▼ ( from The Science Friend. #NoHomo )
* ( ▼ ) —- KISSING THEM ( for The Science BoyFriend )
they’re in the lab–no surprise there, really–and tony’s doing that THING where he talks at a mile a minute, throwing around dense concepts like heavy ion fusion and quantum chromodynamics ( and to anyone else it sounds like meaningless science babble, but to bruce it’s poetry ). bruce is listening and looking at tony like he ALWAYS does when no one else but helen is around to notice ( because she’s good at keeping secrets ) when tony–mid sentence–comes to screeching HALT.
then tony’s leaning in close and bruce’s first inclination is to lean away, but it all happens in one swift movement and tony’s kissing bruce. for a long, long moment the pair of them are SUSPENDED in that moment–and the doctor basks in the feeling of it.
THAT IS, until the heartbeat monitor on his wrist starts to beep and bruce has to pull away only to realize his hands had found tony’s shoulders as if to their own accord. ❝ uh–sorry– ❞ he says a little too quickly as the cogs in his mind slowly begin to turn again and bruce REALIZES what has just happened. the monitor is programmed to continue beeping until bruce’s heart rate goes down so he’s forced to retract his hands from tony, wheel back a few feet on his stool, and close his eyes with deep, steady breaths for a few painfully awkward moments.
eventually though bruce slides back tony’s way–stool and all–with a sheepish expression. ❝ you know, for a SCIENTIST i must have some pretty poor observational skills to not have anticipated…THAT. ❞ and before tony even opens his mouth, the both of them hear helen, somewhere in the beaker cabinet, professing her agreement loudly.















