Fics like Peel Off My Layers (I'm Just Me)

"Physically, I’m fine,” Tony repeats. “But I’m not okay here. Something’s missing. Something… important.” “But your arc reactor’s there,” Clint points out. “Tony,” Bruce interjects in a gentle voice. “Can you describe to me what’s missing? Clint is right, your arc reactor is there.” “I don’t know. I just know something important’s missing, and it hurts. Bruce, how can it hurt when I’ve never had it to begin with?” — Thing is, Tony has so much love to give. But he doesn’t know how to do it right. But he knows that when he meets the right person — or people — he loves wholly, in every sense of the word. Sadly, he's so used to giving people what they want, to acting a certain way because they expect him to, that he’s forgotten what it’s like to be stripped bare of all the defenses he’s put up over the years. He wonders what it'd be like to have his defenses peeled off like an onion, layer by layer, each revealing a part of Anthony Edward Stark no other human being has been privy to. What would it be like, then? To have people think the best of him instead of the worst? To love and care about him in the same degree he does about them?

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