Teasing

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*I don't even know anymore... Just thought this would be cute:') Mild smut, but beside that, no warnings in this except for the usual stuff, bad writing and failed humor*

Stark was the one who started it.

It had actually been a mistake. The two of them had been arguing, nothing unusual about that.

Stark normally gave people a personal nickname and when he didn't, words such as 'honey', 'sweetheart' and 'darling' were used. None of the Avengers had heard him use the word 'gorgeous' before, so the surprise was big when he spat it out in the middle of a heated argument. 

"I'm not taking orders from you, gorgeous!" Tony shouted. 

He closed his mouth, taken aback by his own words. The rest of the Avengers turned their heads and looked at Tony with either surprise, frowns or raised eyebrows. 

Steve, who had been about to scream something back at Tony, opened his mouth, but only an unintelligible stutter came out. 

"I-i...e-ehm.." he felt his cheeks getting hot. The blushing travelled down to his neck. 

A smirk slowly became visible on Tony's face. Seeing the always so serious Captain so flustered, made him cheerful. 

"Just... Don't screw up the mission Stark" He said in a strained voice and hurried out of the room to get some cold water on his burning face.

"I would never, gorgeous!" Tony called after him with a laughter. 

Nat rolled her eyes. Bruce returned his focus back on the newspaper in front of him. Thor started eating again. Clint took Pietro's hand and the couple walked out of the room. 

Tony looked in the direction Steve had ran. He grinned and poured himself another cup of coffee. 

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Since that morning, Tony used the word 'gorgeous' as a weapon.

Every time Steve started on one of his long rants about why it's so important to vote or pay taxes or any other boring subject like the declaration of independence, Tony would slip the word into a comment and watch the captain's face turn red and hear the rest of his sentence trail off. 

Steve would glare daggers at Tony, but the dark haired man couldn't have cared less, since he continued to call him gorgeous at the worst possible and unexpected times.

During an important meeting with Nick Fury and the half of Shield:

"Gorgeous, will you pass me the papers please ?" 

Steve couldn't do anything, but send the smug genius an angry glare as his whole face heated up, right in front of all their acquaintances.

During a mission:

"Someone is coming up behind you, gorgeous!"

Steve got so distracted that he almost got shot.

He tried to focus and took care of the hydra soldier.

"Stark!" he screamed, but was only met by laughter.

One day he had enough.

He needed to give Stark a taste of his own medicine.

The whole crew were gathered in the kitchen one morning. Tony was the last to join them. He mumbled 'good morning' while walking straight towards the coffee machine. Everybody in the building knew that interacting with Tony before he got his morning coffee was a bad idea.

The dark haired man took a cup from one of the shelves. 

"Did you sleep well, handsome?" Steve asked and watched in amusement as the genius poured coffee on the table, missing the cup. 

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