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Tony is awoken by the urgent twittering of his phone that indicates Ultimates business. Normally he would have hung up as soon as he realized it was SHIELD calling, but this time Fury grabs his attention straight away.
“It's Cap,” Fury says, his voice clipped and serious over the line. “He needs your help.”
Tony walks onto the command deck of the Triskelion to find Fury tapping his foot impatiently, scowling like the universe has personally wronged him.
“Stark,” Fury snaps. “Thank god you’re here. It's about time.”
“What’s wrong with Cap?” Tony has had distressing visions of vicious weapons and hideous superserum-targeting diseases running through his mind since he got the call. “Is it serious?”
“It’s not life-threatening.” Fury shuffles his feet, uncharacteristically awkward. “But we’ve had to contain him for his own safety. There was a gas attack and he was exposed to a pheromone-based inhibition-lowering agent. It’s affecting his hormone levels and it seems to have. Uh. Enhanced certain physiological responses.”
Slowly, it dawns on Tony what Fury is saying to him. “Sex pollen. You mean he’s been exposed sex pollen.”
Fury avoids meeting his eyes, the shifty bastard. “The reaction should subside once his needs have been… satisfied.”
Tony takes a breath. Tampers down the perverted desire that flickers through him at the thought of Steve horny, desperate, and nearby. “Right, okay. And you’re telling me this because…?”
“When he first joined the Ultimates, we asked him who we should contact in this kind of emergency. He chose you.”
Tony boggles. He tries to imagine Steve having to decide on an emergency sex partner and choosing him. It seems vanishingly unlikely.
Fury continues to look unimpressed. “I thought it was odd too. But we asked him who we should call if he’s ever incapacitated by sex pollen and he said ‘Get Tony, he’ll know what to do. He’s smart that way.’”
Tony’s eye twitches. “And you didn’t think to correct him?”
Fury shrugs irritably. “What am I, your kindergarten teacher? We asked for his emergency contact, he said you. Now there’s an emergency and you’re up, Stark.”
Steve had pounced on him the minute he'd opened the door to the office where he was being guarded by uncomfortable-looking SHIELD agents and dragged him over to the sofa. Tony is making a concerted effort to remain professional and supportive.
“Darling, this really isn’t how I pictured this happening.”
“You have been picturing it then.” Steve smiles like a shark circling its prey. His fingers trace up the outside of Tony’s thigh. “I know you want it.”
Tony had hoped that he had been subtle in his appreciation of the good captain's assets, as he couldn't imagine his prurient interest going over well with a man from the 40s. But apparently he's been more obvious than he realized.
He tries to wriggle away, to make some space between their bodies on the couch, but Steve pushes into his personal space. “While that might otherwise be true, this is not what I had in mind-”
“I see you looking at me,” Steve interrupts. His thumb runs over the meat of Tony’s leg and starts tracing up the inseam of his designer wool slacks. “In meetings, and on missions. And in the shower after missions-” Steve’s thumb inches higher. “-especially then.”
Tony yelps and jumps out of his seat before Steve’s hand gets any closer to inappropriate regions. “Not like this,” he says firmly. “Not while you’re being affected by that… whatever that was.”
Steve waves a hand dismissively. “It was just a bit of gas. Ramped up metabolism and vitality.” He gives Tony a penetrating look and licks his lips. “And other things.”
The gas that Steve had been exposed to was certainly having a diverse range of side effects. Tony notes his flushed skin and elevated heart rate, and, glancing down, it’s difficult to miss the outline of his dick tenting his tight leather pants.
Tony swallows and struggles to remember that he is supposed to be making efforts to be a better person. He wants to do some actual good in the world before he leaves it in a blaze of whiskey and cancer, and he is pretty certain that exploiting a medically compromised teammate does not fit that bill.
“Whatever that gas was, it’s clearly effecting you psychologically as well as physiologically. I really don’t think-”
Tony doesn’t get to finish his sentence, because lightning fast, Steve has stood up and is nuzzling his nose into the soft spot at the base of Tony’s neck.
