i’ll keep your brittle heart warm
for the protectiveness square on my @tonystarkbingo card! (bingo details are below the cut!)
Steve and Tony divorced five years ago. Too bad they can’t seem to stay away from each other. 4.2k w.
“So,” Natasha says one night when they’re out for drinks, “I have to tell you something, but I want you to know that if it makes you mad, you can just tell me no and I’ll drop it.”
Steve swallows down the last of his beer and leans across the table, trying to hear her better. “Not off to an auspicious start here, Romanoff,” he says.
She gives him her best winning smile and continues. “I was thinking of setting Tony up with my friend from the store,” she says. “Unless you don’t want me to! But you guys seem to be in a really good place and I just… he’s alone so much these days,” she explains.
Steve knows he’s still in the same crowded bar, surrounded by just as many loud strangers as before, but he suddenly feels like he’s alone on an island somewhere, surrounded by deafening silence. He lifts his glass as if to take a sip before remembering that it’s empty, and sets it down with what is probably too much force.
“What guy?” Steve tries to sound measured.
