Steve needs this just as badly, emotional intimacy and reassurance and--he knows he's off-kilter, functional but far from at his best, and he should not be doing this now. Should not be reaching for Tony Stark from a place of desperate emotion, even if there's a spark of something real underlying it.
Or should he? Has he been too quiet all this time, too stoic? Sam and Natasha seemed to think so, always trying to get him to open up. Trouble with opening up is you have to let stuff out and let stuff in.
So which is right? Lean on Tony the way he's being invited to, or pull back and try to recover the equilibrium he thought he had before?
'Don't hold things back from me' Tony says, as if he's reading Steve's mind, and the soldier's expression flickers from mild uncertainty to genuine distress. Not holding things back is light years out of his comfort zone. They have to trust each other, though. They have to trust each other now, because there's no one else, and they have to work together, save the world and save one another.
He's going to have to trust Tony with everything, and at last he swallows hard and gives a little nod, acknowledging that. "Promise me the same," he says. Not a question, but a demand.
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Date: 2018-07-06 01:36 pm (UTC)Or should he? Has he been too quiet all this time, too stoic? Sam and Natasha seemed to think so, always trying to get him to open up. Trouble with opening up is you have to let stuff out and let stuff in.
So which is right? Lean on Tony the way he's being invited to, or pull back and try to recover the equilibrium he thought he had before?
'Don't hold things back from me' Tony says, as if he's reading Steve's mind, and the soldier's expression flickers from mild uncertainty to genuine distress. Not holding things back is light years out of his comfort zone. They have to trust each other, though. They have to trust each other now, because there's no one else, and they have to work together, save the world and save one another.
He's going to have to trust Tony with everything, and at last he swallows hard and gives a little nod, acknowledging that. "Promise me the same," he says. Not a question, but a demand.