[It's all too easy. Once Tony's back down in his lab with a couple other energetic opinions and running brains, it's all too easy to lose himself almost immediately. Get sucked into this project. He and Bruce have always had a dynamic energy that sometimes was put to questionable use, but he expects this project will turn out just a little better. Especially with the additional opinionated voice of Shuri bouncing back and forth between them. But occasionally he looks up. Realizes Steve is missing. Probably out and about doing something or other but it... he's not sure how he feels about it.
He pulls up all the old data from the now defunct AIM trials. All of Maya's research and notes that she'd transferred to him moments before her death. There's a good foundation there, a lot of prior test subjects which was morbid a thought as it got. But the problem was even if he volunteered himself for the experimental serums they're going to produce, he's sure just about every voice would veto him. It's not his usual way of doing things. His projects he tests on him. But he also supposes that this one has a spectacular failure by design and if he were to go too hot, a phrase that appears a number of times in the notes, he won't come back from it.
Which is obviously the exact opposite of what they're trying to accomplish. He has all these ideas compounding and compounding and he's resolutely at work in the lab. So much so that when the food arrives and Alice comes to get the trio, Tony almost tells her that he'll grab his food later. Bruce, in fact, asks nobody in particular if his food can be brought in but Tony catches the uncomfortable look on Alice's face and knows he has to put it down. There are certain things she's used to, rhythms, cadences, and routines of their little family- dinner together, undisturbed, being one of them. No doubt thanks to Steve.
So he puts a pause in the work and lets Alice lead him by the hand back into the kitchen. Everyone's left to grab their orders and take a seat at the table and conversation about the work continues though gently shifts when Alice announces she has something she wants to talk about. She's still got them going at the table when everyone's more or less done and Tony follows Steve away from the dining table and to the kitchen sink where he wraps his arms around him from behind and rests his head at his shoulder.] Shuri's gonna expedite some compounds we'll need, should be here by tomorrow afternoon. Bruce and I are gonna start working on the injection device. Something a little more sophisticated than straps and a dubious IV. Progress already is looking good. [Just giving him a small, hopeful, update. But a little more honestly instead he then asks,] How're you doing?
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He pulls up all the old data from the now defunct AIM trials. All of Maya's research and notes that she'd transferred to him moments before her death. There's a good foundation there, a lot of prior test subjects which was morbid a thought as it got. But the problem was even if he volunteered himself for the experimental serums they're going to produce, he's sure just about every voice would veto him. It's not his usual way of doing things. His projects he tests on him. But he also supposes that this one has a spectacular failure by design and if he were to go too hot, a phrase that appears a number of times in the notes, he won't come back from it.
Which is obviously the exact opposite of what they're trying to accomplish. He has all these ideas compounding and compounding and he's resolutely at work in the lab. So much so that when the food arrives and Alice comes to get the trio, Tony almost tells her that he'll grab his food later. Bruce, in fact, asks nobody in particular if his food can be brought in but Tony catches the uncomfortable look on Alice's face and knows he has to put it down. There are certain things she's used to, rhythms, cadences, and routines of their little family- dinner together, undisturbed, being one of them. No doubt thanks to Steve.
So he puts a pause in the work and lets Alice lead him by the hand back into the kitchen. Everyone's left to grab their orders and take a seat at the table and conversation about the work continues though gently shifts when Alice announces she has something she wants to talk about. She's still got them going at the table when everyone's more or less done and Tony follows Steve away from the dining table and to the kitchen sink where he wraps his arms around him from behind and rests his head at his shoulder.] Shuri's gonna expedite some compounds we'll need, should be here by tomorrow afternoon. Bruce and I are gonna start working on the injection device. Something a little more sophisticated than straps and a dubious IV. Progress already is looking good. [Just giving him a small, hopeful, update. But a little more honestly instead he then asks,] How're you doing?