youusedme:

She was wrong, he was there - he always kept
an eye out, maybe not strictly by Tony’s side but
attempts at getting peeks when he could without
distracting the attention of others. His jaw clenched
and rolled at little, but he tried to play it off as though
it were nothing when he could quite obviously continually
feel the swelling in his chest.

              Tony had said the exact same thing though;
              she was the one for him. Painful, bittersweet,
              but true as it was. He smiled sadly. “I’m sure
              he was the one, and still is. He loved you more
              than you knew, I’m sure… The way he spoke
              about you to me, you know, we’d talk most nights
              over the phone and you were the subject of most
              conversations; what he was going to get you or
              where he was taking you, how much he loved you..”  

Rumiko couldn’t hold it in anymore. The tears were streaming down her face, as Steve spoke to her. Her breath hitched in her throat, as started to do the mixture of hiccuping, trying to take in a full breath of air, and crying. “Steve…” she paused, trying to recompose herself, but ultimately she was failing. All she can really do was release Tony’s hand and just curl up place her head onto Steve’s shoulder. Her body now shaking from her sobs.

“I-I can’t…l-live without him, S-Steve…”

youusedme:

“He does?” Steve raised both brows, surprised that
Tony actually talked about him, especially to his own
girlfriend. He was flattered, and undeniably it did turn
his cheeks a little pink. “Together?” That just brightened
the hue on his cheeks before he rubbed the back of his
head, shaking the thought away. Tony was with a girl,
a very wonderful one at that, the way he would talk
about her. Steve followed her inside and pulled up a
chair, sitting next to her. “You’re really somethin’ too,
according to him. That spark you were talking about?
Well, you should see the smile on his face when he
talks about you… I’ve never seen it before, I’m sure
he’d hate me tellin’ you this. Poor fella, I’m embarrassin’ him.” 

“Yeah.” Ru’s eyes were on Tony once again, her hand going out to hold Tony’s. They felt cold, almost as if he’d taken a plunge into ice. However, upon hearing that Steve was saying how Tony was talking about her, she laughed gently then looked over to him, tears starting to form. “I’m sure when he wakes up, he’ll be glad that you were embarrassing him. Who knows, maybe it’ll bring down his ego some,” she laughed weakly, tiredly. God, she was exhausted. But she didn’t want to sleep. She wanted to stay right by Tony. To let him know that someone was there for him. Someone cares about him. “Doctor says…he doesn’t have much time left, Steve.”