Point of No Return

Only if you want to...

Stephen noticed the water and medication was gone.

He looked around and didn't see the Cloak anywhere either.

Climbing out of bed he stretched, groaning a bit as joints cracked.

He left his room and listened for any sounds that were out of place. He heard some movement and talking down the stairs. As he followed the sounds it led him to the kitchen.

"Levi, remind me, to remind FRIDAY to get this kitchen upgraded" Tony spoke looking to the collar of the Cloak as it was draped over Tony.

Stephen took in the sight in front of him. Tony was standing at the stove making pancakes, by the smell of the room, with the Cloak draped over him. He looked completely at ease and it caused a warm feeling to pool in the doctors stomach.

"So Levi, do you do anything fun with Stephen or is it as boring as it looks?" Tony inquired as he flipped the pancake currently on the griddle.

Tony hadn't noticed Stephen yet and the sorcerer was enjoying the view too much to interrupt so he quietly leaned against the frame of the doorway.

Stephen watched at the Cloak, now apparently dubbed Levi? made some motions.

"I mean I guess if the missions are fun there is that, but you should really come over to the Tower one day and meet my bots, I think you guys would get along well, although thinking of it now it may not be a good idea cause of the amount of trouble you would get into." Tony was talking to, and understood the relic?

Stephen's eyebrows rose in shock. Stephen to this day still had difficulty deciphering what the relic was trying to communicate on the best of days.

And here Tony was effortlessly conversing with it.

The Cloak, oh to hell with it, Levi was kind of catchy, Levi vibrated in excitement and Tony laughed. It wasn't a fake laugh either it was a genuine happy amused laugh.

Stephen decided to make himself known; he knocked on the wood of the doorway to alert Tony that he was there.

"Hey Stranger" Tony looked over his shoulder and smiled.

Stephen's lips quirked "Hey yourself, so Levi?" The sorcerer inquired

Tony placed the pancakes from the griddle on to a plate on the counter and put more batter on the hot surface.

"Yeah calling it The Cloak just didn't feel right and Cloaky almost feels to demeaning, or childish, I don't know" Tony shrugged "Levi, short for Levitation seemed appropriate and it liked it so we're sticking with Levi." Tony explained.

"You understand it?" Stephen asked curious walking closer to Tony.

Tony looked over at Stephen quizzically "You can't?"

"It and I are still working on certain ways of communicating" Stephen confesses

"Hm, I thought that it was normal, I mean I don't hear a voice or anything specific from it, but I understand what it's trying to get across and kind of what it's saying, if that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just a tune to non-language objects that communicate through sounds and gestures or whatever. I can understand my bots at home just fine and they communicate through beeps and other sounds" Tony shrugged again, but Stephen could see and hear the defensiveness that was being portrayed. Tony flipped off the stove as he had finished the last of the pancakes.

Stephen came right up behind Tony, Levi moved off the genius' shoulders to get out of the way.

Stephen pulled Tony back and wrapped his arms around the shorter man's waist, having to bend over a bit to nuzzle his face into Tony's neck, he nipped lightly at the skin.