#osaf’s movie night
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Tonight is Beauty and the Beast and by Beauty and the Beast I mean the 22nd of November 1991 classic.
How do I know the release date?
That’s the very date of my birth 😁
Stephen shouldn’t have messed with the Ancient One.
He shouldn’t have tried to use the time stone to go back so he could use his hands properly again.
So he could have his old life again.
She had seen him do this and decided to punish him for it.
He would remain in this Sanctum, with his scarred hands, trapped in time where the scars wouldn’t fade, where the shaking wouldn’t cease.
A nightmare of his own making.
Until, by some miracle, someone came to love him and his scars, and he them.
If not, if he still hadn’t found love by the time the power within the stone fades, then his life would fade with it.
He knew her conditions would never be met.
That he was trapped like this, slowly watching his life dwindle away day after day while everyone on the outside went about as normal.
It had already been five years and it hadn’t happened yet.
Who in their right would love him, when his hands looked like this?
It’s business as usual when Tony and Peter are patrolling New York at night, the wedding proposal Rogers tried to spring on him earlier that day still fresh in his mind as Tony rolls his eyes at the cringe worthy memory and focuses on what Peter is chattering about in his ear.
There doesn’t seem to be much activity in the area they’ve designated themselves. It looks like it’s going to be an easy and calm night.
That is until Peter misjudges a swing and goes crashing through some old building’s even older, fancily designed window.
Tony tries asking him if he’s alright over the comms, but Peter isn’t replying.
Thinking the kid could be more hurt than he initially thought, Tony enters the building as well and sees the dark silhouette of an unknown man with an unconscious Peter.
Shooting at the man does nothing, his shots somehow miss him entirely, his suit malfunctioning quickly after.
Having no way to protect Peter, Tony tries to ask him to let Peter go, that he’ll pay for the window, he doesn’t need to hurt the kid because of it.
The man turns to him, instantly realising who he is.
Stephen doesn’t care that the window got broken, he cares that this kid decided to enter the Sanctum; the one place Stephen Strange can hide from the world. Can hide from the ridicule he would receive about his hands.
He’s going to teach the kid a lesson for disturbing him, for daring to come here and think he can leave with no consequences, no matter how many times Tony tries to tell him that it was an accident.
When his words fall on deaf ears, Tony tells him he’ll do anything, and quickly offers himself in Peter’s place.
The man looks at him.
Really looks at him.
This is new.
He’s been stuck here for so long, trapped in time for so long that he’s forgotten what other people would do for one another when they truly care about someone.
But more than that, he is being offered the chance he’s been waiting for to break this damn curse he’s under, so Stephen agrees immediately, sending Peter away through a portal before Tony can even say goodbye.
Tony is heart broken as the wizard leads him through the dark building and goes over the rules he wants Tony to abide to.
The first is the use of his name, as he wants to be addressed as Doctor Stephen Strange, Tony refusing the mouthful and getting on Stephen’s nerves when he just uses his surname.
It’s only when he tells him to stay out of the West Wing of the Sanctum, that he ends up snapping at him and the questions Stark seems to be filled to the brim with.
When they reach the bedroom Tony will be staying in, Stephen wants him to join him for dinner, the request coming off more as a demand.
He needs to get things going as soon as possible as the time stone has already begun to dim.
But Tony is not having it.
He is here against his will and he is not hungry, telling the Sorcerer this only to been thrown into an argument he very much wins, despite Stephen’s insistence he can make him do whatever he wants.
Stephen is very close to using his magic on him to show him what he means, but is stopped by Wong, who reminds him that if he wants to win the heart of Tony Stark to break this curse, then he needs to control his temper.
Stephen gives in, tries asking nicely, but Tony’s stubbornness only makes him angrier and he tells Wong that if Tony won’t eat with him, then he doesn’t eat at all, and leaves Tony alone to hide away further in the Sanctum.
Tony emerges soon after, Wong and a sentient cloak offering him some food despite what Stephen told them.
He’s a guest here, and should be treated as such. They even allow him to wander around the Sanctum.
That doesn’t stop Wong from making sure he doesn’t touch anything he shouldn’t, but Tony still manages to slip away to get a sneak peak at what could be in this West Wing Strange has told him to stay away from.
The West Wing, it turns out, is an almost completely destroyed part of the Sanctum.
Broken furniture and shattered glass litter the floor, and the only thing to have survived is a stand with a glowing amulet hovering a few inches off the surface, covered by a glass dome.
Intrigued, Tony lifts the dome and reaches for this magical item, not seeing Stephen appear behind him, until he’s flying forward to cover the mysterious relic once more and demanding to know what Tony is doing here.
Tony tries to apologise but Stephen is furious, shadows getting longer around him and magic sparking dangerously at his shaking hands.
Tony ducks as a bolt hits a wardrobe behind him and blows it into a thousand pieces, quickly running from the room before he’s caught in any of the other blasts the Sorcerer was gearing up to unleash.
By the time Tony is gone, Stephen realises what he’s done, covering his face in shame.
Tony can’t stand to be here another second, running to the door and throwing it open as Wong tries to beg him to stay.
Tony runs out of the Sanctum, uncaring for the promise he’d made to stay, trying to reboot his armour now he’s no longer around any magical interferences, but it’s as he’s doing this he’s set upon by some magical freaks with purple crystallised skin around their eyes.
They’re magic users too, only it’s not the kind he’s seen from Strange.
This magic creates weapons which get pointed at his throat, like long jaggered pieces of glass.
This magic is made to do harm.
And the users of this magic have mistaken Tony for a wizard of the Sanctum.
With Tony’s suit for the count and no weapons on him to defend himself, he is shocked when Strange comes to his rescue, beating the lot of them back and nearly losing his an arm when one of the shards cuts deep enough to draw an endless stream of blood which soaks his robes and splatters onto the pavement.
It’s not until they retreat and Stephen manages to take one last look at Tony to make sure he’s unhurt before he collapses from exhaustion that Tony finds himself pausing in his second attempt at running away.
Stephen had helped him.
Had risked his life for him.
He can’t just leave him to bleed out in the middle of the street.
With the cloak’s aid, and that of the portal Stephen had appeared from, Tony carries him back into the Sanctum and begins to tend to his wounds.
Which is a little difficult as Stephen doesn’t want Tony touching him, or to be more precise, his hands.
Tony tries to grab him but Stephen stubbornly keeps his injury out of Stark’s reach, resulting in Tony using a little too much force to press the clean cloth to the wound, starting another argument about whose fault it is this happened, winning again when he brings up Stephen’s temper.
Stunned into silence when he realises Tony is right, he finally allows Tony to touch him.
And as Tony sets to work, he stuns him further.
Not only by his thanks for saving his life, but also by how Tony doesn’t say anything about his scars, or how there’s no look of disgust on his face as he touches them in order to move his arm to the light to begin his stitches.
And Stephen acknowledges his thanks and remains quiet, pondering over this feeling in his chest.
As the ice had finally begun to melt between the two, Peter woke up in the hospital wing of the Avengers compound, having been out of it for over a week since Tony Stark’s disappearance.
He was surrounded by Avengers keeping vigil over him and he shot up immediately, trying to get all of his words out all at once about the old place he’d ended up in, the only thing he could remember before the very air had been squeezed out of him by something wrapping tight around his chest.
The Avengers looked around at each other, clearly unbelieving the deluded words of the teen as he flopped back down in bed, exhausted.
He’d make them see. He’d find that place and make them see.
Stephen was on the top floor, looking down at Tony out in the garden, the cloak wrapped around him to keep the winter chill at bay.
And his heart gave a little leap at the sight.
In all his years, stuck here or before hand, he’d never felt this way about anyone, and was compelled to do something for Tony to show his gratitude for helping to stitch him up last night and also to show him that he wasn’t a complete monster.
Wong was no help with ideas but after a short moment, Stephen realised what it was he could give to Tony.
So, he called Tony inside.
He didn’t want Tony to be bored, and he truly wanted him to be able to do what he loved, so he took him to a single room, opening the door slightly before closing it again and turning to the man, asking him to close his eyes.
Tony rose a playful eyebrow at him, and did as he was asked.
Stephen shook a hand in front of his face to make sure Tony wasn’t faking before taking his hands gently and leading him into the room, allowing Tony to open his eyes once more.
Before him, stood a portal.
And much to Tony’s delight, it was a portal which lead to his workspace back home.
Absolutely delighted with being able to work on his suit, he dragged Stephen into the room to show him around, Wong smiling to himself before leaving them alone.
Stephen watches Tony work, he even helps him from time to time, and even though his hands shake when doing so, Tony doesn’t seem to mind in the slightest.
He passes tools to him and Tony takes them, a rosy blush dusting his cheeks when their hands brush.
No look of disgust.
No flinching away as his scars scrape against perfectly smooth skin.
Tony doesn’t react at all.
As if the scars don’t bother him or aren’t there to begin with.
And Stephen’s heart skips a beat or two.
Tony’s been gone for far too long that Avengers can’t keep quiet about his disappearance any longer.
Either they go out and find him or go to the press and tell them why Tony Stark has been absent for so long.
And it’s only when they go back to Peter, ready to listen to where he thought this building could be, they find his bed empty.
The kid was in no condition to be roaming the streets in search of his mentor, especially with how hard it’s raining outside.
Stephen trims his beard and combs his hair back as Wong watches from the doorway, trying to convince Stephen to confess his feelings already.
Yes.
Tonight he’ll...
He accidentally drops the comb in the sink.
No.
No he can’t.
Tony’s just being nice to him, that’s all. A good man like him, a celebrity like him, wouldn’t want someone like Stephen Strange.
Maybe before his hands had become disfigured, but not now.
Short of knocking some sense into his friend, their conversation is interrupted by the cloak, fastening itself around Stephen and dragging him out of his room.
Tony is standing there, waiting for him in a simple suit that makes Stephen weak at the knees, tailored to each curve and line of his body that shows off all his assets.
They eat together, Stephen’s use of cutlery far more improved since he’s been practicing for this night, yet they barely get through the first course before Tony is dragging him away to dance to the music softly playing around them.
Stephen is a little shy, unknowing where to put his hands and if Tony wants him touching him anywhere, but Tony just places one at his waist while he holds the other, Stephen’s feet quickly learning the steps as he holds Tony more confidently.
They spin. They twirl.
Stephen forgets what his hands have become and Tony smiles broadly at him.
And as the music dies, as they slow and gaze at one another, each leaning in a little, the door bursts open and Peter falls to the ground, sopping wet and red with fever as he coughs and tries to heave in air.
Tony is frantic and Stephen is yelling orders, which turns into Tony yelling at him that Peter needs to go to a hospital.
No.
No, if Tony leaves, he might not come back.
But...if he stays, Peter might not survive with the little he can do for him.
Tony looks away from him back to the sick kid in his arms and Stephen wonders if he should let Tony go.
He cares about the kid he hasn’t seen in so long, and Stephen shouldn’t keep him from those who love him just because he loves him too.
Spell be damned, if Tony wanted to leave him and forget their meeting, Stephen would let him.
Because he loves him.
Truly loves him, as he thought he never would love another.
Heart heavy with what he knows what he has to do, what he has to give up, Stephen opens the portal that would take Tony away from him, but save the kid’s life.
And, with a grateful thank you instead of a goodbye, Tony picks up the teen and walks through the portal with him.
Stephen can only watch as it closes before walking through one himself, eyes locking onto the amulet before him and trying not to notice how dull it has become.
And Wong can’t believe what he’s just seen.
After all these years of waiting, Strange chose Tony’s happiness over his own.
He’s learned to love selflessly.
Peter opens his eyes, blinking a few times when he thinks he sees Tony sitting beside him.
A few more and the room comes into focus, Tony with a relieved smile on his face as he talks about how worried he was.
Peter doesn’t care that almost leaping out of bed to hug the man is probably the worst thing he could do, but Tony holds him close nonetheless before easing him back down to rest, running a hand through his hair to comfort him while he drifts in and out of consciousness.
Stephen is a sorry mess indeed without Tony around anymore, just staring out the window in hopes of seeing the Iron Man flying back to him.
Instead, a large shield comes crashing through the window, knocking Stephen onto the floor.
He doesn’t ask why Captain Rogers is here, he doesn’t very much care. He’s not in the mood to fight, for he has nothing to fight for.
Rogers grabs him and throws him through the gaping hole where the window had been, yelling at him to get up and fight.
But Stephen won’t.
If he’s here to punish him for holding Tony hostage here, then so be it.
If he’s here to put him out of his misery, he won’t try to stop it.
But then he hears Tony’s name.
Rogers is talking about Tony.
About how Tony is his fiancé.
About how Tony belongs to him.
About how Tony could never love someone with hands like that.
And Stephen knows that’s not true.
As Rogers goes to attack him again, Stephen finally stands up and defends himself.
He may be alone again, he may have nothing to lose but he still has something to fight for.
There’s still time to tell Tony how he feels.
Even if Tony didn’t feel the same way, he still had the right to know how Stephen felt about him.
And Rogers was not going to get in his way.
He’ll deal with him how he was going to deal with Peter before Tony came into his life.
He’ll toss him through a portal to the dark dimension and leave him there.
Tony is about to walk out and leave Pete to sleep in peace when he sees the doorway is blocked by his friends, everyone clambering into the small hospital room to get to him and make sure he’s alright.
Honestly, you’d think he were the one laying in the bed.
Tony is talking to the group of Avengers about where he’s been all this time when he realises Steve Rogers isn’t there.
And his heart drops.
Rushing out of the hospital to the suit of armour he’d called to him already open and waiting, he blasts into the air before it even has time to finish closing around him, flying straight to the Sanctum where he hopes Rogers isn’t.
And he gets there just as Stephen gains the upper hand in their battle, shoving Rogers towards the portal he had opened.
But when Steve starts begging for his life, tells Stephen he’ll do anything, Stephen can’t help but be reminded of Tony.
And he stops.
Slowly, he pulls Rogers away from the portal he was going to throw him through and is just about to finish closing it when he hears Tony call out him.
Stephen immediately turns, reaching for him as Tony closes the distance between them, holding Stephen’s shaking hand to his cheek as he gently caresses it.
He came back.
He chose to come back to him.
What he ever did to deserve Tony he’ll never know, but he’s not going to let him go now he’s come back to him.
Their moment is ruined by Steve, who plunges a dagger right into Stephen’s back.
Stephen pushes Tony out of the way to protect him as Steve goes to do it again , but Tony blasts him back toward the portal just as it closes completely on him.
Stephen slumps backwards and Tony catches him, pulling him into his arms and lays him down to make him more comfortable while he tries to get a look at the wound, but Stephen tells him there’s nothing he can do.
Tony’s not listening.
He’ll take Stephen to the hospital and get him patched up good as new.
He’ll take care of him from now on, they were together now.
But Stephen knows the truth of the outcome for him.
He knows he’s not going to make it.
Stephen holds his hand to Tony’s cheek just like before, happy to see him one last time, before he closes his eyes and his scarred hand slips away.
Tony tries everything he can to bring him back to him, but nothing works.
Wong and the cloak bow silently as Tony holds Stephen close to him, crying into his robes, and finally whispers that he loves him as the emerald light within the time stone fades completely.
At that very moment, the time stone reignites, green magic surrounding the two of them as time rewinds to heal Stephen and bring him back to Tony.
He’s finally free of the spell.
After so long he’s finally free.
And it’s all thanks to Tony managing to love a man a who couldn’t love himself.
Quotes -
“There’s nothing you can do. He’s my prisoner.”
“There must be someway I can...wait! Take me instead.”
“You? You would...take his place?”
Tony offers himself in place of Peter
“That hurts!”
“If you’d hold still, it wouldn’t hurt as much!”
“Well, if you hadn’t have run away, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“If you hadn’t frightened me, I wouldn’t have run away!”
“...Well, you shouldn’t have been in the West Wing.”
“Well, you should learn to control your temper! Now, hold still. This might sting a little. By the way, thank you for saving my life.”
“You’re welcome.”
Stephen and Tony starting to warm up to one another.
“I’ve never felt this way about anyone. I want to do something for her! But what?”
“Well, there’s the usual things. Flowers, chocolates, promises you don’t intend to keep.”
