kayytx:

an established relationship stevetony fic where steve’s picking up a book that tony left for him in his office when he sees small stack of papers on tony’s desk and right at the top it says divorce agreement.

his eyes stray a bit further down and he sees tony’s name on the document and suddenly he’s just too blinded by hurt and grief to think or look harder. and then he’s just livid. he can’t believe that tony would do this without talking to steve about whatever problems he thinks they may be having in their relationship.

steve takes the papers downs to tony’s workshop and confronts him. “how could you?!” he asks. “if you thought we were having problems you could have come to me. we could have talked about it. but you’d rather just throw it all away instead of trying to figure things out??”

and tony’s like, “steve, what are you talking about?”

steve shoves the papers at tony and says, “i found the divorce papers, tony. i’m not signing them until you tell me why you’re doing this.”

tony just stares at steve for a bit. and then, as if he wanted to make steve even angrier, tony just laughs. he laughs so hard he bends over and tears start streaming out his eyes.

“what the fuck, tony. do you think this is funny? stop laughing and explain yourself.”

tony finally gets himself together and he’s still giggling a little bit, but finally he says, “steve, honey. we’re not married.”

and suddenly steve’s mind just blanks out. oh god. he made a fool out of himself. he and tony have been so comfortable with each other, so domestic, they were practically married already, and steve forgot they weren’t actually married.

he’s so embarrassed, he wants to crawl into a hole and die right there.

“oh my god. i’m so sorry, tony. we’ve been doing so well. we’ve been so comfortable together, it honestly felt like we’ve been married for years.”

“i know, baby.”

“can you forgive me?”

“there’s nothing to forgive.”

then steve remembers. “wait, then why do you have divorce papers with your name on them?”

he looks at the papers again, then actually reads the rest of the document.

“james rhodes? you and rhodey are married?!”

tony nods. “um, yeah, so when we were in our 20s rhodey and i got drunk and married in vegas but we never bothered to get it annulled?”

“but you’re doing it now?”

“well, yes,” tony says. “i need to get a divorce, because i was planning on proposing to you.”

“oh.”

“so what do you say? will you marry me?”

steve beams. “god, yes, of course i’ll marry you. let’s get you divorced.”