Tony shifted a little but did reach out and take the other side of the box. He'd tried to argue that Sam could just do all the talking -- he was well aware of his own tendency to either start babbling uselessly or say exactly the wrong thing -- but Sam had insisted that this had to be both of them. So. Here went nothing.

"It might not be legal," he said finally. Not if it was genuinely going to be the three of them. And possibly not the best way to start this off, but Tony soldiered on. "But we wanted something to show that this is real. Permanent. Important." It had been so much easier to just make the ring.

And with a sigh, he held the box up for him. "Happy birthday?"