“thanks Pep.” Tony said, relaxing a little into her hug before blinking at her. “I wasn’t thinking of arm cannons.” he admitted. “I was thinking an aerodynamic Frisbee…” his eyes slid over to Steph, his eyes glittering wickedly. “with a firm touch of ‘keep away’." Of course Tony wanted to use Captain America’s shield as a frisbee. It would deeply annoy Steph, well, at least, Tony HOPED it would deeply annoy steph.<br/><br/>“…” Tony scowled immediately at the idea of Pepper being anywhere near Loki. The man confused and worried him immensely but Loki had taken Pepper out multiple times and nothing had ever happened. Bucky, one of the few without any bad memories of the little brat had mentioned something about how Loki was the god of something or other and extremely respectful of women. Aside from calling Natasha a Mewling Quim that one time, he had never raised a voice to any of the women, had never cut them with acidic barbs, and was astonishingly obedient to Steph. She told him what to do and he did it. It was confusing and upsetting and tony didn’t know why. “that sounds fine.” it wasn’t fine…. But no one could say Loki didn’t have fantastic fashion sense. He tensed when the lights dimmed, but there was enough light he could still see enough to defend himself. And he had made new glowsticks that shined as bright as a lightbulbs and he had those on him too. It would be fine.<br/><br/>Bucky startled when he was reprimanded and part of him shrank away, the broken animal part of him. The more dominant part of him raised an eyebrow at Johnny. He was well aware Johnny hated the Opera. Everyone knew Johnny hated the Opera. He immediately flinched, biting down a yelp when Steph’s fingers sank into his thigh. “Jesus Doll, okay! Okay! I’m sorry!” he twitched his thigh out of her grip but he didn’t sound repentant at all. He sounded more amused than anything. He frowned as the play started. He was already confused. There was some dude who was hunting another dude and the hunted dude found the wife of the dude doing the hunting and… something about a sword in a tree? He looked at Steph, usually she was the one to answer questions but if he spoke now she’d drive her surprisingly strong nails into him again. He decided to just sit back and enjoy the music. He liked music. Loki, for his part, was very amused and as the first act concluded he announced. “why must humans put incest into everything they create?” Bucky just looked even more confused. “I didn’t understand any of what was going on.” he admitted. Tony leaned forward. “Me either buddy. Me either.” well, that certainly made Bucky feel better at least.<br/>