“You smell good,” Steve says, and it’s rough as gravel. He nips at Tony’s neck, teeth grazing across the sensitive skin. “You always smell good.”
“That’s just the expensive cologne, darling,” Tony says as he ducks away from Steve and backs up against the opposite wall. Steve is more wild that he had been prepared for, and it’s unnerving him. “I’m starting to think we ought to take you back to the med team.”
“No,” Steve snarls. He really is huge when he stands up straight, looming large in the center of the room, and there’s no way in hell that Tony’s taking him anywhere he doesn’t want to go. Tony feels panic bubbling in his chest, all too aware that without his suit Steve could snap him like a twig. He's never felt scared of Steve before, but he's never seen him this out of control either.
Steve seems to sense Tony’s unease, and he sits back down on the sofa and curls himself up, making himself smaller. “I’ll be good,” he promises, his voice quiet. “Don’t send me back to medical. Stay with me.”
He looks so piteous that Tony can’t resist going to him. “Hey, hey,” he says, walking over and petting Steve’s hair, “it’s okay. You’re okay.”
Steve leans into his touch and lets out of breathy moan, like Tony’s hands on him is all he’s ever wanted. “I just…” he mumbles, looking down, and it’s not right for Steve to look so forlorn, “I don’t know… I want…” He bites his lip, uncertainty and insecurity written all over him.
Tony’s weak for that. He’s always weak for Steve. He sits next to him on the sofa, tries not to think too much about the pulsing warmth where their thighs touch, tries to be comforting. He puts his hand on Steve’s shoulder in what he figures is as close to a platonic gesture as he can get. “I know this all must be confusing,” he begins, and Steve shoots him a look like confusing is the least of his problems, “but the effects of the gas should wear off soon. Uhh, I hope.”
Steve’s head whips around and Tony sees irritation, hunger, anger and desire flick across his face in quick succession. It’s unnerving, seeing Steve like this. Steve isn’t one to dissemble, but he also likes to keep his interactions professional, controlled. Tony’s never seen him this raw before, this emotive. He’s starting to wonder if this emotional maelstrom is what passes for normal inside Steve’s head.
Steve is wriggling closer to him now, the warmth between their thighs increasing as they push closer together. Steve keeps glancing at him out of the corner of his eye, muscles twitching, fingers squeezing the soft filling of the sofa.
Tony’s eyes drift to the tent in Steve’s uniform pants, the outline of a hard cock that is straining against the leather and shows no sign of subsiding. He tears his eyes away and tells himself that the rushing of blood through his veins is only worry for a fellow teammate.
But Steve catches him looking and a lascivious grin spreads across his face. “And here I thought you weren’t interested,” he says, low and dangerous. “But that’s not it, is it? You want this.”
Steve turns towards him, pushing their bodies closer together. Tony can feel the heat radiating off him from every inch of skin. He considers his words carefully, calculating how to extract them both from this situation with the minimal of destruction to body or ego. He decides on simple honesty.
“I can’t do that, champ. That gas has affected you and you can’t consent like this. It would be wrong of me to take advantage of your current state.” The words sound stilted and awkward coming out of his mouth, but at least he’s said them.
“Take advantage?” Steve huffs out a breath of amusement. Then, without warning, he shifts and faces Tony, swinging one leg over until he’s straddling him and pushing their chests together. “Does it seem as if you’re the one with the advantage here?”
Tony can feel Steve’s thighs squeezing against his own, Steve’s breath warm on his ear, Steve’s cock grinding firmly against his stomach. He valiantly tries to recall why this is as terrible idea as his own cock gives a traitorous twitch.
“I can’t,” he grits out, sounding unconvincing even to himself. “It wouldn’t be right.”
Steve is nuzzling against the sensitive spot behind his ear, his weight pinning Tony to the sofa. “You can’t do what?” he asks, voice soft and smooth like honey. “You can’t strip me out of my uniform? Can’t run your hands over my chest, my arms, my ass? Can’t let yourself touch me like you’ve always wanted to?”
