Tony Stark // Iron Man (strong_as_iron) wrote in newalliance, @ 2016-06-06 17:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | iron man, maria hill, nightwing, pepper, red robin, scarlet witch, speedy ii, vision |
Who:Tony, Kaylee, and close friends and family
When: 6/6/16
Where: Stark Tower
What: Another year, another birthday party. With a few changes.
Rating: For one of these, surprisingly tame
Sometime in the past few years, his parties had gotten rather sedate. Snagging a drink at the bar, Tony leaned against it and tried to figure out how this insanity had happened. Time was, people would be up on the tables dancing by now; nowadays there was much more conversation than dancing, and people even remembered to use coasters. Mostly. Generally because he'd come up with a way to get the coasters to hover and recognize glasses that didn't have a coaster, which meant it was much easier to put the glass on the coaster than have the coaster keep nudging the drink hopefully.
He'd come up with it in about five minutes back in the R&D lab, put it into production in an hour. The sales team was scratching their heads over it, but he didn't care. There were all kinds of ways of making the world a better place, being responsible, and if no one else wanted them, it was probably best to just have the fleet hovering around him because he never remembered to use the damn things otherwise.
On the other hand, there was an entire walls of games for the evening's entertainment, and yeah, those were probably pretty tame, too, by his standards, but seeing Kaylee beam and goo over the mini-worktable he'd made for her - all things to bash with a hammer or put into each other or build up or smash down - made him grin as well. Parts of parenting he still didn't get, and parts kept him up at night. But playing workbench with Kaylee was the best thing in the world, and he refused to qualify that; no fancy alcohol, no athletic acrobatic sex, hell, not even the first time out in a new armor came close to Kaylee's grin when she figured something out.
Didn't mean he couldn't have fun at a party while he was at it, particularly after her bedtime. Presuming she stayed in bed this time. He wasn't sure if he was amused or terrified at her habit of not sleeping through the night when there was anything more interesting possibly happening.