voidtreckerexpress | February Catch-All Log

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February Catch-All Log

Who: Tony + varies
What: Varies
Where: On the train somewhere
When: Second half of Domino (19th forward)
Warnings: Tony being rude, language

[In the Gym: Open]

Even though Tony has cut back on his busy schedule, he still is sparring some and doing yoga often. It's not the relentless every single day at precisely certain times. The yoga, he attempts to do by himself now but given the number of people on board, that's pretty impossible.

(So come bug him while he's doing the warrior pose or using a practice sword!)

[Science lesson in standard car!: Open]

Since a little before the new arrivals, Tony has had several classes each week on both science and math topics. He's juggling a variety of skill levels, but Peter is his helper in most classes to go help anyone who needs it. Today, Tony decides to have a demonstration of suspending an egg between water and vinegar and breathing fire. He uses some charcoal for chalk and uses the front wall of the standard car as his chalkboard. When the demonstrations are over, he assigns some worksheets for practice. However, he also provides cookies.

(Bug him afterward about the demonstrations, cookies, whatever)

[19: Evening, Happy Birthday Ignis! (Invitation to ALL BLUE team plus- Reigen, Raven, and anyone close to Ignis (you know who you are and I can't think atm)]

Ignis had thought he was planning a dinner party with just Madoka and Tony. Of course, he didn't think Tony had remembered his birthday and he's the King of Extra, clearly this meant they should throw a surprise party. (Yes, another one). He didn't know what cake to make for a chef like Ignis, so he went with what Mady liked best, since that would most likely make his partner just as or even more pleased. So they had white icing with sprinkles and pink, strawberry, triple layered cake.

Tony had some of the kids help make party hats and confetti and got everyone who was attending into the dining car while he went to get the unaware birthday boy in the kitchen.

[A compromise, Day 20: Bucky, Ignis, Tony and Yuffie.]

Tony was a little skeptical of this approach, but he was willing to give it a try. He had a small bundle wrapped in paper in one hand when he arrived at the quiet car to await the teenager. He looked at the other two men with a sigh.

"Do we really have to do this?" He whined at Ignis, knowing full well what the answer would be.

[OTA: Just make up something and start it. I'm game!]

[P.S. For those observant types, Tony's hand is now missing the wedding ring he has had since coming here.]

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It was a game, not a test! Although maybe a game and a test had the same results, but Tony would argue at the seriousness of this test.

He has to hold back the laughter at how ridiculously cute it is that she leans in to give him her answer. He swears it's not at her, but sometimes when things bring enough joy and cute, one must laugh. It was her fault for being so pink and adorable.

Tony pulls her closer when she answers and gives her another kiss on top of her head. "You're so smart! Good job." He holds up his hand where there was a circle of pale skin on his ring finger but the ring he'd always worn was gone. "So when Ignis gets back up here, I want you to run up to him and ask 'Are you going to be the new Mrs. Stark?'. Think you can do that? Don't worry, he'll find it funny."

Okay, so she totally aced this test. It's like her nerves melt away like snow under the sun when he pulls her over and kisses her head like that. And there's even a compliment?! Saying that she's smart?! Madoka is blossoming like a flower here, a wide smile appearing on her face.

"Okay!" (Un)fortunately the way he makes her happy so easily also means that she in turn gives in so easily to any of his plans. Tony says Ignis will find it funny too, after all! That means she's just sharing a joke with her dads, sounds like a great plan. She nods at him, still smiling. "I can do that! Don't worry!"

She looks adorably determined. Even her cheeks puff out a little. Now all they have to do is wait for Ignis to get back.

The advisor returned with the drinks and couldn't tell anything was amiss. His fiancee and daughter were right where he left them so all was well there.

Madoka looks as if something is on her mind but he doesn't ask because she looks like something good has happened to her. And Ignis didn't want to ruin it by asking anything.

Moving over to Tony, he handed the concoction to the other and looked from Tony to Madoka, trying to figure out what was going on.

