nightwalker ([identity profile] nightwalker.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] cap_ironman2011-07-04 08:27 pm

Fic: Breaking News 1/1

Title: Breaking News
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Universe: Marvel Adventures
Rating: PG
Warnings: some swearing
Beta: none, sorry! Hopefully I caught everything, feel free to drop me a line if I didn't.
Notes: I wrote this for the Let's Get Gay Married! commentfic meme a few days ago and decided I should post it here and officially end my lurking.
Summary: Good news travels fast.




They hadn't sat down to watch the news - as a team, they generally avoided anything that could be considered work on their rare nights off. So they were gathered in the television room, watching one of those police shows that were so popular these days, the kind where instead of everyone being a cop and running around arresting bad guys, everyone was a scientist who told the cops which bad guys to arrest. It was one of the only shows on TV that the entire team could agree on and even then it was only because Tony, Hank and Peter liked to mock the science while Jan and Ororo mocked the women's wardrobes. Logan would watch almost anything that wasn't animated so long as they left a beer within arm's reach, Hawkeye would watch anything that had explosions or the occasional car chase and Steve was generally known to be a mild TV addict who'd watch almost anything that wasn't flat-out terrible. So they'd settled in for a team night, complete with popcorn and drinks and spent an entire hour with nothing more serious to do than tell the resident geniuses to hush up and let them watch the show already.

The episode ended and the evening news came on, but no one seemed in much of a hurry to break up the evening. It had been a crazy few weeks and Steve knew he was enjoying the normalcy of a quiet evening together. The only thing that would make the evening perfect, he thought wistfully, was if Tony was sitting a little closer. But there was a lot to be said for everyone being together without an apocalypse.

He was about to suggest that they find a movie to put on before everyone started wandering off, when the newscaster announced in a serious voice that they were going live to the Governor's office. Steve bit back a groan, anticipating some disaster, but the cameras were showing the governor sitting at his desk while several other men gathered behind him. Cuomo was signing a document and Steve's brain caught up with the reporter's words a half second after Tony launched himself off the couch with a triumphant shout.

"They did it!" he hollered. "Son of a bitch, all those Senators were worth every penny I paid for them!"

Steve rolled his eyes at the ceiling, almost positive that Tony only said things like that to yank his chain.

"Brb," Tony said, already on his phone. "I gotta tweet this."

"Did you just say 'brb' out loud in a non-ironic way?" Hawkeye asked. "Tony, you really need to spend less time on the computer."

Steve leaned back against the couch and watched Tony's impromptu little dance as he tapped at his phone. He loved Tony like this, excited and happy and practically bursting at the seams with energy. "Marry me," Steve said.

Tony's head snapped up and he blinked at Steve. "Seriously?"

"Seriously," Steve said, very aware that everyone else in the room was staring at him.

Tony held up a finger in the universal sign for Steve to wait a minute, then typed something into his phone.

Peter pulled his phone out of his pocket.

"You follow Tony on Twitter?" Hank asked.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Because you live with him." Hank said.

"Well, I didn't at the time," Peter said, a little defensively as he hunched over his phone. "Anyway, I follow Cap, too."

"I have a Twitter?" Steve asked. "I didn't know I had a Twitter."

"You update it, like, every other day," Peter said.

"I'm pretty sure I don't." He cast an exasperated glance in Tony's direction. "Tony are you impersonating me on Twitter?"

"'Can't comment on awesome news'," Peter read out loud from his phone. "'Getting proposed to.' Holy crap, there's already a CapTony hashtag. How many followers do you have, Tony?"

Tony snapped his phone shut, tossed it at Hank and crossed the distance between himself and Steve in two long strides. He threw one leg over Steve's, dropped onto his lap and wrapped both arms around Steve's neck. Steve let Tony push him back against the cushions, sinking a little under their combined weight, and gave in to the need to have his hands full of Tony Stark. He pressed his hands against Tony's back, slid down to his hips and held him there. Tony kissed him, hard and deep, his mouth opening Steve's beneath him.

"Okay," Tony said, pulling back just far enough to speak. "Sure. Yeah."

"Yeah?" Steve repeated.

Tony grinned, and it was a smile Steve didn't get to see as often as he'd like, the one that was just happiness and contentment, no worry or cynicism hiding behind it. The smile Steve spent most of their time together trying to bring to Tony's face. "Yeah." He ducked his head again, touched his lips to Steve's cheek, suddenly tender. "Yeah," he repeated, his voice a breathy whisper against Steve's skin. "I would - nothing would make me happier." His voice was low, and Steve knew what it cost Tony to admit something like that, let alone in front of the entire team.

