Office Hours, Monday, 1/26

[tyler_gone]

Tyler's lip had been split over the weekend by a punch he had chosen not to duck, and it would probably be less tender if he stopped poking his tongue at it.

No, he didn't want to talk about why he'd found a fight in the first place.

Someday he had to find coping mechanisms better than picking a fight with some poor idiot. Stupid Tony, making him regress. Stupid him, caring what Tony did.

And now he was going to quit sulking, do some work for his class that week, and let himself try to be pleased that at least his phone message was good news.

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[screwyoumarvel]

Steve facepalmed, and said through his fingers, "Please don't kill him."

[tyler_gone]

At least someone agreed about how stupid Tony was being, and that made Tyler feel a little better.

"I won't," he promised. "I was being an idiot anyhow. It's not like he does relationships."

Or like Tyler was any fucking good at them himself.

[screwyoumarvel]

Sure, he said that now. "Or, when you do try to kill him, could you give me advance warning first? Or just do yourself a favor and don't; you were a good housemate and I'd hate to have to hit you."

Steve knew he was making no sense to Tyler. He just felt it needed to be said, because it made perfect sense to Steve.

[tyler_gone]

It was enough to almost make Tyler laugh. "Yeah, I have you telling me this and Deadpool babbling about the same type of thing on the radio. Tony must have an interesting history with women in your world."

A second later, he added, "I won't try to kill him."

You know. Just to be clear.

[screwyoumarvel]

"Women, old friends, sentient armor..." He rubbed at the back of his neck and admitted, "When we fell out, a couple of city blocks got leveled."

[tyler_gone]

That sentence-and-a-half left Tyler with about ten questions.

The one that came out first was, "He made the armor sentient? Like, more than Jarvis?"

Jarvis was already kind of scary.

[screwyoumarvel]

"Jarvis is his butler where I come from." Also, a Skrull. "So that's...different. I don't know, really, all that stuff is way above my head. I just smile and nod."

[tyler_gone]

"I would probably be a happier man if I did the same," Tyler decided, once he realized Steve meant the actual human kind of butler. He rocked back, thinking.

"Any plans to wreck things if you get into it with this one? 'Cause, a couple city blocks is basically all of the town."

[screwyoumarvel]

"I don't see that sort of thing happening here," Steve said. "I know better now, for one thing."

[tyler_gone]

"That's something," Tyler decided, though he noticed that wasn't exactly a promise.

"So, should I call him? I don't want to be pathetic. It's not like he's my boyfriend or something." The word "boyfriend" was spoken as if the idea were ludicrous.

[screwyoumarvel]

"If you were, I'd be far more worried about a murder attempt. I don't know. Call him if you want to. If you don't, don't, it can only make things worse."

[tyler_gone]

Tyler glanced at the flowers, than back at Steve. "I'll go find him tomorrow if he doesn't find me first," he decided.

It wouldn't kill Tony to stew a little longer.

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Steve shook his head at the flowers. "Sounds fair."

Flowers. Really.

[tyler_gone]

"And if I get an irresistible impulse to kill him, I'll csll you first," Tyler promised dryly.

[screwyoumarvel]

"I would really appreciate that."