There he is! Madoka definitely looks excited. It's exciting news, after all, and on top of that she's just really glad that she now has A Mission. She's only barely keeping herself from excitedly bouncing a little on her feet when she spots Ignis, smiling up at him widely as he rejoins her and Tony.

"Papa, papa! Are you going to be the new Mrs. Stark?"

Madoka certainly looked happy about something but what it was he didn't know. So he smiled at his daughter and smiled at Tony. And when their princess asked her question, green eyes immediately sought the older man's gaze. This was like him to pull something like that and to have the innocent go along with his nefarious plans.

But he couldn't and wouldn't take it out on the girl who asked the question in innocence. And if Tony didn't put her up to this, it might make sense in her own mind as to how this was going to work. So he smiled and knelt down, ignoring his mate. "So he told you about the engagement did he?" There was a pause. "And no, I'm not. There was only one who could be Misses Stark and she's not here."

Tony burst out laughing as soon as Ignis' gaze hit him. He loved it! That expression was so priceless! It reminded him of back when he and Ignis used to banter when they first got together. The adviser would get so exasperated by it felt like such a victory when he finally made the serious, younger man laugh.

He smiled watching with pride as Ignis knelt to Mady's level. He looked every bit the part of a dad. If they ever did leave here, he hoped Ignis' life would take a turn back home he hadn't expected so he could be a father there too. The man deserved a family and all the happiness this world and all the others had to offer.

"Yeah! Or.. um, actually.. I kind of guessed..? He said I'm really smart!" She beams as she repeats the compliment, seemingly completely oblivious to anything else going on here. At best the second part of what Ignis says feels a little confusing, since he doesn't seem to find it as funny as Tony implied..?

Except that's exactly the moment she realises Tony is actually the one laughing, and as she turns to look at that instead the girl's confusion is complete. It's so easily written all across her face.

"You are very smart darling." Ignis soothed, refraining from reaching up to touch her hair. So he smiled for her sake. When Madoka turns to look at Tony confusedly, that was when Ignis glared at Tony. "Either way it's quite a ways off." Of course he'd heard of the tradition of taking someone's last name but he wasn't sure he was ready to give up his last name. He'd also heard others would hyphenate last names so that had been a consideration too.

Standing up, his green eyes fixed right on Tony. "Well at least our daughter is aware." He wondered how many others would notice the plain band of gold on his left hand that he made no show of. But he didn't mind a very long engagement.

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With both of their eyes on him, Tony's laughing fit subsided and he gave them both a guilty grin. Getting up, he came over to them and put a hand lightly on Madoka's shoulder. "Yes, our brilliant daughter figured it out. I would've talked to you about how to tell her we were engaged but she beat us to it," he gave her a proud grin at that. It was nice that their daughter had been paying so close attention that she noticed something like that.

"You know we're like a celebrity couple on board. People are going to notice, Birthday Boy."

Madoka may still be very, very confused as to what happened just now - maybe she will look back on this moment one day and have a much belated realisation - but at least the compliments are enough to force the confusion out of her brain momentarily. If one of them saying she's smart was already almost too much for her, then both saying it is definitely an overload. Madoka's cheeks turn rosy, but it's exactly why she quickly tries to focus on them rather than herself here.

".. Don't you want people to know, papa?" She can't help but direct the question at Ignis when Tony was laughing and even now is still grinning - it definitely makes him seem less bothered about it. "But it's a good thing, right? It shows that you two love each other very much!"

"A celebrity..." That was Noct and the king's reply to something like that was that he'd rather be in the obituaries which Ignis hadn't liked that answer. He smiled at their daughter and at Tony who had his hand on her shoulder. Looking into those red eyes now Ignis nodded. "I am proud. I am just quieter about things compared to your Dad."

There were politics involved too at being engaged to the leader of the train but he wasn't about to enlighten the girl, so he would just keep smiling and not mentioning that certain troubling thing. "It will probably be a small wedding as well..maybe."

That's when Ignis looked over at Tony. Knowing that man it wouldn't be so easy.

Tony hoped when she realized what she'd missed, she will laugh and not put a spider in his bed.