Steve buried his face in Tony's neck, breathed in the scent of coffee and metal and cologne and thought about how he had to spend seventy years trapped in nothingness to find this man who was more than he'd ever thought he'd want, everything he'd never realized he needed. He pressed a kiss to Tony's throat, feeling the pulse beating against his lips and wrapped his arms around Tony's back, holding him closer.

"Oh, God," Hawkeye said.

"Shut up, Clint," Steve and Jan chorused in unison while Tony chuckled and slumped against Steve's chest.

"Your phone is kind of going crazy," Hank said. He had caught Tony's phone when it was unceremoniously tossed his way and was poking at it with the stylus that Tony never bothered to use. "Mostly your many fans, but - okay, that's Pepper."

"Tell her I'm not here," Tony said. He was slowly working his fingers under the neckline of Steve's t-shirt, fingers stroking bare skin, and Steve was trying to decide whether to stop him or just say to hell with it and carry Tony to their room. Only the threat of embarrassment at having everyone know what they were leaving to do stopped him, and frankly even that wasn't going to last.

"I'm not talking to her. She's scary. You want me to talk to Doctor Doom or the Mandarin or whatever, that I can do." Hank frowned at the phone. "Pepper again. Pepper. Pepper. Rhodey. Someone I don't know. I think this one is your publicist. Pepper. Pepper."

"You should call Jarvis," Steve said, slipping a finger inside the waist of Tony's jeans and caressing the skin there.

"Now?" Tony said in a disbelieving voice, pulling back to look Steve in the eye. "Now? You propose and then tell me to go answer the phone? I want a celebratory party and sex and I don't care what order they happen in."

"I care," Clint said. "I care very much."

On the television, the same reporter was showing a stock photo of Tony and Steve standing side by side with the caption "Engaged?" beneath.

"Pepper again," Hank said. "I think you're in trouble, Tony."

"Next time, don't announce our engagement to your three million followers before you get around to saying yes," Steve said.

Tony gave him a withering look. "I have thirteen million followers, thank you. And if you'd rather I spent the night on the phone with my press agent and lawyers and panicking board of directors, than by all means. I'll just go now - it should only take three or four days for the initial frenzy to die down, but we can celebrate then-"

Steve curled his fingers in the loops of Tony's jeans and pulled him back down against Steve's chest. "Forget I said anything. Hank, lose the phone somewhere."

"Pepper's gonna murder you," Hank said.

"I heard booze," Logan said. "I distinctly heard Stark say there was going to be booze."

"We need a party," Tony said. He kissed Steve hard and he was laughing again. "A big party. I demand a party, Steve. Someone call Thor and tell him to get down here. He and Rhodey can arm-wrestle over who gets to be my best man. I'll call Pepper, and go downstairs and break the news to Jarvis and then we are going to celebrate. And tomorrow I can make Pepper hire a wedding planner. Pick a date."

Steve blinked. "I don't - how much time do weddings take to plan?"

"The bill goes into effect July 24th," Jan said. "So, you have at least a month."

"You pick a day," Tony said. "I'll deal with the rest. Well, I'll make Pepper deal with the rest. But make it soon, I don't want some killjoy overturning this before we can make it official."

"We need to go dress shopping," Jan said and Ororo beamed.

"More booze, less kissing," Clint said and Logan grunted in agreement.

"I need my camera," Peter said. "When you make this official, I better be invited to the press conference."

"Exclusive," Tony said. "All yours. We'll deal with it tomorrow, you can break the story, we'll have the press conference the day after."

And then Tony stilled against him, eyes wide and a little stunned as he looked down at Steve. "Yeah?" he asked, a little tentative, a little wondering.

Steve cupped the side of his face, brushed a thumb over the curve of his cheekbone. "Yeah."

****

Part Two: Something to Talk About


muccamukk: Wanda walking away, surrounded by towering black trees, her red cloak bright. (Smile)

[personal profile] muccamukk 2011-07-05 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Tony Stark: Twitter Addict! I laughed.

Fun story and very MA: A.

[identity profile] sidara.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously, I think I died laughing through this. Loved it!

[identity profile] marinarusalka.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
This is great! Very humorous, and perfect tone for the MA universe.

Also, I love the idea that Steve has a twitter and doesn't know it.

[identity profile] gogglehead84.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Loved it! :D

[identity profile] ealgylden.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Adorable. Seriously adorable! (But hee, poor Clint and Logan!)

[identity profile] grand-duc.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
oh lol.

