Tony did his best to concentrate on his projects, but his eyes couldn’t help but travel to the sofa where Kendis was laughing at Johnny5’s antics while the bots whirled excitedly at their favorite parts.

Tony swore as he dropped a wrench on his fingers.

“Are you okay, Tony?” Kendis called out, and he turned back to see that she was looking concerned. He smiled and waved her off.

“Just being clumsy,” Tony said, and she gave him one last look before Dum-e grabbed her t-shirt to show her Johnny5 dancing to ‘You Should Be Dancing’ by the Bee Gees.

Tony should never have asked Kendis to come down here. Hell, Kendis was a walking magical time bomb, and she could do a lot of damage to his lab, not to mention his bots.

Earlier, when Jarvis alerted him that she was exploring the house, a video feed appeared. Tony was just about to turn it off, pretty sure that Kendis couldn’t find anything in the rest of the house to use against him. But then he saw her face. Kendis looked so lost and alone walking through his big, empty house. And before he knew it, Tony had given the command for Jarvis to invite her to his lab.

Tony brought up the schematics of the new rail gun he was working on for the Army, but froze as he spotted Kendis patting Butterfingers’s head; the shyest of his bots leaned into her touch.

And surely if she were using magic, Butterfingers would be a mess of metal and wires right now. But the youngest of his three bots snuggled into the caress, beeping at her.

No one, not even Obadiah, Pepper, or even Rhodey, ever treated the bots with such obvious care. To them, Jarvis and the rest of his creations were simply tools for Tony to use.

Most people never realized that way before he met Rhodey, Dum-e, had been his first friend. And even though that relationship evolved into a parent/child relationship over the years, Tony never forgot the bot’s first intended purpose. Despite the vitriol he sometimes threw at Dum-e, he was still one of his most precious creations.

This wixen, who grew up in a place so far removed from technology, who had every reason to fear it, just accepted them with open arms.

His heart felt so tight in his chest that he felt like he was going too close to having a heart attack because all the confusion he had been struggling with suddenly faded away. In that brief moment of clarity, he was faced with one simple truth:

Tony had fallen for Kendis. The feeling that had been gradually building from the moment he woke beside her in that hotel room in Vegas was love.

Tony Stark was in love with Kendis Black.

The strength of his feelings for his spouse terrified him. What the hell do I know about love?!!! He screamed internally as he tried to focus on work, but he couldn’t move past this latest revelation. There had been so many truths revealed in the last 24 hours, but Tony was baffled by his own feelings.

Tony pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. Kendis was only here for a few days, and she would be gone. And Tony would go back to his normal life, and these feelings, as inconvenient as they were, would fade away.

Tony snorted and rolled his eyes at himself. At thirty-two years old, Tony knew himself well enough to know that fighting his feelings was futile. Tony didn’t fall often, but when he did, he fell hard. He had always been an all-or-nothing type of guy when it came to both his work and his relationships. It was one of the reasons he stopped getting close to anyone.

But a little over a month, Kendis had managed to burrow her way through his titanium defenses and make space for herself in his heart.

In truth, a part of himself wanted to run hard and fast from these feelings. He was Tony Stark, and he didn’t do emotions. But there was another part, bigger than the fear, that told him that running would be the biggest mistake of his life.

Tony took a deep breath as he desperately scraped together all of his courage and put his tools down, and walked over to the sofa. Kendis looked at him, and his heart was in his throat as he met her beautiful green eyes.

“Got any room for me?” Tony said, with a smirk that he didn’t feel, but Tony was a champion bullshitter at the worst of times.

Kendis grinned and scooted over. “Sure,” they said as they patted the seat next to him. Tony sat next to them and put his arm around Kendis. She gave him an inquisitive look but didn’t say anything.

Kendis laid her head on his shoulder, and Tony felt like his heart was going to beat right out of his chest as he wrapped his arm around her. He suddenly felt like he was 15 years old again, awkwardly trying to pull off the yawn and stretch technique he saw in movies.

‘Where did all of my charm and charisma go?’ He wondered to himself.

But despite his initial awkwardness, Tony gradually relaxed. He didn’t even try to pay attention to the movie. Tony could quote Short Circuit word-for-word. Tony enjoyed the feeling of Kendis in his arms.

His thoughts were a mess of emotions and thoughts. Can a relationship between them even work? The cold, logical part of his brain told him no. She was magic, and Tony was a tech genius, and he already knew that magic and tech did not mix.

They had so much stacked against them.

Tony knew that Obie would be furious. And what about the company? And don’t forget the press! The fall out in the press would be an utter shit show. And on top of that, they both would have to deal with the consequences of his knowing about the Wizarding World.

