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Tweak says, "Green Team!"

Steve Rogers (captainhandsome) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-10-15 07:08:00

Entry tags:

steve rogers (mcu), tony stark (mcu)

Who: Steve Rogers and Tony Stark
What: Talking and then getting all reunited
Where: Their house
When: Sunday

Steve had really had a pretty interesting few days. With access to the medicine whenever he needed it, he was better than usual and the people here were great. He missed his mom, of course he did. But he loved spending time with his little 'family' at home. Bucky was there and he could draw as long as he liked. It was pretty great. Even if something felt a little wrong and off.

But he couldn't quite put his finger on what. Just when he thought he'd thought of it? It was gone again and he was left looking into space.

He was in the kitchen, making sandwiches because he and Natasha were going to go find somewhere outside to eat them when Tony walked in and Steve beamed at him. "Hey! Hey Tony!" Steve said quickly, nearly choking on his eagerness. Because Tony was amazing and Steve never knew what to do with his hands when he was around.

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allaboutego
2019-10-17 02:32 am UTC (link)

Tony kissed back like he was starving for it. Whoever had described it in a way that a drowning man might do something -- that was Tony. He took and took and until he needed to breathe and even though he felt a little bit like he could keep going if not for Steve backing up a little.

He reached out, fingers splaying against Steve's chest because he had to touch, had to know it was real and not just some dream he was going to wake up from. But he laughed anyway, because of course. "Yeah," he repeated. "Well, you were a real cute kid and all, but I can't say the same. I'm already a cradle robber when you're this age."

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captainhandsome
2019-10-17 03:50 am UTC (link)

Tony was always wonderfully needy and Steve had waxed poetic about how much he loved that. But it was even more in that moment, Tony kissing him like he needed him and Steve would give him anything. To have no memory of this, of the happiness and the love they shared, it all came back and Steve was so glad to be all grown up.

“I don’t blame you,” he said with a smile as he stroked his cheek. The problem would have come later, if he’d stayed young and got a little older, a crush and sixteen year old hormones, not that would have been a nightmare. “Huh? With this old man?” Steve asked as he settled on his side and stretched out, feet nearly at the end of the mattress where they belonged but he didn’t let go, didn’t move back from him.

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allaboutego
2019-10-17 04:08 am UTC (link)

Normal needy was definitely different from this - normal needy was Tony just being who he was, a product of everything that'd gotten him to where he was now. But this particular needy was more than that -- because Tony'd been pretty fucking sure for a few days there that he was never going to have a normal Steve back again, that he'd have to resign himself to having to raise him like he was a child and --

Well. It'd been a pretty rough thought. Right now, Tony could have cried for how relieved he was, but for the fact that he wasn't much of a crier and never really had been. "Shut up," he said instead, squirming forward until he was pressed up agains Steve who was so tall now. "Just hug me for a while."

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captainhandsome
2019-10-17 11:45 am UTC (link)

He couldn't imagine it from Tony's point of view, at least Steve hadn't known what he'd been missing. Tony on the other hand had been very aware, had thought about all those years between the age Steve had been and where he'd be him again. At least when he'd been small, pre-serum Steve he'd still been an adult and they'd still had each other.

Tony squirmed forward and Steve wrapped his arms around him and tightened his hold. He felt darn good there, the two of them fit together just right and he nudged their noses together before he looked into his eyes. "I wish I'd had you to give me a pep talk when I was a kid for real, you know," Steve said softly.

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allaboutego
2019-10-17 08:40 pm UTC (link)

Tony didn't even want to imagine it from Tony's point of view anymore. It'd been a difficult week, even with the added on delights of everyone being cute and tiny and carting around Gwen on his hip because he couldn't seem to find any reasons or excuses to want to put her down.

"Well," Tony said, pressing his nose into the crook of Steve's neck and effectively muffling himself even if he did see fit to go on talking anyway. "I think your moral compass worked out just fine without me, Steve."

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captainhandsome
2019-10-20 11:05 am UTC (link)

Their legs fit together, his thigh between Tony's because he was an adult again and they just fit. He could doze like this, usually he'd be up already for a run but there was no way he was leaving the circle of the other man's arms, not for a run on a cold morning.

"It did okay, but hearing something like that when I was that age? Would have changed my life," Steve said softly. "That I could love who I wanted, that I might get to be happy one day," he let out a low whistle. "I'm glad things are different now."

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allaboutego
2019-10-20 04:59 pm UTC (link)

Tony had missed this, when Steve was small and hadn't remembered that they were a thing. Mind, it was sort of a relief that he hadn't remembered, considering it would have made it that many times harder on both of them if he had. Steve had been a cute kid, but that was as far as Tony's brain would let him go.

Still. It had been a really lonely week, and Tony'd felt like he was missing out on something huge and important even while little Steve had been right in the other room.

"Well," he said after a beat where he was just enjoying the contact, their legs tangled together and the good feeling he got from just having it again (Tony was, no doubt, going to be clingy for the next few days), "I'm glad it helped you. You're not going to go off to go steady with Natasha, then?" He knew Steve was being serious, but Tony couldn't help but poke fun at the idea of it.

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captainhandsome
2019-10-21 11:13 am UTC (link)

It would have been maybe too confronting to know that they were a them. Confronting but also confusing because Tony was gorgeous but too old and the attraction just wouldn't have been there for either of them. No it would have been its own kind of hell and Steve was incredibly glad they were back where they belonged.

Being back in his bed with his boyfriend, the warmth of his skin, it just reaffirmed that Steve was just where he belonged. Nothing and no one made him feel as peaceful as Tony did.

Never one to miss the chance to lighten the mood Tony asked about Natasha and Steve laughed. "We're postponing the wedding for now," Steve agreed somberly. "I mean we didn't even have a white dress, who were we kidding?"

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allaboutego
2019-10-22 10:08 pm UTC (link)

No, it wouldn't have been good. Not for Tony and not for Steve. Likely, Steve knowing just would have made things more awkward and if nothing else, Tony was glad that Steve had had a week of romping around with friends and being as carefree as a closeted little boy from the 1920's could be. At least he'd had friends.

"Oh good," Tony said dryly, but there was a smile in his tone anyway, because he'd missed this - Steve's dry wit and warm, warm arms. "I've got time to make an argument for myself." He let a beat of a moment pass before he huffed out a sigh. "Stay for a while? I'm tired."

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