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“So what do we have here.." Tony drawls, amused at the sight of Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Stephen Strange held at a one-person cell.
The said doctor on the other hand was very unamused.
"If this is a kink for prison sex, I'm totally okay with that by the way. Although isn't it a bit too early? we've only been dating a month, babe.” he gives a shit eating grin and got a scowl in return.
“Tony, you fucked me before we even started datin- tsk, that's not the point. Just get me out of here, please." Stephen can feel the eyes of other criminals looking at them and he geniunely just want to get this over with.
Is it really too much to ask for Tony to not make a scene?
"But you look so cute there.. I should ask the cops to put you in handcuffs again."
Yes it is.
Stephen groans, standing up to hold the bars with both his hands in a very tight obviously irritated grip. He reminds himself how much he loves Anthony Stark and prays to Vishanti to give him patience. He takes a deep breath and then: “Tony, baby, please." he says softly, looking straight at the free man outside his cell.
Tony blushes at the sudden plead- "okay, fuck you too.” he murmurs and pulls out a set of keys from his back pocket.
“Why do you have the keys..?"
“Don’t question my ways and just be thankful. I'm the one who will be asking you questions." Tony shakes the keys in front of Stephen, making a show of the power he holds as the keys jingle. What an ass.
The engineer looks at Stephen's door number and then searches for the key that matches it. “Ah here it is," he inserts the key in the keyhole but doesn't rotate it. “give me a kiss first."
“Really?"
“Really."
Stephen slipped his shaking hands through the bars and reached for his boyfriend. “Give me your face." so romantic. But alas, as a lovefool, Tony is ecstatic and leaves the keys for a kiss. aha. keys for kiss.
He gets a pinch in the cheek before the other cups his face and pulls him for a kiss. Short and sweet, enough for Tony to lowkeniunely drop down on his knees and do everything Stephen wants- "Now open the gate.” -which is freedom.
“On it, sweetheart." He turns the key, opening the door and going in to give Stephen a very tight hug. “You couldn't have waited for me to get out of the cell before giving a hug?" Stephen complains but still returns the embrace with a grateful pat.
“Isn't it cute that we're both in the cell now? We could date here! Maybe I shouldn't let you leave until I ask you everything I want to know about how you even got here.."
“You didn't check in with the cop?"
“Nope," he lets go of Stephen, “I just went in and took their keys the second I heard you got arrested."
Tony takes a moment to look at Stephen's person, he's still wearing the gray sweater he put on earlier before taking a stroll with his bicycle. Dark sweatpants and rubber shoes, no dirt but very wrinkled. Gently cupping his chin with a hand, Tony moved Stephen's head left and right to get a better look- checking for bruising and whatnot.
He lets out a satisfied hum when he finds no physical scratches on his boyfriend but he can see the obvious half exhaustion half crisis on those beautiful sharp eyes.
“My poor baby got arrested," he frowns, pulling Stephen for another hug and a cheek kiss.
The sorcerer wasn't even there that long, honestly. His exasperation mostly came from stupid decisions that led him here in this very cell. “Ahuh. Your poor baby got arrested, you should take him out to eat because he might be hungry from stress” Stephen offers.
"Right, of course, let's go, my poor baby. There's a diner near here, Happy's outside waiting for us.” Tony took his boyfriend's hand, leading them out the cell and outside the precinct.
“You left the prison keys on the gate."
“They can handle that."
They ended up seated at a window booth in a small cozy diner, facing each other. Tony got a cheeseburger with fries (no surprises there) and Stephen got some pasta and garlic bread, paired with coffee and iced tea, respectively. Normally, he would make Tony get a more healthy meal but he'll let him have his junkfood today for getting him out of jail.. with the condition of him drinking tons of water to wash it off. Maybe he should throw the burger away while he still has the chanc-
"So.. stranger, wanna talk about stuff we did this morning and how it ended us up in jail?” Tony says with a mouthful of fries, looking expectantly at Stephen.
"Not really, no. I'd much rather enjoy spending our time together eating in silence.” Stranger replies, holding out his fork to offer Tony a bite of his pasta- which was eagerly accepted.
"You've got me curious, steph, tell me.” he says now with a mouthful of pasta. It's as if it'll kill him to swallow before speaking.
"As you know, I went out for a bike ride. Just by myself, enjoying the wind and a good look at the world. And some jackass decided to ruin my day by braking in front of me just to yell at me!" he stabs his food with his fork by the end of his sentence, irritation is obviously back on his face but with a subtle hint of..shame?
"And then…?” Tony prompted,
"And then I got off my bike to yell back." he grumbles, covering his face with both hands and letting out a defeated sigh, “it was stupid of me to fight back like that but it was very annoying to have someone shout at you in public for ‘breaking the law’- I fucking ran a red light on my bike and it's not even against the law!..i think.” he slumps down, now dropping the fork on his plate.
“Awww it's okay, babe. I would've shouted back as well. But that would just be another tuesday for me." which is very true, Tony is a dramatic warfreak. ask pepper.
“Hmm yes, so anyway, the guy was just being annoying at first, as in yelling about the law and ruining everybody's day. But when I got off my bike to confront him, I think he recognized who I was because he started to verbally abuse me by shouting shit like ‘you’re deluded’ and ‘you’re lying’– I wouldn't care much but there were kids watching and he was making a scene, and I was making a scene and everything just feels so stupid right now." He whined, raising his head to look at Tony, showing off a very adorable frown. It was pulling at Tony's heartstrings that's for sure.