Stephen seeks Wongs advice on what he can do for Tony.
“She glanced this way, I thought I saw. And when we touched she didn’t shudder at my paw. No it can’t be. I’ll just ignore. But then she’s never looked at me that way before.”
Stephen sees something that wasn’t there before.
“And when the moment is right, you confess your love.”
“Yes, I...I...I...no, I can’t.”
“You care for the girl, don’t you?”
“More than anything.”
Stephen needing encouragement.
“Maybe... it’s better...it’s better this way.”
“Don’t talk like that. You’ll be alright. We’re together now. Everything’s going to be fine, you’ll see.”
“At least I got to see you...one last time.”
“No. No. Please. Please. Please don’t leave me. I love you.”
Tony finally confessing his love
As Old As Time
Stephen has been trapped in time for so long he has lost his humanity.
And a chance encounter with Tony Stark could be what he needs to break his spell.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this movie, but how could I not put it on the list?
Addams Family
A creepy and kooky family get a surprise visitor.
Stephen’s family takes after his last name.
Truly, in every sense of the word.
Peter would seem like the only normal one if he wasn’t climbing on the walls half the time to avoid Harley shooting his potato gun at him, which he often swaps out the potatoes for bombs half the time.
The explosions he can deal with, and the mess they make is quickly cleaned up again.
They’re still kids and he wants them to have as much fun as they possibly can.
They’re just energetic and highly spirited, like their father.
Speaking of Tony...Stephen is just as much head over heels for him today as the first time they met and destroyed a planet together almost twenty years ago.
Sparks literally flew that day, and it was a wonder they even survived it with how they couldn’t keep their eyes off one another.
Stephen proposed that very night and they’d been in wedded bliss ever since.
He would die for him.
He would kill for him.
And every morning he lets Tony sleep in because the man deserves it.
Especially since every night leaves him exhausted.
And sometimes during the day too.
Most time’s during the day.
They can’t get enough of one another.
And Tony is more than happy to deal out just as much as he receives, always kissing Stephen’s hands first and working his way up his arms to his mouth so Stephen knows Tony loves those scars just as much as the man who wears them.
But today, after the kids have gone to school, Stephen can’t help but become distracted.
Today is the anniversary of when the Ancient One left the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme, this Sanctum and all its secrets, to Stephen Strange.
He’s guilt ridden at not being able to save her from that portal that swallowed her up, distracted and angry that he knew so little of his magic back then.
Tony misses her too, for without her, he would never have met Stephen in the first place.
Tony knows he is Stephen’s anchor, every year on this day.
And without Tony, Stephen knows he would have drifted a long time ago.
They get regular visits from Shield agents, just checking in to make sure their little family doesn’t want to rejoin the Avengers, but Tony’s made his decision to leave all that behind and he’s not changing his mind.
However, some of these agents actually work for Hydra, and when Sitwell comes knocking one day, he knows they all have to be crossed off the list.
And exactly how to do it.
That night, a woman looking exactly like his old teacher comes to the Sanctum.
While Tony is a little skeptical about her sudden appearance, and his kids seem to be too, Stephen has gotten out of the slump he’d been in for so long, so Tony decides to take this as a win.
But when everyone’s getting ready for bed, Tony lets himself into her room to warn her.
If she isn’t who she claims to be, and Stephen gets hurt because of it, there won’t be any cave, crevice or crack she can squirm her way into that Tony won’t find.
And once he’s found her, he’ll make sure she’s never found again.
Then he wishes her goodnight and closes the door behind him.
It’s a little rocky at the beginning when Stephen keeps asking questions she doesn’t have the answers to, even agent Sitwell doesn’t have anything satisfactory to say about where she’s been all this time.
But Sitwell can’t let them throw this ‘Ancient One’ out.
She’s a Winter Soldier.
One trained to adapt to its surroundings and gather intel on its targets before killing them.
So he tells them to give her some time to adjust. Maybe after a couple of days or so, she’ll fit right in.
But by the very next day, everyone in the Sanctum isn’t so sure this woman is their old friend.
The cloak of Levitation and Wong both seem to be confused as to why her memory is so incomplete.
Surely something would have come back by now?
Even if she can’t remember who they are, she only ever drunk one kind of tea.
Even if she can’t remember all of her training, surely she must remember some of it
But no.
There’s nothing.
Stephen even gives her a sling ring to make a portal with and she doesn’t know what to do with it.
He has half a mind to do what she did to him to make her create one, but he’s too upset to think straight.
He has to come to terms with the knowledge that it might not be his old teacher after all.
Sitwell tries to change his mind, twenty years is a long time to be trapped wherever she was, but Stephen isn’t having it.
That woman is an imposter and he won’t have her in this Sanctum.
Even though she doesn’t feel as welcome as she had been in the beginning, she finds that the kids have really warmed up to her.
They had been brought up on stories about her, and had always refered to her as their aunt.
And she’s never been called aunt before.
But she has a mission.
But she doesn’t want to harm them. Seeing them all, the love that they have for one another (excessive in Stephen and Tony’s case) is unlike anything she’s ever seen before.
And, while she may not remember them completely, she knows their faces, knows they had something to do with her past, and wants to stay to uncover that truth about herself.
She begins drinking the tea she loved.
She begins paying more attention to what she can remember.
And when Stephen hands her a sling ring one last time before he makes his decision, she makes a portal to the very mountain she left him stranded on.
Stephen can’t believe it.
It’s actually her.
So he decides to invite everyone who knew her, everyone who has missed her just as much as he had, to a party at the Sanctum.
But before the big night, Sitwell has had enough of the delay.
He doesn’t know why she hasn’t killed them all yet.
She tells him it’s not time yet, but Sitwell has lost all patience with her.
If she won’t kill them, then he has to move them somewhere where they can be killed easier.
And he knows just how to do it.
This Sanctum would come in very handy training Sorcerers for Hydra, and seeming how he has the Ancient One, the one who rightfully owns this Sanctum, he can move this family of freaks out and deal with them later.
But wrath hath no fury like a Tony scorned, who’s heard everything Sitwell just said.
He’s not going to allow his husband to go through that horrible depression again, and he’s not going to allow his children to live anywhere else but where they’ve called home all their lives.
So he calls Sitwell out on this bs, and Sitwell orders the Ancient One to open a portal.
She doesn’t want to.
She likes living here with this family, but her hands move on their own and they all step through to the Hydra base.
And the cloak sees this and immediately goes to get Stephen.
But the cloak has no idea how to relay this information to him, having no hands to sign and only managing to grab a photo of the family and point erratically to Tony.
Stephen has no clue what it’s trying to say until it takes up his sling ring and begin tapping morse code on the bedside table.
Throwing the cloak over his shoulders, he goes to save his damsel, who is strapped to the very chair where Hydra erase the memories of their Winter Soldiers.
He takes a step to him immediately and freezes when Sitwell emerges from the shadows, pointing a gun at Tony.
He’s going to turn them both into Winter Soldiers to serve Hydra, and then do the same to their kids.
Then he orders the Ancient One to strap Stephen down.
Stephen requests a moment to talk with Tony and Sitwell agrees although he quickly ends it when it becomes disturbingly sexual.
The Ancient One takes Stephen to the next chair, but then notices the cloak.
And takes it from him.
Sitting Stephen down in the chair, she offers him a reassuring smile and sends the cloak at Sitwell, which wraps around him tightly.
Stephen runs to Tony to free him, almost wanting to leave Tony tied up like this, and they get back home safely.
A moment later, the cloak and the Ancient One walk into the Sanctum, quite pleased with how they banished Sitwell to the Dark Dimension.
The day after the party, as Stephen and Tony listen to the explosions almost rocking the Sanctum as if it were classical music, Tony has some good news.
Their adoption papers have finally come through.
They can add a new addition to their family.
Stephen would adopt every single child in the cosmos if it made Tony happy, and Tony expects Stephen to hold that promise.
One child at a time, of course.
Quotes -
“Last night, you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me...do it again.”
You all know I’m only doing this movie for this quote right here!
“Don’t torture yourself, Gomez. That’s my job.”
Shouldn’t it be They’re kinky and they’re kooky?
“Tish. How long has it been since we’ve waltzed?”
“Hours.”
Tony takes pride in the fact that he and Stephen can waltz anywhere at anytime and they’d both be up for it.
“Morticia. Morticia...what? Slow down! It’s terrible when you stutter! Morticia. In. Danger. Stop. Send. Help. At once. Stop!”
Stephen finally understands what his cloak is trying to tell him.
“Tish. Seeing you like this...my blood boils.”
“As does mine.”
“This wheel of pain...”
“Our wheel.”
“To live without you only that would be torture.”
“A day alone. Only that would be death.”
“Knock it off!”
Your resolved-borderline-obsessed sexual tension is making Sitwell uncomfortable!
“Leather straps...red hot pokers...”
“Later, my dearest.”
Stephen fights against his urges when he sees Tony tied up.
Ancient Lies
Stephen has everything.
A loving husband, two wonderful children, a life where they don’t need to worry about missions and intergalactic threats anymore.
But for as complete as his life, someone is missing from it.
And then she turns up.
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Ironstrange is all the romcoms change my mind, no wait you can’t because it’s true! 😆
Tony was through with relationships.
He made sure to make that clear to everyone who tried asking him out.
And then, when he saw Pepper go through a bad breakup, he decided to some fun.
Just how long would it take for someone to call it quits if he made himself as dislikable as possible?
Or, if he made every mistake imaginable just to prove his point and make people leave him alone?
So, the next person to ask him out would hopefully be his last, and can enjoy being single.
That poor soul turned out to be Stephen Strange, who was only doing it because he’d heard how hard it was to woo the great Tony Stark.
Practically getting dared to last ten days when his over confidence betrays him, Stephen and Tony both strike up a conversation as everyone watches and places bets on how long Tony will string this one along before making Stephen end it.
The first date goes surprisingly well, and Stephen thinks he’ll have Tony wrapped around his finger after just a few days.
Tony on the other hand, is already thinking of things he can do to sabotage the relationship.
At first it’s just little things; making Stephen get him things with the use of his handy dandy portals before telling him he wants something else and then making a big deal out of it when it’s still not what he wants.
He might accidentally cut the power to his suit a couple of feet in the air, forcing Stephen to take drastic measures to catch him.
He even steals the cloak of levitation when he ‘forgets’ his suit, the cloak more than willing to fly around with Tony and leave Stephen on the ground because Tony will pamper it.
And that’s only two days in!
By the third day, Tony has moved half of his things into the Sanctum, leaving tools all over the place and making installations and upgrades Stephen neither wants nor will he get any use out of.
Day four hits and Tony is running out of ideas because he’s being as annoying as he can, he’s inserting himself into Stephen’s life and messing with everything he can and Stephen refuses to back out of this relationship.
It’s driving Stephen crazy, he’s on the verge of tearing his hair out when he walks into the Sanctum the next day and finds EVERYTHING has been removed to make room for as many Iron Man figurines, plushies, posters, books, comics, even Stephen’s bed spread has been changed and his cloak is floating around flashing about twenty pins with that blasted helmet on them.
Stephen seriously can’t deal with all of this, but he also doesn’t say anything negative about this either, determined to get through the other half of this bet.
And Tony has no idea what to do next.
He goes to Stephen’s parents for help, mostly asking for baby photos he might embarrass him with, but strikes up a conversation with Stephen’s mother that ultimately results in him accepting an invitation for the two of them to visit for the weekend.
And wen they go and Stephen gets to meet his family, gets to play cards with them and they all gang up on Stephen, who was the reigning champion and Tony is hugged in a way he hasn’t been in a long time.
In a way he forgot he could be hugged, it makes him stop with the petty games he was playing.
It makes him let Stephen closer, allows him the intimacy he’d been keeping away from.
It’s like he’s a completely different person, and the rest of the days just seem to fly by.
That is, until the tenth day, when Tony overhears Clint grumbling to Banner how he’d bet Stephen wouldn’t last the ten days, that Stephen must be either really stubborn or really desperate to win if he’s lasted this long with Tony.
Tony had truly thought, even after all the shit he had pulled, that Stephen had actually cared about him.
He’d thought he’d finally found someone who just accepted him for who he was, flaws and all.
It had never crossed his mind that Stephen was only putting up with it to win a bet.
He confronts Stephen about it, and he doesn’t deny any of it, but he also refuses to end their relationship, even when Tony tells him he’s going to be the one to end it so they can just move on.
But Stephen won’t let him.
He’s seen how incredible Tony really is, and he doesn’t want to give that up.
This might have started out as a bet, but it doesn’t have to end as one.
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“Michelle, If the most beautiful woman in the world acted the way you did, any normal guy would still go running in the other direction.”
“No. No guy would go running from you, Andie. You could barf all over him and he would say ‘Do it again.”
“That is both incredibly disgusting and untrue. If I did the things you did, I’d get dumped too.”
Tony and Pepper talking about her break up.
“I used to obsess over Mike’s old girlfriends.”
“Oh better yet, talk about all your old boyfriends.”
“It’s good, it’s good, it’s good but it’s not gonna to crack this guy! This is Defcon 5! I have to do something truly appalling. It’s not funny.”
Tony needing help because Stephen still refuses to dump him.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s just that when your mom hugged me today...she really hugged me. For winning a game of Bullshit.”
Stephen and Tony finally doing away with the bet and allowing their true feeling to surface.
“I think you’re running away.”
“Why don’t you save your mind games for your next bet, okay? I am not running away.”
“Bullshit.”
“Excuse me?”
“You heard me. Bullshit.”
Stephen refusing to let Tony run from what they have.
Calling your Bluff
It was meant to be a cruel joke on both their parts, each only sticking with the relationship because they’d been dared to.
It wasn’t meant to mean anything.
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It’s been a long day. Always good to curl up with a good movie after a long day
Tony might say that all he needs is Happy to keep him safe, but the truth is Happy can’t protect Tony from every threat out there.
Trying to is what landed him in the hospital to begin with.
He needs some extra help of the magical kind.
Stephen isn’t at all thrilled about being a bodyguard for a celebrity, but when he finds out how someone has broken in to Stark’s house without setting off any alarms twice now, he begins to suspect that whoever is doing it must be using some magic of their own, or at least is someone close to Tony.
So he agrees.
But only to help Happy out.
And that’s how he meets Tony Stark.
Arrogant, I-like-things-how-they-are-Strange, Tony Stark.
Stephen does a complete sweep of the house, ignoring everyone as he checks everything for possible tampering.
No one wants him there, especially the guy he’s meant to be protecting, but he’s not here to make friends.
He has a job to do.
He meets Rhodey, Tony’s best friend and one of his other body guards, who isn’t at all thrilled having a new face around here.
He meets Peter Parker, who’s just a kid but is willing to learn anything new to help protect his mentor.
He meets Pepper, who seems to be the only one who can talk Tony into things, like hiring Stephen on.
And he meets Obidiah Stane, who doesn’t do much of anything really unless Tony needs a coffee.
It’s a tight knit group of people Tony has around him, people who obviously care about him, who don’t want anything to happen to him.
And Stephen quickly finds out he’s not wanted as part of that group.
Nothing has happened to Tony yet with them around, despite what Happy thinks.
So, to make Tony feel that little safer, he gives him a small charm that will alert him if Tony needs him and he promises he’ll come running.
Tony makes a joke about Stephen being his hero, and Stephen makes sure to look away to hide his slightly more red cheeks.
But no matter what they do, things still happen.
Obidiah doesn’t seem to realise that Tony is in danger, because he keeps making Tony go to public events where these things happen.
It’s mild things at first, threats in hate mail, fans trying to storm anywhere Tony would be, these things are easily dealt with, but then they start ramping up rather quickly.
Tony narrowly escapes being given a bomb as a gift from a ‘fan’
He’s swarmed on stage and Stephen has to fight his way to him, pulling him through a portal to safety and leaving everyone else behind.
He’s shot at during a gala, the person responsible becoming lost in the crowd.
Stephen does everything he can to protect Tony but Tony is starting to become paranoid all because of him.
It all comes to a head when a new Villain using Stark tech attacks Tony when he’s racing at the Grand Monaco Race Track, Stephen just getting pissed with him at this point because he’s trying to keep him safe and Tony doesn’t seem to care in the slightest.
