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Steve Rogers (captainhandsome) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-08-07 08:51:00

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steve rogers (mcu), tony stark (mcu)

Who: Superhusbands.
What: Some drama for a change.
Where: Their house.
When: Backdated to after Steve and Thor's Hammer Time.

Steve hadn't wanted to take the hammer with him, but he'd also felt like there was no getting out of it. He'd tried to reassure him, but Steve hadn't been able to get through to him and he hadn't actually wanted to cause an argument. Thor had reached out to him because he trusted him and while Steve didn't agree with his thinking, he wanted to support his choice to keep communication open so Thor wouldn't just shut down. So he'd taken the hammer. It wasn't far back to his house and he made it quick, he didn't exactly want to be out in the open with it. Once inside he took the hammer to his room and stood there with it, wondering where one might keep a God's Hammer.

Under the bed seemed so tacky.

He swung it by the strap a few times before he opened a cupboard and placed it on the shelf. It looked, well, out of place among the socks but Steve sat back on the bed to look at it. Which is when he noticed the photograph.

There was a long moment after he'd grabbed it from his pillow that he wasn't sure what he was looking at. But slowly his head caught up and the sinking feeling in his stomach kicked in. Tony in the photo looked happy, the real kind of happy, full of joy and warmth right into his eyes. Pepper looked happy too, his arm around her and then there was a little girl. Steve hadn't seen her before, but it was clear that it was their daughter. She had her dad's smile and he couldn't look away from it.

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captainhandsome
2019-08-11 09:25 pm UTC (link)

Thor could be the sensitive type and Steve hadn't wanted to upset him. It was his hammer and he'd been sure, convinced that none of them would lift it. He'd seen the worry on his face when he'd thought Steve might and he'd wanted to just avoid it all. No one needed to know, although Thor had seemed to figure it out in the end.

He sighed as he gave a little nod. It was hard because The Avengers were all the stubborn sort. Steve could tell him over and over that it wasn't his fault, that things happened but Thor wasn't going to hear him. He knew because he wouldn't have heard it either. Steve didn't want to know, Natasha had told them some and the more he knew the more he wished that he didn't.

"I didn't want to take it, but he didn't give me a choice," Steve explained. It would take a little longer than just one conversation when the hammer's appearance was still fresh.

Steve let out a sigh, using the hold he had on Tony'd belt loop to bring him in so he could press his face into his stomach. "Enough surprises," Steve said quietly although it sounded like 'enruffsurfrises' muffled against him.

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allaboutego
2019-08-12 10:05 pm UTC (link)

No, Tony supposed that Steve probably hadn't had much of a choice -- not if he'd wanted to do right by Thor in the moment. There was no arguing with that, even if Tony had wanted to. Which he didn't, not currently.

He allowed himself to be pulled back into Steve's orbit, settled his hands on his back and in his hair and let out a sigh of his own, frustratingly shallow, but he was still getting used to his own recent surprise.

"No," he agreed, glancing down at the photo next to Steve on the bed. "No more surprises. That'd be nice, wouldn't it. What will you do? With the hammer?"

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captainhandsome
2019-08-13 12:10 am UTC (link)

Steve was still getting used to the light in Tony's chest, the blue that lit their bedroom at night. But he'd liked it from the moment it had come back and Steve still liked it. At night he'd lay there, tracing the scars, mouthing at where skin met metal and while it wasn't comfortable for him and Steve hated that, it was part of him and thus Steve was into it.

He wrapped his arms around his middle, hanging loosely as he just breathed. They had right now, Tony was his and in this time that they shared for however long they had, Steve would have him. That was enough.

"Nothing," Steve said as he pulled back to look up at him. "Just leave it there until he's ready to take it back. I mean if something happens and we can use the firepower then," he shrugged as he glanced at it. "Maybe I'll try to use it. But not unless I absolutely have to."

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allaboutego
2019-08-13 02:31 am UTC (link)

Tony liked that Steve liked it, if nothing else. It was something that he'd always been fairly wary about showing off when he'd first gotten it. It'd been a design he didn't want anyone else to get their hands on, for one thing -- and after Stane had forcibly taken it from him, it left him incredibly wary. The best way to avoid being vulnerable had been to avoid getting into situations that would make that possible. And he'd thought the scarring unsightly for a long time.

But Steve didn't. And Steve was safe. So. It was a pretty good feeling.

Steve's plan made sense, sure. It was the easy option. Tony wasn't sure if it was the best one, but he didn't know what was so he couldn't speak to that. Using it didn't seem like anything they needed to worry about just now, so he'd let that one alone, too. "Well. Maybe not right in the cupboard," he said after a moment.

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