Steve leaned over, his face coming in up close to Tony's. They were still surrounded by wrapping paper from the morning, and Tony was drowning in an Iron man sweatshirt that Clint had gotten for him jokingly.

"Hi."

His mouth tilted up in a grin and he leaned in even closer to Steve, pressing a short kiss to the others lips. "Hi."

Steve sat back, "Good Christmas?"

Tony looked up, and shrugged. "Oh, I don't know…"

The blond nudged him, a large elbow digging painfully into his side.

"Yeah. You?"

Steve mimicked him. "Oh I don't know…" Blue eyes sparkled, and Steve's smile made his own widen. God his boyfriend was perfect. How the hell did that happen?

"Steve?"

"Hm?"

"Do you ever wonder, you know...like, what it would be like if we never started dating?"

The super soldier gave him a funny look, before turning to look at the adjacent window, his eyes fixed in consideration. "I don't know. I've thought about it before…" Steve turned back to him, a soft smile on his face. "But, then I thought that that doesn't really matter, and even if it did, I'd rather have it the way it is. That future isn't mine, and I wouldn't want it to be. I might not have never thought that this was the way that I'd be, but...before this, before you, I can't believe just how much I was missing out, you know?"

"Um."

Suddenly, Steve's clear, deep, laugh filled the room. What?

"Um-"

The laughing grew to what was seemingly a fit of uncontrollable laughter, the blonde laughing so hard that his arms were wrapped tightly around his middle,and he was bowing forward with the force.

Tony was so confused. Like, he was most definitely a genius, but this interaction, this had no explanation.

"Tony...Tony…"

God he was really uncomfortable.

"Sorry...I- Ton I'm sorry." Steves hands rubbed at his eyes. Tears clinging to his eyelashes and fingers. "I just. I don't know what came over me."

He shifted a bit, still not really sure what was going on, and pretty infinitely uncomfortable.

"I just- I just got really happy all of a sudden."

Is that what happened?

"Sorry, wow." The blonde let out one last breathy laugh, eyes shifting back over to Tony, who, by this point, looked almost identical to a deer in headlights. "I, sorry." His hand shifted up in the cliched bashful grabbing the back of his neck movement. "That's never happened before."

Tony just looked around, unable to move, and struggling to actually find anything to say.

"Um. I… I just started to think about how we used to really dislike one another, and I thought it was funny."

"How is that funny?"

"How much I hated the man that I love more than anything else in the universe."

Well, shit. Fuck him. He's dead. That's why this got weird. He knew it. There was no way that he could ever have a Christmas this good without being dead.

"You're not dead Tony, I just- I guess I kind of lost it for a minute, sorry." Steve stared hard at the floor by Tony's feet, and whispered, "That was really weird." He looked back up, blue locking with blue. "I meant everything I said though, no matter how weird I was being."

Tony just let out a small noise.

"I didn't put you into shock did I?"

"You think that's a joke don't you?"

"I think your dramatic, and that you can't take a compliment."

The billionaire let out an awkward cough, giving himself an excuse to shift his eyes away from Steve's.

"Just let it be a good Christmas, okay Tony? Not everything has to have a reason, sometimes life is like that. Deserving it as nothing to do with it, and sometimes thinking too much can be bad for that brain of yours." He gently tapped Tony's forehead, then slid his hand to cup the engineers chin, tilting his head back towards the blonde. Tony struggled to keep his eyes off of Steve's face, ultimately failing with Steve's unwavering grip. "Really, you think too much Tony."

But he was smiling. Smiling so softly that Tony felt like if he were to blink the moment would shatter. Okay, so maybe everything here was weird, and maybe that was because it was Christmas, or maybe because of too much sugar or food...but, Tony could allow it, for one day. To just have a day where not everything had to be explained. He could do that. Especially for Steve.

"I…"

"I love you."

He couldn't help the twitch of his lips then. "I...love you too."

"I know."

"Alright...I- For today."

"What?"

"For today I'll stop thinking-ish."

He caught the brief twitch of a golden eyebrow.

"Unfaithful." He teased. "Really. For today. I'll stop thinking and enjoy it, for us."

"Just for us?"

"Yup."

"Okay."

"And Steve?"

"Yes?"

"Please never do that again. It was fucking scary."

Yay for slightly weird and fun endings!

I hope that you guys liked it.

~Castor