Once the guy with whips for hands is defeated and Tony is safe, Tony wants to go out on a date with Stephen and not his bodyguard.
Stephen agrees to it, and spends the night with, ultimately waking up the next day with Tony still in his bed.
He shouldn’t have gone and crossed that boundary, he knows it will only complicate their relationship, but while Tony is angry at Stephen for being used, Stephen is more angry at himself.
Of all the people he had to go and fall in love with, it had to be Tony Stark.
Tony decides to go right back to being difficult, making sure Stephen sees him in the arms of someone else at any given chance, something he knows makes Stephen jealous.
It’s not until whoever is after Tony tries to attack him again and Stephen is alerted by the charm he gave Tony do they each realise how much they need one another, and how far in danger they really are.
Taking Tony and Obidiah to the Sanctum in hopes whoever is after him won’t find him there, it takes one day for them to fall back into bed together.
And two for the person who has been trying to kill Tony this entire time to reveal themselves.
Mordo had only taken this job because he’d found out Stephen Strange had somehow gotten involved.
He killed Obidiah first, the man who had hired him in the first place to kill Tony Stark as publicly as possible to drive Stark Industries stock up.
And next to enter his line of sight was Stephen, drastically unprepared for the large thorns of magic as they pierced his body and dragged him away from Tony.
Now, Mordo he had a new plan.
He was going to kill Tony in front of Strange.
Make him watch, defeated and broken and helpless to do anything to stop it.
Tony didn’t move, eyes locked on Stephen as if he was the last thing he wanted to see, clutching the charm in his hand.
Only, there was something coming out of it.
And whatever it was was already all over Stephen, forming a suit of armour around him and pushing at the magic which has a hold of him until he was freed.
Mordo instantly directed his next attack toward Tony and Stephen held up his hand to stop him, his own magic erupting out of his palm and propelling him backwards into Tony, both of them falling to the ground as the almighty blast of his attack hitting its mark left a good sized crater in the floor where Mordo had been standing.
It was finally over.
Happy was out of the hospital, so Tony had no use for a wizard bodyguard anymore.
He was safe now, much safer than he’d previously been.
That’s what mattered.
He knew Tony would go on to do great things.
They had their own lives to get back to.
Their own, seperate lives.
Stephen opened the portal for Tony, the last one he ever would, and just as Tony stepped through, he turned right around and ran back to Stephen, who held him tightly and kissed him for as long as he could, for as long as he dared, committing this feeling of Tony against him to his memory with all the others.
And then, with one final goodbye, Tony was out of his life.
But never out of his heart.
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“You’re turning down 2000 bucks a week? So you’re saying you won’t protect Rachel Marron just because she’s in show business?”
“I don’t do celebrities.”
“2500.”
“Look, there’s several good men available for that kind of money.”
Happy begging Stephen for his help
“You don’t approve of me, do you?”
“Disapproval’s a luxury I can’t afford.”
“Oh, gets in the way, right? Don’t like your emotions getting to you? Never mix business with pleasure?”
“That’s right.”
The two bickering
“Nice suit, Frank.”
“Rachel? I want you to keep this.”
“It’s beautiful.”
“It’s fitted with a radio transmitter. When you close the clasp, it sends a signal. So if there’s ever a problem, or we’re seperated, just press it and I’ll know you need me.”
Stephen giving Tony the charm
“Farmer, I have this problem. This minor little problem, you see. I’d like to go out for an evening, with a guy, you knoe? Like a date? But, I can’t go out on a date because you have to be with me every minute. I mean, what is he wants to invite me up to his place afterwards? Are you gonna come too? So…the only thing I can figure…is for you to take me out. That’s what I was wondering. I mean, what do you think? Only if you want to! Only if you want to.”
Tony tripping over himself asking Stephen out.
I’m Not What You Need
Tony needs a bodyguard.
Stephen needs to keep his distance.
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Okay! So, today is Mother’s Day and I decided to celebrate with one of my mum’s favourite movies.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Rhodey was getting married to Arno.
Tony was happy for them of course, why wouldn’t he be?
But then he saw who was going to be attending the wedding, more to the point who Arno had named as his best man.
It was Steve Rogers.
Tony’s ex and Rhodey’s best friend.
Well, Tony would show him.
He’d bring someone.
Someone who was better looking than Rogers, just to really rub it in.
And the only one he can think of who is willing to help him, is Stephen Strange, a relatively new friend who agrees to act as his fiancé for a fee.
While he meant it as a joke, Tony was more than willing to pay it.
He’d pay for his ticket to the wedding, he’d pay for any expenses he needed to make this plan work, just as long as Strange played along and made everyone believe they were together and madly in love and Tony wasn’t hung up on Steve at all.
So, of course when they meet, there’s already a dilemma with their chosen outfits.
They each chose a nice suit with a blue tie, and Tony doesn’t want them to match and make it seem like they’re trying too hard.
Stephen tries offering support but Tony isn’t hearing it as he looks through the few ties he’s brought, trying to find a nice one that will offset Stephen’s.
Stephen would roll eyes if it were anyone else, but this is Tony, and when he comes back out wearing a bow tie that suits him more than any tie, he can’t help but stare.
He offers a genuine compliment, one Tony wasn’t expecting, and they head to the party where the friends, family and Avengers invited to the wedding just a few days from now have gathered.
Tony introduces Stephen as his fiancé to everyone they meet and showing off the ring he’d gotten for this occasion.
At the bar, they finally find Tony’s brother and husband to be, and while he, Arno and Rhodey catch up, Stephen heads outside to get some fresh air.
It’s then a guest, staring at the trio, begins telling Stephen about how he’s in love with someone who’s here with someone else.
Stephen hadn’t been introduced to Rogers yet, but he can deduce this must be him just from their short conversation before Tony trots in and ignores him in favour of showering Stephen with his attention before acting like he’s just noticed his ex.
It’s fun, and Stephen plays along, making sure his hands are on Tony’s waist, pulling him closer into his body when Steve is looking, and soon the poor man makes his way to the bar alone.
When Tony asks him what they were talking about and Stephen confirms that Steve still has feelings for him, Tony is glad that his plan is working.
It’s only when they get to the motel everyone is staying at that they realise it only has the one bed and they need to share.
Stephen isn’t shy about sharing as Tony piles all the pillows he can find between them so no funny business can happen, and Stephen makes a flippant remark about sex costing extra, something which Tony stows away to use against him later.
Later, as it turns out, is the next morning because Tony had gone to have a shower to freshen up and hadn’t realised Stephen was already in there, naked as the day he was born and doing absolutely nothing to cover himself, giving Tony the grand view of everything before he could stop his eyes from wandering.
Tony manages to pull himself together while Stephen just chuckles to himself about the big bad playboy getting flustered, and Tony tries to turn this all back into Stephen, hoping he knows he has to keep his act up today.
Stephen knows, wrapping a towel around his waist for Tony’s benefit more so his own, and leaves the bathroom for Tony to use.
Today is a simple game of cricket, Rhodey’s team against Arno’s, and while Arno has both Tony and Stephen, Rhodey has Steve.
And, of course, Rhodey’s team is winning.
Tony can’t decide if he’d rather much lose the game for Steve, or win it to rub it in his face, Stephen making the choice for him when it’s his turn to bat, scoring a home run for their team.
Tony may enjoy Steve being a sore loser, but not as much as the feeling of jumping into Stephen’s arms to kiss him.
To make Steve jealous...of course.
And Stephen doesn’t really mind playing it up, but Tony’s starting to fall for his own game.
Not for Steve, but for Stephen.
Stephen would offer him compliments he’d never heard before.
Stephen would support him in the reason why he was here for this wedding of strangers, something Tony couldn’t turn to anyone else for.
After the game are the bachelor parties, Arno with his groomsmen and friends and Rhodey with his, only this time Stephen is dragged along with him instead of going with Tony.
Stephen keeps to himself at the party, barely noticing Steve glaring at him.
But at Arno’s party, things are a little awkward.
Not only is Tony incredibly drunk and has resolved himself to drawing out more money for Stephen afterwards for sex, but his brother is just as drunk as he is and talking about how he doesn’t deserve to get married.
When Tony asks him why not, Arno opens his mouth, seems to realise something, and quickly covers it up by saying how much he loves the song playing, making Tony chalk up the strange conversation to just being drunk and wedding insecurities.
The next day is dancing lessons, and Tony isn’t feeling up to it.
He has a killer headache from drinking so much that he can’t remember what the hell happened after the limo stopped at an atm for him to pull out the money.
The money which is still in his wallet.
The money which Stephen finds and begins an argument with Tony about because he does remember last night.
He remembers that he was more than willing to sleep with Tony without having to be paid for it, but now he’s more hurt that Tony would try to buy sex from him.
And when he relaises that Tony can’t remember their night together, that it was just a drunken hook up, the hurt just magnifies, as do their voices.
By the time they rock up to the lesson, tensions are strung high and their aeguing has settled into a cold silence, either wishing to speak to each other or look or even touch the other.
It when the two grooms are getting into their dancing positions, Tony realises Stephen has yet to make a move
So, much more aggressively than is needed, he grabs his hand and places it on his waist as the music begins to play.
Seeing this as a call to arms for another fight, Stephen lifts his leg a little too high and trips Tony up.
Tony is not having it, slamming his foot down on Stephen’s, making him push him away.
But Tony clings to his hand and pulls him back in to dance with him.
And just like that, their fight is over.
They’re laughing, actually enjoying themselves as Stephen twirls Tony around.
And once the lesson is over, Tony takes the time to stop worrying about Steve and start listening to Stephen, who tells him anything he wants to know, being more open with him than he’s ever been with anyone.
It’s at lunch later on that everything falls apart.
When they get there, Arno is missing and Stephen decides to help look for him, heading to the lake house the Starks own.
And that’s where he finds him.
Sitting on the couch, crying.
When they get back, both Rhodey and Tony are glad to see him, Arno just telling them he lost track of time.
Tony asks Stephen if he’s ok because he’s got this weird look on his face, but he just nods and smiles.
It’s nothing. And nothing that Tony should be worried about either.
Lunch can finally progress as intended with all guests accounted for, and in the middle of it, Tony decides to go to the cellar and grab some more bottles of wine.
Stephen offers to take the empty ones, heading to the cellar too to drop them off.
Then he sees Tony and Steve talking.
And he can’t help but overhear how Tony tells Steve that he’s over him and they should just enjoy themselves, smiling as he leaves.
It’s as Tony grabs the second bottle of wine to take back with him that Steve finally tells him what he’s been holding back this entire time.
That he’d cheated on Tony with his brother.
Tony stops walking.
Stops breathing.
Sways a little as he tries to register what Steve has just said.
Is still saying.
That they’d broken up because Steve wanted to be with Arno.
That Arno has been cheating on Rhodey with him.
That he couldn’t stand it when Rhodey had proposed because he was in love with Arno.
And Tony just feels sick.
He manages to get back to where his friends and family are, but one look at Tony’s face and then Steve’s makes them all realise that he’d told him.
They’d all known about it and had kept it from him.
And Arno is giving him the biggest wide eyed stare because Rhodey doesn’t know and he doesn’t want him to know the day before their wedding.
Tony immedietly finds Stephen, who wraps him up in a hug just as Arno yells at him for telling Tony the truth.
And Tony goes rigid in his arms, looking up at him as if hoping Arno is lying about Stephen knowing.
But what he sees only makes him push him away.
He knew?
He knew too and hadn’t told him?
Tony just turns around and leaves, yelling at Stephen to piss off when he tries to chase after him, to take his money and go because that’s all this was for him, that’s all Tony was to him.
And it’s not true, Stephen wants to tell him it’s not true, but Tony is not listening.
So, he does as Tony tells him.
He packs his things and calls for a flight home, Rhodey telling him to sleep on it because he and Tony have got a good thing between them and he shouldn’t give that up because they had a fight, giving him the key to the lake house to stay in for the night.
As Stephen is agreeing to stay a little longer, Arno is trying to patch things up with his brother, who is not in the mood because his lying, cheating brother is getting married tomorrow to a man who still has no idea his fiancé was cheating on him.
If Arno wants to do the right thing here, he’ll tell Rhodey the truth before they get married. But he knows he won’t, because he’d rather have Rhodey backed into a marriage with him and not spoil his special day.
And when Arno leaves in tears, Tony doesn’t care.
The day of the wedding, the day for Arno and Rhodey, Tony heads to the lake house hoping to find Stephen and apologise, and only finding an envelope filled with the money Tony had given him for this trip.
Stephen was gone.
On his way home.
And he probably would have kept going if he hadn’t seen Rhodey chasing after Steve Rogers, yelling at the top of his lungs about how he’d trusted him.
They sit and talk about the Starks in their lives, both realising they love them and head back to the wedding.
Tony goes to apologise, but Stephen gets in first, telling him exactly how he feels.
He loves him, and he’s not leaving.
He can’t, he’s the best man now.
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“I know how important this is for you. But remember, you’re a beautiful woman and uh, you got everything in the world going for you.”
“Don’t patronise me. I feel like crap and if I’m gonna feel like crap I wanna look hot doing it.”
“Mission accomplished.”
“Really? Don’t get too attached.”
Stephen seeing how good Tony looks and Tony brushing off his flirting as if he doesn’t really mean it.
“Oh, god. It’s just...well, there’s this girl that...I care for...well, I suppose you could say I love her. Bugger is of course she’s here with some other guy.”
“Here you are!”
“Hey Kat!...Hey Kat!”
“Oh! Hey yourself. I see you’ve met my ex!”
“I was just telling him how we met.”
Stephen playing along to make Steve jealous
“Close your eyes. You’re safe, you can relax. I’m not gonna kiss you. He’s gonna be sorry he lost you, so, stop worrying. Forget the past. Forget the pain. And remember what an incredible woman you are. You do that, and he’ll realise what he lost.”
“Holy crap. You’re worth every penny.”
Stephen needing to drill into Tony’s head that he’s amazing and his plan will work
“I didn’t deserve her back then.”
“And you do now?”
Steve and Rhodey talking about the wrong people
“You know what pisses me off? I’ve been spilling my guts all weekend and I don’t know anything about you.”
“I’m allergic to fabric softener. And I majored in comparative literature at Brown. I hate anchovies...and I think I’d miss you, even if we never met.”
Tony and Stephen bonding
“Listen when we were fighting, I thought this was over. And I was gonna leave you alone and just...take off but...then I realised. I’d rather fight with you than make love with anyone else.”
Stephen when he realises just how badly he’s fallen for Tony.
Plus One
Tony and Stephen have to pretend to be in a relationship so Tony’s ex can see he’s moved on.
Only...the acting starts to become more than just simple pretending.
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Hey everyone! Here’s the list for May!
The Spy who Dumped Me
Winter’s Tale
The Tourist
Beauty and the Beast
Edge of Tomorrow
The Vow
Mask of Zorro
Parent Trap
The Wedding Date
Never Been Kissed
Enchanted
Upgrade
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Birdman
When Marnie was There
Time Traveller’s Wife
You’ve Got Mail
Swan Princess
21 Jump Street
Finding Nemo
Lake House
The Bodyguard
Equilibrium
Water for Elephants
Taken 2
Book of Life
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Tangled
Perfect Blue
Back to the Future
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This is what Finding Dory should have been.
Their marriage might have fallen through, but even though there were regrets whidh they hadn’t worked out, Stephen still wanted to be a part of Tony’s and Peter’s life, he still believed he and Tony could get back together, despite his ex getting back into dating other men.
Especially since Peter had been abducted little under a month ago by fish bowl head.
He wasn’t about to let either of them out of his sight.
Now Peter was trying to live a normal life like all teenagers, getting a girlfriend by the name of MJ and trying for his driving lisence, and even though Tony had offered, Stephen was adamant that he would be the one to take Peter for his driving lessons.
Of course, he wasn’t the calmest as he probably once would have been in a car, and he just manages to agitate Peter about driving, but they make it back to Tony’s house in one piece.
But while Tony is trying to date again and Peter is trying to act as normal as he can despite what happened to him and Stephen tries to be there for them as often as he can and getting shit about it from Mordo and Wong, Adrian Toomes is creating a suit to avenge his son.