Tony feels his cheeks heating. It takes quite some doing to make Tony Stark, subject of numerous scandalous tabloid exposés, blush, and yet Steve seems to be uncannily accurate in honing in on his weak spots. He always did show too much of himself around Steve.
Steve’s breath is hot against his face, his body still far too close, and Tony can’t stop his fingers from digging into Steve’s hips. Steve smiles like he knows exactly how wild he’s driving Tony.
“I know you’re good with your hands,” Steve purrs, and it’s not right, it’s so not right for Steve to be like this. He should be uptight, aggressive, defensive of his masculinity. Not… this. “I’ve thought about your hands, Tony, about your fingers. About how they’d feel inside me.” And that can’t be true, because there’s no way in hell that Steve would… “I think about your hands when I jerk off. I fantasize about you walking in on me, seeing everything. I wouldn’t have to say anything. You’d take one look at me and know exactly what I want.”
Tony can feel Steve thrusting against him, and even through the layers of their clothes he can feel the hard, insistent line of Steve’s cock. But it’s not real, it’s the gas talking, Steve would never express interest in a man, let alone Tony, he’d never say things like this-
“You could bend me over something. This sofa, right here. You could bend me over and get my pants around my knees, I wouldn’t care, get your fingers inside me and anyone could walk in and see us and I wouldn’t care, let everyone see you taking me apart.”
Steve is humping him in earnest now, cock dragging against Tony’s thigh as he bounces, and there’s no way Tony can push him off if he doesn’t want to be moved. Rapid questions flick through Tony’s swimming head: Was it taking advantage if he didn’t touch Steve? Was letting Steve get off on his leg a breach of consent? Wasn’t failing to take action to prevent an event morally the same as acting to make that event happen?
“Hey,” Steve’s voice has the sharp edge of command, and Tony responds to it instinctively. “Don’t go zoning out on me now,” Steve says, taking Tony’s hand and pressing an inexplicably chaste kiss to the knuckles. Tony tries to fidget but Steve’s weight holds him in place.
“I haven’t got to the good bit yet.” Steve’s voice is back in his ear, rough and gravelly. “Don’t you want to hear what happens next?”
Tony’s breath catches in his throat; he very much does want to hear more, but that will surely not help him to extract himself from this situation gracefully. He tries to lean back, to get some space in between his and Steve’s bodies but he’s trapped against the back of the sofa. He decides to try distraction instead.
“Where did you even come up with these ideas, anyway?” he asks, aiming for cheerfully curious instead of desperate. “I wouldn’t think you’d be interested in… this sort of thing.”
Steve’s grin has a hint of mania about it. “Why, Tony, are you shocked to hear that little innocent Steve from the 40s knows about sex?”
Tony wasn’t going to say it, but actually, yeah, he’d kind of expected that Steve would run screaming from a frank conversation about sex. Especially a conversation about sex with another man.
Steve narrows his eyes like he knows what Tony is thinking. “How do you think we passed all that down time in the army?” he asks mischievously. “It’s part of your duty to help a fellow soldier in need.”
Tony opens his mouth to question that and then thinks better of it. He’s not entirely sure that’s how the military code is supposed to go, but he certainly isn’t going to argue with Steve about it.
“I liked helping out the men in my unit,” Steve continues, and oh gods, Tony is going to get details. “Sometimes when the men were stressed, or missing home, or they couldn’t sleep, I’d get on my knees and help them out. It was always quick, in the dark, no kissing or pet names or any of that fairy stuff. Just a hard cock and a willing mouth. And I was always very willing.”
Tony’s breathing heavily now, images of Steve in his army uniform getting on his knees for half the guys in his unit whipping rapidly through his head. He fidgets, his slacks becoming uncomfortably tight. Steve hisses and triumphantly grinds their cocks together through the layers of fabric.
“And that’s what this is, is it?” Tony ventures. “You’re looking for a teammate to help you out, like the old days?”
“Obviously,” Steve says, as if Tony is stupid. “You’re here, I’m here, we both want it. It’s not like it’s gay or anything.”
