Author's Note: You asked for it, so now you've got it!

Tony could not believe that just happened. How could he have forgotten to change his ringtone when he got home? Whoever was calling him right now had better had a good reason or so help him. He slammed his bedroom door shut and answered the call.

"Tony Stark, what the hell do you want?" he said as calmly as he could into the phones microphone.

"Your people skills never seize to amaze me, Tony" Pepper chuckled back.

"I'm sorry. What do you want Pepper?"

"Just reminding you that you have a shareholders meeting tomorrow morning at 10. Now what's up?"

"Nothing."

"Is it because you forgot to change your ringtone before you arrived home?" Tony then stared at his phone in disbelief and quickly searched his bedroom; there was no way she could have known that without spying on him. "I'm not spying on you Tony. I was in the car when I dropped you off home and I had reminded you to change it but you blew me off for a game of Angry Birds."

"Oh."

"So when are you going to tell Rogers that you love him?"

"What? I don't love (he whispered the "L-word") Steve. We're just good friends."

"Tony he's the only person you've taken out and had sex with more than twice, besides me of course"

"That doesn't mean anything."

"If he doesn't mean anything to you then why have you set your ringtone to something that would remind you of him? Tony, I know how you work."

Tony flopped onto his bed in a manner similar to a teenage girl.

"Yes, you do know me, better than most. Better than I know myself. Which means that you know that I am not boyfriend material, know that first hand actually. So it's best to keep him at arms length."

Pepper sighs deeply. Sometimes she didn't know how the genius could be so stupid sometimes.

"Tony? We didn't break up because you weren't "boyfriend material". We broke up because both of us were too dedicated to our work to find time of us. That doesn't make you a bad boyfriend. Tony listen to me and I mean really listen. You think that you are keeping Steve at arms length, but you are really keeping yourself at away. You're scared. Scared of caring for someone and then having your heart broken. Everyone is scared of that. But you need to give Steve more credit then you giving him. He knows that you aren't going to be like the stereotypical boyfriend. If Steve was expecting a "normal" relationship he wouldn't be with you. You are a cocky, narcissistic asshole and Steve loves you because of that."

"Wait, Steve loves me?"

"Have you seen how he looks at you? God, the two of you will be the end of me. Tony, I have to go run your company, ok? I'll pick you up tomorrow and please, please, please dress nicely."

"Hey Pep?"

"Yes, Mr. Stark?"

"Thanks. I don't know what I'd do without you. Honestly."

"I love you too, Tony."

"Alright, go earn my company money!"

"Bye, Tony." He hung up and stared at the ceiling. What was he going to do? Did he really love Steve? Or was he just in "love" with Steve's company? Pepper did have a point when she said that Steve was the first person that he routinely took out and he did change his ringtone to think of Steve a few times each day. Is that what people in love did? He didn't know. What he did know was that he enjoyed being with Steve more than he had with any other person in a while, if not ever.

He reached over to the bedside and removed something from within the drawer. It was a photograph of a four-year-old Tony playing with a replica Captain America shield that his dad had made from him for his birthday. Howard Stark would always tell Tony stories of the amazing Captain America to Tony before bed and the impressionable toddler dreamed of fighting alongside his hero. As Tony grew up he learned the hard way that heros didn't exist anymore and that Captain America wasn't coming back to save the day. The thought broke Tony's heart but deep down Tony still believed and a small crush began to form. Now that Tony was grown and Captain America...erm...Steve was back, he quickly found his hero worship beginning to form into a friendship with the solider.

Putting the picture down on the bed next to him Tony smiled. All his life he had been a risk taker and he had never quit anything he had ever set his mind to. So wasn't this relationship with Steve simply another step in the awesome story that is Anthony Edward Stark? So why wasn't he approaching this as he did every problem? By being his fantastic self. And that's exactly what Steve Rogers was going to get.