WHO: Tony Stark, The Doctor WHAT: Tony can’t find Bruce and goes looking. WHEN: Oct 14th, night WHERE: Hawthorne Hotel - Bruce & TheDoctor’s room. WARNINGS: Sass, probably.
Okay, so. Tony was pretty sure Bruce was just avoiding him. Well, not pretty sure. Definitely sure, because he’d pretty much said so on the forums and that was just — bullshit. Complete bullshit. Because Tony had come home (if that word even worked for this place) to a broken bed frame and no sign of Bruce and he needed some answers. Lots of answers, actually.
So really, the best place to go looking (on Tony’s very short list of places he knew he might find his friend) was Bruce’s actual room. If he wasn’t there, he’d try the roof or the university next, but there was a logical order to Tony’s searching in terms of proximity so. Room first.
He’d rigged his keycard to let himself into Bruce’s room pretty much since his second day around, so he saw no reason to not just barge right on in - knocking would just clue Bruce in, after all. No need for that.