue."

Steve was very certain unexpectedly sinking his teeth into his lover was generally a mood killer. He pulled back, "No one has smelled like you before either but you're lucky that last part turned out not to be true."

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Tony did suppose that was lucky, Steve could have seriously hurt him on a lark. It really wasn't his plan to become a victim for a fourth time today. He'd been through enough. Even so, he could have died happily if it was anything at all like the tongue bath he'd been getting.

Despite his obvious arousal, since Steve moved back, Tony sat up and pointed to his hair line.

"Yeah well... I guess this is sort of like doing my duty to my country," he muttered because he was not the sort to be able to stop himself from making terribly poor life choices and writing himself out of pleasure these days. "Missed spot."

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His eyes raked down to Tony's thighs and he swallowed, wetting his lips. He wouldn't mind cleaning up the rest of it but after Tony's comment he thought he would just deal with it. However much he really didn't want to keep away from him.

"I guess you'll have to get it yourself," he flashed very pointy teeth at the man as he stood up. It was a touchy subject and he didn't need to hear about it from Tony of all people.

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"What? How is my tongue suppose to reach?" Tony asked with a frown, advancing as Steve retreated. If he tasted better and smelled better than anyone Steve had ever been around, to show restraint when Tony was literally offering him a taste was...

Annoying. People should never, never be so good and moral and righteous. It was hideously annoying.

"When are you going to see me again after this? You're not." Famous last words. "One more for old time's sake?"

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"Figure it out," he replied as he took another step back and he knew that Tony was tempting him on purpose. He hated that he was doing it because he really smelled amazing and Steve knew he tasted the same way.

He shook his head, "You don't know that." He pressed his lips together and demanded, "Why are you insisting on this?"

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"I'm going back to Malibu when I get this Tower back on track," Tony said, matter of factly. "So yeah, unless you feel like a road trip..." He wasn't sticking around. "We aren't teammates," Tony said. "I work alone. Banner's going back to hang out with the cess pools in India. I bet Red and Birdbrain are already gone and Thor's address is less local than mine."

Why was he pushing this? It felt good. Sure. But that shouldn't make him so...desperate.

"Enjoy your shower."

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"And you think you're going to stay away from here forever?" Steve was extremely skeptical. He didn't see Tony just abandoning something as shiny as this building. "We are teammates. New York would be in shambles if it weren't for us."

He shook his head, "And that didn't answer my question. Why are you so insistent I continue?" Steve was honestly curious. Living humans were a new thing for him. He wasn't going to take a shower without some kind of answer. If Tony could talk about him being a virgin, he could demand to know why the man wanted him to lick him more.

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"Uh? New York is in shambles, or didn't you notice? We sort of helped destroy everything." Tony's erection wasn't going away. This was...horrible. "I'm sure I'll be back for benefits and dinners and discussions but just because we got together to stop the world from ending doesn't mean that I plan on having you come to my rescue every time something bad goes down and I sure as hell have better things to do than taste test every pizza you eat to be sure it's not full of garlic."

But fine. Steve wanted an answer?

"It feels good. People tend to want more of something that feels good."

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"We saved a lot of people," he pointed out sharply because that was the important thing. Buildings could be rebuilt. If the Chitauri had gotten out of the city, there might not be much of humanity left. What happened to the camaraderie of being team? Hanging out together, celebrating together, mourning together? He hated this century sometimes.

"That's a myth," he snapped back. "And fine. I'll find my own shower."

Steve scoffed over his shoulder on his way out and it was so very hard for him to leave but Tony was irritating him. "So basically you want to use me and dump me, like all your other conquests." The vampire shook his head. "Sorry, I'm done."

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How could his father have liked this guy? It was always Steve Rogers this and Steve Rogers that. Tony had a Captain America teddy bear, true story. There were pictures of him dragging the thing around when he was two. He watched Steve go with a smirk only to sigh in the mirror a few moments later when he saw the mess his scalp was still in.

Tony didn't leave New York right away as evidenced by his arrival at Central Park with Bruce in tow to see the Asgardians off. He watched Steve as the vampire stood back by the trees in the shade. Well. All right. He stared. Sure, the tesseract was pretty amazing too but... But he couldn't help himself.

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Believe it or not, Steve did get along with a lot of people. Time and experience made him more reserved. The ice had aged him. He crashed in the arctic with the idea that it would kill him and he came to terms with it. Now he was here, alive and just a little lost.

He could feel Tony's eyes on him as they watched Thor drag Loki out in an area deemed safe by SHIELD to take him home. This idea of a bridge between worlds was strange but aliens were worse. They were largely here to make sure Loki actually left with Thor. Which he did.

His eyes turned on Tony and he walked up to the edge of where he was comfortable standing with the intent of talking to him. If he would, Steve knew the billionaire could be fickle so he might pretend not to notice.

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Great. Caught.

