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This is a commission for ishipallthings, who wanted a
stevetony fic based off of this prompt: ‘my favourite underappreciated au idea
is ‘everyone is affected by some sort of love spell and falls in love w person
a but person b’s behaviour curiously doesn’t change at all.’ This rolls in at
13k.

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“You doing okay?”

Tony blinks and realizes he’s been looking down at his
cereal like it proves something wrong about his fundamental understanding of
physics and he’ll only figure it out if he stares long enough. He’s been
holding a spoon loaded with the stuff and not eating it, resting it motionless
against the bowl for- minutes, maybe.

He looks towards Steve, who is doing that thing where he’s
pretending not to be concerned. It used to piss Tony off, but nowadays it’s
endearing. Some days Tony worries about that, but mostly he buries it before
the worry can come to a head.

He eats the spoonful of cereal. “Just distracted,” he says.

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