Together Forever ~ Stony

Moving On?

Previously

"Tony!", Steve said immediately crouching down and Tony looked into Steve's eyes before losing his conscious in his husband's arms.

Now

Bruce immediately gave him a sedative and Tony was resting with Steve next to him, looking after him.

Carol seeing this wanted to take down Thanos alone but Nat stopped her, Nebula told them where Thanos would be and Nat went to call Steve.

"Steve?", she said softly not to disturb Tony who was asleep, while holding Steve's hand, Steve looked up.

"We found him", she said and Steve nodded and she left, Steve softly took his hand out of Tony's and kissed his husband on his forehead before walking out.

"So where is he?", he asked as he entered the meeting room, "When Thanos snapped his fingers, Earth became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculously cosmic proportions. No one's ever seen anything like it... Until two days ago. [A hologram of a planet pops up, with a shockwave visibly traversing the surface.] On this planet", Rocket explained.

"Thanos is there", Nebula said, "He used the stones again", Nat said, "Hey, hey, hey. We'd be going in short-handed, you know", Rhodey said.

In the end, after all their opinions especially Thor's, who spoke after 23 days, they left to find Thanos and make things right.

As Carol went to check, the others got ready, Steve opened his compass and looking at it, his family.

It was the picture of Tony, Peter, and Harley when the twins were born, Nat saw this and came towards him.

"This is gonna work, Steve", she said, "I know it will", Steve said and closed the compass and looked at her.

"Cause I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't", he said and Carol flew back and told them Thanos was there alone.

They confronted Thanos and learned that he destroyed the stones, which resulted in Thor beheading the purple... oops, sorry, Thanos.

They went back to see Tony awake, "Hey, where were you?", Tony asked and Steve looked up at him.

They were alone in the infirmary, Tony gasped as he saw tears in his husband's eyes, "What's wrong honey?", Tony asked and Steve shook his head.

"I thought we could bring everyone back, I thought we could bring our baby boy back, but Thanos, he had destroyed the stones", Steve said.

Tony pulled Steve into a hug and let the blonde cry into his shoulder, "It's okay Steve, it's okay, we will come out of this, we always do", Tony said and Steve pulled away.

"Not this time Tony, we lost our baby, how are we gonna tell Harley, Peter is never coming back?", Steve asked.

Tony's expression hardened, "We have to, first we have to move out of this place, this place will be a reminder of Peter every day", Tony said.

"I thought I had to comfort you, but this is vice versa", Steve said smiling softly, "Well, I mourned for Peter and Harley for 23 days straight, not knowing whether Harley was alive, for some reason I knew you were ok, so all those crying has filled my share, but you, you need to let it out Steve, Harley also", Tony said and Steve smiled sadly and got up.

"Maybe, but not today, I have to tell Harley the bad news and get on with our lives I guess", he said and Tony got up, still a little weak.

"We will, together", Tony said and with the help of Steve went to talk to Harley...

~ A month later ~

The Stark-Rogers family had moved into a cottage, like Tony wanted and he had gotten his strength and energy back.

With Steve there, Tony had no option but to listen to him on food habits but every day it was hard, just the three of them.

Harley rarely interacted with them, mostly staying in his room, it was late at night when Steve found Tony on the couch looking through the album, Peter's album.

He sat next to his husband, "It's his birthday in 2 months", Tony said, "Harley's first birthday alone", Steve said.

Tony nodded and closed the album as a few tears slipped out of his eyes, "I can't Steve", Tony said and turned his head to look at Steve.

His husband had a soft, loving look in his eyes, "You can't what honey?", Steve asked softly opening his arms.

Tony fell into his husband's arms, "I can't move on Steve, Peter was more than our baby, he was this ball of energy, who always made us smile, now Harley isn't interacting with us even...", Tony paused taking a deep breath.

"Even today he went to stay with Natasha, I am happy he is bonding with his aunt, but he had gone to the compound, he's facing the d... disappearance of his twin alone", Tony continued.

"Without Peter, it's... it's like all the lights died and it's filled with darkness", Tony said crying softly.

"I know baby, I know, even I can't and it's alright, nobody said we had to move on, that too now", Steve said softly stroking Tony's hair.

"Peter had your optimism", Tony said softly, "But you were his favorite", Steve said and Tony smiled remembering a memory.

"When Pepper asked the twins to write about their favorite superhero, Peter said his's was-", Steve started.

"Me, not Iron Man but Tony Stark-Rogers and it was when he was six", Tony said smiling at the memory.

Steve smiled, "Harley's was Black Widow and Hawkeye and I was proud of him, but I was more proud of Peter's answer", Steve said and Tony looked at him.

"He loved you", Steve said softly, "He loved all of us", Tony said and Steve lifted Tony in his arms and led them to their bedroom.

He laid Tony on their bed, took the album out of his hands, and kept it aside, for a minute his face being vulnerable, before going back to the comforting one.

He kissed Tony's forehead and wiped the dry tears, "Harley is strong, just like his dad, he will come around, he... has to, sooner or later", Steve said sitting next to Tony's waist.

Steve started patting Tony's chest softly, in a way to calm his husband and make him sleep, but Tony wasn't.

"Are we? Are we strong enough to overcome this?", Tony asked and Steve looked into his husband's eyes, "I don't know", he said and quickly blinked to stop himself from crying.

"How do you call a parent without their child? A child without a parent is an orphan, but the other way around there is no word because it isn't supposed to happen", Tony said looking into Steve's eyes with full vulnerability.

"How about I read you a story to distract you?", Steve asked and went to get up, but Tony held his hand and stopped him.

"Distract me, but not with a story", Tony said and Steve understood, "Tony I don't-", Steve started and Tony cut him off.

"Please Stevie", Tony said and Steve sighed and nodded getting on top of Tony, while kissing the genius's cheek and forehead softly.

"Are you 100% sure? We haven't done this ever since you left on that ship", Steve asked one more time, "I am", Tony said and Steve kissed him passionately, making a tear roll down off of Tony's eye.

Their night turned out to be a comforting one, instead of a passionate one, for the first time...