Oh, he’s never actually said it out loud, but Tony knows. Or at least, Tony figures. I mean, really, who doesn’t wonder? Well, maybe not Captain Boy Scout… or Wolverine… but yeah, pretty much everybody. Tony’s really a pretty generous guy when you get right down to it, and he’s not used to having his money and his connections mean, well… squat. And this whole gift thing they’ve started doing has turned out to be a lot less lame and a lot more fun than he’d thought (though he’s only admitted that to Pepper, and only after she called him on it one night, he thinks it was just after Banner’s party. Which Tony totally threw for him, which was as close to a blowout as one can get with chamber music and incense. The Malibu house still smells like lavender. But Banner does love his gift. Tony’s pretty sure that the dude is trying to produce flubber… which would only be the coolest thing ever done in Banner’s new lab nee Tony’s old kitchen. But then, everyone seems to really like his gifts, from Natasha’s wall-climbing gear to the journal he gave Rogers that was full of Rogers’ old sketches and Howard Stark’s private thoughts throughout the Captain America project.) So when Tony finds himself stuck for a birthday gift for the guy who has nothing and seems fine with that, it finally comes to him—the one thing, the very single thing that Tony Stark has that no one else does.
The Suit.
Well, actually, he has like nine of them (ten, when the idea he had last Wednesday gets, ahem, ironed out and built,) but still. It’s the one thing the multibillionaire can think of, and since he’s really not cool with not being able to think of anything, he’s gonna go with this idea, and he’s gonna make it great. Better than the gifts from the others.
He’s gonna give Hawkeye a chance to spend the night cruising in the suit.
Oh, but not the main suit, not the red one that Tony uses most of the time. No, for this, he’s plucked out number 7 and had it repainted, just for the night, so that everything from the holographic face plate to the retractable wing panels evoke, well, a hawk. He’s even added a clamp on the back for a quiver and the new Asgardian ash bow.
Tomorrow, the team trains. Well, most of the team trains; tomorrow, Hawkeye jets off for Estonia with Hunt and his little spylings.
Tonight, the Hawk and the Iron Man are gonna play.
Bird of a Different Alloy (fill, with possibly the longest parenthetical known to man)
The Suit.
Well, actually, he has like nine of them (ten, when the idea he had last Wednesday gets, ahem, ironed out and built,) but still. It’s the one thing the multibillionaire can think of, and since he’s really not cool with not being able to think of anything, he’s gonna go with this idea, and he’s gonna make it great. Better than the gifts from the others.
He’s gonna give Hawkeye a chance to spend the night cruising in the suit.
Oh, but not the main suit, not the red one that Tony uses most of the time. No, for this, he’s plucked out number 7 and had it repainted, just for the night, so that everything from the holographic face plate to the retractable wing panels evoke, well, a hawk. He’s even added a clamp on the back for a quiver and the new Asgardian ash bow.
Tomorrow, the team trains. Well, most of the team trains; tomorrow, Hawkeye jets off for Estonia with Hunt and his little spylings.
Tonight, the Hawk and the Iron Man are gonna play.