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“Holy shit,” Steve whispered.
The man who had just walked into the party was gorgeous. His eyes completely transfixed Steve. He’d never felt so incredibly into a person he’d never met before.
“God look at his eyes,”
“Go talk to him then,”
Sam’s voice snapped Steve out of his staring. He turned back to look at the stranger, his heart fluttered oddly in his chest. He was totally fucked.
“Fuck that!” Steve protested.
Maybe Bucky could introduce them. He was an impartial third party. If Steve tried to introduce himself to the stranger then he would probably fuck it up somehow and embarrass himself.
“Bucky?”
“This ain’t middle school Rogers, ‘m not gonna introduce you to the cute boys,” Bucky shot a grin to Steve.
Steve pulled his best kicked puppy expression, one that he knew would get Bucky to do as if he asked. His blue gaze caught on the stranger once more. He was on his way to the bar.
“Look he’s at the bar- get us some drinks!”
He shoved Bucky toward the bar. He could practically hear Bucky talking shit.
“Damn Steve,” Sam commented.
Steve could only smile. His gaze fixated on the mystery man. He had such a fluidity to his movements. And god look at the way his smile lit up his face. So beautiful. Steve was fucking down for the count. It was ridiculous how affected he was by the damn man. Bucky and the man started to laugh. For just a moment Steve was worried that sending Bucky had been a mistake. Then just for a moment the man smiled again. Helpless. Steve was fucking helpless.
Bucky turned and led the man to Steve. Down for the fucking count.
“Steve Rogers, Tony Stark,” Bucky introduced with a grin.
“It’s a pleasure,”
Tony leaned over the table and smirked. His dark eyes still caught on Steve’s. God look at those eyes.
“Can I steal you for a dance?”
His stomach did something funny at the request. He looked over at Bucky, wanting to know if was ok to leave him to dance with Tony. Bucky just shrugged. Tony grabbed Steve and pulled him toward the mass of people.
–
One month later they talked on the phone nightly. Steve couldn’t imagine his life without Tony in it. Everything was going great.
“I’m just saying if you really loved me Stevie, you would share him!” Bucky teased.
“Ha!”
–
Two years later they were engaged. The only thing they were worried about was telling Steve’s mom, Sarah. Steve was nervous that his mom wouldn’t accept the fact that they were going to get married. Tony was a great boyfriend, but he hadn’t made the best impression on Sarah. Tony had a problem with giving gifts at inappropriate time.
Sarah smiled at Tony for a moment before pulling him into a hug.
“Be true,” she said.
Tony pulled away from Sarah and turned to Steve with a brilliant smile on his face. And Steve was still so goddamn helpless. Bucky clapped him on the back and squeezed his shoulder gently.
“That boy is mine,” Steve said.
–
Tony looked up at Steve. He’d been awake for nearly 72 hours.
“C’mon baby,”
Steve pulled his fiance away from the worktable. Tony staggered forward and wrapped his arms around Steve and nuzzled into him.
“I don’t got a lot to offer you, mostly my top notch brain, but I love you Steve. I love your family… even if Bucky tried to take a bite out of me that one time,” Tony said, he was still latched to Steve.
“I haven’t had a family in a long time. Howard was a piece of shit… but I swear I’ll never forget my mom’s face. She was so real, and so good. And I swear as long as I’m around you’ll never feel helpless,” he didn’t know what he was trying to say but he hoped that Steve understood nonetheless.
Steve was down for the count.