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(ENDGAME SPOILERS, established relationship, AU)

The first thing Steve thinks after the snap is Tony. Oh, god, Tony.

It’s pretty much all he thinks, for the next few weeks. It consumes all his waking thoughts, his conscious moments, because Tony could be alive. Bucky, Sam, Wanda - they’re gone, at least for now, and Steve can mourn and scream about that later, but Tony -

Tony might still be here. Tony might still be here to hold Steve and kiss him and dance with him in the darkness of their bedroom when Steve can’t sleep. Tony might still be here to fix this.

But as hard as Steve searches, as many routes as he goes down and as much as he pushes Bruce, he finds nothing. No transmissions, no signals, no hidden messages. Space is screaming, distress signals from every single planet and every known civilization, but none of those SOS calls bear Tony’s voices. As the days pass, Steve grows more and more desperate, reaching out to every possibility: trying to get into the Sanctum to see if Strange might have known anything about where they were going, interrogating Rocket about Thanos, keeping a twenty-year-old pager running, even after it should have died, just in case a miracle arrives.

And then it does.

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