Hey, everyone, I know you all want to kill me right now for not updating for so long, but unfortunately I've been through some tough times these past months, unfortunately I lost my dear grandpa, so I took some time to recover! Anyway, I hope you all still like this story, soon I'll give it an appropriate end and start writing more Stony fanfiction!

Steve's POV

With a lot of help, ironically, from security guards and the police, we were able to get into a car and head out of there.

They separated us in different cars against our will. I was in the backseat of one of the identical cars, trying to figure out in which car Tony was and if he was safe.

Finally, the driver threw them off to head to a safe place for now. Tony could be having a panic attack alone by now.

I caught myself feeling anxious, a little bit of what he experiences almost everyday.  Then I saw the driver contacting another driver through radio.

"Hey, sir, do you have information from the other cars?" - I asked

"Yes, all I know is that almost all of them are at the final destination" - He said looking at the rearview mirror and then looking ahead.

"Do you know if Tony Stark's car got there already?" - I asked annoyingly.

"Sir, I'm not allowed to give this kind of information to anyone"

I just sat back and waited impatiently.

I arrived at the tower through a hidden entrance Tony had designed.

The car with the others were already there, parked.

"Did he get here yet?" - I asked approaching Natasha.

"No, but don't worry I'm sure he'll be here soon"

Of course I would be worried.

I tried to get his cell, but he wasn't picking up.

I approached the driver from my car.

"I know you have some kind of information. Where's he?" - I asked firmly.

"I can't give information..."

"To anyone" - I completed. - "Listen"

I said and held his collar. He got scared,his eyes almost popping out of his head.

"Steve, stop"

It was Tony. He had just arrived.

I left the car and coming out from the other was Tony.

He said something to the driver as I walked towards him.

"Are you alright?" - I asked him while we walked inside.

"No, I'm not. Let's go in"

Before we headed inside, I apologized to the driver for my inappropriate behavior.

We walked inside ,everyone was already there. We apologized to them for the surprising turn of events, but they were all very supportive and also gave us the space we needed, even though they were anxious about everything too.

TONY'S POV

We walked into our bedroom and I looked at him, feeling guilty for dragging him into this mess.

"I'm so sorry, I never wanted to bring you into all of this, I can't say how sorry I am, I understand if you..." - I couldn't finish talking.

He grabbed my shoulders and pressed his lips suddenly against mine catching me off guard. My whole body relaxed as if the problems disappeared.

I was static.

I kissed him passionately and intensely, joining our tongues.

"I love you and yes I do want to be your husband" - he said smiling.

"Hey, that's not how I wanted to ask"

"It doesn't matter how, it matters that it's you and I don't know if you forgot but I kinda asked first" - he had a playful smile on his face.

...

Steve was taking a shower while I was dealing with Fury's instructions, instructions from an assistant that now I would need alongside with security guards.

I felt Steve's arms embrace me from behind, while I talked on the phone. He kissed my neck and I let my head fall on his shoulder.

"Fury, I'll talk to you in the morning" - I said and hung up without letting him say anything.

I turned around and sat on the bed.

"They want me to have a security guard, when I clearly don't need , look at my boyfriend"

Steve chuckled.

The thing was that I was being playful and funny to hide that I was afraid, it's not a normal feeling for me to have, I've been careless my whole life, but now it was different.

We went to sleep, but of course I couldn't, I stayed hours walking from side to side in the dark room.

STEVE'S POV

I woke up to the sound of Tony's voice calling me.

"What?" - I opened my eyes to see him really close to my face.

"Come with me" - he said excited about something.

I followed him through the house, realizing it was still dark, maybe 3 am or something. He took me to his workshop.

He speed up the pace to stand in front of me.

When I saw, my heart started beating fast. The room was projecting photos of us all around, beautiful.

"Tony, what is it?" - I was astonished.

"Steve, I repeated this moment in my head a thousand times, it needed to be perfect, but after all that we've been through I realized that I can't waste one more minute waiting for the perfect moment or the perfect place." - He approached me and held my hands.

My heart was racing so much I thought I could faint. He looked me in the eyes.

"My whole life I've been careless and unafraid, I would risk my life without even thinking, but after you came into my life I am afraid, I am careful, because maybe then I had no reason or willing to be alive, but now I have you and you make me want to live and not put myself in danger because I could not bare putting you in that pain and I wanna be with you for as long as I can" - he was already stumbling in the words, I felt he was about to cry and so was I.

"So, Steve Grant Rogers" - He got on one knee and took a box out of his pocket.

He took my trembling hand, my breath was already heavy and out of control.

"Will you give me the honor of being your husband?"

"Yes, of course" - I said, not holding back the tears anymore.

He placed the ring on my finger and it fit perfectly.

"I love you" - I said between the tears throwing myself on him, making him fall on the floor.

I kissed him passionately, it was the happiest moment of my entire long life.

"Steve, do you realize our lives are about to change and turn upside down?"

"Yes, I do,but I don't care" - I said smiling widely.

TONY'S POV

I was feeling so many emotions, my body was numb and light like I could levitate.

I've never been so happy in my life.

He was on top of me on the floor smiling, his beautiful blue eyes looking at me wet from the tears. That's the image I want to see forever.

I put my hands around his neck and pulled him to me, he initiated the kiss slowly, stoping to look at me in between, till we really engaged in an intense kiss.

He laid by my side pulling me closer to his body to continue kissing me. He put his lips close to my ear, my heart was pounding heavily.

"I love you" - he whispered, causing me shivers all over my body.

"I love you three thousand" - I said and he chuckled lightly.

"Well, you really are impossible, Tony Stark, you couldn't have me proposing,huh?" - he said smiling.

"Well, you can propose if you want, you'll wear the ring I gave you and I'll wear the ring you give me" - I suggested.

"Come here, then" - He got up quickly.

I followed him back to the bedroom, he got a box inside his uniform.

I knew what was happening and even so my hands were trembling and I was breathing fast.

He came closer, his eyes fixed on mine.

"I never thought I could ever love like I love you, especially love YOU" - we chuckled together - " You were always annoying me, disagreeing with me and I won't lie saying I always knew we would end up together because there were moments I could really kill you"

We were laughing and crying at the same time. He held both of my hands.

"You became my everything, I never thought about loving someone or wanting to be with someone after so long, I have experienced so many things in my life, but I've never experienced something so amazing like that" - he stopped to catch his breath, I was not even trying to hold back my emotions.

"You changed everything I thought I knew about life, you changed a very old man's perception of things and I cannot imagine my life without you anymore, so..."

He got on one knee, grabbed the box and held it open.

"Anthony Edward Stark, will you make me the happiest man alive and marry me?"

"Yes, a million times yes"  - I said bursting into tears.

He placed the ring on my finger and now it was my turn of throwing myself on him, except he didn't fall back, he hugged me tight breathing in on my neck.

I looked him in the eyes, I could stare at them forever...

*TO BE CONTINUED*