It seemed so impossible now, dating anyone else in a world where there was a Tony. When no one else could compare, when no one else would ever measure up. But they hadn't then either. Cruel though it had been maybe to be with someone simply to not be alone, Steve had hoped in time he might feel about him the way he felt about Tony. He hadn't. He nuzzled Tony's cheek and mouthed at his jaw, breathing in the smell of him.
"What and you think she'd want to be in my corner?" Steve asked and obviously he was surprised. It had seemed impossible at the time, now Steve remembered it. Tony had been married, they'd been finished and so broken and he'd been broken over it watching him first with his family and then losing him altogether.