#captain-nightshift

Steve was gathering up everything that they needed for a good time watching movies for the evening. He gathered together a mound of foods that they could make, including a nice soup. Broccoli and cheddar, to be specific, and he was pleased with how it was turning out. Bucky had even gone and gotten them fresh made bread from the bakery.

Steve tasted the soup that the internet had told him to make when he had searched good meals for having friends over, and smiled, going back to stirring it up. It was very, very cheesy. When he heard the knock at the door, he rushed to go and answer it. He smiled brightly at Hadrian and stepped back, letting him in.

“Welcome!” He exclaimed to the other man. “I’ll have to send Bucky over to go and get Cin...” he said absently but he was genuinely happy to see Hadrian again, even if it had only been a couple of days since he had last seen him. He got that warm feeling back once again and liked how it made him feel.  “Bucky! Hadrian’s here, you should go and get Cin!” he called out, looking over at Bucky who was on the sofa.

Bucky looked up from the book he was reading when he heard Steve call his name and blinked slowly. He got to his feet and walked over toward Hadrian. His finger was tucked into the pages of the book so he didn’t lose his place, and the book he was currently reading was ‘Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’. 

He offered a smile to Hadrian then, even if it was a bit faint, and held out the hand not holding the book. 

“Welcome back,” he added, offering a nod of his head. “Come on in, make yourself comfortable.”

It was not every day that Tony got a hiring slip on his desk that had a familiar name on it. And even less often that the known name was someone outside of the business industry. Only once had it happened that the familiar name was one that held probably more weight than anyone’s beyond Pepper’s. 

Steve Rogers.

This new hire for security had been sent to them... by Steve Rogers. Captain America himself, endorsing a security guard. That alone was intriguing. Let alone the fact that according to the notes, he was not only sent to Stark Industries by Steve... but Steve had actually called Happy himself to set up the interview for this person.

That’s why Tony found himself in a not-great neighborhood in a sports car that looked far too expensive for this neck of town. It was guarded, of course, Happy sat in the passenger seat with a book quite a ways down the street from the apartment building that Tony now found himself in.

He stopped in front of the door to the apartment whose number he had memorized. He raised a hand and knocked, not entirely sure what he was going to see when the door opened up on one Hadrian Storm.