“I mean…” Tony looks down at where their boners are rubbing together through their clothes. “It is a bit gay, surely?”
“Whatever your masculinity requires, Tony.”
Tony is about to object but Steve merely rolls his eyes, clearly done with this conversation. He grabs the back of the sofa, one hand on either side of Tony’s shoulders so he’s boxed in.
They’re so close now that he can smell delicate scents on Steve’s skin: the old fashioned soap his still likes to use, the sharp tang of sweat that’s running down his collar, a layer of spicy warmth that Tony’s never quite been able to place. He’s aware of the weight of Steve on top of him and the hot line of his cock dragging against his leg, the sensory inputs making his head spin.
There was supposed to be… there’s something he has to remember… This would be so much easier to deal with if he had a drink...
Shit, yes, that’s it, Steve has been affected by some mysterious chemical compound and can’t consent. Tony really, really needs to get out of here before he does something unforgivable.
Steve interrupts his train of thought. “Stay,” he commands, the Captain America voice in full force. And that's just unfair, because Tony responds to that instinctively and does as he's told.
Steve pushes himself of the sofa until he's standing over Tony, running a hand over the prodigious bulge in his uniform pants. The inside of Tony’s mouth goes very dry and he bunches his hands into fists at his sides to stop himself from reaching out.
Steve pops the fly on his pants and reaches a hand inside, squirming with pleasure as he touches himself.
“You don't mind, do you, Tony?” Steve asks, looking out from under his eyelashes, all feigned innocence. “I need to… it feels so good.” He bites his lip and tips his head back so that Tony can admire the taught lines of his neck, glistening with sweat.
“No, that's, uhh, fine, Steve,” Tony says breathlessly. Watching Steve get himself off under these circumstances is still ethically dicey, but his brain is all out of ideas on how to handle the situation. Might as well go with it. “You go ahead and do what you have to do.”
When Steve succeeds in wresting his cock from his tight leather pants, Tony can't help but appreciate the view. Steve is big - of course he is, he's big all over - and he's uncircumcised, foreskin pulling back to reveal a thick red head that Tony desperately wants to wrap his lips around. If he leaned forward a few inches, he could.
Steve catches Tony looking and smiles, a slow, lazy, heated smile that appears disconcerting on him. His face is usually pinched into a frown or furrowed in concentration; this languid, sensual look on his face now is strangely at odds with that.
He teases his fingers around the tip, forming a tight circle that he thrusts into. Tony feels prickles of desire sparkling through his chest like electricity, and he shuffles to sit on his hands so he can’t touch.
Out of the corner of his eye Steve observes the movement with a smug grin. “You can touch if you want, Tony. I’m right here.”
Tony purses his lips, says nothing, and wonders why he is such a terrible human being.
“Or you can have a taste,” Steve offers, holding his cock firmly around the base. “You should know how much I like your mouth. You’re always talking talking talking and I can’t stop looking at your lips, wondering what it would feel like, if you could fit me all in. I bet you could, couldn’t you? I bet I could get my whole cock down your throat and you’d love it.”
Tony is never going to admit it, but he’s been wondering the same thing. Steve’s cock is thick as well as long, and it’s been a while since Tony gave anyone a blowjob, but he’s never been one to shy away from a challenge. He reckons he could give it a heroic try.
But he’s not going to do that, because Steve is incapacitated and that would be wrong.
Steve seems content to entertain himself though, one hand pumping his cock with fast, firm strokes. With his other hand he reaches out to run a thumb over Tony’s bottom lip, tracing with the pad of his thumb. His eyes have gone dark and lidded, laser focused on Tony is a way that makes his skin prickle.
“You’re a good man, Tony,” Steve says, and that seems bizarrely inappropriate given the circumstances, especially since Tony’s good friend and teammate is suffering through a physiological nightmare here and all he wants to do is push him against a wall and suck his cock until he’s howling his name.
The slick slapping sound of skin on skin fills the room, and Tony can see beads of precum glistening at the head of Steve’s cock. He longs for a taste. Steve swipes his fingers through the mess and uses it to slick his hand, humming with pleasure as the speed of his hand increases.
