Graduated Time [ 00.00 ] - StevexTony AU

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟳 - 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 ⍟ ⎊

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What is this? Some kind of sick joke? Is this what people in do now? They screw over the ones that don't fit or make fun of anyone?

HOW-how...I don't..I can't...how does one process these things? My heart was beating out of my chest and I could hear it in the dead silence of my apartment.

Not the good type of beating, you know when your heart beats of anticipation. Mine was beating from bottled up anger I didn't know what to do with, I needed an outlet but I didn't know what that would do.

I sat by the table long enough for the anger that had built up like a wall of ice melt into tears, I tried to keep them in. I tilted my head downward and hid my face as if someone was sat across from me.

But the tears fell straight downward instead, landing on the file I had read. I moved it from the spot on the table and pressed my palms to my eyes, trying to hold back the tiniest sob.

A whole year. A whole year, 365 days went by and I saw nothing. Heard nothing. How? I don't know. I'm a man out of time, the times now were tough to adjust to. 85 years is a big leap in time...

Tony.

How did I miss you? And did you miss me too?

It hurt a bunch realizing what an idiot I was, he said his name was Tony Stark. I mean..maybe I wouldn't be able to blame myself for not figuring out he was from the future or the son of Howard Stark..

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Before reading all of those files I'll need something to drink. I know there is champagne on the table still but I'm feeling like this is the right time for scotch, but..when is it not?

So I did walk up to the bar and took out a bottle and a glass and poured the liquid into it, drinking some of it. I looked down at the counter for no particular reason when I saw the watch.

The soul watch. I hadn't looked at it since I went back in time to meet Peggy, I hadn't given it a single glance. I think I hid it somewhere in my old room, there was a note on the side of it. Signed from Pepper.

You can't run from it, Tony. You and Steve are meant to be. There are only 8 recorded people that actually went back in time to meet their soulmates. 9 with you. Don't clock out this time. // Pepper

'Okay then miss Potts. Why the hell am I still here the-n'

My thoughts were interrupted and stopped completely once I saw what the display of the watch read.

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S...one day. One..day from today. What day is it today? It's 2030 right? W..it can't be. I know that Steve is my soulmate. I saw it and I figured it out.

Is it really 2030? Is this a hallucination? What if this is just the result of me passing away from an anxiety attack on the street with Steve? Am I really here? Where the hell is here-how is Steve, wait is Steve-

Is he alive?

I darted back to the files and threw them up on the holographic panel. There was a file of Bruce Banner, a great scientist, some random guy named Thor and the Black Widow.

I read the last file and the glass of scotch in my hand slipped and crashed against the heated stone floor, my breathing became more shallow and my knees bent unwillingly and I ended up on the floor.

"Call Fury. Call him right now."
I demanded Jarvis from my kneeling position, my voice not bothering to keep low. It's my goddamn tower I can be as loud as I fucking want.

"Right away, sir."
I waited on the couch, feeling how my heart was beating faster and faster and memories washing over me like a tidal wave.

"Mr. Stark?"
Nick Fury's familiar voice sounded in the penthouse where Pepper had left me to read on about the Avengers Initiative and to get to DC.

"Why didn't you tell me?"
I went straight into the point, I didn't want any sidetracks or any skips around the answer I wanted from the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Tell you what?"
He asked.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me that Captain America is alive! Why was I not made aware of this fact until now!? It's been a year!"
I yelled at him, I hadn't told Fury about the trip I once did to the 40s where I became friends with Captain America.

I don't know why I would but I would have to do it now when I so irrationally called him to ask about why I wasn't informed of my SOULMATE Steve Rogers' thawing a year ago.

"Why would I tell you that?"
The NERVE. I could punch that man in his one working eye right about now.

"That!...THAT!-"
I tried to push out, force it out. My voice wanted to bend and break as I tried to think of something reasonable to say.

"That...DUMB son of a bitch DIED that day and I didn't get to tell him we're soulmates in time! That fucking-" I told Jarvis to hang up and I screamed. I screamed as loud as I could.

Pepper saw the watch and what its values were but she didn't tell me. She knew I'd meet Steve in a day and she said nothing. That bitch has been gone for 85 years and I tried to go back to him so many times.

For 6 years I tried! The shit I did to get back to him just to at least get to tell him we were soulmates...and now he's been walking around in New York and I never noticed.

"Fucking fuck you, Fury."
I spat violently.

How the hell am I supposed to do this? I could just..not go. I lied a lot about my life to Steve. I didn't tell him I'm Howard Stark's son, and he was Steve's friend may I add, I told him a bunch of lies and I guess I'll have to pay for that in some way...

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Despite Fury being a little bitch I needed to help him and Then Avengers' and Fury sent me a message that that Loki guy is in Germany. In Stuttgart. So that's where I'm going.

I left my soul-watch in the tower. I don't care what Pepper says, after hearing all my life that Steve Rogers is so god damm perfect and never being good enough for my own dad I just can't see him in the same light.

And everyone doesn't end up with their soulmate, some people marry or date others that also have soulmates they don't want to be with. And why would Steve want me anyway? He must've found out about all the lies I've told him...

But there's no room for sulking about something so insignificant, so, let's get these hands dirty and override the PA system of Natasha's bird.