Down Time

Who: Steve Rogers & Tony Stark
What: Meet for the first time, yay!
When: About a week after they thaw Steve out.
Where: Steve's hospital room
Warnings: None!


Steve handled the remote control awkwardly. No matter how many times the nurses instructed him on its use, it still felt strange in his hands. The buttons were too small, obscurely labeled, and it seemed to him that he could cycle through channels endlessly without ever finding anything remotely interesting. He'd been reduced to watching cooking shows for the past few hours, not all of which were boring, but which he would gladly have traded for a novel or a sketchpad or even a magazine. They kept promising to bring him something to read, but so far all he'd been able to get his hands on were several issues of a glossy magazine called Cosmopolitan, which seemed to be entirely devoted to starving women, alarming clothes and makeup, and sex. Besides that, they smelled awful.

( Sighing, he dropped the remote on the bed... )