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Steve lifted the card reader so that it touched Tony’s card. There was a discreet beep and Steve withdrew the reader. Tony, lost in his phone, left his hand in the air so after staring at it for another long, puzzling moment, Steve took Tony’s wrist in his hand and pushed it back down to his side.

That got Tony’s attention. Tony looked up from the phone at his wrist, up at Steve’s hand, then back down at his wrist. When he spoke, it was while looking back down at his phone screen.

‘Huh. Don’t usually ask for a massage service with my coffee but if you’re so determined to manhandle me, you could at least make me a coffee before my happy ending?’

Steve blushed, both at the intimacy of the comment and the rudeness.

‘My coffee itself is a happy ending,’ Steve could not resist the urge to snap back. What was he doing? Was that flirting? Steve shook himself, remembered the horrific way that his first meeting with Stark all those years ago had ended, and stepped away to make the espresso, shaking his head as he stirred the frankly insane amount of sugar into the drink.