I heard the risk is drowning (but I’m gonna take it) by wylanllupin
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14k - Steve/Tony - Explicit - Omegaverse - MCU
"The bond between people makes everything more magical than being strangers."
It sounds lovely, of course it does. That's why there are so many books, films and songs about it, still doesn't mean Tony can — or should, for all that matters — have something like that. He doesn't deserve it, no matter what Steve says. "Yeah, sure… whatever."
He thought the argument was over, but then Steve proposes an idea. "I bet I can prove to you that having a relationship is better than having new flings every day."
And that just sounds ridiculous.
or; In Tony's line of work, relationships are wishful thinking. He's fine with a fling here and there, but somehow his co-worker, leader, and somewhat friend, Steve Rogers seems to disapprove of Tony's lifestyle. He proposes an idea; them dating for ten days, to prove Tony how much better a committed relationship is compared to flings and that he deserves this love. Thinking it is a joke, he agrees, but having Steve as his Alpha is more than he ever dreamed of... but it's not real. At least not for Steve, right?
from a 2011 au where tony is like "would you like to come live in my nice warm house" and steve is like "i'm actually doing just fine in my wet cardboard box"
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That night, his room at SHIELD is hard to fall asleep in.
As he does most nights, Steve pulls the sheets and the pillow off the bed because the mattress is too soft and makes himself a new bed on the floor, but the downside is that the floor is colder. The rooms don't have individual heating units and no one has told him where the central controls are, so for the last few weeks, Steve has pulled on sweats and a hoodie over top of an undershirt and put on socks for good measure too. He isn't just cold when he's trying to sleep—he seems to run chilly almost all the time, everywhere he goes. It must be a side effect from spending so long in the Arctic ice.
Steve tosses and turns for a while before sitting up, restless. He can't get Tony and what he'd offered out of his head. Tony, who apparently looked for him for a long time before SHIELD did and might be the only familiar piece of anything left in this future.
Steve climbs out of his makeshift bed and gets out the laptop SHIELD assigned to him. He has no illusions about having any kind of privacy on it, but if anyone at SHIELD has a problem with him typing Tony Stark into the search bar, it isn't him who has something to hide.
It doesn't take him long to find what he's looking for—most of modern technology is quite intuitive.
Stark Industries launches deep sea exploration program; Captain America recovery efforts continue. Exclusive interview with Tony Stark.
Steve is almost amused because the headline makes him sound like a sunken ship. He can't fault them for thinking the Starks were looking for a corpse; Steve thought he was dead, too.
His laptop screen lit up with the article is the only light in his room and he reads about Stark Industries and its brilliantly engineered probes, the future of deep sea exploration, the possibility of marine life conservation efforts, and—
Is it true you're resuming the search for Captain America's body?
Never stopped.
Staring at those two words in the dark—never stopped—is when Steve finally believes it. The man who he only met tonight has been looking for him for years; to him, they aren't strangers. Steve closes his laptop slowly and climbs back under the covers. This is Howard's son. This is the man Howard raised, and Steve should be able to trust him more than the strangers here who only brought up Peggy to him once, when they were convincing him to join SHIELD because she founded it.
Maybe Tony's house would be warmer than it is here.
Gen, Steve/Tony, No Powers AU, High School Reunion, Outsider POV, POV Natasha — 2,9 k
Natasha attends her 20-year high school reunion, and when a certain Steve Rogers walks through the doors, it isn't the fact that he's doubled in height and bulked up that shocks her the most. The man walking in beside him is definitely a pleasant surprise.
“What is it?” Wanda asks, looking at where everyone’s looking at. “Is that—“
“Uh-huh.”
Wanda frowns. “And who is this adonis next to him?”
“That’s Steve.” Nat can’t believe what she’s seeing.
“Steve? The skinny, tiny, sickly dude? He doesn’t look tiny or anything like that at all. More like Hercules or something.”
steve: 'this story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way'
tony: 'this story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way'
alternatively titled: the world's leading authority on waiting too long and the end of the path i started us on
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I wish I told him. I wish I could tell him now. I wish to carry him with me forever.
Steve holds onto the thought as he falls asleep next to someone else, in the body of a man back in his time but forever out of it, obsessing over unspoken words and hoping to remember the heartbreak when he wakes up.
He's terrified that if the pain fades away, so will the memory of Tony.