As the movie went on, his mind kept whirling at the possible consequences waiting for them if they gave this marriage a real shot. It was a recipe for disaster, but Tony couldn’t let Kendis go.

“Alright, bots.” Tony clapped his hands as the movie came to a close, and Johnny5, Stephanie, and Newton had long since driven off to start their new life in Montana. “Time for you to go back to your charging stations.”

The bots whined, and Kendis patted U on its head. “Go on,” Kendis said.

U gave another whirl, and then the three bots were rolling across the floor.

“Don’t spoil them,” Tony sighed.

“I can’t help it!” Kendis shrugged, “They are adorable!”

“They are not,” Tony argued back. “They are cutting-edge helper bots.”

They stared at him for a long beat, and he wished he could see what they were thinking. Kendis was a mystery that he longed to solve, but suspected he would never.

She scooted forward until their bodies were flush together and her warm, calloused fingers came up to frame his face.

“What?”

He licked his lips, and her eyes darted to them. Tony couldn’t hear past the pounding of his heart as he met her eyes. Those green eyes were dark with desire and God Kendis was so goddamn beautiful it hurt.

For the first time in his life, Tony was afraid to move forward and take what he wanted. Afraid of what would happen if he finally gave in to his feelings.

She pressed her forehead to his. “Can I kiss you?” Kendis asked in a whisper.

“Y-yes,” Tony bit out, and then in the next moment, Kendis’ mouth was on his. He expected the kiss to be rough and hard, full of passion. But unlike their previous kisses, this one was sweet and slow.

As if they had all the time in the world and nothing mattered beyond the slow movement of their lips against each other. Her full lips felt divine against his.

His hands reached up and slipped into Kendis’s wild curls and tugged her closer as they kissed. And she gasped, her arm curling around his neck as Tony took the opportunity to slip his tongue between those sinful lips.

His tongue met hers, not in a battle, but in a dance; a rapturous meeting of equals.

Tony groaned into her mouth, his other hand sliding across her lean back. His hands slipped under her t-shirt, and Tony couldn’t get enough of the feeling of her soft skin. And then she was jerking away from him and Tony panicked that he had fucked up.

Kendis was sitting on his lap, and he suddenly realized the hardness pressed against his stomach was her erection.

Tony felt something hard pressed against his stomach, and he realized it was her erection.

“I forgot to take my potion that will change and—” Kendis said, nervously.

“—Kendis,” Tony interrupted her. “I told you when we first met that I would take you anyway I can take you. That hasn’t changed.”

Kendis’ mouth split into a grin, “Okay.”

“Okay,” Tony confirmed, and he pressed his lips to hers. Kendis moaned as his tongue delved into her mouth with the type of single focus he usually gave difficult code.

Tony couldn’t help it. He was greedy, and he knew it.

Time held no meetings anymore. Tony just lost himself in the feel of Kendis against him and her mouth as they rocked against each other.

Even through their jeans, the slow grind against each other felt heavenly. But he needed more. With a quick finger, he pulled down her jeans and her hard cock sprung free. It was as pretty as Kendis was. It was long and wide and somehow delicate, even for a cock. It was red and leaking. A part of him wanted to throw her down on the sofa and swallow it down.

But right now, Tony was too far gone.

His hands went to his belt buckle, but she brushed his hands aside and unbuckled his belt, and shoved his jeans down to his knees, and he was so wet that it surprised even him. His cock was leaking precome on to his t-shirt. Then Tony swore as her hands wrapped around his cock and then she was sliding up and down his eager cock.

“Ah,” Tony said, as he threw his head back as he pumped his hips into her strong grip his hands traveling across her back and down to her ass that filled his hands perfectly. They rocked against each other, the pressure of Kendis exquisite hands on their cocks. And they couldn’t look away from each other as they kissed.

The allure of her eyes caught him in her web, and Tony was too far gone to escape. He just wanted to exist like this forever.

“I’m going—” Kendis broke off as she whimpered as his finger swiped across her taint and then her sensitive asshole. “I’m going to come.”

“Voglio che tu lo faccia,” Tony said. He was too gone to translate his Italian thoughts into English like he normally did. “Voglio vederti andare in pezzi per me.”

Kendis shuttered, her pace picking up as their two hard cocks rubbed and ground against each other. It was a race between them as they both careened toward their orgasms. And one moment passed, and then the next, and Kendis cried out as she spilled her seed across their stomachs.

It was another moment that Tony felt that familiar rush and as if his body had been shocked by electricity as he shuttered and added his cum to the mess of their stomachs.

As they both came down from their orgasmic high, Kendis sat up and wrinkled her nose. “Time for a shower.”

Tony just sighed and kissed her softly on the forehead. “Come on, I have a hot shower with our names on it.”