Tony and Steve have never gotten along, but when Tony lies to his mom about bringing his boyfriend to his cousin's wedding, he needs someone to play the part. Lucky for him, Steve agrees, and the two might just get a little more than they anticipated out of it.
When Tony Stark's fiancée breaks up with him on Christmas Eve to take up a new life on her family's ranch, he isn't expecting to have to spend the holiday snowed in at a small regional airport in the middle of Montana - or that he'll spend it with Steve Rogers. He isn't expecting Steve to be funny and charming and really everything that his fiancée wasn't. He isn't expecting to spend the night questioning how soon is too soon to move on from a breakup.
Steve Rogers is nursing a heartbreak of his own after his longtime girlfriend reconnects with her high school boyfriend. Tony feels like a whirlwind in the best kind of way, but Steve isn't so sure that he should be allowed to move on so quickly from Bernie, no matter how quickly she moved on from him.
But after spending one night trapped together, Steve and Tony discover that Christmas magic isn't just for their partners - and sometimes, the person you've been waiting for is the one you would least expect.
If someone had told Steven Grant Rogers that one day he would fall for a mouthy super-genius, billionaire who flew an armored suit to fight evil-he might have had a few choice words for them. That doesn't change the fact that it's true. He can't really pinpoint the moment it all solidified for him. Maybe it was before they fractured and came back together, maybe it was while watching Tony punch a dinosaur while wearing obsidian armor-maybe it's always been there just waiting for him to show up looking like that, and talking like that, and smirking in that way of his that makes Steve's stomach swoop.
Tony is everything he's ever wanted, and everything he never knew he wanted all in one fascinating and sometimes infuriating package. He loves him, he wants him, and it all seems doomed because for all Tony flirts, he seems utterly unable to understand that when Steve flirts back it's in the utmost sincerity. Steve knows Tony is interested, he just can't seem to convince him that the interest is returned and then some.
Unexpectedly, Tony is alone for the holidays. He hates being alone, but surely his genius brain will come up with something.
Bucky can deal with the stress of having lost his arm, or the stress of remaining in the closet with his family, but not both. And only one of those things is in his control. But coming out to them when he doesn't even have a boyfriend is nervewracking, to say the least.
A chance meeting on the subway may solve both of their problems... and give them both a gift they weren't even looking for.
During the Time Heist, Steve and Tony travel back to April 7th, 1970, only to get stuck there when an accident destroys the Pym particles. While they devise a plan to get back home, conversations uncover buried feelings and long-kept secrets that alter their relationship forever.