He’s not after Tony, like he had initially been, no, no, Tony didn’t kill his son.
Stephen Strange did.
But he’ll kill the both of them and Peter too.
A son for a son.
Stephen has the day free from his Sorcerer duties so he tries to spend time with Peter and Tony, Peter being a little too crafty for his own good and allowing the two adults to enjoy some time alone together.
Tony sees right through this, but he won’t complain, he’s missed Stephen.
But when they’re heading out to lunch, both of them see people watching them, following them, and they know not only are they in danger, but Peter could be as well.
And both are ill equipped to deal with them because Stephen never brought his sling ring and Tony had left his housing unit back at the lab.
Sure, Stephen still had his magic, but that doesn’t mean he wants to draw attention to them and make it easier to find them.
So, they split up, Tony heading back to Peter and Stephen heading for the Sanctum where he can get what he needs to teach these guys to stop messing with his family.
And he makes it, but so does Adrian with Tony, holding a gun to his head.
And while Stephen raises his hands, and stalls for time, Tony manages to send a distress call to Peter, who immediately heads to the lab.
With a nod from Tony telling him Peter’s safe, Stephen lowers and unclenches his fists, the last thing he sees before he’s knocked out is Tony having a bag thrown over his head.
And all Stephen can think about is Tony’s state of mind from being kidnapped again, and hoping that Peter is safe.
Peter is safe.
He’s in the lab tracking Tony through the distress signal and waiting for it to stop so he can get there and help his parents out while he searches for what he needs, keeping an eye on whoever took them’s idiots running around in a frenzy searching for him on the monitors, kicking in locked doors to empty rooms.
He knows he’ll be found eventually, but he’s already made up his mind to help by the time he gets a call from Tony, who wanted to make sure he was safe and wasn’t planning on finding them because they’re from the same group who took him just a few months ago.
But Tony’s worried voice sounds proud when Peter’s resolve won’t be swayed, but doesn’t get a chance to tell him what to do before the door of their cell is opening and he has to cut the call short.
With their location set into Karen’s GPS, Peter gets out of the lab just as the ones who had come to grab him find it empty.
He’s got everything that Tony told him to grab if this ever happened, and he’s got their location.
But getting there will take time, time which Tony doesn’t have.
When the door had opened and Adrian Toomes walked in, his mechanic wings folding back into the device on his back, he ignores Tony for Stephen.
He wants to know where Peter is.
And Stephen doesnt tell him, Tony has a knife at his throat.
But Stephen still won’t tell, and winces when the knife slices into him deep, blood continuously oozing into Tony’s clothes amd dripping onto the floor beneath him.
Stephen knows how long Tony has if it’s not stitched, and he knows they have nothing to stitch him up with.
Once Adrian leaves again, promising to return in the thirty minutes Tony has left with Peter, Stephen is trying to cut through his bonds to get to Tony to help him, counting down the seconds in his mind and becoming more angry and frustrated the longer it takes to free himself, calling to an unresponsive Tony, who has fallen limp in his restraints.
Finally, finally Stephen is free, ripping off his shirt to apply pressure to the wound as Tony manages to tell him to take his watch and call Peter.
He does so, Peter answering straight away and telling him he’s at their location.
Stephen wastes no time in blasting a hole above them, Peter just managing to drop what he’d brought with him before a pair of mechanical claws grab him by the arms and lift him up into the air.
Stephen is up after him, promising Tony he’ll be back.
Tony grabs the sealing agent first and patches himself up, shakily pressing his housing unit to his chest when he hears the commotion of armed men running to their cell, alerted by Stephen’s destructive renovating.
Clearing his head, he stands up, swaying a little under the weight of his sleek armour, and kills anyone who has the misfortune of walking through that door.
Stephen chases after Peter, summoning the mirror dimension and locking the three of them within it, using the turning and separating buildings to catch up to Peter and grab hold of him, freeing him from the villain when a car comes out of nowhere and runs straight into him.
But Toomes isn’t going down that easily, and Stephen keeps getting interrupted by attacks.
Seeing no other alternative, Peter apologetically hijacks a car and they speed away, Stephen trying not to have a panic attack with how fast Peter is driving and how he’s swerving in and out of traffic coming and going in every direction, almost rolling the car more than once when he feels it balancing on two wheels.
Toomes is right behind them, not giving up as Peter tries to keep them alive long enough for Stephen to get them out of here.
But without a sling ring, they can’t exit how they normally would.
He needs to get to the Sanctum and get one, or at least keep Toomes occupied so Wong or Mordo can get them out of here.
Peter likes the second option, stressing Stephen out even more now he’s driving with one hand and calling Wong’s phone with the other, Stephen grabbing the phone from him before he gets them both killed.
Almost as soon as Stephen tells Wong what’s happening, a portal opens right in front of them, Peter, Stephen, and the car they’re in sailing over Wong’s head and crashing straight into the staircase.
Wong closes the portal just as Toomes reaches it, one of Vulture’s wings snapping off as he just makes it through, heading back to Tony.
Leaving Peter in Wong’s care, Stephen takes the sling ring and walks into the room where he’d left Tony, finding it abandoned.
He makes his way past all the bodies, hoping to find Tony somewhere close by.
And he does.
Tony’s suit is torn to shreds, all the power he’d had charged in it now all used up.
But he’s alive.
He’s shaking but alive and when he sees Stephen, the first words out of his mouth are concerning Peter.
But Stephen reassures him that Peter is safe at the Sanctum with Wong, and the wave of relief over the man he still loves almost brings him to tears.
It would be touching and damn near romantic if Toomes wasn’t there watching them, the last one alive out of the group of men he’d had with him.
Both Stephen and Tony hold up their hands, Tony’s more on instinct even without any more power left.
Looking over at Toomes, Stephen offers him a way out of this.
A way to live.
But Toomes doesn’t take it.
So focused on revenge, he aims for Tony, knowing it won’t be satiated if he’d aimed for Stephen, but his hand suddenly jerks behind his back, dropping his gun as a thick web ties him up, and Peter drops down with a proud look on his face.
The three are safe, and together again.
Not long after things settle down, life begins to move on.
Peter passes his driving lesson, which Stephen had no doubt in his mind he wouldn’t succeed at.
Stephen and Tony are trying their relationship again.
And Peter is giving this thing with MJ a real chance, asking her on a double date with his parents.
Yeah.
Maybe things will finally go back to normal now.
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“The man who took our loved ones from us. The man who has brought us such pain and sorrow. We will find him. We will bring him here. We will not rest until his blood flows into this very ground. We will have our revenge.”
Adrian Toomes addressing his men
“Oh! I didn’t know you guys were still so cozy that she shares her marriage issues with you.”
“Wait a minute, I know you guys were close, obviously, but are you close again? Close like...”
“I’ll lay money she’s still got something for him.”
“Don’t go there, friend.”
“Maybe he still has something for her!”
“Can we talk about basketball? For God’s sake, come on!”
Wong and Mordo teasing Stephen about Tony
“So, this Jaime...is it...serious?”
That was a really smooth transition. I don’t know, it’s only been a few months.”
“Are you in love with him?”
“I guess I’m not sure yet.”
“Have you ever been in love before?”
“Not the way that mom talks about it.”
“How does she describe it?”
“She said that when you guys met...that it was super special.”
“Super special? She said that?”
“I think the exact word she used was...‘ magical.”
“Magical, huh?”
Stephen and Peter bonding.
“I have nothing against you. You didn’t kill my son. But your husband did. Now, he betrayed you by choosing to save your daughter instead of you. He left you here like a dog.”
“At least my daughter is still alive.”
Tony being the snarky bastard we all love
Anything part 2
There’s a new enemy with his sights set on not just Peter, but his parents too.
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This is a request from @funkylittlebidiot who wanted Nanny Stephen and in all honesty, we all deserve Nanny Stephen.
Mary Poppins
A magical Nanny helps bring a family together.
Stephen was in desperate need of money.
Magic didn’t pay the bills although he wish it did, and they were in danger of having the Sanctum repossessed.
So, while everything had quieted down, he began looking though the papers for a small job he could do on the side. Maybe as a consulting doctor or maybe a University was hiring.
But there was absolutely nothing being advertised.
If he didn’t get enough to cover the Sanctum, they could lose it.
And if they lost it, New York would be left unprotected.
Tony didn’t have time for his kids with how busy his life was being an Avenger and running his own company and building his suit and everyone else’s.
It was sad but true, and he can’t rely on Jarvis all the time, the man has his own work and family to take care of.
His kids were absolute angels when it came to him but terrors according to every baby sitter he’d ever hired.
They just didn’t understand his kids.
He needed someone who could be firm with them while also allowing them to just be kids.
And not someone who was just in it for the pay.
So when the last sitter runs from the house, Tony didn’t think anything would come of mentioning all of this to Rhodey.
He especially didn’t expect some...monk in tattered robes to swing by his office saying he’d take on the baby sitter position.
In all honesty, Tony was so desperate for a sitter he hired the man right there.
Word had gotten out about how his kids were and no one wanted anything to do with them, no matter how high a price Tony offered.
Peter and Harley weren’t sorry for the distress they’d caused the sitters.
Most of them were mean and didn’t care about them anyway.
They were doing their dad a service by getting rid of the lot of them.
All the boys wanted was to spend time with their father and protect him, and they weren’t about to let some stranger worm their way into their lives and become their new mother.
Only Peter and Harley would decide who would marry their dad.
So when they heard they were getting a new sitter, they were quite shocked to find she wasn’t a she at all.
They’d never had a guy here before.
Ok, so maybe shaving off his hair wouldn’t get as funny a reaction out of him as it would a female sitter, but it was the first thing on their list that always worked a treat.
Quickly followed by refusing to do anything they were told and running off whenever they were allowed out of the house.
So they played nice with the fake smiles and angelic attitudes to lull him into a false sense of security, spiked his tea when they offered to make it for him, and shaved him bald when he fell asleep.
They couldn’t wait to see his reaction.
Hours passed and nothing happened.
Starting to get hungry, they crept down to the kitchen to see this Stephen guy sitting there reading a book.
His hair as perfect as before.
Peter and Harley stared.
What? How? They’d shaved it off! All of it!
Stephen looked over at them, and just asked if they’d cleaned their room.
No, they hadn’t.
And they weren’t going to either.
And with that, they turned back to the kitchen, and somehow ended right back in their room.
The kids looked at one another then ran to their door, taking one step into the hallway before it turned into their bedroom once again.
This time with their sitter standing behind them.
Although Stephen hadn’t had the most warm of welcomes from these two, he could tell they were now intrigued by him.
He just hoped that didn’t result in him having to regrow his hair again.
After they cleaned up their room, Peter and Harley mostly standing there watching in astonishment as the beds made themselves and action figures walked back to their positions on the shelves, the kids tell Stephen they want to go out into the city.
Thinking that some fresh air will do them all some good after being cooped up inside all morning, they step through the portal right into the carnage of a battle.
And the kids are off, splitting up to try and search for their dad.
Stephen manages to grab Harley and not a moment later Tony lands beside them with Peter in his arms.
He’s not at all thrilled with Stephen for bringing his kids to such a dangerous place, but the boys stand up for their new sitter, which surprises both adults.
It was their fault for making Stephen bring them here. They’d known Tony was here and wanted to make sure he was alright.
Tony takes his kids vouching for Stephen as reason not to fire him right then and there and instead orders him to get his kids out of danger.
But Stephen isn’t listening.
Tony’s armour is damaged and there’s blood caked on his left side which he’s favouring.
Tony needs to rest, if he doesn’t he’s going to get himself killed.
Tony wants to argue, he wants to get back and help, but he is so exhausted from barely sleeping the last few nights and all the fighting and the stress and blood loss that he collapses, his kids and Stephen grabbing him before he can hit the ground.
Stephen quickly gets them out of here before anyone sees them, taking himself, Tony, and the kids home.
He manages to get most of the armour off of Tony’s body with their help, along with his shirt which is pretty much soaked at this point.
Then he looks down at the Eye.
He could just use it, heal Tony in a matter of seconds and leave it at that.
But then Tony won’t rest.
He’ll go straight back into that battle and most likely wind up in a far worse state than he already is.
One Stephen might not be able to bring him back from.
Tony will need stitches.
And Stephen can’t sew anymore, hasn’t since his accident, and he’s not sure if he can do this.
He looks to Peter and Harley and asks if they can follow his instructions to help stitch up the wound, to which they both nod.
So, talking them through how to clean the wound, how to make the stitches small enough and how to wrap it up afterwards, the three of them wipe the sweat from their brow when they’re finally done.
And when Tony opens his eyes some hours later, confused as to how he got here and demanding an explanation from Stephen, the kids throw themselves into his arms and push Stephen into their family hug too.
And it’s the best reward, especially when Tony’s arms come up around the three of them to hold them.
He’d never been much into hugs when he’d been a doctor.
And he never realised how much he missed them.
While Tony is grateful to Stephen for saving his life and for stitching him up, he can’t stay. He’s needed back on the battlefield.
He tries to get up, but Stephen won’t let him.
Tony doesn’t need to go out there, he needs rest. He needs to stop doing so much for everyone else and think about himself for a change.
He’s going to stay here until Stephen says otherwise.
Doctor’s orders.
Peter and Harley’s mouth fall open at how Stephen speaks to their dad, even more so when Tony doesn’t even try arguing.
If it were Jarvis, Tony would already be out the door.
As Stephen wonders if he should ask for a raise having to babysit three children now, Peter and Harley try to form a plan to make Stephen stay with them.
He was a perfect fit to their family and to their father. He could help protect him.
And even Stephen is thinking the same thing.
Maybe once his job is done here Tony will call for his aid whenever he needs it.
Maybe he’ll even let him babysit again for him when the Sanctum wasn’t...
Stephen sighed.
That’s the only reason why he was doing this.
He was no better than the women before him, using Tony under the pretences of caring for his children for his own financial gain.
For the next few weeks, Tony is bed ridden.
The kids move their gaming system in to his room so they can all play something together, Tony losing on purpose half the time.
Sometimes Stephen will enter to see the three of them on the bed as Tony reads to them.
Sometimes he’ll find them already asleep together, a child on each side of Tony.
Stephen will smile and gently coax the children into their own beds, tucking them in before doing the same for Tony, checking he hasn’t pulled any stitches or that his dressing needs tending to while he does so.
And as Tony gets stronger, the debt Stephen owes on the Sanctum starts to shrink.
On the day Tony can get out of bed on his own, the Sanctum is fully paid off and Stephen has no need to stay here any longer.
But he doesn’t want to go.
He loves Peter and Harley like they were his own, and Tony...well, he shouldn’t be thinking like this.
The next morning when Stephen walks into the kitchen to see the kids and Tony making a right mess of the pancakes they’d been trying to make, flour everywhere including somehow in Tony’s hair, Stephen wonders if he’s really the only adult in this house.
Stephen begins telling the kids to get cleaned up while he deals with Tony as best he can, when his ears unmistakably pick up the kids calling him “Dad” as they run from the room.
And Stephen knows he has to return to the Sanctum and get back to his duties.
He’s already overstayed his welcome.
So, on their final day together, he makes sure the boys are dressed properly as usual, helps Tony into his jacket, and takes them all to a beautiful country side where Tony doesn’t need to worry about press or fans bothering him.
The kids run off ahead and Stephen and Tony linger behind, walking at a slow pace as they talk and enjoy the beautiful day.
Tony is quite taken with this magician, especially seeming how his kids seem to adore him too.
He scoops down and pulls a bunch of bright blue flowers growing along the path they’re walking on and hands them to Stephen, the petals suddenly becoming butterfly wings and swarming around the two before taking off into the clear sky.
And once the day is done and the family is asleep, Stephen leaves them behind to go back to the Sanctum.
He doesn’t hear anything from Tony or the kids.
He doesn’t check in on them or ask to babysit again.
Life simply moves on.
And then, Stephen recieves another debt notice in the mail.
Only this one has a rather peculiar owing price.
All it says is ‘One Date’
Stephen can afford to pay that.
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“Indeed, Mrs. Brill! I wouldn’t stay in this house another minute, not if you heap me with all the jewels in Christendom.”
“No, no, Katie Nanna, don’t go!”
