He could not find the room Natasha had told him about
(Another fill for the prompt game with the amazing @tonystarktogo :D Featuring the above prompt sent in by the lovely @aberwerzogausummichzufinden :) )
He could not find the room Natasha had told him about. The one with the skeletons. Tony guessed he wasn't supposed to look for it, much less find it - rooms with skeletons didn't sound like something anyone was supposed to find. Certainly not someone his age. He wasn't even allowed to see movies with skeletons.
But he was curious about it. And it was exciting. Made his heart beat faster, he could feel it. That was good.
After his third round through the entire estate, Tony still hadn’t found the right room, though. It was a large place, chances were he had just missed it. And of course there were areas he wasn’t supposed to go, his father’s labs and study and bedroom, and people’s private rooms. How was he supposed to find a goddamn closet if he wasn’t allowed into people’s private rooms? The only actual closets he had been able to check had been his own - naturally Tony wouldn’t assume that just because he knew his closet it couldn’t be a good hiding place, that’s what the bad guys counted on, for people to be so naive - and Bruce’s and Groot’s. Bruce was his best friend, and he liked Tony to check his room, because he was scared so easily. And Groot was a kid, he didn’t even know people weren’t allowed in his room unless he said so. Of course he wouldn’t mind.
It had been a few hours by now, although Tony couldn’t be sure how long exactly, and he was starting to feel a little tired. He had missed lunch, definitely, and possibly also dinner. Jarvis would be mad, he wasn’t supposed to miss more than one meal a day. None, if he could manage, but Tony rarely did. He wasn’t going to give up now, though, not when he could feel he was so close to finding that room. Of course he had considered that Natasha had perhaps meant a piece of furniture, but there were no furniture-type closets in the entire estate, they all had walk-in closets, and even most of the shelves were let into the walls. Tony’s dad said it looked modern. Tony thought it only made this whole task more difficult.
As it was quiet enough to assume nobody was around, Tony decided to sneak into some of the others’ rooms. He was halfway through Drax’s bedroom when the door behind him flew open.
“Shit,” was all Tony managed to say before a yelling Drax was in his face [...] FIND THE REST ON AO3 (because tumblr read more links don’t always work on mobiles, so I’m giving you an actual read more link).