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Bruce squeezed tony’s hand nervously before wondering momentaraly if it was realy the brightest idea. He didnt know much about tony’s dad but he seemed rather mean. He pulled his hand away and settled it in his pocket. Just to be safe he thought to himself, he was out to his family so it wasnt a big deal. but bruce was pretty sure that most parents didnt want to figure out that their child was gay by meeting their boyfriend.

Tony felt Bruce's hand leave his own and it made him realize he'd completely forgotten he was still holding it (since yesterday it had just become so natural, he hadn't even thought of it). At least one of them had the foresight to remember. Tony gave a quick nod to Bruce as he heard the door unlock from the other side. "What do you need it fo--" Howard began to demand of his son, when he saw Bruce. His tone immediately changed. "Oh, this a friend of yours, Anthony?" Tony folded his arms and tapped his sneaker against the floor. "Yeah, we're ah... doing a project together for school. So... telescope?" The man pushed the door open the rest of the way. "Come on in, boys, it's just over here." Tony shot Bruce a look of 'Meet my two-faced, a*****e dad' and followed.

Bruce was back to being nervous when his view to his boyfriend was interupted by his boyfriends rather intimidating father, “Yes Sir,” He replied, “I intern at SHIELD Labs Downtown.” He said, though their equipment was, well…childrens toys compared to the things in here. He was trying to look at tony without being rude but he was finding it difficult instead he just stood very still, not knowing what to do.

"That's quite the position for a young man of your age!" Howard said, obviously impressed. "Anthony, you ought to consider taking your friend's example." Tony just groaned and rolled his eyes in exasperation, turning to stalk off and find the damn telescope by himself. "Would you like to have a look through it?" the middle-aged man asked Bruce, motioning to his microscope.

Bruce smiled, “i hope so, he is certinly helping me too, breaking me out of my shell a bit” he said still nervous, but he took a peek into the microscope. “oh wow, the resolution on this is amazing, are those… oh god, they are… those are radioactive photoplanctin, thats amazing!” he said pulling himself away from the microscope grinning. “thank you mister stark I enjoyed this very much but Tony and I really have to set up the teloscope before the prime stargazing time passes, im sure you understand.” he said smiling over at his boyfriend hoping he would understand that he really wanted to be spending time on their date and not well… on their date with tonys dad.

"Found you..." Tony muttered when he finally spotted the telescope among the rest of his dad's equipment on a shelf just overhead. He grabbed it by the tripod and started to pull it down, when his all-too-often-clumsy fingers fumbled it. The teenager gave a yelp and just barely managed to catch the long tube against his front. Howard frowned deeply. "Anthony, haven't I taught you to be more careful? You'll break something! You should have just let me get it for you." Tony winced. If there was anything /worse/ than being told off, it was being told off right in front of your new boyfriend. He mumbled a sorry to his sneakers and headed for the door with the telescope in arms. Howard shook his head and looked back to Bruce, setting a firm palm on his shoulder. "Look after him for me, will you? You two have a good time now; it was a pleasure to meet you."

"Well, my dad apparently likes you," Tony mumbled. "Doesn't know we're dating, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

Bruce reached out his hand, grabbing tony’s and stopping him halfway up the stairway once they were shielded from view if anyone were to walk out of the lab. He stepped closer, cornering his boyfriend against the banister. “hey,” he said lifting tony’s chin lightly with his fingers and kissing his nose, “how about we get back to that date we were on and forget all about it.” he suggested smiling.

The 17-year old opened his mouth to say something, but only ended up shutting it when Bruce pecked him on the nose. All his anger melted away, just like that. Tony leaned the telescope against the railing and promptly wrapped his arms around his boyfriend's middle, pressing the side of his face against Bruce's chest with a purr. "I love you," he said earnestly.

Bruce grinned happily, after a pit stop at tony’s room to grab a blanket, the maps and a few sweatshirts they were packing up the car free from the house. “you know, i love you and all… but you can count me out for one of the people who wants you for money… i think id love you more if you didnt have it.” bruce commented being careful not to scratch the paint as they loaded the car and cautiously glanced over at the very large mansion.

Tony didn't quite know what to say to that at all. He sat in the driver's seat staring at his house. He never asked to be rich. Or well, have a rich dad and live in a giant house. Perhaps the worst thing was knowing that his dad eventually expected /him/ to take over Stark Industries and continue his father's work. His stomach began to cramp in knots as he forced himself not look anywhere but Bruce.

“good because i was worried i was sounding like a complete a** there for a minute.” bruce said, letting out a sigh of relief. “lets go, its getting….darkish.” he said smiling at tony and wondering where exactly they would be going.

The teen nodded. The sky was beginning to change color in the west and overhead the first few brightest stars and planets were beginning to become visible. He started the convertible and drove them out of the long driveway and back on the main drag out of town. A few miles later he took an old road that wound up through some grassy hills. The change in elevation and approaching darkness made the air kind of cool, so Tony kicked on the heater.

“i know,” he said still staring out at all the trees, “but you were uncomfortable and uncomfortable sometimes leads to mad and im not very good with words.” he said opting to look at the scenery, “so i figured i just… wouldnt talk so much.”

It was really cute how worried about him and his feelings Bruce was. The girls he'd dated were always so focused on their own feelings that they usually ignored his. He reached over the center console and took his boyfriend's hand. "Don't worry about it. I'm just... overly-sensitive," he laughed at how silly that sounded, but he really couldn't deny it. "I like listening to your voice..." he added then, remembering how much it had helped him out just the night before when he'd been low.

Bruce looked out the windows, eyeing a place that looked pretty nice, and had a few fireflies that apparently were jumping the gun as it wasnt even dark out yet. “right there” he said pointing to the clearing. it even looked like a tiny ways in there was a small area sourounded by trees, perfect.

Tony spotted it as soon as Bruce pointed. "Perfect!" he vocalized Bruce's thoughts without even knowing so. "Good eye, cutie-pie," he rhymed dorkily, giving his boyfriend's hair a quick ruffle. He pulled off on the side of the road and killed the ignition, clicking off his seat belt and not bothering to even open his door, just vaulting over the top. The teenager grabbed the blanket and star maps excitedly.