"Yeah, Papa," Tony echoed playfully as Ignis answered why he wasn't as showy as the older man was. He had to chuckle at that. It seemed like one of the biggest understatements possible, but there was plenty of affection there too. He, of course, missed that there was anything political about what they were doing except that it was something people would notice. Haters were going to hate, right? So who cared.

The remark on the ceremony though caught Tony off-guard. Obviously, a wedding would follow a proposal but he hadn't mentally gotten that far yet. So excuse him while he has a moment of the Blue Screen of Death before he can reboot properly. "Uh..."

At least Ignis' explanation seems to be enough to satisfy the girl. She does know there's a big difference between her fathers when it comes to the way they express things, after all, and as long as Ignis says he's proud of it, then of course Madoka instantly believes him.

But boy, oh boy, then the w-word is dropped, and Madoka seems to instantly get excited. Her eyes are almost twinkling. "That'd be so much fun..! I can come at least, right?" Despite Ignis saying it'd be small. "Are we all going to wear pretty and fancy clothes?"

For a moment she prattles on, but then her gaze finally shifts from Ignis to Tony enough to realise someone doesn't look quite as present here. Madoka lets out a surprised sound.

"Wait.. Is everything okay?"

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"Of course you can come darling." Ignis smiled. Their daughter seemed really excited and happy if that joyful expression was anything to go by. He nodded to Madoka's question about the fancy dress too, refraining from touching her. "Of course you may go. After all it wouldn't be right or proper if you weren't wearing the prettiest dress there."

Catching her gaze at Tony, the advisor stood and placed his hand on her shoulder with a sigh. "Everything is fine Madoka." Because by saying it, he could somehow make it be true.

Wow, were they really talking about weddings? Was that really where he was? One look at Ignis and he knew it was true, it was just so shocking to find himself here again. He'd taken it for granted the first time but now he got to do something completely different. It still seemed strange and a little scary, but good. This was good.

He gave Ignis a smile then that was maybe a little shy-ish, but genuine. "Yeah, everything is fine," he agreed no matter how belated it might be after Ignis' remark. "Where do you want the honeymoon? The kitchen or the game room?"

Aw, that smile coming from Tony is kind of sweet.. And although this doesn't quite seem like the man's usual reactions, Madoka doesn't seem to question it too much. Maybe since she's content enough with Ignis' hand on her shoulder to not think about it too much.

But the remark does make her pout a little.

"Those aren't places to go on a honeymoon.." But her voice trails off at the end, since she realises that it would be kind of hard for those two to have a honeymoon when they're stuck on a train, huh.. Which sucks. Because they're both amazing and deserve to have everything be great.

"I have plans." By this Ignis meant in Tony's workroom because he'd already mentally sectioned off a place for a nest so to speak, but he wouldn't say as much in the presence of their daughter. And at hearing the note of concern in Madoka's voice, the advisor smiled. "We'll be fine darling, you'll see."

Even if they could go somewhere, Ignis would demand some sort of communication to be able to keep in contact with Madoka should anything go wrong. They were parents now (well Tony was already, this was all new to him of course) and he couldn't imagine going off on his own somewhere without a way to find out if their daughter was safe or not.

Tony was about to reply that they didn't need a honeymoon. It was a ridiculous notion given where they were. They might see if they couldn't get Buttercup to stay somewhere else for a couple nights, but even that he doubted. It wasn't like they were going to get to do a lot of the traditional wedding stuff anyway. So, one of his eyebrows rose at Ignis' reassurance, curious what the man had in store.

"Alright, enough about that, let's go find a game we can all play with the birthday boy. Do you like cards?"

The pout mostly fades at Ignis' words. If there's anything that can reassure her so easily, it's Ignis saying he has a plan like that. She doesn't even have to ask what they are to believe it'll turn out okay for those two, so Madoka just nods.

.. and then is easily distracted by Tony's suggestion instead.

"Oh.. yes!" Games are part of a proper birthday party, right? "Let's play a card game with papa!"

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