TG: so hes got to get the cancer out of skaia right TT: Yes, The Tumor. TG: yeah TG: so whats The Tumor do TG: i mean the tumor TG: jesus can we stop with the fancy colored text bullshit TT: I guess so. TT: I thought it was more fun that way.
This fic spawned from various (emotion filled yelling) conversations with (and is for) @blossomsinthemist . And also many thanks to Aeniala for the shepherd’s pie recipe in this, it sounds so good! This fic is pure unadulterated fluff set in the Ults verse, taking place in a sort of nebulous time-frame. Mind the read more! Or read onAo3.
Summary: After a long week that takes its toll on them both, Tony takes a weekend off with Steve. Realizations, dancing, and more fluff than you can shake a stick at.
It’s been sleeting all week, that kind of damp cold that sneaks beneath layers of clothing and steals the breath away. Steve has incredibly high tolerances for temperatures both high and low, but that doesn’t change the fact that he hates the cold most of all. It doesn’t help that their last few fights have taken place outside with the cold icy slush pounding down. It makes him shorter with replies, and gruffer if that’s possible. He can see people skitter away as he walks down hallways later after the debrief. Beneath his gloves his knuckles are smarting; in a few hours they’ll be completely fine, but it’s just one more aggravation on his miles long list.
“Looking awfully grumpy there, handsome.” Tony’s warm tones draw him up short. He’s leaning in a doorway, all insouciant grace and languid poise. Steve feels the tips of his ears go hot when Tony meanders closer and drapes an arm over his shoulder. Steve doesn’t shrug it off the way he might have once. Not now, not when there’s this thing between them. Besides, he likes it. Likes having Tony close, the easy warmth of him there, his quick, clever fingers, and warm affectionate words.
“Stark. Thought you’d be long gone by now.” Despite his best efforts, he still sounds a little hopeful. Sure enough Tony catches it, lips turning upward as he moves his arm from around his shoulder to give his waist a quick squeeze, before letting it drop away so they can walk down the hallway side by side.
“Come with me.” Tony licks his lips, blue eyes lifting to meet Steve’s. “We’ve both had a long week, I thought you might like to relax.” Tony’s gaze darts from side to side. Steve has noticed since they started this that Tony only ever truly looks nervous when he’s talking to him. “The car is around the front, what do you say, weekend getaway?” Tony smiles, stroking a hand down his back with a featherlight touch. Steve just barely represses a shiver, eyeing Tony for a moment. With other people he’s always a little shuttered. Here though, with Steve, his expression is unguarded, eyes bright with hope. He looks a little strained though, as if the week has taken its toll on him as well.
“Okay. Yeah, I don’t want any parties though, you got that?” He grumbles, raking a hand over his face as Tony leads him out to a waiting town car.
“Crystal clear, darling, don’t worry; that wasn’t what I had in mind as it was.” Tony says almost softly, climbing into the backseat beside Steve. The ride doesn’t take very long, but Tony wastes no time getting right up in his space, laying his head on his shoulder and stroking over Steve’s arm and side. It makes something knot up in Steve’s stomach, a lump in his throat when Tony leaves a gentle kiss against the clenched hinge of his jaw.
good morning I just woke up obsessed with the idea of a movie filmed in the style of a true crime documentary except it’s in the Twilight universe and a bunch of completely ordinary humans are trying to figure out why Bella effectively disappeared after high school without knowing anything about vampires
let’s review the Facts of the Case as far as anyone who’s not in on the secret knows them
super normal teenage girl moves to small town
becomes obsessed with a guy who by all appearances is in a cult
the incident where they dramatically broke up and Bella tried to go back to Phoenix but Edward followed her and they got back together but also Bella’s leg got mysteriously broken
another dramatic breakup and this time the entire family skips town leaving Bella catatonically depressed
sudden trip to Italy??? and then the entire family comes back???
Whatever Happened In Eclipse I Don’t Remember
Bella marries boyfriend of approx. a year and a half, goes away on an exotic vacation and immediately contracts a life threatening disease
is rarely seen in public again until her mysterious death, which if I’m remembering correctly is a thing?? because Bella was pretty sure her mom wouldn’t be able to handle the vampire thing and that they were going to have to fake a death which is!! fucked UP
also apparently the Cullens haven’t ever bothered with, like, changing their names, so if anyone goes poking around they’re easily going to discover a family of seven rich weirdos moving around various overcast cities together for at least a century
tell me you wouldn’t watch this shit
highlights:
generic Missing White Woman opening that rapidly spirals into interviews Bella’s hilarious tacky high school classmates talking shit about the Cullens (Mike Newton’s Time To Shine)
Charlie (who Knows) uncomfortably lying to the camera about how of course he’s Very Sad about all of this and misses his daughter a whole lot. the crew immediately begins speculating about Charlie’s involvement.
a few scenes shot in Italy. the voice over concludes that there are no clues to be found there while a Volturi member hovers very obviously in the background for the audience’s enjoyment
testimonies about Carlisle’s character that end with the interviewee getting distracted thinking how hot he was, including Charlie
a segment trying to figure out what the Fuck Jacob’s involvement is followed by a montage of werewolves slamming their front doors in the crew’s faces
a brief mention of the murder spree that happened in Seattle during Bella’s senior year but quickly shrugging it off as DEFINITELY unrelated to any of this
trying to dig into where the Cullens lived before Forks and quickly realizing that None Of These Children Existed Before the Age of Seventeen
briefly toying with a kidnapping scenario before stumbling onto a record of the Cullens in some other town that’s JUST old enough to be inconsistent with the ages they were supposed to be in Forks
“wait I think all the kids were actually in their twenties, maybe?”
“wait what the fUCK?”
bold of you to assume that it would be Mike talking shit about Bella and not Jessica, because let’s be honest here, wasn’t that boy compared to a golden retriever at some point in that book? he would talk shit about anyone (save maybe for Ben while they were still fighting for Bella’s attention) and Jessica was, well, Jessica.
actually I don’t think it’s a stretch, at all.
I don’t think Mike ever liked the Cullens; he was specifically jealous of Edward because of Bella’s interest in him, but I didn’t get the sense he cared for any of them very much. plus, you know, there’s that thing where people love to act like they always knew someone was No Good™ once that person is placed under suspicion. Mike, especially a few years down the road, would be more than happy to puff himself up and act like he always sensed something Wrong with Edward.
Jessica, on the other hand, is painted as an attention seeker who mostly uses Bella for attention from other’s, so she’d be MORE than happy to cry big public tears about how much she loved poor Bella and how they were BEST friends and how SAD it all is.
ok apparently friday mornings are when the imposter syndrome hits i can work with that
This is the original video that it comes from, the actual interview begins at 38 seconds in if you want to here all the context of what this idiot has to say
so in college i always gave myself afternoons off like many students chose to sleep in and then work in the afternoons i chose to get up at 7am and then do nothing between one and four and this is currently biting me in my ass at work, where i can’t just bail for three hours and finish my work in the evening or whatever i just have to learn? to function? on a normal schedule???
rich ppl are like so easily convinced abt ghosts I remember growing up it was near this vacant lot and whenever I broke a toy instead of going to face the wrath of my mother I would fucking bury it in that lot and then sure enough, some dude tried to develop the land and found a ton of buried rotten dolls and shit and told everyone it was haunted
it’s been over a decade and that lot is still vacant
You single handedly tanked the value of someone’s prime real estate and that makes me happy
As soon as I read this I immediately started thinking of ways to do this on purpose to get cheap land and I was five posts down my dash before I realised I was becoming Scooby Doo villain
what i do is not up to you 