Where is myĀ āAll The Boys Iāve Ever Loved Beforeā Stony AU??
Featuring High School Junior Steve whoās painfully shy and emotionally constipated so, when he gets a crush he sketches them, then writes to them on the back, expressing his feelings.Ā
And then he shoves them in a box under his bed and doesnāt think about him until heās tormented by another crush.Ā
The letters are addressed to the following.Ā
Bucky Barns: One of his best friends, one of his oldest friends. Buckyās got storms in his eyes and a leather jacket that smelled of baby oil and cigarettes. He looks effortlessly handsome in long hair not a damn soul ever utters a word about, because heād kick their ass into next Wednesday. Heās Steveās current crush, but this is a problem, because Bucky is Natashaās boyfriend.Ā
Natasha Romanov: Steveās other best friend. Theyād known one another since the first grade, and are next door neighbors. When they were little and Steveās mother had to work night shifts, Steve used to stay at her house. Theyād watch the Goosebumps hour and cling to one another at the scary parts. Natashaās got red hair that she absolutely despises and eyes that are green in the summer and hazel in the fall. Steve did her sketch in the ninth grade.Ā
Peggy Carter: A girl Steve once met at camp. Sheād been nice to him when the others pranked him. Sheād found him at sunset in the shower cabin. After finding out that the pranksters had taken his clothes and thrown them up into trees, she climbed up each one and retrieved them for him. Sheād handed them to him through a crack in the door, but that wasnāt before Steve saw her expression. Soft, but stronger than steel as she insisted that they do something to retaliate. Steve did her sketch the summer before Sophomore year.Ā
Tony Stark: In the seventh grade Steve and Tony kissed.It was just a soft brush of lips, a peck, more than anything. It was a result of spin the bottle, but it was a kiss no less. The only one Steveās ever had. Tony wasā¦indescribable. His hair was too long and his eyes were like honey-but instead of mellow slowness everything about him was high energy and loud. The teachers had called him a problem child. Steve did his sketch that night, while the looking in Tonyās eyes just before they kissed was still fresh in his mind.Ā
Thor Odinson: Okay, this one just isnāt fair. There isnāt a single person in the entirety of Shield High who doesnāt want Thor. Heās kind, and he always smiles and he plays football. Heās not like the other jocks, heās genuinely sweet and strange and foreign with his yellow hair and smile like the sun. Steve did his sketch Christmas Break freshman year, after he ran into him on the street whilst carrying six bags of groceries down the slippery sidewalk. He took three of the bags from Steve and walked him all the way to his front door.Ā
One day, Steve moves the five sketches to his history book, because room inspections at the house he was living in the six other foster boys were underway., and there was no way he trusted anyone with them. So when he loses the history book that day heās positively mortified.Ā
These sketches and messages were never supposed to be seen by any of these people.Ā
So when Nat meets him on the sidewalk on Monday morning to walk to school, Steve nearly passes out when he sees sheās got the letter in her hand. His letter. that he wrote her.
Luckily itās not a big deal. She laughs a little, but not meanly. She teases him a little and hugs him but they bater as usual as they walk down the street to the school. On the way there, Nat quietly tell him that she and Bucky broke up. Steve hates himself when the first thing he feels his a spark of hope rather than sympathy for his best friends.Ā
At Lunch Thor approaches him with the letter. Sketch. Heās elated, and doesnāt find it odd at all. He compliments Steve on his art and tells him heās going to keep it in a safe place.Ā
Steveās almost able to put it out of his mind in gym .He goes to the weight room and is on the bench press when the door opens and closes. Upsidedown, Steve sees Tony Stark enter looking somewhat disgusted as he side steps a sweat soaked t-shirt in the middle of the floor. In Tonyās hand is the sketchĀ Steve almost kills himself by dropping the bar. Ā He puts it back quickly, just in time for Tony to approach him, and start telling him how he was flattered and he appreciated the gesture but-Ā
Steve stops listening when he sees Buck walk in. He looks down trodden and sad, and heās got a letter in his hand. Thinking of Natasha, thinking of just how many friendship codes heād be breaking if he were ever to act on his feelings for Bucky. But Bucky is walking towards him. Bucky has the sketch, and Steve panics and does the only thing he can think of doing. He grabs Tony Stark (whoās still talking but saying absolutely nothing) and kisses him right on the mouth.Ā
Bucky, stunned, looks around the room. He leaves when a spotting coach rushes over and shooes Steve and Tony out of the guy, talking about how tired he is of teenage hormones. Steve agrees with the sentiment, and heās gone before Tony has a single chance to talk to him.Ā
Later, Steveās working in a diner not far from the school. Heās a waiter and dishwasher all wrapped up in one, especially when itās late and the diner is dead, just as it is when Tony Stark swaggers in at one in the morning. Steve wants to jump in the big dishwashing sink and drown himself, but he doesnāt. He asks Tony what he wants to order, and Tony goes on reiterating the fact that he was flattered, but not into Steve like that at all.Ā
Lightly stung Steve replies that he didnāt have a thing for Tony either, that heād simply kissed him so Bucky wouldnāt think he liked him, which could ruin his relationship with both Buck AND Natasha and then he really would be friendless. Tony doesnāt react to this the way Steve thought he would. Instead of the expected anger, Tony lights up. A smile that seems to make the whole damn room look brighter.Ā
This is when they decide that theyāre going to fake a relationship. Steve would stay in the clear with Nat and Bucky, and Tony could make Pepper jealous so sheād take him back for the umpteenth time.
