When Tony starts at MIT, he's excited to finally be in the same city as his older brother, Bucky, again. Then he meets Bucky's roommate and best friend Steve Rogers and falls faster than he would have ever thought possible.
The Omega tried to cower away and cover his face but the Alpha too quickly reached across the table and cupped his chin in a huge hand, forcing him to look up and into the light again.
“It--it was nobody.” Anthony stammered as the Alpha loomed closer to peer at the ugly bruises. “I-- I’m clumsy, it was nothing. No one. No one hit me. It’s alright. I'm fine”
“Tis not alright.” A brush of calloused thumb at the Omega’s jaw, the softest touch he’d had in years, and Anthony was mortified when tears sprang to his eyes. “Does it hurt?”
“I--” Anthony nearly lied, but another feather soft touch at his cheek had him whispering soft, “Yes. Very much so.”
“The nobody that blackened your eye will never do so again, do you understand? They will never touch you again.” Conviction burned bright in Thor’s good eye. “You are safe with me, little runaway.”
Tony knows that something like an arranged marriage would happen to him eventually, like it does to all omegas. He also knew that it would happen because of Howard. The fact that he’d be unwanted shouldn’t have come as a surprise.