the pic in the list are not mine, I just found the pics from pinterest.
fair warning the theme i chose for my october prompts are completly randome so I have nothing planned for any of them.
English is not my first language and no beta.
It started in the morning. He felt like he had woken at the wrong side of the bed. He felt like he could explode at any time.
He tried to get his mind off it and went to the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. Only to find that the coffee maker is broken.
He sighed, He wished Stephen was here. His boyfriend makes the best coffee and tea the engineer had ever tasted.
He forgoes breakfast since Stephen is at Kamar-Taj and wouldn’t be back till later this evening.
He went down to his lab through the elevator. When the door opened, the face of Steve Grant Rogers was the one that greeted him.
Just great, he thought sarcastically. Still, he stepped into the elevator.
“Tony? You look terrible. Maybe you should rest some more.” The captain was showing genuine concern but Tony wasn’t really in the mood to be nice.
“I’m fine,” He said curtly, “What are you doing here?”
“I’m about to go mee Sam and Bucky to go on a run with them.” While he said that, his expression still shows concern about the shorter man’s wellbeing.
Tony hates it. Thankfully the elevator opened to his floor quickly so he could step out.
Stiffly he spoke, “Well, this is my stop. See you around, I guess.”
He then quickly left to enter his workshop.
His bad day didn’t seem to stop there, It followed him throughout the day. He kept accidentally messing things up and it caused the engineer to get even more irritated.
Time flew by ang the next he knew it was night time.
He’s tired, frustrated, angry, and hungry. He felt terrible and he knows he looks terrible too.
He was stopped from continuing by his AI informing him that both Stephen and Peter had returned and Stephen is making dinner.
So he decided to go greet them.
Upon arriving he was greeted with Peter’s over energetic-ness. The teen was saying this and that and this and that, there was nothing wrong with it, it was normal for him to do that.
Too bad today wasn’t the right time for it.
“- And then we can go and -”
“Peter, stop.” Tony cut through the endless babbling. Peter was confused. Did he do something wrong?
“Peter, please, for the love of God. Stop talking.” Now the teen is really starting to panic, did he annoy Mr Stark?
Stephen, who had been listening from the kitchen frowned.
“Peter, Please. I’m tired.” Stephen moved towards where they are, he has a bad feeling about this, “If you’re gonna talk so much then just- Leave!”
It was too late. He had said it and there was no taking it back. The words had taken its effect, the teen’s eyes were starting to get red.
The spider child didn’t bother to say anything else and simply ran towards the nearest exit.
“Peter-!” his hand reached out, but it was too late, the teen had already left.
What the hell did he just say? How could he say something like that? My God, he felt sick-
His knees went weak and he fell to the floor, “Tony!”
He was just like his father. He’s just as horrible as his father. He-
His thoughts spirald even further.
“-ny. -ony! Tony! Breath, follow my breathing, it’s okay, you didn’t mean it.” He hugged the broken man in his arms closely and whispered soft things into his ears, reassuring the other.
“You were having a bad day, you were tired. I understand everyone gets tired. It’s okay.”
“it’s not… It's not okay. I’m just as fucked up as my father-”
“NO! Tony, believe me, you are not your father. He’s not you, you are one of the kindest men I've ever met."
It took a few minutes more to calm down. They had managed to move to the sofa and after a while Peter returned (JARVIS called him). Tony explained that it wasn’t the teen’s fault, he had simply been in a bad mood since this morning and it had simply blown up.
After that the spider shield went to bed first. Stephen then pulled Tony to their bedroom to rest as well.
While the sorcerer had reassured him that he wasn’t his father, Tony still couldn’t get it off his mind. Thanks to that it resulted in him not being able to sleep.
Good thing that Stephen anticipated this since he also didn’t sleep, instead, he spoke, “Do you wanna talk about it?”
The older man looked at the younger one, “m… Nah.. it's stupid anyways”
“Tony… It’s not stupid. I care about you.”
“Yeah, well. It’s not even supposed to be that big of a deal.”
The younger male pondered his options, “I… was - am still -scared of loving someone, especially if they’re a male.
“My sister - Donna - I loved her so much. But she died. And it was all because I couldn’t help her. Had I been able to do a simple respiration she would still be alive now
“I’m scared of failing to protect the person I love…
“My father hated me after that incident. He and ma never really cared about me. Donna was their pride and joy. So after that incident… He would beat me up just because he hated to see me.
“It got even worse after he found out I’m bisexual. He called me all sorts of things while hitting me and telling me that no one would ever love someone like me.”
His voice trembled with each word and it broke off in the end.
Two strong arms wrapped around the shaking sorcerer. He didn’t even notice he had been crying.
“I’m sorry Stephen. No one should ever experience that. You should never have had to experience that…” he trailed off for a bit.
Stephen had trusted him with this vulnerable side of him, the least he could do was return it.
“Ever since I was born my father never cared about me. I tried to gain my father’s attention, I thought that if I were to show him how smart I am he would love me…
“Turns out dad only saw the potential to use me. He showed me off to the media like some sort of trophy then sent me off to a boarding school when I was 4.
“When I came back my father didn’t change a bit. He was still only interested in finding rogers. At that point I didn’t care, I had started drinking and doing so many horrible things I…
“I finally got the attention I wanted from my father… He started to hate me. By the end of it, before he died we had been on horrible terms with each other.
“He took my mom with him…”
By the time Tony finished they were back to hugging each other.
They felt safe in each other’s arms. To just- ignore the whole world for that moment.
They fell asleep still wrapped in each other’s arms.