Steve's POV

I turn away from Tony and rush away before he can see my grin. I can't believe that he likes guys. I'd say that I have a chance now, but I don't wanna be cocky about it. Maybe I have a better chance than before considering I literally had no chance before, because I thought he was straight. Which apparently isn't the case now?

When I get to my room, not to long after I left Tony, I carefully set my sketchbook on the bedside table, not wanting to damage any of the pages. I hadn't let Tony look inside at what I was drawing because nearly all of the drawings in there were of him, as were several of my other sketchbooks. I didn't think it would seem very platonic to have, I don't know, fifty or sixty detailed sketches of him in just one of my sketchbooks.

I turn from the table to go and change into my gym clothes, but I am interrupted when I hear my phone ringing loudly to the sound of "Carry On My Wayward Son", which was from when Tony was on a Supernatural kick and changed it to that and I still don't have a clue how to change it back. I check the number and see that it's Pepper, I quickly answer it, worried that something may be wrong because she normally doesn't call me unless it's an emergency.

"Pepper? Hi, is something wrong?" I ask, hoping everything was okay.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Steve, I didn't meant I scare you! I just wanted to talk to you about something," Pepper said nervously.

I sigh, relieved. "Thank god, I'm glad you're okay. What did you want to talk about?" I question, wondering what could possibly have Pepper of all people nervous.

"Well, I don't know if you've heard or not, but Tony and I broke up...," she trails off, seeming a little broken up about it even though she had been the one to break things off.

"Yeah, um, Tony told me a while ago," I say calmly, though I was beginning to get nervous as we breached the subject of Tony. We had talked about Tony plenty before, but it always made me nervous that I would slip up and say something that would make Pepper suspicious of me liking him.

"I figured he had," Pepper says, pausing to mutter something under her breath that sounded a lot like, "damn, he really likes him a lot," but I ignored it, knowing I wasn't meant to hear it and not knowing what it was supposed to mean anyway. "I just wanted you to know why I had broken up with him," Pepper continues, Though when she doesn't finish her statement I ask, "Which is?"

"Oh, right. It's just that, well, ever since New York, he's been kinda different," when I don't reply, she continues, "And I didn't really understand why at first, but then I realized that he had fallen for someone else," Pepper replies.

"I assume that when you say 'fallen' you mean in love and not like fallen out of the sky," I answer, feeling all the hope I had allowed myself to have diminish. How was I supposed to get him to fall for me if he had already fallen for someone else?

I can almost hear Pepper roll her eyes at me through the phone. "Yes, Steve, as in fall in love."

"Oh, well then, do you know who?" I ask curiously. I really wanted to know who, even though it wasn't me, I wanted Tony to be happy, so I'd help him get together with whoever it was he loved.

"Yeah, I do actually," Pepper said quietly, "It's you."

If I had been drinking water I would have sprayed it everywhere. "What? Me? Are you sure?"

"Now, look, I know you were raised in the forties and everything, but this is the twenty-first century and if you have a problem wi-" I cut Pepper off

"No, dammit, I don't have a problem with it all. It's just that you're giving me hope and I really don't want hope because I can get hurt if I have hope," I admit. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest.

"Steve, what do you mean by 'I'm giving you hope'?" Pepper asks, confused.

I stumble over what to say, until I finally find my words. "It's-I-You see, dammit. Okay, look, I'm kinda in love with Tony, okay? Please don't hurt me!"

"Did Captain America just stutter?" Pepper muses.

"Maybe," I say softly, still not sure if Pepper was mad at me or not. "You don't hate me now, do you?"

I hear Pepper laugh into the phone receiver. "No, Steve, I don't hate you. Hell, I didn't call to tell you that Tony likes you so you could sit on your ass and do nothing about it."

I blush, but smile anyone. "Thank you, Pepper, it means a lot to me that you told me," I tell her, really touched.

"Of course, Steve. Just remember that I don't think he knows he loves you yet so just be careful. I don't want either of you getting hurt," Pepper warns me.

I just smile and say thank you again and we say our good byes. I press the end button and toss my phone onto my bed. I grin to myself, so Tony actually likes me. The thought of it made me grin even wider and suddenly the idea of training at a crucial time like this seemed impossible.

I stand up from where I was laying on my bed and walk to my bedroom door. If I wasn't gonna train, I might as well ask Tony if he wants to watch a movie.

I venture out into the living area and see Tony on the couch, his limbs splayed all over. I smile softly at him. "Hey," I greet as I sit down on what little of the couch Tony wasn't on.

He turns his head to look at me and he grins. "What's up?" He asks happily, "Come back to tell me who's caught your attention?"

I laugh, finding it hilarious that he hasn't realized it was himself. "Maybe, but you have to watch a movie with me first," I say cheekily, knowing he won't say no, he never says no to watching a movie with me.

"Sure, Why not?" Tony answers as expected. "What do you want to watch? I was thinking something Sci-fi, but anything you want is fine."

I blush a little at his last comment but pretend not to be affected. "Sci-fi sounds great actually. I kind of wanted to see Star Wars because I never get what you mean when you reference it," I answer truthfully.

Tony grins at that. "Yes! I love Star Wars! We can definitely watch it, but not the prequels, never the prequels."

I give him a confused look. "What's wrong with the prequels?"

I can tell Tony nearly flipped out when I asked this, but he reigns himself back in. "I'm going the ignore that comment because you don't know any better, but you shall learn, my young padawan," Tony replays with a grin.

I stay silent for a moment. "That was another Star Wars reference, wasn't it?"

"Yup," Tony confirms my suspicions as he pushes play on the remote and plops down beside me, not even bothering to leave any space between us.

I just grin and shake my head.

We both must have been pretty tired because we both call asleep before we're even halfway through the movie.