avengers assemble - 6

http://avengerkink.livejournal.com/6021.html?thread=10060165



Tony runs for days without sleep and overworks - not just with the Avengers, but with Stark Industries dealings - to the point where he should be in an early grave by now. The stress of his ridiculously busy schedule has finally started to manifest...in the form of violent migraines that leave him bed ridden while his system fights through the worst of it. Being Tony, he self medicates and just keeps on going but eventually he has a really bad turn in front of Steve. Cue lots of worried!Steve and glorious hurt/comfort. Tony hates being nurse-maided to begin with, but soon comes around to the idea when Steve does things like massage his temples and encourages Tony to bury himself in Steve's arms and pretend nothing else exists.

i cannot leave here, i cannot stay - sleeponrooftops - The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/400213



And so he spent two months trying to stop denying it, and now Steve is right of him, and he definitely just kissed him, and Tony doesn’t know how to move forward. Steve’s had all of seven months to get his feet in the future, and Tony has had all his life, and the old man is still beating him to every punch. The second kiss ends while he’s still thinking and still not really responding, and then his brain shuts off, and then he runs away. Because he’s Tony Stark, and that’s all he really amounts to.