“Stand away from that door, my girl.”
“But what am I gonna tell the master about the children?”
“It’s no concern of mine. Those little beasts have run away from me for the last time.”
Jarvis begging the last sitter to stay
“If you won’t scold and dominate us, we will never give you cause to hate us. We won’t hide your spectacles so you can’t see, put toads in your bed or pepper in your tea.”
Peter and Harley’s troublemaking.
“I beg your pardon?”
“Will you be good enough to explain all this?”
“First of all, I would like to make one thing quite clear.”
“Yes?”
“I never explain anything.”
Stephen and Tony have a talk when he wakes up.
Saving Mr. Stark.
Stephen had applied for the babysitters position for some extra cash.
And he gains something far more valuable.
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I can’t believe how fast this month has gone!
Long ago, during a war for what little remained of the world and the immense power it harboured, an Infinity Stone was destroyed.
Many of its pieces were scavenged, save for one, which sunk into the earth, and a brilliant green flower emerged.
A elderly woman found the flower, learned how to utilise its power, and used it to remain young forever, convinced she was the only one who would benenfit from its power so she could continue to keep the world safe.
But when the Queen became sick during her pregnancy, the flower was used to heal her.
Some months later, the young prince was born, with eyes as green as that flower which had saved his mother’s life.
None knew of the power sleeping dormant within him.
None, save for the woman who had been aging rapidly without the flower to keep her young.
Desperate and out of options, she kidnapped the young prince and hides him away with her, and for 17 years Stephen doesn’t question why they live in the tower or who his father is or why he had these powers which can only be summoned by a particular song.
Nor did he question the floating which appeared every year on his birthday.
But on the day before his 18th birthday the questions become too much for him, only angering his mother when she couldn’t give him the answers he wanted.
What he wanted more than anything, was to go see those lights, to go outside and see the world.
What she wanted was to keep him safe with her.
And what Tony Stark wanted was a castle.
And for this sentient cloak to just give up and leave him alone.
It’s just one little crown, and he needed it more than the royal family.
Even if it did once belong to their lost child.
But this cloak doesn’t seem to agree, chasing him deep into the woods and luckily getting snagged on a tree branch, giving Tony enough time to hide.
Only, the tower he decides to climb to hide in isn’t as empty as he thought it to be.
It’s Stephen’s tower.
And he doesn’t take kindly to Tony trespassing, knocking him out with a frying pan.
It’s then his friend finds them, a sentient cloak his mother doesn’t know about.
When the cloak sees Tony, it immediately tries to attack him, but Stephen stops him.
Maybe this man can help protect him out there in the big wide world? Maybe this is the chance Stephen has been waiting for his entire life to finally leave his tower.
The cloak doesn’t believe Stephen should be trusting this man but it doesn’t complain when it’s given the opportunity to wrap itself around the man, tying him to a chair while he’s still unconscious.
Once Tony wakes up, he thinks he’s been captured, but then Stephen steps out of the shadows.
And Tony can’t help but confuse the poor guy with his flirting, which has gotten him out of a few situations like this.
But this time, remarkably, it doesn’t work. And if Tony wants his crown, he has to do what Stephen wants.
A simple trip to the kingdom, and then back to the tower before Stephen’s mother even knows he’s missing.
If only it were that simple.
Tony had made quite the name for himself as a thief and the castle guards were still after him for stealing the crown now in Stephen’s possession.
But despite this, Stephen still held Tony in high regard and was more apt at protecting him than Tony was at protecting himself.
But even though they manage to escape the castle guards, Tony is still injured, a deep wound on his hand continuously bleeding and making Stephen come to some sort of decision.
Just as long as Tony doesn’t freak out.
Then he takes his injured hand, looks down at the wound and as he begins to sing, his eyes begin to glow.
And the bleeding stops as the skin heals itself.
Tony looks down at his now healed hand, having absolutley no clue how Stephen did it.
But when he looks back up at him, about to freak out, he sees that Stephen’s eyes aren’t as bright as they were before, and Stephen looks a little faint.
Stephen tells him what his mother had often said about the outside world.
How there were users of dark magic and relics which would steal his eyes and use his power for evil.
How it, and he, needed to be protected.
His mother even had one of these relics to prove to him they existed; a golden framed mirror with a stone in the center of the back of it, giving it the appearance of an eye.
The mirror was fine to look in, but he was never to look at the stone while his powers were activated, or else he’d lose them.
Tony was absolutely horrified.
Why on earth did she have it in the first place? Why not destroy it?
Stephen told him it was to keep him in his tower. So he knew what things the people in the outside world had and wouldn’t hesitate to use against him.
Tony had never seen nor heard of any kind of magical relics like the ones Stephen was describing, and promised him they didn’t exist.
And Stephen believed him.
It was easy getting into the kingdom to join the festivities, eating special foods prepared and making sure Stephen can see and learn as much of the world he’s been hidden away from.
No one tries to attack him for his power, no one even bothers to look at him save for Tony, who can’t take his eyes off him.
And when might falls and the lanterns rise into the sky, as Stephen watches them, amazed, Tony would rather look at him.
He doesn’t want to take Stephen back to that tower, no matter how many time he tried to trick him into going back in the beginning.
He could think of nothing worse than trying to forget about him.
But as they are leaning closer to one another, something strange catches Tony’s eye, and before he can warn Stephen about it, whatever it is swallows them up and deposits them back in Stephen’s tower.
Tony’s trying to get his bearings when there’s a sharp pain in his side and he crumples to the floor, blood soaking his shirt where he’s been stabbed.
Stephen is fighting to get to him, the cloak which had been behaving itself for Stephen’s sake, flying off his shoulders to drag the attacker off of him.
In the struggle, a tall cabinet crashes to the ground, scattering items all over the floor and trapping the cloak underneath it.
But still Stephen fights.
He has to heal Tony.
He’s never healed someone close to death, but for Tony he would do anything.
The cloak frees itself just as Stephen breaks free of her hold, watching as the cloth grabs thr woman he’d called his mother all these years and throws her and itself out of the window.
Stephen tries reaching for her, but it’s too late.
Turning his attention back to Tony, he immedietly tries to look at where he’s been stabbed, but Tony keeps pushing his hands away.
He knows what will happen to Stephen if he does this and he can’t let that happen.
And Stephen can’t let Tony die.
But Tony had other ideas about who’s life was more important.
Stalling for time wasn’t going to work for long, but he knew what he had to do when he saw a design he’d only been told about.
As Stephen began to sing, Tony grabbed the mirror to his left and held it into Stephen’s face, Stephen’s eyes instantly losing their glow as he stared into the eye he’d been told never to look at.
The stone glowed for a moment, then went dark, Stephen staring between it and Tony.
He sang, but nothing happened.
No light, no healing.
His powers were gone, and there was no way of saving Tony.
He held him, tried to keep him with him as Tony fought to keep his open so he could continue to see Stephen.
And then his body went limp, and his eyes closed.
Stephen traced the lines of Tony’s face, ran his fingers through his hair, and sang his song one last time, tears falling on to Tony’s soft cheek.
And not a moment later, a familiar bright green light radiating out of the gash in Tony’s side caught Stephen’s attention.
He watched as it sealed the skin up like new, he watched the blood fade away, and he watched Tony’s chest begin to rise and fall as he took steady breath after steady breath.
He’d brought Tony back to him.
He didn’t care if that was the last of his power, he didn’t need it anymore anyway.
No amount of powers or castles would ever be as important as they were to eachother.
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“Who are you, and how did you find me?”
“I know not who you are, nor how I came to find you, but may I just say…Hi.”
Stephen is immune to Tony’s flirting. And smolder.
“Please don’t freak out!”
“I’m not freaking out. Are you freaking out? No I’m just interested in your hair and the magical qualities it possesses how long has it been doing that exactly?”
Tony freaking out.
“Im so sorry. Everything is going to okay, though.”
“No, Rapunzel.”
“I promise. You have to trust me.”
“No!”
“Come on. Just breathe.”
“I can’t let you do this.”
“And I can’t let you die.”
“But if you do this…then you…will die.”
“Hey. It’s gonna be alright.”
“Rapunzel? Wait…”
Each trying to save the other’s life
“Heal what has been hurt. Change the fate’s design. Save what has been lost…bring back what once was mine. What once was mine.”
Stephen’s song one last time
Now That I See You
They were each other’s new dream.
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Hadn’t seen this movie until tonight so this should be interesting.
Peter would never have thought that anything would come out of going to his school camp aside from making a few friends.
And his twin, Tom, thought the same thing until they were staring at one another.
As it turned out, they had been separated at birth when their fathers had divorced and taken one each to raise.
Peter’s father, Tony Stark, was one of the Avengers, and had made Peter his very own suit to fight right along side him.
Tom’s father, Stephen Strange, was the Sorcerer Supreme and was teaching him everything he knew.
And each of them wanted to know what their other father was like.
So they concocted a plan to switch places, knowing that when they were found out, their fathers would have to meet to unswitch them and hopefully fall back love.
Using their time together at camp wisely, Peter explained who Jarvis was, how his suit worked, what the layout of their house and the Avengers Compound was like and Tom taught him the basics that wouldn’t raise any eyebrows and how Wong and a magical cloak made up the rest of their family in the Samctum they lived in.
And when they went their seperate ways, neither expected the other to be so wonderful.
Tony made sure to have a healthy balance between work and spending time with Peter, putting calls on hold at any time whenever his son needed his attention, taking as much time as needed from Avengers business as was needed to the best parent he’d never had.
So when Tom walked in, wondering if Tony would even like him and his father held him tightly and told him he missed him, Tom almost started crying.
Tony had made sure to have two weeks off so he and Pete could spend their time tinkering in the workshop like he loved to do, no Avengers business or Stark Industries business, just father son business.
Tom has always thought that whoever his father had married had to have been the most wonderful and amazing person in the world, and Tony Stark truly was.
Peter was awestruck when he walked through the portal into the arms of his father, Stephen going on about all the boring things he’d had to deal with in London without him, how it had been too quiet.
With Peter’s timid responses, not knowing how to act in front of his father, Stephen got a strange look on his face, not expecting his loud as life son to be so quiet.
He brushed it off as Tom just being tired after the camping trip and tried to leave him alone to rest, but Peter didn’t want to be alone after so many years without him in case he woke up and found out it had all been a dream.
When Peter told him this, covering it as he’d just missed him during his time away, Stephen just held him tighter and didn’t let him go, both of them falling asleep on the couch.
Peter has always thought that whoever his father had married had to have been the most wonderful and amazing person in the world, and Stephen Strange truly was.
It was Wong who started to suspect something was wrong with him.
At first it was his appetite. Even when Tom has been sick in bed too weak to move, he’d still eaten at least three servings of Wong’s cooking, not a single bite and be done with it.
And he should have known about the trick door which liked to change its location every now and then.
But it was when the cloak kept its distance from him as if it didn’t know who he was that made him confront Tom about his weird behaviour, thinking something had gotten to him.
But never could he have imagined that it was Peter he was talking too, not Tom.
The last time Wong had seen him was when he’d been a baby.
And for all his years of observing the world with a stone face, Wong broke into tears and hugged the kid, shocked at how big he’d grown.
Over in New York, Tom was experiencing the exact same with Jarvis, only Jarvis made him tell Tony the truth.
Tony just stared at his son.
The son he gave up to Stephen so many years ago.
He’s been spending time with him without even realising it.
It’s only when he realises that he has to meet up with Strange to get Peter back that he starts going into panic mode.
He hasn’t seen him in years.
Years!
What if he still doesn’t want to see him?
Or, heaven forbid, if he does? What then?
Once everyone’s bags are packed, Tom makes them a portal to the Sanctum, Tony immediately catching Stephen’s eye as he walks straight into a wall.
It doesn’t take long for Stephen to be told what’s happened, but when Peter is told to grab his things to go back with Tony, the twins beg their fathers for a family dinner, one which Wong and Jarvis both decide to cook for before anyone can say no to it.
The family dinner turns into a candle lit dinner for two and Stephen and Tony use it to not only catch up, but to work out how and when their sons get to see one another.
And the next day Peter and Tom have to say goodbye to one another.
Tony is conflicted about leaving again, especially since the dinner last night brought up old memories and feelings he had to bury long ago, but he’s not about to force Stephen to be with him if he doesn’t want to just for their kids, even though if Stephen had asked him to he’d have said yes.
They’re back home less than five minutes when a portal opens again and Tom races into their home.
Tony didn’t want Tom to use his magic to come see them unless he had permission from Stephen.
That’s when Stephen took his cue to show himself.
He’d already lost Tony once, and now he was back in his life he couldn’t let him go again.
Tony thought it was foolish.
And stupid.
And unrealistic.
And unbelievable.
And exactly how he felt about Stephen.
So it came as no surprise when they decided to remarry.
Not to them, and especially not to their sons.
They’d hoped this would happen after all.
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“So what’s your dad like? I mean is he the kind of father you can talk to or is he one of those workaholic types who says ‘I’ll talk to you later, honey.’ But, you know, never does? I hate that.”
“I don’t have a father, actually. I mean, I had one once, I suppose, but my parents divorced years ago. My mother never even mentions him. It’s like he evaporated into thin air or something.”
Tom and Peter discussing their family
“The truth is, you know, if we switch, sooner or later they’ll have to unswitch us.”
“And when they do they’ll have to meet again, face-to-face.”
“After all these years.”
Tom and Peter scheming to get their parents back together.
“So, doesn’t designing all these wedding gowns make you think about getting married again, or at least make you think about the F-word?”
“The F-word?”
“My father.”
“Oh, that F-word. Well, no, actually because I didn’t even wear a wedding gown when I married the F-word.”
Tom trying to make Tony think of Stephen and giving him a heart attack instead.
“I’m sorry. I can’t handle this. I mean I haven’t seen or heard from Nick Parker in over 11 years, and suddenly I’m flying halfway across the world to...I’m not mature enough for this! If the man didn’t make me so nuts, I’d still be married to him! I mean, we came up with this arrangement so that we’d never have to see each other again. I mean, look at me, Martin. Have you ever seen me like this?”
“Well...”
“Don’t answer that.”
Tony panicking about meeting Stephen after so long.
“You know, sometime if we’re ever really alone, maybe we could talk about what happened between us. It all feels a bit hazy to me now. It ended so fast.”
“It started so fast.”
“Well, that part I remember perfectly.”
Stephen and Tony flitting.
“And I suppose you just expect me to go weak at the knees and fall into your arms and cry hysterically and say ‘We’ll just figure this whole thin out.’ A biocontinental relationship with our daughters being raised here and there and...and you and I just...picking up where we left off and...and growing old together and...and...Come on, Nick, what do you expect? To live happily ever after?”
“Yes. To all the above. Except you don’t have to cry hysterically.”
“Oh yes, I do.”
Tony wanting this relationship with Stephen and Stephen wanting it too
Two of a kind
Split apart when their fathers were divorced, Peter and his twin Tom hatch a plan to get them back together so they can be a family.
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This one hit a little too close to home for me.
It’s such an enchanting and beautiful story, one I haven’t been able to get out of my head these past few months.
It’s helped me a lot.
He’d been too young when he’d lost his parents, and had barely known nor remembered the carers who had taken him in before they had passed on too.
Now he had been living with his Aunt for eleven years of his life, and had known she had only done so because she was getting paid to keep him for three.
She didn’t really want him.
And how could he blame her?
Everyone who had ever wanted him had died.
Aunt May was kind, energetic, the kind of person he would usually get along great with, had gotten along great with her until he’d found that letter and cheque.
And his mood had changed.
His personality.
She just thought it was a teenage thing.
But when Peter became far too quiet to the point he wouldn’t even talk to her, she decided to take action, and sent Peter to live with her friend, Virginia Potts, thinking a change of scenery was just the thing to perk her nephew back up again.
Peter was very formal when speaking with Miss Potts, but she insisted he call her Pepper, like all of her friends used to.
Peter just nodded, feeling a little awkward and wanting to get away and explore his environment.
Pepper didn’t mind his awkwardness at all, and thought it was a good idea for him to get used to the country.
It was while he was exploring, he came across a beautifully built mansion.
He could have sworn he’d seen this place before, it looked so familiar to him.
