#flowers!!!!!

I'd give flowers to platonic friends

The one thing they weren’t expecting is that over time, there were flowers .Everywhere. And not fake flowers, oh no. Real ones. A significant amount of Tony’s free time went into ordering flowers, getting them from local gardens, and arranging them in different floors. One could be begonias and Queen Anne’s lace fluttering around the mantle, around some of the windows, and others would be dragon snaps and tulips. 

It’s surprising, to say the least. The team doesn’t really say anything about it; Pepper just says one of his minors was in design, which they didn’t think about, but makes sense. 

It’s not until they’ve had a long week of fighting and they’re a little bit delirious that they start telling stories. Natasha about the time she had to fight with someone in a grocery store and checkout afterwards, which was only a hair awkward. 

Thor about accidentally landing in the middle of a football field and they put him to work immediately, assuming he was a new recruit. 

Tony ends up talking about the flowers .

“My mom used to have huge gardens,” Tony says. “She’d tell me how to plant everything, what not to do that they put in the instructions anyway. Her favorite flower was the lily-of-the-valley.” 

For his birthday, they end up redoing a part of the New York mansion into a flower garden, fully protected by a force field and controlled watering times by staff when they’re out. 

Tony cries, but swears he didn’t.