"Good morning, New York. I'm sitting here with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers of the Avengers team."

Steve: Good morning.

Tony: Hey, everyone!

"I'm just going to jump to the question I want to know the answer to. What do you say to the rumors that you two are dating?"

Tony: According to the tabloids, we are. Yep, actually, our first date was...

Steve: Last week. Saturday to be specific. According to the tabloids.

Tony: They would be wrong though. Our first official date was Wednesday.

"Is that a yes?"

Steve: Are we telling everyone now, Tony?

Tony: Yep. I want to be able to show off my trophy boyfriend.

Steve: So, yes, that's a yes.

"How did your team take this?"

Tony: *scoffs* They knew before we did that we were dating.

Steve: That's true. We've been having lunch together. Sometimes it would have been for work, sometimes just to be able to sit and talk to someone.

Tony: Several times, it would just end up with me explaining some technical thing.

Steve: Those were my favorites.

"That's sweet. Did anyone on the team push either if you to make a move."

Steve: Clint. He was obnoxious.

Tony: Oh yeah, definitely. What was it he said that one time?

Steve: I believe it was "I swear, I will lock you two in a room if you don't do something about your goddamn feelings."

"Did he have to?"

Tony: We didn't think he was serious but the next week, we were locked in a room and not even JARVIS was helping us.

Steve: JARVIS was in on it all along. He said it was good for Tony.

Tony: He said you were good for me, old man. When we finally got released, I checked my files and found things that calculated how I felt about Steve from what I would say or do. Even my facial expressions.

"Is that how you realized that you were technically dating?"

Steve: Well, no. We were still very much in denial. The wake up call came when Sam approached us after I yelled at Tony.

Tony: He was saying that I was reckless and that I need to think about the people who care about me before I do something reckless.

Steve: Well, you worried me. I didn't want to even think about what would happen if it had gone wrong.

Tony: Steve, honey, you're getting off track here.

Steve: Oh yeah. What was I saying?

"You were explaining the wake up call for you and Tony."

Steve: Right. Well anyway, I had just got done yelling at him and Sam came up to us. He looked between us and I thought he was going to say something about the mission or we shouldn't be fighting or something along those lines. But no.

Tony: With most serious face he asked, and I quote, "So are you guys a thing or what?"

Steve: Tony burst into laughter and everyone just stared at us.

Tony: You should have seen Steve's face. It was as red as a tomato and then he asked the stupidest question.

Steve: All I asked was if we really acted like that.

Tony: Everyone said yes, obviously.

"How did it go from there?"

Steve: That's the stupid part of the story.

Tony: I recognized the feelings and tried to just ignore Steve and them. I shut him out and locked myself in my lab.

Steve: When he didn't show his face for a few days, naturally, I got worried. I went down there and found him drunk.

Tony: Nobody told you to go down there. It would have been better if you hadn't.

Steve: But that's when you admitted you loved me. If I hadn't, we wouldn't be here.

Tony: That's true. Oh yeah, the next morning, when I was nursing a hangover, he asked me on our first date.

"Wednesday of last week?"

Steve: Actually, it kept getting pushed back. Something would always come up, you know.

Tony: Aliens, Hulk rampaging, something blowing up.

Steve: The winter soldier, Loki, sea creatures.

Tony: Basically, we have a hectic life.

Steve: Yeah, so our date was just a picnic in the middle of my art studio at the tower.

"That sounds romantic."

Tony: You would think so but it really wasn't.

Steve: He spilt wine on me.

Tony: That wasn't my fault. I was still shaking from the monster we had just fought.

Steve: Yeah, that was a tiring day. We actually just ended up falling asleep on each other.

"That's sweet."

Tony: It was until Thor woke us up. Loki had made another appearance.

Steve: Tony was so angry. He took Loki down.

Tony: The surprised look on his face was totally worth it. Usually we just let Hulk or Thor get him and we just are there for back up.

Steve: He blasted Loki through a building.

Tony: All in a day's work for Ironman.

"Sounds incredible."

Tony: Oh, it was

Steve: Afterwards, we took a nap. In my bed.

Tony: I was too lazy to go to my own room. I had flown him to his floor and just retracted my suit.

Steve: And he just collapsed on my bed. I had to move him to get on.

Tony: Your bed is much more comfortable than mine.

Steve: I know.

Tony: Anyway, after we woke, we went to a  restaurant.

"I'm guessing that was your first real date?"

Steve: Yeah. It was sweet.

Tony: I'm always sweet.

Steve: *laughs * Of course you are. Especially when you work three nights on a row in your lab.

Tony: I've been getting better about that!

Steve: I suspect that's Bruce's doing.

Tony: Maybe.

"Have you received any hate for this?"

Steve: I'm afraid that we have. The team didn't like it at all. Any time someone said something about us, if either of us didn't do anything about it, they would.

Tony: My favorite time was when Bruce hulked out on that reporter and then Clint shot an arrow at his camera, making any video of the attack lost forever. Without the evidence, the reporter was too scared to say anything.

"What's the worst experience?"

Steve: There was this one girl at a party. She came right up to me with a stack of magazines and shoved them under my nose. She then told my that my boyfriend was a whore and that just being with a man was unnatural and I should be with a woman like her. Tony was standing there the whole time, though, and his mouth just fell open.

Tony: No need to finish the story. It's not the worst.

Steve: He began to cry. And she freaking smiled. She smiled like had just won the freaking lottery. It took all my will power not to pitch her through a wall. I seriously doubt that would be good publicity.

"So what did you do?"

Tony: He wrapped his arm around me and, believe me, the anger was coming off of him in waves. Anyway, he held me and very calmly looked at the woman and said...

Steve: I told her to go back the freaking strip club she came from and try to find a man drunk enough to overlook her freaking slutty attitude.

Tony: The look on her face was priceless.

Steve: That made Tony laugh and she looked absolutely mortified. She slapped the magazines down and stomped away.

Tony: It was the only time I've ever seen Steve be rude to a lady.

Steve: If she was a lady, I'm a flying monkey from the future.

Tony: *Laughs*

"For what it's worth, you two seem perfect for each other."

Steve: Thanks. That actually means a lot.

Tony: Even though we are far from perfect.

Steve: Sadly, that's true. We fight a lot and sometimes we hurt each other but we always have each other's backs and we are best friends.

Tony: Yes, we are, you big sap. That's how we make it work.

Steve: That's true.

"Alright, since it's getting a bit too lovey in here, I would like to thank you both for coming and doing this interview."

Steve: It was our pleasure.

Tony: It was refreshing to talk to someone about our relationship who didn't ask if we've fucked yet.

Steve: Which, for the record, we haven't.

"Well, maybe now they'll stop harassing you about that."

Tony: I doubt it.

Steve: We'll just have to deal with it.

"In that case, I wish you the best of luck and hope that you are together for a long time."

Steve: We will be.

"Anyway, thanks for listening everyone. I hope you'll all tune in tomorrow."

*♥*

Consider this my very late Valentines story. I like the idea of them just talking about their relationship. No fighting,  no sex, just them talking about the start of their lives together.