st_arkravinghazelnut: (peekatchu)
"The fact you got this room is an argument for this inn's sentience." The first time Tony was invited to Steve's room, he nearly puked from laughter at the red, white, and blue irony of it all. Tony helped himself to the unused-looking bed, bouncing where he flopped down to sit, angling his head towards the rose bushes outside the far window. Better than looking at George Washington Crossing The Delaware bafflingly mounted above the bright postmodern couch.

"C'mon, get dressed."
st_arkravinghazelnut: (drinking but healthily)
"In all seriousness, how much were they paying you?" Tony suddenly piped up from his spot above Steve Rogers, swinging lazily in the hammock he made his resting spot. Their back-and-forth lead to a spur of the moment encounter in the hotel parking lot that lead exactly nowhere when Tony insisted on having a beverage break before the action. One thing had lead to another, and he was lounging around the pool with a margarita while Steve sat adjacent.

God bless poolside bars and California.

"You know what I'm talking about. The PSA's. They did pay you, right? You were always on about Brooklyn rent. You do remember how many times I offered you room and board, right?" In classic Tony Stark fashion, rambling on with a tequila quick. "I'd have swept you up the moment I knew you were having to go into showbiz just to get by."
st_arkravinghazelnut: (Default)
The Iron Man armor restoration couldn't have come at a better time--it was getting nippy, and carrying around spare layers just seemed like such a waste of a good pair of hands (that's what he had Happy for, after all). With the integrated nanotech, his armor could be a pair of whatever Tony needed it to be, and a nice autumn jacket and synthetic pants perchance rain was the order of the day. And a nice thermos of black tea. Sure, 17 ounces was overkill, but it wasn't coffee on a day where he didn't 'need' it. Baby steps.

While he had taken stock of each resident and the keystone species of the surrounding terra, Tony wasn't feeling particularly enterprising that day, but he wasn't in the mood to do nothing either. Solution: analyze the flowers at the garden and cross-reference it with the Language of Flowers text he'd found perusing the library selection. An idle, sentimental sort of endeavor but frankly, why not? He'd been in a rut with his research and his clever mind was due for a reprieve.

His fingers toyed with the petals of a rose whose thick branches elegantly climbed over a white trellis, splashing it with thick bouquets of red. Was there a rule in place about touching the flowers? Ah, well. He wasn't removing anything--'There went a petal. And another. It was going to happen eventually.' He took his hand back and looked to the side innocently. There, his eyes caught a bit of movement past a boxwood hedge. Two broad backs, working in unison. Unable to catch their faces, neither Tony nor F.R.I.D.A.Y. could discern the identities. They seemed too animated to be one of the laboring automatons.

"Nice roses." Tony called, simply to get a reaction out of whomever it happened to be.
st_arkravinghazelnut: (black sabbath more neutral)
Tony Stark was not a religious man, which would come as a surprise to approximately no one. The offerings of The Temple were for strict documentation purposes in his endeavor to map the hotel to his internal database, but he found himself sticking around for the aesthetics. He was a seasoned traveler, so much so that that novelty of the unique worldly sights had long since worn out. But being trapped in a singular hotel for over a month with nothing but the kitschy aesthetic or woods or desert in any given direction to look at, the dignified sanctity of The Temple wasn't an unwelcome sight.

Tony wiped a bit of sweat from his brow and sought shade in shadows of the interior. Summer, late as it was, was staying out its welcome. He unzipped his loose sweater and cinched it around his waist. Many more days of not operating on a caloric deficit and he hoped he didn't feel the need to carry around another layer wherever he went.

Taking a swig off his water bottle, Tony wandered the common area. The first thing to catch his eye were the Memorials erected. Ever curious, he wandered closer and inspected the plaques--names of people who had "checked out?" Interesting. He leaned in, taking a note of each name via the scanning function of his nanoparticle composite glasses.

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