“Yeah, that’s it,” Steve says, more to himself than anyone else. His free hand clasps the back of Tony’s neck and his fingers twine through the soft, curly hair there. All Tony can do is stare, wide eyed and held in place as Steve works himself over mere inches from his face. “That’s good.”
Tony’s slacks are uncomfortably tight; the desire to bring himself off is almost frantic but he pushes the urge aside and focuses on the sight in front of him: the way Steve’s lips are red and swollen from being bitten, the tight set of his shoulders, the line of his cock jutting out from his uniform pants. He looks suspiciously like something out of one of Tony’s more private fantasies.
Steve’s breath is coming hard now, he’s panting and beads of sweat are running down his temples. He lets out a breathy little noise and jerks himself faster, his hand a blur of frantic motion. Tony can see that he’s close, the rippling tension in his muscles making it clear.
“Can I…” Steve starts to ask, his voice breathy, “I want…” He turns his face away, the blush high on his cheeks.
“What do you want, Steve?” Tony gently prompts. “Tell me.”
He’s being selfish, really. He wants to hear more, wants to know more about Steve’s fantasies, even though he shouldn’t be prying. It’s for Steve’s own good, he tries to convince himself, but even he’s not buying that.
“I want to… I want… On your face, Tony, I’ve thought about it so many times. Can I?” Steve is staring at him like he’s the most radiant thing he’s ever seen, and a shudder of anticipation runs through his body.
“Yeah,” Tony breathes, and it’s out of his mouth before he has the chance to think better of it. “Come on, come on me, I want to taste you.”
Steve gasps like he’s been given a special gift, and Tony tips his head back, takes in a full view of Steve. Licks his lips, just a little, just a tease. It works: Steve groans and fucks into his fist faster, the reddened head of his cock peeping through between his fingers.
Tony lets his mouth fall open, waiting. It doesn’t take long. The sight of Tony open mouthed and pliant in front of him seems to be really doing it for Steve, and with a last few powerful thrusts he’s coming. He lets out a wrecked groan and thick white ropes of come hit Tony’s cheek, running down his face in a streaky line. Another line of come hits his mouth; the taste of the salty tang flooding his senses.
Steve is twitching, still furiously working his cock to milk out the last of his orgasm, eyes rolled back in pleasure. Even more than the view of Steve frantically jerking himself off, seeing his face slacken with relaxed satisfaction and a lazy smile spread across his lips is the most deeply gratifying thing Tony has seen in ages.
His hand gradually slows, his shoulders relax, his head drops. He sighs, a rolling breath that resonates throughout his body. When he opens his eyes, he’s beaming at Tony with fondness written all over his face.
“That was…” he begins. “Mmm.” He tucks his cock back into his pants and comes to sit next to Tony on the sofa, his knees a little wobbly.
Tony is frantically chewing the inside of his cheek, hoping to stave off his own untouched orgasm through sheer force of will.
But then Steve is flopping down practically on top of him, legs intertwining with his own and arms catching around his shoulders like a particularly muscular and cuddly octopus. He nuzzles his nose into the spot behind Tony’s ear, the warmth from his face radiating into Tony’s skin.
“That was nice,” he mumbles, and Tony doesn’t quite know what to do with himself now. The whole dubiously consensual sex was bad enough, but he had absolutely no idea how to deal with the ethical minefield of dubiously consensual cuddling. He pats Steve awkwardly on the arm.
There’s a sharp knocking at the door, grabbing Tony’s attention. “Hey,” a voice calls from outside. It must be one of the SHIELD guards. “Is everything okay in there? We heard noises.”
Tony is about to giggle, but then he catches a look at Steve’s face. The frantic glazed look from earlier is gone, replaced by Steve’s usual intense frown. Steve extracts himself from Tony and stands quickly, and it’s all business: his body language back to the efficient movements of a soldier. He doesn’t spare a glance for Tony.
