Office Hours, Monday

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Steve was holding a special set of office hours this Monday, the better to lecture the hell out of at least one teenage costumed hero. Possibly two, if that blonde girl showed up, but he didn't know who she was and was pretty sure she hadn't known who was behind the Captain America uniform, so he wasn't really betting on that one.

But if Tony Stark didn't show he'd go and find him.

((NFB due to sekrit identities, please!))

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[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony showed up! So, maybe it wasn't quite happily or in a prompt manner, but he was there.

"Mr. Rogers?" he asked, knocking on the door lightly in hopes he wasn't in.

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"Mr. Stark," Steve said, glancing up from the piece of paper he was drawing on. "Please, come in. Shut the door. Sit down."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Oh, well that sounded like this was going to be fun.

Tony sighed, but did as instructed. "I've already gotten the lecture about trusting people," he said. "Twice."

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"And what makes you think that's the lecture I'm going to give you?" Steve asked him.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony held up two fingers like that explained it. Though, really, it could be about the suit of armor with which he fought crime, so...

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve had come in at the tail end of things, and the voicemail message that had handwavily sent him sprinting into action hadn't been thick on details. Steve didn't know who Tony had been trusting. He didn't care. He cared about teenagers running around trying to be superheroes.

"The suit's impressively well-developed, especially considering your age," Steve said. "And while I can't tell you to do anything, I can give you detention, and I strongly recommend you put the suit away and stop trying to play hero. You're still a kid. That's not your job."

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Tony shrugged, glancing away. "It was supposed to one up my dad's last invention."

There was a pause before he asked, "Are you going to give me detention then?"

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"If I could figure out which school rule you were breaking, I would," Steve sighed. "If I thought it would do any good."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

This was very true. Tony was just precocious.

"So... a shield, huh?"

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Tony was also skilled in missing the point, but this was not exactly news to Steve. "Yes. Can we talk about how you're not going to do crazy things with the suit any more? Because you're not." Or he would so have detention.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Every time, I was the one being attacked," Tony insisted. "Except for the train thing. That was someone attacking Stark Tower."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

The other teenage costumed hero was so not showing up without her costume, thank you; she had enough issues with people knowing her identity and constantly reminding her of it without superheroes who didn't exist in her world knowing, too.

Boy, the leverage I could have to tease Tony if I was even going to go there.

How had she found her way here? Through the tried and true Bat-method of being kinda stalky, actually; she'd tracked Tony, and then just sort of lurked for a while.

When she finally showed up in the doorway she asked, "So how much trouble, exactly, am I in?"

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Steve was just going to facepalm for a moment at the girl showing up in costume before he said, "That depends. Come in and shut the door."

Teenagers.

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"What train thing? How many times have there been?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...three now." He was a badass hero, Steve. Bad. Ass.

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"You're a teenager," Steve said, sounding pained. "This stuff is dangerous."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie nodded quickly and stepped in, shutting the door as requested.

. . . what? She got enough of the "remember, we know who you are" as it was, and could practically hear Bruce lecturing her about jumping in without thinking already.

"I know I could probably have acted a lot faster than that," she began without preamble, assuming this was going to be about not being good enough. "But I didn't want to hit any of the kids."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony's bruises agreed with that statement!

"So? It's not like I haven't worked at an adult level for, oh, all my life," Tony replied. "A.I.M. was trying to kill Tony Stark, not Iron Man."

Actually, they did try to kill Iron Man, but that was a minor detail.

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"That isn't actually what I was going to lecture you about...do you have something I can call you? That is, I assume you have a code name, even if I can't pry your actual name out of you."

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"AIM is a pack of idiots dressed as beekeepers," Steve said.

What? It was true.

"And I don't care what level you've worked at, you are not an adult. You are a minor, and a student I am responsible for."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"You're not?" Well, color Stephanie surprised. She'd totally been braced for that, not a lecture from a different angle. "You can call me Robin."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Shhh. His universe was still young when it came to evil organizations.

"So, what then? Two years makes that big of a difference in your mind?"

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"At your age? Yes," Steve said, because duh. "Yes. Two years can make a huge difference." Who knew, Tony might even grow a sense of self-preservation. One could dream.

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"Robin," Steve echoed. Well, that made some sense of the color scheme. "No, I wasn't there for the beginning of the fight, only the end, so I can't speak to tactics. I'm more concerned by teenagers running around in costumes trying to be heroes in the first place. It's dangerous, and as a teacher I really can't condone it."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahaha. Oh, Steve. Dream big.

"And in two years, my company could be gone if I 'act like a normal kid'."