So they fake it. They draw up a contract, a mutual agreement-because if the plot got out theyād both be humiliated and no one person should have any sort of upper hand. Steve insists on no kissing-which Tony seems adamantly against, but resolves to accept if Steve agrees to go with him on the annual Ski Trip. Steve does. The contract is signed.Ā
Over the span of four months, Steve and Tony become the power couple of SHIELD high. Tony drags Steve into things heād never touch with a ten foot pole before, like parties and ditching school to go to the beach on a rainy day. Steve finds himself happier than he has been in a long time. The happiest heās been since the losss of his mother. They have that in common. They talk about it one night, sitting in Tonyās kitches as Steve washed and dried the dishes, despite Tonyās assurance that he didnāt have to. That night Steve found himself feeling incredibly hurt when the subject of Pepper came back up. Pepper whoād cornered Tony earlier that day to ask Tony if he was going on the Ski trip, and if he was taking Steve with him. Tony senses this, and joked about it, asking Steve is he was feeling jealous. Steve tells him thereās nothing to be jealous about, because none of it is real.Ā
When he leaves Tonyās house that night his feet seem glued to the driveway for too long as he studies the handle bars of his bike, arguing with himself about if he should apologize or not. He decides he wonāt. Ha also decides that thing had begun to get more real, and needed to stop. Because now Bucky wasnāt the one he though about cuddling up to or going to movies with. It was Tony. Tony and his snarky, mile a minute mouth and his college math textbooks and his robots that he built himself and treated like his children. Tony.Ā
Steve tries toĀ ābreak upā with tony after over hearing a conversation between him and Pepper. It sounds too much like theyāre going to get back together. Tonyād gotten what he wanted, and Steve had gotten the same. There was no point in doing it all anymore. Tony argues that Steve signed the contract, which included the Ski Trip. Steve, wanting to always be a man of his word, agrees.Ā
On the bus to the mountain Steve doesnāt sit next to Tony, even though Tony tires to get him to. Instead Steve sits in the back and looks out the window with Natasha snoring on his shoulder. Pepper takes the spot next to Tony, and Steve regrets the wholeĀ āfake relationshipā more and more ever moment that passed.Ā
Later that night, Steve finally tells Natasha everything. Heās been moody and snappy all day, and Nat pins him to the ground and threatens him with a sharpie and the labelĀ āpissbabyā on his forehead for being such a party pooper and the dam just breaks. She laughs at him. Actually. She tells him heās stupid, tells him that Tony looks at him like heās the whole world, and that it was a little hard to miss. She also tells him that Tony is waiting for Steve out in the hot tub.Ā
As it turns out, Tony is in the hot tub. Heās by all means sulking, but he perks up a little when Steve sits down on the edge. Steve preambles with howTonyād gotten to sit with Pepper on the ride up, asks him how it was-but Tony cuts him off. He tells Steve he hadnāt wanted to sit next to Pepper. He hadnāt planned don sitting next to Pepper. Heād bought stupid road trip bingo and pizza flavored Bugles on the bus not for his health, but because those were things Steve liked. And Tony liked Steve. Very much.Ā
Thereās defining moments in every personās life. Steve has one when he slides into the hot tub (still in his pajama pants) and for the first time kisses Tony Stark like he means it.Ā
