Fics like you’d break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull

Fresh from being fished out of the Potomac, Steve struggles with the revelation (and loss) of Bucky, and deals with his feelings in the only way he knows how: he doesn't. Most days, he tells himself it’ll all be okay, because it has to be. After moving in with Tony and getting Tony to help him look for Bucky, the cracks in Steve’s veneer begin to show. He throws himself into fights, drinks too much of Thor’s Asgardian mead, wakes up and wishes he never woke up. Steve doesn’t mean to notice the way Tony’s thigh presses against his when they watch movies together, doesn’t mean to open up to Tony about how he really feels about being Captain America and finding out his best friend is kind of not really dead, doesn’t mean to kiss him, but he does, anyway. Set post-Winter Soldier & Iron Man 3, and pre-Age of Ultron. Note: art embedded in fic.

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