But when he went to see if anyone lived there at all, he found the rooms empty, and what little remained in the place covered by sheets and dust.
By the time he had given up trying to find a way into the home, the day had become night and he had to find his way back to Pepper’s house.
He tried asking her about the mansion, but she just got a sad look on her face and told him she didn’t want to talk about it, which just made him all the more curious.
His curiosity must have carried over in his sleep because his dreams were haunted by that place, and by a boy who apparently lived there.
It was weirder still when Peter went to check on the mansion again a few nights later and found the boy he had dreamed of was now living in it.
Peter couldn’t believe it. It was almost like magic.
He’d never seen this boy in his life, yet he’d somehow conjured him into existence.
And when the boy introduced himself as Stephen, Peter couldn’t explain how he’d known that to be his name before he’d even spoken it.
They became fast friends, a friend unlike anyone Peter had ever known, and they met every night to talk and and play together.
And then one night, there was a party at the house.
Peter felt out of place amongst the glamorous guests.
But they all paled in comparison when a young man asked Stephen to dance.
They looked happy together, Stephen’s smile as wide as he’d ever seen it.
That’s when Stephen introduced Tony Stark to him as his friend, and Peter could tell Tony meant a great deal more to him than just a friend.
Peter was just a friend.
There was something between those two that he caught a glimpse of whenever Tony would look at Stephen when he wasn’t watching, or in the way Stephen’s voice became that much softer around him.
He knew Stephen had a special place in Tony’s heart, and Tony in Stephen’s.
And Peter felt privileged just to see it.
But it was the day after the party when Peter ran back to the house to see his friend that he found it exactly as the first time he had come across it.
Empty and dusty, as if no living soul had disturbed it for years.
He tried again everyday and night for a week, but he was greeted every time with nothing.
Had he imagined it all?
Was he so desperate for company he’d created these characters who loved one another so wholly, as he had never been?
No one cared about him, or loved him enough to stay with him.
His parents hadn’t stayed, his first carers hadn’t stayed, and now May had sent him away because she didn’t want to stay either.
That’s why he was here.
He’d live with Pepper until she grew sick of him and passed him off to the next unlucky soul who wouldn’t want him.
And then, almost a month from the night of the party, he finally saw Stephen and Tony again.
Although, this time, Stephen seemed a little confused as to who Peter was.
He kept calling him Tony, and while Peter did think they looked somewhat alike and would have brushed it off as a compliment, he had to keep reminding Stephen that he was Peter.
Stephen would look at him and either keep calling him Tony or snap out of it only to forget all over again.
He never called Tony by any other name than his own, which Peter found rather odd.
But worst of all was when Stephen and Tony wandered together and they both refused to answer Peter’s calls to them.
Anything could happen to them, but the more he ran about looking for them, calling for them only to be met with silence...it was like he’d been abandoned all over again.
He was hurt, angry and upset with himself for letting someone close enough to hurt him again.
He’d thought they were friends.
He’d thought they wouldn’t abandon him like everyone else.
He wouldn’t forgive them, no matter what.
It was that night he dreamed of that mansion again, Stephen at the window calling out to him to hear his words and forgive him for leaving him.
How he hadn’t wanted to leave him.
But now he had to say goodbye.
And all he wanted from Peter was his forgiveness before he was pulled away again.
And Peter forgave him.
He forgave them both.
Because he loved them.
The next day, as Peter was packing his bags, Pepper called him down to the living room.
She asked him why she had heard him calling out the names of Tony and Stephen last night as if expecting them to answer.
Peter didn’t know how to explain he’d befriended two people who didn’t exist, but before he could come up with an excuse, he noticed how Pepper was trying to hold back her tears as she handed him a photograph, and finally told him about the mansion and it’s previous occupants.
Two men, a happy couple and dear friends of hers.
She told him how Tony had bought the house Stephen had been raised in.
She told him how they had decided to adopt a young boy and raise him together.
And she told him how happy they had all been right up until Tony’s passing, and how Stephen hadn’t been able to cope without him.
Stephen had tried to raise the boy on his own, but he later died of a broken heart, leaving the young child to be taken in by May.
Pepper looked over at Peter, who didn’t seem upset at all.
He looked calm, happy, as he gazed down at the photograph of the two men and his toddler self.
He’d forgotten all about them and the small amount of time they’d all had together.
They had taken him in.
They hadn’t meant to leave him, they had loved him.
He asked Pepper if he could have the photo and she obliged.
He’d frame it when he got back home to remind himself that he wasn’t as unwanted as he’d thought he was.
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“Are you okay?”
“Um, yeah...good...are you...Are you real?”
“Wait! Shh! Let’s not have anyone hear us.”
“In my dreams, I saw a girl just like you.”
“Dreams? Hm.”
Peter meeting Stephen for the first time.
“And who was he?”
“Who was who?”
“The one I saw you dancing with.”
“Ah! Kazuhiko? He’s an old friend of mine.”
Peter knows better than that.
“Are you okay, Marnie?”
“Yes, I’m okay. I’ll be fine as long as I’m with you. Kazuhiko.”
“Huh? I...um...”
Stephen starting to fade.
“Oh, Anna, forgive me. Anna, I cannot stay here any longer. I have to say goodbye to you. So please, Anna, I need to hear that you forgive me. Please forgive me....Please Anna..”
“Of course I forgive you Marnie! I love you. I love you! And I won’t ever forget you!”
Stephen’s farewell.
What We Leave Behind
Peter befriends two boys the same age as him, only to discover they are far more important to him than he realises.
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@just-inside-her asked for this one, which was going to be part of January but I moved it off the list to fit others in so we got it this month!
Stephen has been waiting for the day for Tony to return to him ever since the man beat Kingpin and had to go into hiding.
Due to their relationship, what remains of the Avengers have been keeping a close watch on him, waiting for him to lead them to wherever Tony is.
It’s been two years, and neither of them have received word on his whereabouts or whether he’s still alive.
That is, until Stephen’s usual routine is disrupted by a letter with the Stark Industries letter head, and a message in Tony’s handwriting telling him to board a specific train and find someone with his height and build on it to make the Avengers think it’s him so they’ll leave Stephen in peace.
Stephen manages to shake the surveillance team and boards the train, finding a spare seat in front of a man who introduces himself as ‘Robert’ and smoking a fake cigarette.
This man will do.
He has brown hair where Tony had black, brown eyes where Tony had blue, stubble where a neatly trimmed beard should be and, most importantly, an English accent where Tony was American.
They talk for a while, Robert doing most of it as he can’t seem to shut up in front of this handsome stranger.
But they’re not alone.
Both Natasha and Clint have boarded the train and have even taken a photo of Robert, sending it back to HQ to the only one who never gave up on finding Tony.
Vision.
For the past two years he’s been scouring the Internet for any traces of the man who had had a hand in creating his existence.
He’s kept an eye on social media, on banking records, waiting for Tony’s name to pop up somewhere or for the billions of dollars he’d pulled from his bank accounts to appear suddenly.
But it never happened.
He’s especially frantic to find him now because King Pin just broke out of jail, and Vision knows Tony’s at the top of his shit list.
But he’s making it rather difficult to track down.
So when he receives the photo Nat and Clint have sent to him, he can’t help but think that it is Tony.
It’s only when he finds Robert’s passport photo and everything checks out that his hope dies again.
The guy Stephen is talking to is no more than a tourist.
Parting ways when their train comes to a stop, they quickly find one another again when Stephen asks Robert if he’d like a lift, taking him to the expensive Hotel where he and Tony would usually stay.
The room is beautifully decorated, and when Stephen enters the bedroom, he finds the wardrobe filled with expensive clothes, colognes and watches, gifts he knows are from Tony.
Robert has no idea what he’s doing here, but gets dressed into one of the suits he’s packed so they can go out for dinner.
After making a fool of himself when he sees Stephen dressed up, they have a nice dinner where they enjoy themselves, Stephen noticing how he’s still being followed.
It’s only after they get back that Robert points out the huge bouquet of flowers that definitely wasn’t there before they left, and an envelope.
Within the envelope addressed to Stephen is an invite to a ball two nights from now.
This is where he’ll see Tony again.
He’s waited two years, what’s two more days?
But there’s still the case of the Avengers.
They haven’t approached him yet, so he knows he hasn’t fooled them completely into thinking this man is Tony.
So, Stephen does the only thing he can think of that would put more suspicion on this man.
He kisses him while they stand on the balcony, in full view of the people he knows are watching.
And a small part of him thrills when Robert kisses him back.
He could almost picture Tony in his place when he closed his eyes.
Robert’s arms come up to hold him and Stephen stops before this can progress any further, offering the couch for him to sleep on while he makes his way to the single bedroom.
It’s as he’s undressing, he hears the doorknob of his room turning.
He pauses to watch, waiting to see what Robert will do.
It turns a little more, almost fully, but Robert reconsiders and makes his way to the couch.
And Stephen doesn’t know why he’s disappointed.
The next morning, Robert wakes to find room service has brought him breakfast, courtesy of Stephen, who has left him alone.
And since he’s alone in the room where Tony’s lover is staying, Kingpin’s men descend on it, forcing Robert to make his escape through the window of the bathroom and across the rooftop of the next building, catching the eye of everyone in the streets below, including Stephen, who is just as shocked to bear witness to what this man is doing and just who is chasing after him.
Of course he had to go and persuade the wrong people that Robert was Tony.
Unable to use his magic and cause even more commotion amongst the people when he was trying not to draw attention to himself, Stephen whispers a command to his cloak, which quickly slips down an alley, up the side of the building and plants itself on the ground, ripping out from under the men chasing Robert, catching them off guard and making them tumble down to the street.
When Robert looks behind him and sees that Stephen has somehow appeared behind him instead of the men who had been chasing him, he stops running and starts asking questions.
And that’s how Robert learns about Tony.
The man Stephen loves.
The man Stephen is putting his life and Robert’s life in danger for.
The man he hasn’t seen for two years.
And with his questions answered, Stephen sends him through a portal to the train station, a bag of necessities falling out of another portal beside him.
But Robert can’t leave.
Not now he’s in love with Stephen.
While Robert is out purchasing a much nicer suit than the one he brought with him with the money Stephen gave him, Stephen is finally meeting up with Vision, who is not happy about Stephen’s attitude the past three years, one of which he was with Tony before he suddenly disappeared.
Both of them should know that the Avengers could help in protecting them, they were both Avengers themselves, but Stephen just shakes his head.
Keeping their distance from the Avengers has been part of the plan.
No need for anyone to die just to protect a billionaire, as Tony had put it.
So, running out of questions and patience, Vision asks why Stephen has finally agreed to meet up with them.
How it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the tourist Stephen seems to fancy.
And Stephen tells him about the ball tonight, and how Tony will be there.
Except, he isn’t.
At the ball, another letter addressed to him arrives, from a man who could only be Tony.
But when Stephen loses him in the crowd, Robert appears, putting their little operation in jeopardy
Stephen can’t just send him through another portal with so many people around, opting instead to go after Tony, but Robert stands in his way and offers his hand to dance.
And Stephen takes it.
He tries to tell him that he’s in danger here, that Kingpin’s men are still after him and he has to leave.
Robert refuses.
It’s only when Stephen tells him he was just using him that Robert lets Stephen go, and Stephen opens the letter from Tony, which contains a key and an address.
Stephen goes there immediately, having just let himself inside when the door opens.
And Kingpin walks in.
Stephen barely has time to move before his henchmen are pointing their guns at him, forcing him to sit on the couch as they wait for Tony Stark to finally arrive.
Five minutes pass.
Then ten.
Still no sign of Tony.
Kingpin begins his exposition about how being thrown in jail cost him Vanessa, about how Stark went for her to get to him like a coward instead of coming straight to him like a man.
How he will kill Stephen if Tony does not show his face in the next five minutes.
Vision has been listening in to all of this with Robert, who had tried going after Stephen before Nat and Clint grabbed him.
Robert is concerned about Stephen and about the threat from Kingpin.
But Vision’s not concerned at all, he knows Tony wouldn’t let anyhint happen and will come for him, all they have to do is wait.
But he doesn’t.
Just when Kingpin is about to give the order, Stephen spies a large medallion of the eye of Agamotto set into the wall of the fireplace.
He knows there’s a safe behind it, and upon telling Kingpin, manages to draw his attention away from killing him for the time being.
Only, when the safe is revealed, they realise they need a seven-digit code to open it.
And the only person who could possibly know it, who they have here right now, is Stephen.
Robert is trying to make Vision send his men in, but Vision isn’t listening.
He knows Tony will come.
He knows him, knows how much he loves Stephen, so he has to.
Stephen is brought to the safe, racking his brains to form a code.
Maybe a date?
Or even a word when spelled on a numbered keypad?
At his first attempt at the code, he enters 4766626
IRONMAN
The button turns red.
Kingpin doesn’t see this as Stephen not knowing.
He thinks he’s trying to buy time until Tony get there.
So he gives him one last try.
And Stephen can’t think.
What else could it be?
Avenger?
America?
Industry?
There were too many possibilities and he only had one chance.
283...
It had to Avenger.
They were the reason he hadn’t gone to them for help.
They were the reason they’d met, what they both were.
It has to be...
643...
His finger hovered over the 7.
And just as he was about to press it, he heard someone call out his name.
What.
The hell.
Was Robert doing here?
Guns turned on the tourist he’d roped into all of this, the men working for Kingpin looking to their boss, who walked up to the idiot who was now claiming to be Tony Stark.
Kingpin looked him over, noticing the details of his face which had changed drastically in the last two years.
Robert didn’t seem intimidated by him, standing up taller despite his short stature.
And then Kingpin began laughing.
Was this another ploy to await Stark’s grand return?
Very well.
There really was only one way to find out if this man was Tony.
He’d have to open the safe.
Robert tries to secure Stephen’s safety in exchange for his help, but everyone just turns their guns on the Sorcerer, who gives Robert a sad smile.
So, having little choice, Robert walks towards the safe.
Towards Stephen.
He keeps his eyes on him, wanting Stephen to be the last thing he sees before they’re killed.
And just as he reaches it, just when he sees Stephen mouth the words he’s longed to hear, Nick Fury takes control of Vision’s operation and demands for Kingpin to be taken out.
Stephen breathes a sigh of relief and turns to Robert, and then the safe where he’s completed the code.
7837436
STEPHEN
And the button turns green.
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“Do you mind me smoking? It’s not a real cigarette.”
“What?”
“It’s electronic. It delivers the same amount of nicotine, but the smoke is water vapour. Yeah. Watch. LED light.”
“That’s somewhat disappointing.”
“Would you rather have me smoking for real?”
“I would rather you be a man who did exactly as he pleased.”
“...”
Stephen chooses Robert for his plan
“You tell me what my story is.”
“Okay, um, I think you would be diplomatic attaché. Or maybe a girl from East Germany...whose father’s been kidnapped...and they’re blackmailing you into stealing something for them. Probably a microfilm. There’s usually a microfilm involved.”
“What awaits me?”
“Trouble, certainly.”
“Danger?”
“Oh, yeah. You’ll most likely be shot in less than two chapters.”
“Is there a man in my life?”
“Have to wait and see.”
Robert getting a little flustered
“Fuck.”
“...?”
“You’re ravenous.”
“Do you mean ravishing?”
“I do.”
“You’re ravenous.”
“I am.”
Not the best attempt at flirting
“Why is all this happening? Why is everyone trying to kill me?”
“It’s because I kissed you.”
“...Do I look that much like him?”
“I am sorry I got you involved in all this.”
“Why are you involved in all this?”
“Because I’m in love with him.”
“Really? I’m not.”
Robert learns about Tony
“It’s just who he is.”
“Could you ever feel like that about someone like me?”
“...”
“I don’t regret it, you know...kissing you.”
Robert’s fallen in love with Stephen, and Stephen is starting to fall for him too.
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Okay, I’ve finished crying.
This movie was one I didn’t want to do.
I kept moving it further and further down the list until I thought about changing it and removing it completely.
As the month started to come to a close, I made a decision.
I would watch it and I would cry and I would write an au about it just to prove to myself that I could.
Thank you for joining me for these movie nights, and the last one I’ll be doing. They might come back in some shape or form, we’ll see.