Stephen continues, “A woman came up to mediate us which worked for like two minutes before the guy pushed me so I pushed him back.. maybe harder than intended." he grimaced while recalling that part.
“Or maybe he was just being extra dramatic, he could've been a paps trying to get a rise from you!” Tony dramatically gasps at his own theory, "Don't worry Steph I'm 100% on your side here. Me and my army of lawyers.” if the guy decides to sue, he's gonna be fighting a losing battle.
"...thank you tony.. I don't know who called the cops or if they were just passing by the area but they took us both for ‘obstructing the peace’ and ‘blocking the road’, so yeah that's that."
"Should I ask where Levi or your magic portals were when this all happened?” Cloak of Levitation mentioned but at what cost.
“I don't bring them when I go on a ride, you ought to come with me sometimes, Tony. You need the exercise.” he shrugs, “and if I had my sling rings with me, that guy would've been falling until now, I assure you that."
“and if you brought me with you, we’ll both be in jail and he in the hospital."
“Don't joke, I shouldn't have gotten off my bike. It was really not worth it."
“Who says I'm joking?”, a glare from stephen, "what, I don't want anyone shouting at my boyfriend" he reaches to hold his Stephie’s hand. “only I am allowed to shout at you.” he states, pulling the shaking hand to give it a kiss.
“Gross, Tony, your lips are greasy." Stephen winced, getting a napkin to wipe the back of his hand. He sees his very adult boyfriend pout a bit from that so he reaches to wipe Tony's lips too, and gives his hand back, “okay kiss me again." tsk tsk, dont let anyone know that even the sorcerer supreme can't resist tony’s pout.
And Tony being Tony takes the opportunity to pull him by his hand, leaning over the table to steal a quick kiss from his lips instead.
Stephen scrunches his nose from that action, he is used to his boyfriend's very affectionate antics by now but that doesn't mean he enjoys it (he does). He takes back his fork to eat another bite of his food, “so how'd you hear about my.. circumstance?" he asks.
“FRIDAY saw a video from the internet and took the initiative to call Happy to drive me where they took you” Tony grins, “I didn't get the chance to watch it, she just said you got ‘in an altercation that led to police intervention’ which sounded very amusing I must admit... do you wanna watch it now?"
“No." Stephen deadpans.
“Alright, tonight then." Tony puts it in his mind calendar to make sure they get to watch it later. He needs to see how his very calm doctor boyfriend performed the road rage. Already smiling at the thought of it as he takes another big bite at his cheeseburger that is now stuffed with fries.
They ate in silence for a while, Tony gave Stephen time to enjoy his meal as he eats his own junk food. He wonders if some convicts back at the precinct took the keys he left and freed themselves. That would be real funny. He chuckles at the thought but didn't speak until Stephen started the conversation back up, talking about whether they had plans for today and how this impromptu brunch date was a happy ending to his bad morning.
"Thanks for the meal, Tony, I needed this.” Stephen says watching his boyfriend pay then held his hand as they walked out the diner. Both the meal and the company was great and he actually feels better now. Fuck the guy who ruined his morning.
"Anything for you, babe.” Tony squeezes his hand "well we're both free so what do we do now?" Happy was dismissed earlier so they were just walking aimlessly around the block, looking for inspiration.
"Whatever you want. You made me a free man, Tony, I will grant you a wish or two." he smiles at his own joke, letting go of Tony's hand to wrap his arm around the smaller man's shoulders, taking advantage of their height difference.
"I'll take you up on that. First wish, let's have intercou-" Stephen pushes him away, "Don't ruin this, Anthony Stark." he snarks but can't help his own giggle rising, the sound of Tony's laughter is very contagious afterall.
They had to take a moment to breathe, Stephen tries to revoke the wishes he gave Tony because he keeps asking for shitty things but they settled on a 5 minute make-out session, and a movie date tonight. Tony then started mindlessly listing crazy activies they can do til Stephen lights up with an idea.
"You know the weather is still good, you can join me in finishing my bike ride… ah shit. Do you happen to know where my bike is?” he realizes that he didn't bother checking if the cops impounded his bike. If they left the bike in the middle of the road, anyone could have gotten it by now which would be very annoying.
He loved that bicycle, literally just installed a new custom basket in the front to carry his early morning groceries and it was not cheap at all.
“Oh I didn't check it.. but hold on I'll ask FRIDAY" Tony replied then he started talking to his watch, "Hey sweetheart did you hear that? any news about the bicycle?”
“Sorry boss, the videos online had cut off when the cops arrived. And it seems the Evidence Data Base of the NYPD hasn't been updated yet. I have no access to know what happened to Dr. Boyfriend’s bicycle.”
"That's unfortunate,” Tony knows Stephen heard the conversation, he looks at his now frowning lover— which isn't a very good sight for his heart at all. He needs to fix this asap. “okay two things, either we buy you a new bicycle or we find this one”
“I’m not buying a new bike”
“Stephen, if it’s money problems you know I can- just kidding! no need to look at me like that! I guess we’re finding your old cheap bike for today.” he deserves the punch that followed.