This was hillarious.

I love Tony's comment about buying senators and steve being almost sure he's only saying it to yank his chain.

And Tony being a twitter addict. And yeah, Pepper and his publicist are going to murder him.

I like the way you write the characters

[identity profile] fictivore.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa, this is lovely. Love how Tony has *13 million* followers. (truefact: I actually went and checked how many people follow the highest followed tweeter, and fyeah! Tony beats everyone in MU, is that right? ;)

And awww, Tony is adorable when at the end with the sudden quiet realization in the middle of all that manic planning and celebrating. <3

[identity profile] kahn.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeeeee!! (Which I have said before.) But, seriously, this is SO CUTE.

[identity profile] kahn.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I need a "beta FOREVER" button. Which I am totally cool with, by the way. That means I get to read everything first! And you are also MY beta-forever, so THERE.

Also, I want the part with JAN. Crazy!fashion designer!JAAAAAN. And long-suffering Hank. Can there be long-suffering Hank? Who stands around with heaps of fabric in his arms and pins stuck in his sleeve (for safe keeping) and a fabric tape measure wrapped around his neck and scissors in his pocket and a threaded needle carefully clamped in his mouth? Because I think I would squee and die.

[identity profile] kahn.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
DO WANT. Yes please. :-D

[identity profile] madwriter223.livejournal.com 2011-07-05 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Cute, Fluffy, and Adorable. My 3 fav qualities of fics. Thank you so so much. XDD

[identity profile] liarashadowsong.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome. Love this! (So... my first thought when I heard New York was approving same-sex marriage was "It's about time another state did this." The second was "So... this means Steve and Tony can, theoretically, get married in canon. Sweet. Now to convince Marvel it's a good idea for them to." I am not even kidding.)

[identity profile] liarashadowsong.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say, I'm ambitious. (Also: I'm not totally caught up on what's going on in 616 either. But I'd like to assume that Tony and Steve being besties again, at any rate, is inevitable. If otherwise happens? I reject your reality/canon and replace it with my own! AKA fanfic, lots and lots of it.)

[identity profile] liarashadowsong.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with the rest of the Avengers, they love each other but probably need therapy. ;P Also, pity MA:A got cancelled, because it was awesome and had canonical lunchdates, albeit ones that could be taken platonically (like when one of my friends from undergrad and I would go out for lunch or dinner once or twice a month and catch up... though considering that if I were to ever have a girlfriend instead of my infrequent attempts at having a boyfriend, my type would probably be someone like her, that likely says something about the potential canon-ness of the pairing in MA:A... though what, I'm not certain, haha). Also, your icon. I like it. Very cute.

[identity profile] angel-slayer.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm torn between laughter and fangirl screaming. All in all I'm about to jump for joy, I love this fic so please write more.

Original OP here

[identity profile] kit1126.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I still can't get over how AWESOMELY EPIC THIS IS. I MEAN HOLY FUCK

and I forgot to ask, is Twitter Tony's new booze?

Re: Original OP here

[identity profile] kit1126.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Commentfic is also supposed to be amazing, and you nailed that!!!

So sorry for not being sorry! <3

Sister of OP here

[identity profile] zclover.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
GOOD GOD, EVERY TIME I READ THIS FIC, IT GETS MORE AND MORE AMAZING.
*g*
i'm so glad i got my sister into slash/marvel/stevetony...
^-^'

[identity profile] ladyblkrose.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
TTEEEEEEEEheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehhehehehehhehehehehheeeeeeee Oh damn this fic just tickled the living dicken's outta me. Loved the joy and playfulness of it all and who better to ask and accept one's marriage proposal in front of but the people who love and save your butt on a regular basis.
Thanks for sharing this great fic, it was such a joy to read

[identity profile] mozzarellaroses.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE LINE IN THIS FIC I DON'T LOVE SO I CAN'T REQUOTE THEM LIKE I USUALLY DO.
This is just so full of win it's bursting with it ;_; My tongue is burnt but I don't care because this is so awesome.

loves

[identity profile] arme86.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's all fluffy and almost-unbearably sweet that reading it actually made my tooth hurt.
LOVE THIS FIC SO MUCH THAT I NEED TO SAY :"THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXISTING."

[identity profile] ladymordecai.livejournal.com 2011-07-23 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
So cute! Saw the Cap movie today and needed some Cap/Ironman--this was great. Tony being addicted to his twitter is hilarious.

[identity profile] ladymordecai.livejournal.com 2011-08-07 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Loved it! Such a fun movie.