In that moment when Tony is just looking at him, it's not that Steve forgets what he asked entirely, but there's a second too where, just looking up at Tony makes him feel like he could stare at him forever.

As he answers, that protectiveness melts into something else, and Steve looks lost in thought for a moment. He does know him, he thinks as he smiles, but then again ... Steve realizes there's far too much about Tony that he doesn't know, and he desperately wants to fix that.

He chuckles when Tony refers to himself as his boyfriend though, which, sounds too good to be true.

"I'd like to get to know my boyfriend a lot better," he notes — and there's just a hint of bashfulness to it, even though Steve pushes through that a lot more easily this time. Because while he and Tony have truly been through a lot together, most of it has always been in times of life and death. Steve knows Tony and loves him, because he knows him in the moments that count. But there are millions of other moments in life too, that aren't so dire, that are full of history and stories from his past, that Steve wants to hear about.

"Which ones aren't from missions?" he asks, his blue eyes big and curious, as his thumb gently brushes over and back against Tony's waist.