I’ll see you guys tomorrow for the return of Music Month!
Enjoy!
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They’d just moved in together.
Just started their life together.
They were both at the peak of their careers when it had happened.
And Stephen hadn’t realised what had happened until he was looking down at his own body and Tony covered in his blood as he yelled for help, yelled at Stephen to stay with him.
The days leading up to his death replayed again and again in his mind as he tried to figure out what had gone wrong, who he had pissed off to have this be the outcome of his life.
But he couldn’t think of anything.
He’d gone to Tony’s workshop where he’d been working on his new invention, which Stephen had ended up ruining.
Tony hadn’t minded at all, showing him how to fix it, which turned into Stephen becoming increasingly distracting, both of them leaving the missile in favour of clearing the workbench as fast as possible.
Then they’d talked about marriage, which became an argument because apparently Stephen didn’t say “I love you” whenever Tony did and now it was too late to say it at all.
As the days progressed, he went to his funeral, staying by Tony’s side throughout it all.
He stayed with him the days after as well, watching Tony try to pick his life back up, try to focus on work, all of which had come to a screeching halt.
He was Tony Stark.
He could fix anything.
Except himself it would seem.
Friends and co workers came to keep him company, which was a nice thought but Tony didn’t want to engage in conversation or anything of the like.
He’d often stare at a space Stephen would usually occupy, and when he was alone he’d start talking as if Stephen were still there.
It just felt like he hadn’t left.
People thought he was having trouble letting go or quite possibly losing his mind, but Tony didn’t care.
It was only when Obidiah Stane came over that really got any reaction out of Tony at all.
He was trying to get Tony to come back to work because he’d been working on the Jericho and once it was done they could have a presentation of its power in Afghanistan.
But Tony didn’t want to work, and he wasn’t at all concerned about some presentation.
He had even been thinking of canceling it after talking to Stephen about it, who hadn’t been in favour of Tony going over there.
But Obidiah was insisting Tony still go.
He was even insisting Tony give him Stark Industires so he could run the company in his stead while Tony took this time to grieve.
Stephen could yell at him all he wanted, he’d never be heard by anyone else but Tony’s cat, who hissed at him and took off.
It was only when Obidiah had convinced Tony to take a walk with him for some fresh air that Stephen realised he’d try to get him to rethink his decision.
But when he tried to follow them, when he’d gained the courage to try walking through the shut door, it opened.
And he came face to face with someone familiar, and someone he’d thought he’d never see again .
His murderer.
But worse than that, this man was a complete stranger.
He wasn’t anyone Stephen had ever seen before.
He wasn’t a patient or a family member of a patient, and he most certainly wasn’t associated with Tony either.
So just who the hell was he?
And what was he doing in their home?
Stephen followed him around, failing to stop him from snooping around the belongings Tony had half heartedly been packing away in boxes.
He followed him upstairs where the man continued his search for whatever it was he was after.
And that was when Stephen heard the door open.
Tony was back.
He had to do something.
He wasn’t going to let Tony share his fate.
The murderer hid as Tony climbed the stairs and readied himself for a shower, Stephen begging with unheard words for the man to spare Tony, to just take what he’d come for and leave.
But when the man began to inch closer to the room Tony was getting undressed in, Stephen spied the scrawny feline sitting on its tower, glaring at him as it paid no mind to the stranger or their ill intentions that could very well leave it masterless.
Waiting for the man to move a little closer, Stephen shouted at the cat, making it yowl loudly and take off, scaring his killer and alerting Tony.
His presence now known, the intruder descended the stairs as quick as he could and exited the apartment, unaware of Stephen following his every move.
He followed him on subway trains and down less crowded streets until the man went into an apartment under the name Raza and pulled out his phone, having decided it was safe enough now to start texting someone.
And it was this person, whoever was on the other side of these text messages, who had ordered Stephen to be killed.
And were after something from Tony.
He had to warn him.
But how?
Aside from scaring their cat twice, he couldn’t poltergeist objects like he’d seen in the movies.
If he could do that somehow, he could protect Tony far more easily.
But when Stephen exited the apartment building and looked around, he spied an old haunted house looking building advertising that a medium resided there and could speak to the dead for a fee.
If this person spoke the truth, if they could truly hear him, then he could get their help in communicating with Tony.
But the woman who he met was far from anything he expected.
Because aside from the bright yellow robes, which were just overkill, she was in fact the real deal.
Not only could she hear his voice when no one else could, she could exit her own body and move objects while Stephen would just pass through them.
She could help him and she could help Tony and he wasn’t going to let her back out when she was his only chance, no matter how many times she told him no.
She didn’t get involved in things like this, she didn’t give ghost 101 lessons and she sure as hell didn’t want to start now.
So Stephen instead tried to get her to give a message to Tony, just one phone call, and after failing to get Tony to believe her as he hung up on her, she found herself at the nice apartment block where he was still living.
Speaking to him proved a little difficult, and shouting intimate things only Stephen and Tony should know wasn’t really her cup of tea but she did it anyway at Stephen’s insistence.
And that got his attention.
He listened to what she had to say, wanting to believe and also trying very hard to be skeptical.
Tony wasn’t one to believe in ghosts. If he could see it and touch it, then it was real, anything else like aliens and other worldly creatures or magic simply didn’t exist to him.
Yet, here was this woman, in a full blown argument with herself, telling him about the holiday he and Stephen had taken, about how the shirt Tony was wearing was a gift from Stephen two Christmases ago, about where they’d picked out the couch she was sitting on.
Things she couldn’t possibly know unless...
No.
No, it couldn’t be real.
Stephen was dead and this woman was probably after his money when she’d seen the Stark name in the papers.
But as he tried to make her leave, she told him Stephen said he loved him.
And Tony knew she was lying now.
That was the one thing Stephen never said.
And then, of all the words she could have said next, the one she chose made him stop and reconsider everything.
Ditto.
Ditto had been what Stephen had always said to him when Tony told him he loved him.
it had been their word.
And Tony sat back down to listen to what this strange woman had to say to him.
She told him about Raza and where he lived, how he had been the one to murder Stephen and how he’d been here and had been after something.
But none of them knew what it could be.
Stephen had assumed it was something which had belonged to him, but he didn’t own anything that was worth his life.
But if it was something of Tony’s then why was he the one who was killed? It just didn’t make any sense.
With his message delivered, Stephen watched as the woman he’d been relying on almost trip over in her rush on her way out.
So, he had little else to do but watch over Tony as he thought about her words and warnings, trying to figure out the best cause of action to take.
Obidiah came back that night to keep Tony company, listening as an unbelieving skeptic while Tony told him about everything this woman had said, and saying how he was going to confront this Raza at his address, making Stephen try and fail to stop him.
Deciding to put Tony’s mind at ease, Obi told him to get some rest while he checked it out.
Both Tony and Stephen agreed with this, but when Stephen followed him there, he heard everything.
He heard how Obidiah knew Raza, how he had been the one to ask Raza to kill Stephen because he was interfering with the presentation in Afghanistan and how they couldn’t go ahead with taking Tony hostage just yet.
How Obidiah couldn’t get his hands on Stark Industries and it’s stocks until Tony was out of the way.
And how Raza had screwed up getting the plans for the Jericho Tony had taken home with him.
And Stephen couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
This man had been like a father to Tony.
To him even!
Hitting Obidiah did nothing, as it always did, and in his dismay he turned to that old building for help once again.
He needed to warn Tony, and he needed to become stronger to do so and only she could help.
Of course she didn’t want to, and he couldn’t blame her for not wanting to get involved, but when she heard that the people who had killed Stephen were after her now, she had no choice.
Learning to push objects around didn’t take him long to figure out, which was a stroke of luck as no sooner had Stephen worked out the trick to it there was a knock at the door.
It was Raza, who was no match for Stephen’s ghost tricking as he threw items at him, shoved him out the door and into passers by, into walls amd windows, using his anger at what this man had taken from him to drive him screaming for help down the road where he ran into the path of an oncoming vechile.
Raza looked down at his body, then up at Stephen, horrified recognition dawning on his face at what had happened to him, when blood curdling groans and screams pulled themselves into black shadowy manifestations, seizing Raza and hauling him down where they all vanished from sight.
A fate for a murderer; one Stephen swore he would make Obidiah go through as well.
Things weren’t looking good for old Obi.
His accomplice was dead, Tony was still refusing to go through with the presentation or give him the plans for the missile so his company could start mass producing them.
Everything was falling apart.
And Stephen loved to watch every moment of it.
He taunted him when he was alone, drove him to the brink of insanity by letting him know he was still here and would make him pay for what he’d done and was planning to do.
He’d make sure Stane never got what he wanted.
He’d make sure he’d never hurt Tony.
But the more he pushed, the more Stane saw only one way out.
If Stephen was still truly here, he’d do anything to protect Tony, and if he didn’t do what he wanted, Tony would pay the price.
Once he had the deed to Stark Industries, he’d leave Tony alone, but Stephen would need to persuade Tony to sign it over to him and it needed to be done by tonight.
Stephen would do no such thing. Instead, he found himself seeking help once again from the only person who could.
And this time she agreed without having to be persuaded like before.
She didn’t even wait for Tony to open the door, allowing herself in immediately and telling him how Obidiah was involved and what he was after.
Tony was not going to allow his company to fall into the hands of the murderer who had taken Stephen from him and called Rhodey in for his assistance with removing Obidiah from his life.
It was as they were waiting, Stephen sitting beside Tony and trying to hold his hand and wishing he could feel it in his own one last time, that his new friend tells him about possession.
By using her body, he can feel Tony again.
So when Stephen opens his eyes and sees Tony looking at him, he can’t help but pull him close, finally feeling his body solid against his chest after so long, hands entwined.
And all Tony can feel is Stephen, like he never left.
It’s the banging on the door that ruins their moment and throws Stephen out of the body he’d been possessing.
He’s weak, struggling to get back to his feet as the only two people he cares about make their way out onto the fire escape, unable to prevent Obidiah from pursuing them.
By the time Stephen’s strength returns to him, Rhodey bursts in, calling out to Tony and climbing out onto the fire escape as well.
But it’s Stephen who gets to them first, shoving at Obidiah as he makes a grab for Tony.
Their fight doesn’t last long when Stane pulls out his gun and aims at Tony, the shot ringing out.
And Stephen watches as the man who had done this to him falls forward, Rhodey behind him with his gun drawn.
As Rhodey steps over Stane to check on Tony, Stephen watches as his ghost rises from his corpse, somewhat disoriented.
And even more so when he sees Stephen standing before him.
He doesn’t seem to understand what’s happening.
But Stephen understands.
Especially when the same creatures living in the shadows he’d seen take away the spirit of Raza swarm over Obidiah, dragging him away with them into the nothingness.
With Tony safe, with Obidiah dead and with his vengeance satiated, Stephen looked toward the light he had previously turned his back to.
And found himself torn the same way he had been the first time.
He could walk into it and be at peace, but he’d have to leave Tony behind.
Turning from it once more to gaze at Tony one last time, he finds Tony’s eyes holding his own, wide and tearful as they stared at the man who had died in his arms barely a week ago.
Not only could Tony see him, but he could also hear him, and Stephen knew he’d gotten his second chance to say the one thing Tony had never heard him say.
Three words were all he left Tony with, three words spoken for the first time before he faded forever.
And Tony held onto them.
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“Are you worried about the promotion?”
“No, not really.”
“Then what? Moving in together?”
“No. I don’t know. It’s a lot of things. I just don’t want the bubble to burst. It seems like uh...whenever anything good in my life happens, I’m just afraid I’m going to lose it.”
“I love you. I really love you.”
“Ditto.”
Tony being there for Stephen.
“Sam’s dead. Okay? He’s dead.”
“Tell her I love her.”
“He says he loves you.”
“Sam would never say that.”
“Ditto. Tell her ditto!”
“What the hell is ditto?”
Tony being convinced Stephen is still with him.
“Some woman knows all about you. Everything. Where’s she getting it from huh?”
“I haven’t said a word to anybody.”
“She knows your name and she knows where you live.”
“How do women know where I live?”
“This is not a joke! She knows about the murder! Now, I want you to find this bitch, whoever she is, and I want you to...just get rid of her ok!”
Obidiah yelling at Raza while Stephen listens.
“I love you, Molly. I’ve always loved you.”
“Ditto.”
A final conversation.
Stay with me
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Ahh the 90’s
God, I feel old.
Here’s a little enemies to friends to lovers movie!
They were both adults, even if they didn’t act like it most of the time.
They were both friends, even though they’d never met each other face to face.
They were both in failing relationships, and could find solace in talking to one another about them.
That’s how it started to mean more to them, like they were cheating on their partners without anything scandalous being read or sent.
Each was a secret who knew everything about them, more than anyone else would care to know.
And each liked that they kept their identities secret from the other.
Only, that wasn’t really the case.
Through their messenger, they could talk with the other about anything.
Outside of that though, it felt like Tony and Stephen were at war with one another.
They were both in the hero business and Tony’s name was synonymous with the Avengers brand, which came with a flurry of fans and reporters wherever they went.
And where they were usually found was wherever Stephen was, storming in to take over when he had things completely under control and just making the mess worse.
And the fans would get in on the rivalry too, fighting amongst themselves about who was better suited to protect this world if it came down to Iron Man or the Sorcerer Supreme, or who would win in a fight between them.
Stephen didn’t care for anyone’s opinion, and neither did Stark when he was cornered and asked the exact questions his fans wanted answered, Stephen just glaring at television screen, unable to get away from him out of work now days too.
No, instead he’d open up the messenger he had on his laptop at 7pm on the dot and would talk to his friend about his ‘worker friend’ making life difficult for him until ten.
His friend had problems of his own, being a boss of a company and having some uptight subordinate trying to make him look bad.
They had a lot in common, including relationship problems.
They didn’t like who they were with their partners, or how they had to act with them, and neither felt respected in the relationship.
Stephen’s friend said he was was dating a worker who was just doing so for his money, but was still sticking with it because that was the only reason anyone would date him.
Tony’s friend was in a relationship with a high school sweetheart, which had soured over the years because his partner wanted to ‘expand their horizons’
It was nice having someone to talk to.
Someone who understood them and liked talking with them without the knowledge of who they really were and what they really did for a living.
And while they had agreed to never give specifics about themselves or to ever meet in person, that was exactly what they were planning after Stephen and Tony’s latest argument had resulted in casualties and an extremely bad break up straight after.
They were excited to see one another, to talk and try to help out with each other’s problems.
But when Tony rocked up to the cafe they’d agreed upon to meet at and was so nervous to go inside he annoyed Rhodey to go check for him to make sure the friend he would most likely ask to marry him straight away was there, Rhodey told him Stephen Strange was reading the exact book Tony’s friend had told him would give him away.
Rhodey had to be joking.
So Tony went to check for himself.
And sure enough, Stephen Strange sat at the numbered table where his fiend had told him he would sit, reading the book he told him to look out for.
All this time he’d been talking with Stephen and hadn’t even realised it.
So, saying goodnight to Rhodey, Tony decided to leave him there.
Stephen sat and waited, checking his watch every now and then and wondering what could be keeping his friend.
Ten minutes past their agreed time, someone asked if they could borrow the seat opposite him and he stopped them from taking it.
Twenty minutes passed and his second refill had been drained.
Then, at half an hour past, Tony Stark walked through the door and stood in line for a coffee.
Having nowhere else to go and no way to hide himself, Stephen held the book up a little higher to his face in hopes Tony hadn’t seen him.
But, of course, he had.
And he came over to the table Stephen was sitting at and plonked down in the seat opposite him.
Stephen could not believe the nerve of this guy, especially after the long day he had had.
Tony didn’t really care what Stephen thought of him.
They had their differences here but online they were still friends.
It was when he tried to explain their situation and Stephen snapped at him that he truly saw how he viewed him.
So, Tony stood up from his seat and left, leaving Stephen to wait for the man who would never show.
And the next day, there was a message from his friend.
From Stephen.
Asking him why he never showed, telling him how long he has waited, and even bringing up the ‘ worker friend’ who came to the cafe, who Tony now knew to be himself.
Strangely, the way Stephen worded how guilty he felt after snapping at him, sounded like an apology.
One Tony accepted.
