ᅟ͏ ، ͏ 𝑆𝑇𝐴𝑅 𝑆𝑃𝐴𝑁𝐺𝐿𝐸𝐷 𝑀𝐴𝑁 ⋆*･ﾟ

@HONOREDFORGE a confirmation or denial.

@HONOREDFORGE That caused Steve to pause. It sounded… intimate. Was it meant to be intimate? “Bet you say that to everyone you have sleep overs with,” he joked quietly with a soft smile, though there was some digging for information with that. Part of him hoped Tony answered that with —

Tony had a headache after last night with @HONOREDFREEDOM. He had flashes of what happened. They hadn't had an easy night last night. His fault, of course, but he hoped he could make it up to Steve if he remembered anything at all. Maybe he did. Steve was perfect at everything》

@HONOREDFORGE be.”

@HONOREDFORGE “Well,” he said as he made eye contact with Tony, “Didn’t you just think of everything?” He smiled small and moved his finger out to touch the glass with his knuckle. A small movement, but it was there. Whether Tony noticed or not. “You’re more thoughtful that I thought you’d —

@HONOREDFORGE “Dually noted,” he said and nodded, “You know, I think I might go crazy in here. Not being able to run or feel the sun. Or work. Or polish my shield. Might end up banging my head against the wall… just chalk it up to radiation poisoning if I do.”

@HONOREDFREEDOM Tony looks at Steve for a long while and for a moment, his face turns a little bit more red. Tony blamed the cold of the glass. That's all. "...Thanks...and probably for the best, because if I ever saw one, I'd pass out immediately, so make sure I don't hit my head."

@HONOREDFORGE “Well, if there’s ever any snakes around I’ll make sure you’re protected from it,” he said, a promise he would uphold.

@HONOREDFREEDOM "Nah, it's...It's okay. My fault anyway. I wandered out of the manor and into the menagerie. I shouldn't have done it. Dad gave me an earful about it after, too." He just missed Bernard. Mom said he had gone to a better place. He just thought she meant a new enclosure...

@HONOREDFORGE a snake incident. “What? Geez, that sounds horrible. I’m sorry that happened to you.”

@HONOREDFORGE Steve laughed a little bit, though there was a sadness to it. Just cheese and bread. It was all so long ago. . . and yet it was hard for him to compute that in his mind. This was hard. He hated it all still. He didn’t say anything else about it, but frowned at the mention of —

@HONOREDFORGE try and stop the project when they thought I couldn’t take it. And then, well, I thought he and Peggy were a thing… something about fondue. I still don’t get it.”

@HONOREDFORGE caught himself first. After all, in his mind he had seen Howard not too long ago. Weeks. A month, maybe going on two. “He was something else, let me tell you,” he said with a sigh before laying his head back against the glass. “He was a good friend to me. He was quick to —

@HONOREDFORGE Steve frowned and turned to fully look at Tony. He just couldn’t fathom an exotic, larger-than-a-five-year-old, non-violent, prankster bird. “. . . I don’t know. I give up. A bird that pranks people? This sounds made up.”

@HONOREDFREEDOM "...I wouldn't say this was violent, but he sure liked to trip up Jarvis when they were both around. I'm gonna go with no for this since it never drew blood. It just liked to prank people." Which is very Stark-like. That might explain why Howard got it in the first place.

@HONOREDFORGE “It’s technically two. I asked a question in between,” he said, always being honest and truthful. Even if it was to his own detriment. “Are they violent?”

@HONOREDFREEDOM Tony glanced over with a small smile and a shake of the head. "Nope. Those are actually more common with cats and dogs these days. Three left." Maybe after this, Tony would bring Steve to a PetSmart or PetCo. There were plenty of pets and pet items there.

@HONOREDFORGE Steve tilted his head back against the glass for a moment as he thought hard. “. . . A cockatoo?” he asked and rolled his head towards Tony.

@HONOREDFREEDOM >> shoulder. All they needed was the warmth between them and this moment would be perfect.

@HONOREDFORGE He sighed as if he had been positive about that being the right answer… dammit! Steve shifted then, moving to lean against the glass now, too. “I don’t know any other exotic birds. Are you sure I even know of this bird’s existence?”

@HONOREDFREEDOM "That's a whole different kind of illegal. No. And I know my dad was OBSESSED with you, but he didn't have every single America themed thing in our home. Four." Though, that would have been super cool to see. But no, eagles are not to be touched by anyone.

@HONOREDFORGE Steve’s eyes flicked up when he heard the number. Tony was doing that on purpose, and it was working. “. . . An eagle! It was an eagle! A bald eagle! They’re bigger than a five year old!” But they’re not exotic, Steve!

@HONOREDFREEDOM "Yes, it was. It was bigger than myself at the age that I met it. Five." Tony's starting to count down now. He had to make the situation more interesting. Maybe even a little dire~

@HONOREDFORGE An exotic bird that was nice to Tony, presumably when he was young. That was so strange. “was it a big bird?”

@HONOREDFREEDOM "....Yes. It was at least nice to me compared to Dad's other pets. It was older by the time I met it, though. Six left." Tony popped a blueberry in his mouth this time and thought about the animal in question. It had probably been his only friend in the menagerie before "The >>

@HONOREDFORGE He looked at the blueberry before back up to Tony, a small little smile on his lips. “Did you like this pet bird?”

@HONOREDFREEDOM "Yes. They don't originate here, but they are here. Trust me." He huffed before flicking a blueberry at the glass. "I think I might stump you on this. Twenty questions. Wow~" Tony teased.

@HONOREDFORGE “. . . I went to public school.” He gave Tony a slight side eye at that. “Geez… are they in America?”

@HONOREDFREEDOM "We weren't pirates, so nope. And didn't you ever go to a zoo? Look through picture books in preschool? Were you homeschooled?" Tony wouldn't be surprised if Steve had, considering his health concerns, though the bullying could also mean he had gone to school.

@HONOREDFORGE Steve sighed and pursed his lips, then looked off to the side. He was really wracking his brain. “You know, they didn’t really teach us about birds like that. We were too busy starving to death,” he said in a joking tone, though it was absolutely true. “Shoot. Ahh… a parrot?”

@HONOREDFREEDOM Tony moves and leans against the glass, still snacking leisurely. "Nuh-uh."