"I think you're beautiful"
“This is horrible!” Tony wails coming into the living room staring at his phone like it had just destroyed every good thing on Earth.
“What’s wrong Tones?” Rhodey asks and look up from his book.
“This magazine wants me to do a photo shoot topless,” Tony says.
“That makes sense, you are quite handsome,” Loki says.
“Loki, you’ve seen my chest. All of you have seen my chest. I’m covered in scars,” Tony says collapsing onto the couch head pillowed on Rhodey’s thigh.
“So?” Loki asks leaning back to rest his head on Tony’s back.
“So? Everyone is going to see how ugly I am,” Tony says.
“So are you saying I’m ugly?” Stephen asks coming into the room.
“What? NO! Of course not!” Tony flails almost falling off the couch.
“So, what makes my scars different than your scars?” Stephen asks.
“I...I...nothing?”
“So, if my scars don’t make me ugly then neither do yours,” Stephen says kissing Tony’s head.
“For what it’s worth, I think you’re beautiful,” Bucky says and Tony smiles at him.
“I you do not want to do the photo shoot that’s fine. We will not make you, but do not refuse simply because you fear that you are not attractive,” Loki says.
“Will you guys pose with me? I don’t want to be alone,” Tony says softly and Bucky finds himself agreeing as soon as the words leave Tony’s mouth. As do all of Tony’s husbands.
Weeks later the magazine comes out and Tony stares at his beautiful husbands in the picture. Loki’s stretch marks from Maria, Bruce’s cute tummy, Rhodey’s muscles, Quill’s lack of, Bucky’s prosthetic, and Tony and Stephen’s scars front and center and above them, in big bold letters is the headline and the theme of the entire magazine.
‘There is no one definition of beautiful. You decide your own.’