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To be perfectly honest today was a boring day, just another boring day in a line of days. And the icing on the boring cake was the fact that he was stuck in a boring Avengers meeting about boring things. Because honestly how else would he describe hearing the news that Doom was working on the newest line of Doom bots? Booooring.
Not that he had anything else to do at the moment. Rhodey was overseas doing something super top secret that Tony shouldn't know about but completely did. Pepper was handling quarterly reports, something that made Tony glad that there was an Avenger meeting, it was a valid excuse to get out of helping with said reports.
And Strange? His newest friend and science bro? Not to mention the Co-President of the awesome facial hair club? Current crush? He was most likely off saying the multiverse. Or color-coding his socks. It was hard to tell what the Wizard was up to in his off time.
So you could say he was surprised when, seemingly out of nowhere, Strange just popped into existence right next to the chair that Tony was slumping in. On the tail end of what seemed like an explosive sneeze. As one the entire Avenger team snapped wide eyes over to the Sorcerer.
"Umm, bless you?" Tony wasn't sure if blessing a sneezing wizard was kosher or not, there wasn't exactly a rule book. Or if there was then Strange wasn't sharing it.
Strange straightened up with a weary but unsurprised look before rubbing at the tip of his nose with the back of one glove. "Thank you, Tony."
Tony quirked an eyebrow at the exhausted note in the other man's voice. "You ok there Gandolf?" Around the table, it was clear the rest of the group was curious to hear an answer as well. "You, uh. You normally call before you poof in." That earned him a brief scowl.
"Normally I have some say in where I'm going. Currently, I have no choice." Stephen rubbed the end of a bright red nose after saying so and Tony couldn't help but speak up again. "What's that mean."
Sighing Stephen gazed up at the ceiling as if that would help him with his answer, or as if he was looking for patience which is something he often did in the company of Tony. "Every time I sneeze I appear in a new place. No, I have no control over it. No, we don't know what's going on. No, It's not dangerous just annoying. Yes, Wong is looking into it since I haven't appeared back in the library since this started three hours ago."
Well. That was certainly something. Before Tony could respond or react Stephen let out a loud sneeze. Everyone tensed up, fully expecting the magic man to disappear but he didn't.
There was a large look of confusion on his face and Stephen's body was braced as if he expected to disappear yet again. "I'm.. still here? Why am I still here?"
Tony spoke up a moment later. "Well, Doc what was different this time?"
With a puzzled look on his face, Stephen glanced off to the side. And never let it be said his level of intelligence wasn't on par with Tony's because a moment later he was staring at Tony. "You, you said Bless you. You're the first person to say it."
Tony could only blink before he was smirking brightly, wiggling his eyebrows at Strange and saying 'You're welcome".