30 Days - Sunset

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 “You okay Tony?”

 

Tony half turns from where he’s standing, a drink in one hand, to look at Steve. He thinks Tony looks alright, but then Howard used to do that too, where he’d look like he had everything together while he really didn’t.

 

“Yeah, sure thing.”

 

“Are you ready for tomorrow?”

 

“Well as I can be,” Tony says, then takes a sip of his drink and looking back at the sunset. “You?”

 

“I think so.” Steve looks out over the landscape; Tony’s house in Malibu certainly had a view, though it wasn’t why they were there temporarily. “You think Natasha is still okay?”

 

“Yeah,” Tony says. He says it the way he talks about alcohol and cars–all certainty, all sureness, and Steve wonders just what it is he knows, how invested in all this he is.

 

“What are you thinking about?” Tony asks and Steve thinks about loyalty and love and ties to people you didn’t expect to have around

 

“It’s a great view,” he says instead. Just because everyone always thinks he tells the truth doesn’t mean he does, and no need for Tony to know about this.