Little darling It's been a long, cold, lonely winter

[winsomelosesome]

Who: Jan & Tony
What: Flying
Where: Temba
When: End April
Warnings: Cute



The sun was bright and warming, a shift in the air that seemed to bring the colours of Temba to life as the seasons shift. There was still a slight chill when the wind blew through, but when the air was still and the light brushed your cheeks, you could imagine the peaceful embrace of summer not too far off.

Wings fluttering fast enough to give a distinctive hum, Jan drifted along through sunbeams until she spotted her target. She flew down and lighted on his shoulder, as though she'd never left.

"Hey Handsome. Wanna come fly with me?"

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[in_extremis]

What any of the plant-people thought was largely mysterious and frustrating, and Tony didn't want to admit that this warning affected him, so he answered, "What're they gonna do, pollinate me?," even as he slowed further, trying to limit the singed leafs in his wake. "I might be into that." Even more unfortunately, the downshift was giving Jan a significant advantage, and Tony could already see the trees thinning and the glint of water between them ahead. He had to do his best to follow Jan's more nimble path, finding the easy gaps in the branches, an charge forward to try to crash into her as they broke the treeline, attempting to draw her back conversationally, "I'd have to ask the resident expert."

[winsomelosesome]

"Anthony Edward Stark, did you just ask me to pollinate you?" she asked, easily manipulated into slowing to be heard. "You better hope you don't have allergies."

And shit, she'd quickly given up the small chance at a lead that the trees had granted, wings beating hard to try and make up for her bravado.

[in_extremis]

That didn't make for much competition for Tony's much more reckless burst of speed, letting branches shatter against his armor to break straight through rather than waste a second going any further around, which let him catch her in one hand to pull back against his chest. By then, he could regret the enthusiasm, because the charge was strong enough to send him fishtailing as they did finally pull out over the sand and he tried to slow with no real resistance in the vast waters' great inhale; he flipped onto his back to cradle Jan carefully as he let himself crash into the beach and be dragged to a stop in the sand, just as the tide came crashing back in and hissed its way up to meet them. While his mask tried a few filters to combat the glare of the sun on his face, he said, "You know I can't stand a tie."

[winsomelosesome]

It was the perfect end, Jan laughing in delight as they tumbled through the air and finally to a halt there in the sand, shaking of the spray of the water. That laugher grew as Jan did, laying across him half boneless and squinting as the sun shone, laying her cheek against his chest.

"That that perfect. Fuck I missed this."

[in_extremis]

Tony's careful hold lifted away to hover daintily over her instead as she shifted, and then only returned as a ginger trace of his fingertips over her shoulders, the metal warm from the burn of energy and gliding easily. His laugh was a brief jump of his chest, short before a contemplative silence as he deliberated finally asking, "Didn't you go home?" If that was where she had just been yesterday, it wouldn't be unusual to find out yet another familiar face was at odds with him on Earth.