He means it, too. As much as Steve loved Bucky, not to mention Peggy and many others, Tony is the absolute best possibility to stabilize him. Because Tony's a fixer. Because he's as stubbornly determined as Steve. Because they can and have lashed out at one another without pulling their blows, because they each see the darkness and the light in the other.
Because they aren't in perfect synch, and they both need the challenge of butting heads to really keep them interested.
Steve has to rinse out his own hair, and for the sake of lightening the mood, he starts humming 'Umbrella' partway through, just to get a reaction. The end result of the shower is as it should be: both clean, no one injured, most of the hot water allotment for their room used up.
"That's weirdly poetic," Steve tells him, nibbling some kind of apple dumpling from the meal cart's bounty (honestly, Tony, how much did you order??). "Nipping it in the bud. Sort of. There are a lot of buds."
"I was thinking," he says slowly, after another bite. "And tell me if I'm crazy here, but when Loki showed up before, he already had the Mind Stone in the scepter. Do we really want to keep that even from happening? What if we...use the Tesseract to lure him in? Destroy both Stones, and when Thor comes to get him--"
Because he will, no question there, and possibly do some really stupid stuff to get to him. "We might have a chance to give Asgard a heads-up on what's coming."
The only problem with this idea is that Loki has proved extremely difficult to contain. And they'd have to break the Mind Stone fast, or risk having it used against them.
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Date: 2018-07-09 02:26 am (UTC)Because they aren't in perfect synch, and they both need the challenge of butting heads to really keep them interested.
Steve has to rinse out his own hair, and for the sake of lightening the mood, he starts humming 'Umbrella' partway through, just to get a reaction. The end result of the shower is as it should be: both clean, no one injured, most of the hot water allotment for their room used up.
"That's weirdly poetic," Steve tells him, nibbling some kind of apple dumpling from the meal cart's bounty (honestly, Tony, how much did you order??). "Nipping it in the bud. Sort of. There are a lot of buds."
"I was thinking," he says slowly, after another bite. "And tell me if I'm crazy here, but when Loki showed up before, he already had the Mind Stone in the scepter. Do we really want to keep that even from happening? What if we...use the Tesseract to lure him in? Destroy both Stones, and when Thor comes to get him--"
Because he will, no question there, and possibly do some really stupid stuff to get to him. "We might have a chance to give Asgard a heads-up on what's coming."
The only problem with this idea is that Loki has proved extremely difficult to contain. And they'd have to break the Mind Stone fast, or risk having it used against them.