This was turning out to be a bad day for Tony Stark, first he was late to a press conference which technically wasn't his fault it was Clint's, they had been discussing upgrades for his arrows and he got so into it he forgot to check the time which led to him receiving a lecture from Pepper.

Second he had a phone call from Fury asking how his day was…as if…no he was moaning as usual that he still hadn't received any new weapon designs for the helicarrier and for him to not be late or even miss a single fundraiser or event since he was the face of the Avengers.

Then to top it off the Avengers received an order to stop a madman who had decided to litter the streets with bombs that he seemed to have had full control of, so whilst the team evacuated the town of it's civilians he had the job to hunt the madman down.

Fortunately he had easily tracked the madman down to an underground abandoned train station, he had set himself up in the centre of it all surrounded by loads of computers and cables going in every other direction.

Tony noticed the man wasn't right in the head by the constant bickering and how he had been spouting nonsense about cleansing the city of bad people so he decided to tread with caution however his technology didn't pick up the sensors that were wired into the man's systems.

So when he crossed the line several alarms blared all at once causing the mad man to jump and reach for a button which he slammed down and ran away but before Tony could give chase we was suddenly blown backwards through several walls by a hidden bomb.

A little while later he found himself waking up covered in rubble and shadows moving all around him, when his vision became a little clearer through the crack of his eyelids he found his team all around him, Clint and Thor were holding his legs down, Banner and Steve were talking over him and attempting to unscrew parts of his chest plate and Natasha had his head in her lap.

He must have made a noise because all heads snapped to him and Natasha had started to stroke his head gently "shhhhh Tony, your ok, its just me Nat, try not to move ok".

All he could do was blink as he didn't even have the energy to move, he felt dizzy and tired and it was so hard to breath under this tunnel, he wondered why Steve and Banner were trying to get to his chest so badly so he looked down towards them and saw that the chest piece of his suit had been scratched up and bent badly that he couldn't see the light from his arc reactor.

He started to panic then and he found it even harder to breath any air in and his vision started to darken around the edges.

"Tony, hey Tony, your ok, just try to relax and breath".

"Whats wrong with him Banner" Steve asked worriedly.

"He is having a panic attack, we need to get him to calm down before we extract him from his suit, Steve do something while I get this thing off of him".

Tony wondered how on earth the super soldier could help him relax and breath but then Steve leaned over and placed a hand on his cheek and he started to rub soothing circles onto them.

He then looked him in the eyes and said quietly "Hey, Im right here Tony, I wont leave your side I promise, just listen to my voice ok I want your to try and breathe in and out slowly ok, copy me".

It was hard not to listen to the Captain, he had that superiority about him and that's why everyone followed and obeyed him, as he copied Steve's slow deliberate breaths he looked straight into his eyes noticing how bright they were, he had never denied that Steve was handsome but it was just the first time he got to look without making a sarcastic comment and getting scolded.

Steve noticed that Tonys eyes were sliding closed and he was about to call out to him to stay awake when he felt a hand on his arm, looking up he was face to face with Banner, "let him rest, its going to be hard to deal with him when we are taking off his suit so lets get to it, everyone ready?" seeing everyone nod they all focused on the task at hand, to get their friend home safe and secure.

Several hours later Tony woke up to a constant beeping noise, it took him a while to wrap his head around the fact that he was in the hospital and that the insistent noise was the sound of a heart monitor "oh shit" he said.

"That's right, Oh shit indeed, I cant believe you managed to land yourself in hospital after letting the bloody bomber madman go".

Looking up he noticed Clint smirking down at him "I just thought id give you more work to do since you don't do much birdbrain".

"Ouch I think Tony has got one on you this time Clint" said Natasha who thumped the archer's arm before coming to a stop next to him.

"What happened? I mean I know about the bombs, I'm a smart man you know and I remember those things, but what happened after?".

"You mean after you passed out from Cap sweet talking to you and rubbing your cheek" laughed Clint who received an elbow in his side from Natasha.

Before Natasha answered his question they heard the other members enter the room, all looking gloomy and giving him worried glance "awww guys I'm fine ok so stop worrying will you".

"Tony do you even realise what happened to you, what we had to do? Never mind I'm too tired to give you a lecture now, I came to see if you were ok and clearly you are since your talking nonsense as usual so come on everyone out you can visit him in the morning, he needs his beauty sleep".

"Awwww but Ive just woken up" he moaned at their retreating backs.

"Bye Tony" Clint shouted before he disappeared around the door frame.

He noticed that the one person he thought would have been the first to go was still in the room standing awkwardly in the corner and looking out of place.

"Erm Cap, are you ok? Your not here to give me a lecture are you because if you are you are welcome to join Bruce tomorrow as I'm too tired for that now" he said as he slumped more into his pillows.

Steve just walked forwards and stopped mere inches from the bed "no lecture, I just wanted to see if you were ok, I wanted to see if we were ok".

Tony was stumped as to why Steve would ask that "of course we are, why would you say something like that?".

"Well when you were kinda out of it I erm was stroking your face and you leaned into it, I didn't want to read too much into it but its been on my mind for a few days".

Wait a few days? Did he just say he was out for a few days? Oh crap he is going to be in a lot of trouble with Pepper and Fury.

"Hey Tony, breath, everything is ok, your safe now, please Tony calm down".

"Steve? your doing it again".

"Doing what? Oh? Sorry" he said as he realised that his hand was back on his cheek rubbing circles and he was inches away from his face, they stared at each other for a while before he slowly leaned in and brushed his lips against Tony's.

Steve jumped back after realising what he had just done, whispering a sorry he ran out of the hospital room leaving Tony looking on in shock, he couldn't exactly run after him, but since he was gone he wanted to know why he had been kissed and he was going to find out one way or another, he was a genius after all.