He goes to the door, opens it a fraction, talks to the guard outside. “We’re well, thank you, agent,” he says crisply. “If you could inform Fury that I’ve recovered, then escort me to medical for confirmation.”
The guard agrees and Tony hears her step away to relay the message over her walkie talkie. Steve does seem back to his usual self: the irascible scowl is back in place and the urgent need from earlier has dissipated. Now Tony has to figure out how to deal with the aftermath.
Steve turns to look at Tony, his posture ramrod straight. His fists bunch and he strides towards the sofa, footsteps hard and harsh on the ground.
Tony can only assume that Steve is going to deck him, so he stands and braces for the impact, hoping that Steve doesn’t break any bones. He should have known that taking sexual advantage of someone like Steve was going to end up with him being beaten. He really should have restrained himself but he let Steve go ahead and jerk off on him and now he was going to pay for it-
Tony is startled into frozen wonder when Steve does not punch him, but instead brings a hand to cup the back of his neck and hauls him in for a messy kiss. He barely has time to register what is going on before Steve has his tongue in his mouth and is biting at his lower lip.
Tony can feel the squelch of Steve’s come that’s still running down his face, but Steve doesn’t seem to mind. In fact, given the enthusiasm with which he’s kissing Tony, he might even like it.
Steve pulls back and Tony stares, open mouth and utterly dumbfounded, having no idea what is going on. Steve turns to call to the SHIELD agent guarding the door.
“Hey, how long am I going to be under observation for in medical?”
“Twenty four hours, standard protocol,” she calls back.
Steve turns back to Tony and smiles, almost shy. “Twenty four hours,” he repeats. “Once I’m out, you should call me.”
Tony is still struggling with this. Steve wants him… to call?
“I should? Why, do you need a lift home?” That seems odd, SHIELD normally sends a car, or Steve has his bike.
Steve laughs and raps a knuckle gently against Tony’s forehead. “You should call me so that we can do this again. But fully willingly and consensually this time.”
Tony’s jaw actually drops. Steve wants to do this? With him? Again??
Steve takes in his expression of shock and laughs again. “For a genius, Tony, you sure can be an idiot at times.”
And with that, he gives Tony a final peck on his sticky cheek and strolls out, cheerfully bantering with the SHIELD agent as she accompanies him to medical.
Tony is left alone, confused, turned on, hard enough to pound nails and with come dripping through his hair.
Tony has done his best to clean himself up and he’s hoping to slink out of the Trisk without having to answer any uncomfortable questions. He’s almost made it home free when a dark shape looms out of the shadows and Fury steps out in front of him.
“Stark,” he says.
Tony tries to head off the inevitable. “I know you’re going to ask me for my report but please, Nick, as one man to another, don’t ask me for that now, I really am going to need a day or two to gather my thoughts-”
Fury holds up a hand to stop him, a grimace on his face. “Honestly, the very last thing I want from you is details. Whatever you did, Cap seems much better now. That’s all I need to know.”
Tony exhales, relief washing over him. He gives Fury a polite nod and moves towards the door.
“Hey, Stark,” Fury calls, just as his hand is on the door knob. “For future reference, in a similar situation who should your emergency contact be? You skipped that particular piece of paperwork.”
Tony looks at him, eyes narrowed, trying to decide how to play this. Fury looks deadly serious, and right now all he wants to is get home, take a shower, and jerk off endlessly and a little guiltily about what just happened. Whatever it takes to get Fury off his back.
“Steve,” he says, a little too quickly. “If you ever need someone for me, call Steve.”
Fury’s serious expression cracks and he bursts into raucous laughter. “I knew it!” he wheezes. “I bet Monica fifty bucks that you two wouldn’t be able to go a week without climbing all over each other. She’s gonna be mad.”
Tony blinks, considers arguing for his honor, and gives up with a pout.
Fury is still laughing and he gives him a slap on the back. “Go on, get out of here. I’ll see if I can stave off any more chemical emergencies for a day or two.”
As Tony is stepping through the door, he hears Fury call after him, “Unless you wanted another emergency, that is?” followed by the sound of more hearty sniggering.