"So at least you don't sparkle," Tony said with a smirk, referencing Twilight. Bruce and Selvig had the Tesseract covered and maybe Tony should have been paying attention but Steve was just...too interesting. "How does that work, the sunlight thing?"

He was in a full suit, a little limp wristed as he gestured around with his hip jutting out. Tony sometimes stood the way a woman might but-- Hey, modern men these days.

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He scoffed, he did pay attention to vampire literature and media, just in case they got close. They never seemed to and that was just ridiculous.

He glanced up toward it and back to Tony, "Limited exposure is usually fine but it's uncomfortable and makes my skin crawl. It hurts, but how much depends on the day and how covered I am," He shrugged, UV rays and such. "I tend to avoid staying out any longer than an hour. It starts to hurt my eyes too at that point. I imagine that after a few hours it would be unbearable. I haven't tested it. If I stick to the shade, it's better. My uniform is designed to repel it."

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"Well that, at least, is nice of them," Tony said, staring at Steve through his shades, not caring if they were light enough to see his eyes through. Steve had them on as well, raybans, probably UV protected. Tony couldn't see the blue.

So very blue they were. He remembered.

"I guess sometimes you just have to save the country in the daylight." What weird small talk this was turning out to be. "What are your plans after this?" He had seen Nat give Steve a bag.

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"They need me," he shrugged slightly. SHIELD needed Captain America. He was still one of the best things that came out of their research and honestly, he wouldn't know what else to do with himself. "But it's appreciated."

His sunglasses were great. It was true. They were dark for just reason. It was annoying sometimes but he would deal with it.

"Sometimes," he agrees with a laugh. "Bad guys seem to prefer the daylight."

Steve shrugged, "I don't know. SHIELD might pull me to DC."

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"DC?" Well that was even further from LA. And that was just as well. Tony didn't need to be around any further temptation. And Steve, no matter if he was his type (minus the genitalia) was just too much of a temptation. "Good for you, protect and serve and all that."

Tony was going to the airstrip to drop Banner off to go on his humanitarian whatevers they were. Tony had stopped listening halfway through the other man's spiel. Probably rude. He enjoyed Banner's company entirely too much but he was never good at listening.

"I'll send you a carepackage from the other coast. How well does blood ship?" Yeah, mean. Tony was mean.

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"It's why I enlisted," he confirmed even if he figured that Tony was mocking him a little. It wasn't the other man's thing. He understood that much. It was a little disappointing that the other man was leaving but maybe it was a good thing. Tony was way too much temptation and he didn't have the hang-ups that the other man did in regards to genitalia. It was personality and well, how good they smelled.

He pressed his lips together, "Not well, but thanks anyway."

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"Extra dry ice," he said, obviously lingering with Steve, perhaps just a little too long. He didn't even Loki and Thor leave which was half disappointing and even more aggravating. How was it that the blond was just so interesting to him?

It couldn't just be the whole vampires-are-cool thing... Could it?

He made a conscious effort to leave. He nudged Banner too and hopped into his bar before the other man half fell into him. He didn't care. It was just the right sort of amusement to get his mind off of Steve Rogers.

At least for a few days.

Malibu was the perfect retreat. Work work work. Work all the time. Tony seemed to forget when to sleep. Likely because every time he did, he screamed himself awake.

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He shook his head, "It's not the same." It was almost annoying that blood didn't keep that well. Steve wouldn't have to worry about it so much if it was easier. He let Tony go despite wanting to drag him close and smell him again. It wasn't easy but he resisted.

Steve watched Tony go with a frown.

He just couldn't stay away from the man. He didn't understand it. No one ever had this effect on him but the other side of the country was too far away. He barely slept for two days thinking about him and that was it. Steve told Fury he was taking a vacation and left.

Malibu, to him, actually wasn't as far away as Tony thought. Vampires did have their ways to travel and quickly. It was inhuman but it only took him the better part of a night. He didn't know if Tony knew he was there but he would soon. It took him another day of watching the house before he finally approached it, entering through the unlocked balcony door--who would lock something people couldn't normally reach?--and Steve eyed the space he walked into. Fancy.

"Sir, we have an intruder on the premises," Jarvis informed the engineer.

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"If it's a seagull again-- J, I don't know what you have against wildlife. Yes, they shit all over everything, but--"

"Sir," the AI insisted. "It is not a seagull. I am aware of the difference. I would like to remind that you did try to install a program to shoot seagulls on sight, however." Cheeky AIs were what Tony Stark actually appreciated, however, that didn't stop him from actually putting his rubber gloves off and frowning at the ceiling.

"Yeah, okay, fine, we'll talk about that later. On screen."

The balcony video feed was put up on the wall, but nothing looked too strange.

"So...disappearing intruder?"

"I am detecting a weight sensor trigger in the kitchen."

"A hungry intruder? Patch me in." The AI complied and Tony leaned back against his workbench. "To the intruder in my kitchen, you have five seconds to state your name or I'm going to flood the room with deadly neurotoxin."

Guess who had been playing Portal again with JARVIS?