[the avengers ➼ imagines]

tony stark ≫ best friends

"A guy and girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe to late, or maybe forever."

12th December, 1981.

"Happy Birthday to you!" Your mother sang as she emerged from the kitchen with a large chocolate cake. The smile on your face grew larger as she got closer. The icing on the cake read 'Happy Birthday (Y/N)!', plain and simple.

"Thank you Mum, Thanks Dad!" You grinned, throwing your arms around both their shoulders after your Mum had placed the cake on the dining room table.

The door bell rang, signifying that your best friend and his family had arrived. "Oh that must be the Stark's, I'll get it."

Your mother left the room to go answer the door whilst you and your father sat eyeing up all the presents that sat on the floor.

"(Y/N)!" Your head whipped around at the sound of your best friends voice. Tony stood in doorway of your living room with a small box in his hands.

"Tony!" You squealed, running over to greet your best friend. Your arms reached up to the slightly taller boy, wrapping around his shoulders as you pulled him in for a small hug.

"Happy Birthday." He said, handing you the small box that he had been holding. Ripping the wrapping paper off, you found a small box.

"What is it, Tony?" You asked cautiously, scared that it would be some sort of prank that Tony was well known for.

He gestured for you to open your gift. "Open it and you'll see." He grinned.

Your fingers lifted the lid of the box to find a small golden chain with a small half a heart attached.

"Oh, Tony it's beautiful, I love it." You wrapped your arms around him one again. "Thank you."

"No problem, (Y/N). I have the other half, so we'll always be with each other in a way."

2nd April, 1985.

"Hey come on, don't cry. He isn't worth it (Y/N)." Tony tried to console you after your boyfriend had dumped you.

"I know but it's not fair, I don't understand, am I not pretty enough?" You asked, looking up into Tony's eyes.

"You know that's not true, (Y/N). You're absolutely stunning, gorgeous, beautiful, everything so don't think you're not pretty enough for him." You blushed at Tony's words, if you hadn't known any better you would have thought he was flirting with you but this is your best friend and you knew that would never happen.

"Thank you, Tony, I don't know what I'd do without you."

"You know that no matter how far away I am, all you have to do is, hold your half heart locket and I'll know that you're thinking of me."

"I love you Tony."

"I love you too, (Y/N)." If only you'd known that Tony meant it as more than friends.

17th December, 1991

You rapidly knocked on Tony's door, praying that he would be in. Your Mum had phoned you,m breaking the news that Tony's parents, Howard and Maria had died in a car accident.

The large door opened, revealing a sleep deprived Tony. His eyes were bloodshot and there was a god-awful stench of scotch radiating off of him.

"Oh my god, Tony." You pulled him into your arms, whispering how sorry you were.

"I got the next flight over as soon as I heard, how are you holding up?"

"I'm okay I guess. Me and Dad were never really close but it still hurts. I miss them both, I don't know what to do without them."

"You'll never be alone, remember, now how far apart, I'll always be with you." You reminded your best friend as you lift up his locket with your fingers.

23rd February, 2005.

"(Y/N), meet Pepper my new assistant." Your eyes scanned the tall, slender, red headed woman up and down, as if you were analysing her.

"Pleasure to meet you, Miss (Y/L/N)." Pepper held out her hand for you to shake but you completely declined it, walking away from the pair of them.  You knew that Tony would try something on her, and that made you jealous, Tony was the man you loved and you didn't want him taken away, even if he didn't feel that way back.

Present Day.

You were sitting in Tony's lab, perched up on one of the desks. You fiddled around with random things that you had no clue what they were for or if they were dangerous.

"You know, (Y/N), if you keep playing with random stuff that you don't even know what they're for, you might blow yourself up." Tony said while he fixed one of his suits.

"But I'm bored, you said we were going to get food." You whined, hopping down from the lab desk.

"I'm nearly done then we can go get Mcdonalds or something." You waited for Tony to finish up, busying yourself with some paper clips you found.

The sound of high heels clicking along the hallway to the lab caused your eyes to roll. The only person that wore heels in this house was Pepper.

"Tony, babe, are we still going out for dinner?" Her eyes flicked over to you and a disgusted glare washed over her face.

"Yeah, just give my five minutes, Pepper."

"Wait, I thought me and you were going out for dinner?" You questioned, getting slightly annoyed at Tony.

"Oh sorry, (Y/N), can we reschedule?" Tony pleaded, but this was the last straw for you. He'd cancelled on you so many times, left you for Pepper, you couldn't take it anymore. You walked out the room, Tony calling after you.

"(Y/N), wait up." Tony called from behind, "I'm sorry, we can just go another time."

"You know what Tony." You turned around to face him, walking straight up to him. "It isn't the fact you're ditching me tonight that's pissed me off, it's the fact you do it to me all the time and I'm sick of it. Growing up we were inseparable, now you're always to busy with Pepper to see me. I can't deal with this anymore."

Before you could even turn away, Tony pulled you back around and kissed you. He kissed you.

You responded to the kiss very quickly, your eyes fluttering shut and your arms wrapping around his shoulders. The butterflies were going into a frenzy in your stomach. You would have never imagined Tony felt the same way about you. Sooner than later, the kiss ended, your eyes flicked open to look up at Tony.

"I love you (Y/N). I'm sorry I made you feel this way, I felt like if I distances myself from you, tried to be happy with another woman then I'd get over the fact that I'd fallen in love with my best friend but she didn't love me back."

"But she does." You spoke, pulling him back down into another kiss.

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I just watched the film 'Love Rosie' it's one of my favourite films and I wanted to base an imagine off it. I think I'm either going to to do a Bruce or Loki one next because I haven't done either of them for a while.

Thanks for reading!