So, he continued their online friendship while also trying to be friends with Stephen outside of it.
It wasn’t easy, but he eventually wore him down to be on at least speaking terms with him when he found out the good doctor was sick with a cold and needed some cheering up.
Stephen told him about the online relationship he had with a stranger somewhere in New York City and how he’d fallen for them.
Tony tried telling him this guy could be anyone, literally anyone.
They could be fat.
Stephen doesn’t care about that.
They could be an Avengers fanboy.
Stephen doesn’t care about that either.
They could be Rogers.
Stephen cracks a smile and says that would be a deal breaker, anyone would be better than Rogers.
Tony innocently asks him if it would be a deal breaker if it were him.
Stephen just laughs and tells him to stop messing around.
Every day they meet up to talk about Stephen’s online friend, and every day Stephen feels more and more confused.
He’s been crushing on this online persona for months now, he still wants to meet him even after he stood him up, but whenever he thinks about him, it’s Tony’s face he sees.
He can’t help it.
Tony is funny and witty and doesn’t try to be anyone else around him but himself.
It took a lot of digging through that massive ego to bring him out, but Stephen’s glad to have met him and to call him his friend.
A friend he’d want to be more with if he hadn’t already met someone.
And the day his friend finally agrees to meet up with him, is the day Tony tries to ask him if they’d been friends earlier, would he have gone out on a date with him instead of this online guy.
Because if Stephen had’ve said yes, Tony would have been the luckiest guy in the world.
Stephen doesn’t answer.
He can’t answer.
He needs to go and meet his friend.
And Tony just nods.
And smiles.
And walks away.
It’s a bright summer afternoon and Stephen is waiting in the park, five minutes early before the time they had agreed upon in case he had been keeping him waiting.
And all Stephen can think about is the last thing Tony said to him.
He shouldn’t be thinking about Stark.
He should be thinking about...
About...
Tony.
Tony was here, right on time.
And it all finally clicked into place.
It was him.
It had been him all along and Stephen was just so happy and frustrated and relieved all at the same time he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Because, even after everything, he’d wanted it to be Tony.
Quotes -
I had a gut feeling you would be online now. “Hi.” I can give you advice. I’m great at advice.
If only you could help.
Is it about love? “Please say no.”
“No, how cute is that?”
Tony and Stephen talking online.
“She’s not as nice as she seems on television.”
“You met her?”
“Yeah, boy, she’s a pill!”
“Probably aint as fine as she looks on TV either.”
“Oh no, no, she’s beautiful. But. She’s a pill.”
Stephen talking to Wong about Tony
“Can you see her? Can you see her?!”
“Yeah��”
“And?”
“She’s very pretty.”
“She is! I knew she would be! She had to be! She had to be!”
“You know what? She look…I mean, she almost has the same colouring as…that Kathleen Kelly person.”
“Kathleen Kelly of the little bookstore?”
“Why not? You said you thought she was attractive.”
“Absolutely, yes, why not? Who cares about Kathleen Kelly?”
“Well, if you don’t like Kathleen Kelly…I can tell you right now…you ain’t gonna like this girl.”
“Why not?”
“Because it IS Kathleen Kelly. So what are you going to do?”
“Nothing.”
“You’re gonna let her wait there all night?”
“Yes, yes I am. That’s exactly what I’m going to do. Goodnight, Kevin. I’ll see you in the morning.”
When Tony realises who hos friend has been this entire time.
“You are nothing but a suit.”
“…That’s my cue…Goodnight.”
Stephen snapping at Tony
“Why did you stop by again? I forget.”
“I wanted to be your friend.”
“Oh.”
“I knew it wasn’t possible. What can I say, sometimes a guy just wants the impossible…can I ask you a question?”
“What?”
“What happened with the guy at the cafe.”
“Nothing.”
“But you’re crazy about him?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Why don’t you run off with him? What are you waiting for?”
“I don’t actually know him.”
Enemies becoming friends.
“You know, sometimes I wonder.”
“What?”
“Well, if I hadn’t been Fox Books and you hadn’t been The Shop around the Corner, and you and I had just…met….”
“I know.”
“Yeah. I would have asked for your number. And I wouldn’t have been able to wait 24 hours before calling you up and saying: “Hey, how about some coffee…or drinks or dinner…or a movie…for as long as we both shall live?”
“Joe…”
“And you and I would never have been at war. And the only thing we’d fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night.”
“Well, who fights about that?”
“Well, some people. Not us.”
“We would never.”
“If only.”
Friends becoming lovers.
Talk to Me
Tony and Stephen are having issues in their relationships and talking to each other, and falling in love with one another, anonymously via an instant messenger
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I’ve had this half complete for many, many months now, stuck in writer’s block hell, much like the fic I’m working on at this moment.
These movie nights have been a great way to just write whatever comes to mind and brute force my way out of writer’s block 😊
Stephen had realised that Tony was always in danger with him long before he’d decided to do this.
He always gets hurt and one day he's going to get killed all because he was too stubborn to stay behind when Stephen told him to.
So he does the only thing he can do.
He wipes Tony's memory and lets him start anew.
And then, some years later, their eyes meet.
Stephen stared at those brown eyes he had loved waking up to every morning.
What was he doing here?
They didn't recognise him, which he was grateful for, but they were staring at him.
And he was staring back.
The man they belonged to walked up to him and Stephen contemplated making a portal and getting out of there.
He had cast that spell for a reason.
It had been about 3 years since he’d erased Tony Stark's memories of him from that brilliant mind.
Three years of making sure he was wherever Tony Stark, or his Iron Man suit or his Avengers group, wasn't.
Three years of keeping all that wanted to hurt Tony at bay so the man could live a normal life.
And now here he was after Stephen had just destroyed the entity which had escaped its own dimension, in his Ironman suit, so close Stephen could make the slightest movement and be touching him.
Those eyes were narrowed now, and Stephen could see the questions swimming in their depths.
And then Tony introduced himself and Stephen felt like he was about to burst into flames.
How he had missed that voice.
Something shifted in Tony's features when Stephen told him his name.
As if he recognised his name.
But that couldn’t be right.
Tony shouldn’t recognise anything associated with him at all.
His heart was in his throat as Tony tried to place him.
It was no use, Stephen knew that, but…
Had Tony blinked yet?
Had he blinked yet?
Tony's mouth opened again and Stephen quickly turned away and began conjuring a portal.
The faster he got out of here the better.
He shouldn't have allowed that entity to escape in the first place.
He walked through the portal just as Tony flew through it after him, grabbing his shoulder.
And just like that, Stephen was reliving all the fights they'd previously had about Tony's recklessness to dive head first into portals and danger.
Stephen could not believe it.
3 years and nothing had changed between them.
But those 3 years were worth it.
Tony had lived for an extra 3 years.
Saying a short dismissive goodbye, Stephen created another portal and threw it at Tony, watching him disappear.
He couldn't drag Tony back into this life again.
He couldn't fight beside him again, patch him up again, make a portal to the hospital while he bled to death in his arms again.
He loved him too much to be the cause of his pain again.
Stephen rubbed his eyes as they prickled with tears.
He had to let him go. It was the best for Tony.
He took a deep breath and had just started climbing the stairs when the door banged open and Tony Stark walked in without his Iron Man armour and looking pissed.
Stephen stared at him.
How on earth had he found him again so quickly?
Tony stepped closer to him and Stephen felt his entire body break out in a cold sweat, every hair standing on end.
Tony opened his mouth and asked him a single question.
How had Stephen known to send him to his bedroom in the Avengers Compound, when Stpehen had never been there?
Stephen did what?
They stared at one another, Tony repeatedly asking him who he was.
Stephen wanted to tell him.
God he wanted to do a lot of things with Tony standing here before him looking so lost and hurt and kissable.
But how could he?
Stephen closed his eyes and shook his head,Tony's voice breaking as he demanded answers, Stephen's arms shaking with the want to hold the man who belonged in them.
He had to rewind time.
Rewind back to before Tony came in or hell even to before their eyes found each other!
He opens the eye of Agamoto and Tony's hand suddenly clamps down on his wrist.
Tony looks just as shocked as he does.
"You were...you were gonna...you..." Tony was confused. What exactly was it he was going to do? And why had he stopped him?
The hand gripping his wrist was shaking.
Stephen knew he shouldn't tell him, knew he should push Tony away, make him never want to see him again.
He knew he should.
But he couldn't.
Tony was looking at him, pleading him for answers, and Stephen found himself drowning in those eyes.
His free hand took Tony's and pulled him in closer, and Tony allowed him to.
Stephen brought his hand up to Tony's face, running his thumb over his cheek.
He was inching closer to Tony's lips, licking his own.
The last time he had kissed them was goodbye before he'd ripped himself from Tony's life.
He could feel Tony's shuddering breath against his lips as Tony closed his eyes and Strange leant in the rest of the way and kissed him.
Tony suddenly grabbed his robes and held him, Stephen feeling the mouth against his own lift into a smile as he held Tony closer, his tongue licking those lips for entry.
Tony opened his mouth and Stephen groaned, shoving Tony against the wall, pressing his leg between Tony's as his fingers pushed under the shirt to touch at the skin they knew so well.
Tony moaned again as Stephen moved his lips to his neck, nipping and kissing the skin, feeling Tony's chest shudder with each breath he took.
His hands skimmed down the firm chest, touching scars both new and old, his name a single breath between them.
God, Stephen wasn’t going to be able to hold on to the little self control he had when it came to Tony for much longer if he kept saying his name like that.
So, he stopped, and leant his forehead against Tony's, wondering whether now would be a good time to apologise, wondering what he did to deserve Tony's love, even without his memories.
He should pull away.
He should stop this.
He had stopped this three years ago, and this wasn’t good for either of them.
But Tony was clinging to him so tightly, as if making sure he couldn’t leave.
And he was warm.
So warm he didn’t want to leave.
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“Random thoughts on Valentine’s Day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.”
Tony’s inner monologue
“Do I know you? Do you ever shop at Barnes and Noble?”
“Sure. Yeah.”
“That’s it! I’ve seen you, man!”
Tony trying to place Stephen.
“It’s a pretty name though, really is nice. It’s uh, it means merciful, right? Uh, clemency.”
“Although it hardly fits. I’m a vindictive little bitch truth be told.”
“See, I wouldn’t think that about you.”
“Why wouldn’t you think that about me?”
“I don’t know I just…I-I don’t know I just uh…you see nice so…”
“Oh, now I’m nice? God, don’t you know any other adjectives? I don’t need nice. I don’t need myself to be it and I don’t need anyone else to be it at me.”
A conversation shortly after their meeting.
“You’re not a stalker or anything, right?”
“I’m not a stalker. You’re the one that talked to me, remember?”
“That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.”
Tony wondering about Stephen.
A Time for Us
No matter how hard you try, you can’t completely erase someone you love from your heart.
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I couldn’t end the last month of our movie nights without first making an au for this movie, now could I?
Peter hadn’t meant to touch the time machine.
Ok, well, yes he kinda did mean to touch it, but he hadn’t meant to use the damn thing.
He’d just thought he’d type in the year his godparents had told him his real parents had gotten together, thinking if this thing actually worked, then that would be the year he’d want to go to.
Just to see them as they were.
He knew he couldn’t stop them from being killed, but he needed them more than ever.
Not the two guys who had taken him in.
He’d tried asking Tony and Stephen numerous times over the years about how his parents had gotten together, how they had been selected as his godparents, but he never really got a clear answer.
Tony would start off by telling him he and Peter’s father became friends after his own father accidentally struck him with his car, and that was how he met Stephen, but then something would always come up that was more important than finishing his story.
Maybe it was coincidence, maybe it was just a lie so they didn’t have to relive painful memories, but it hurt when they did it.
Like they were hiding something from him about his own parents.
If anyone deserved to know anything about them, it was Peter.
So when he found himself back in the late 1980’s, the first person he looked for was his real father.
And he found him, although he wasn’t what he’d imagined.
He was scrawny, much like himself, with thick rimmed glasses, the same as the ones in the photograph Peter had back home.
And he was up in a tree with a pair of binoculars, spying on someone.
Peter couldn’t believe this.
Even more than that, he couldn’t believe his father was so inept at climbing trees that he had just fallen out of it and into the path of an oncoming vechile.
Racing in to save him with no thought of self preservation, Peter is struck by the car instead and winded as his father escapes injury.
And as Peter begins to drift off, he can’t help but think how he’s like Tony in that regard.
Peter wakes up in the middle of the night, calling out to Tony, who he recognises as the figure in the room.
Only, this Tony is a teenager, and he’s a little clingy to Peter, who has only ever seen Tony act this way around Stephen.
And that’s when he remembers the story Tony would barely get through telling.
How he met Stephen through meeting Peter’s dad.
And Peter instantly realises he’s stuffed up his future.
If Tony doesn’t meet his dad, if Tony doesn’t meet Stephen, they won’t become his godparents in the future.
Who knows what will happen to Peter in that case?
What if he’s thrown into an orphanage to be taken in by strangers?
Or worse, given to someone who doesn’t care about him?
He has to find Stephen and get him and Tony together to keep his future intact.
Finding Stephen isn’t that hard, but getting him to cooperate with him and ask Tony out is another matter entirely, and getting Tony to even look at the guy while Peter is in the same room as him is exhausting all on its own.
It’s made even worse when Tony asks Peter out while Stephen is listening.
No matter what he says to get him to consider Stephen instead, Tony knows how brave Peter is. He knows he saved Richard Parker’s life.
And no one else he knows would have done something heroic like that.
Peter tries to talk Stephen into taking his place, but Stephen knows that Tony doesn’t want to go with him.
That he doesn’t deserve someone like Tony, and he doesn’t understand why Peter is trying to involve himself in his love life.
He’s acting as if his very existence depends on Stephen and Tony getting together.
Stephen is confused, even more so when Peter starts telling him that Tony actually wanted to go with him in the first place, but Peter is here to set things right.
He’s seen it countless times in the movies he’s watched.
He just has to dance with Tony and then all Stephen has to do is cut in and dance with Tony instead, at which point they’ll kiss and Peter’s future won’t be in jeopardy any longer.
So when the night of the dance arrives and Tony is sending Peter all the signals he can, Peter is relieved when he feels a hand on his shoulder and sees Stephen standing there.
Peter steps to the side, smiling as the two finally make eye contact.
And right on that dance floor, Peter knows he’s set everything right when he sees Stephen and Tony kiss.
And not a moment too soon.
He needs to get back.
Peter smiles as Stephen wraps an arm around Tony and they say their farewells.
Peter isn’t upset about leaving them, and he’s not upset about wasting the little time he had to see his parents.
He did see them, and he got to know them a little better too.
And now he’s going back to them.
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“Mom? That you?”
“There, there, now. Just relax. You’ve been asleep for almost nine hours now.”
“I had a horrible nightmare. I dreamed that I went back in time. It was terrible.”
“Well, you’re safe and sound now back in good old 1955.”
“1955? You’re my ma…you’re my ma…”
“My name is Lorraine. Lorraine Baines?”
“Yeah. But you’re ha…you’re so ha…you’re so…thin!”
Peter meeting Young Tony
“Just go in there and invite her.”
“Okay, but I don’t know what to say.”
“Well, just say anything, George. Say whatever’s natural, or the first thing that comes into your mind.”
“Nothing’s coming to my mind!”
Peter trying to get Stephen to ask Tony out
“Marty, this may seem a little forward but I was kind of wondering if you’d ask me to the enchantment under the sea dance this Saturday?”
“You mean…you mean nobody’s asked you?”
“No. Not yet.”
“What about-what about George?”
“George McFly? Oh, he’s kind of cute and all, but not…well…I think a man should be strong so he can stand up for himself and protect the woman he loves. Don’t you?”
“Yeah.”
Tony asking Peter out
“I had a feeling about you two.”
“I have a feeling, too.”
“Listen, I gotta go, but I wanted to tell you that it’s been…educational.”
“Marty, will we ever see you again?”
“I guarantee it.”
Peter successfully getting his godparents together and having to leave.
Bring Me Back to You
Going into the past to meet his parents causes ripple effects which tears Tony and Stephen apart in the future.
Now Peter has to make sure they end up together and not throw his future into uncertainty.
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