Methods of Support
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When Tony decides to personally answer tech support queries to find ways to improve the next Stark Phone, the last thing he expects is to grow weirdly attached to one of the callers. The man is clearly not accustomed to modern technology, but his determination to get better is both admirable and adorable, and Tony can't help prolonging their conversations. Before he knows it, they're exchanging numbers.
Talking to James — be it over texts or the phone — soon becomes the highlight of Tony's day and he might just be falling in love, though he tries his best to deny it. He knows nothing can happen — not while James thinks Tony is just some random tech guy at Stark Industries rather than the man who owns the entire company. And, as if that wasn't enough, there's also Iron Man and the Avengers to consider. Tony would have to reveal everything before a relationship with James would be possible, but he's not sure how to do that without also risk scaring him away.
It therefore comes as quite a surprise when Tony finds out that James has been keeping similar secrets of his own.
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- Part 1 of Methods of Support
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When Steve returns to the Avengers tower, the last thing he expects is for Tony to pull him aside and tell him that he's found Bucky. Steve has spent months searching for him without success and he has no idea how Tony managed. Things get even more confusing when Tony tells him that Bucky is there, at the tower — and he's willing to see Steve.
It sounds too good to be true.
But, somehow, it isn't. Steve is finally reunited with Bucky and the relief is overwhelming. That relief soon bleeds over into dread, however, when Steve notices the tenderness and affection between Bucky and Tony. Steve wants to be happy for them — and tells himself that he is — but also can't deny that it hurts to see them together. Because, to his dismay, he's no less in love with Bucky than he was during the war, and the tentative emotions he feels brewing for Tony show no sign of fading, either. But, at the same time, Steve will never forgive himself if he somehow ends up ruining Bucky and Tony's happiness.
So the only solution he can think of is to push it all down and pretend that everything is fine.
But Steve has a feeling he won't be able to keep that up for very long.
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- Part 2 of Methods of Support