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The past few months had been hard on all the Avengers. But losing Tony especially took a toll on his husband and 15 year old son. In some ways it brought them closer together, while in others, it silently tore them apart. After all, it was one of the rare nights Peter had decided hw didn't need to help the Avengers, and he stayed home to do school work instead of Spider-Maning. On the other hand, Steve had decided that it was time to really start trusting his husband, and let him fly ahead of the team to chase after the creature, knowing full well that the man would provoke the beast making it angry and likely to lash out at the source of the irritation, Tony himself. In a way both men blamed themselves for the death of Iron Man. Clint Barton quickly picked up on this, as did Bucky and Natasha, and he did all he could to make them feel otherwise.
As the months went by things started returning to normal. Or as normal as possible. Though Bucky noted that Peter had seemed to lose his true spark, but was genuinely impressed by the way the teen tried for his fathers sake to keep up his, of late lost, spark. And Steve. Well, Steve often was in a down right sulky mood, and had a new tendency to shut people, including Peter, out for long periods of time.
As time went on things in the Rogers-Stark pair got worse. Both father and son found new ways to cope with the loss of Tony. Unhealthy ways. Bucky was left to deal with Steve eventually got better, after learning what his son had been doing...