“It’s all need to know,” Tony says, not exactly reading Steve’s mind, but he can read that expression of his. If you spend enough time getting around your own issues and try to see someone else’s, it’s strange how apparent they become. “We don’t have to go into details, just that the Tesseract and the staff are going to be used to destroy the world. Everything else-- Stop it. You look like a kicked dog, Rogers, there’s nothing else we have to tell him. Who do you trust more than yourself?”

Tony knows flat out that he probably wouldn’t trust himself at all. Steve’s different. The guy’s a proven liar (for a good cause) and somewhat manipulative in his stubbornness, but no one in their right mind would do anything other than trust Captain America. Especially Steve’s younger self.

It’s going to fine, Tony thinks.

Hopes.

It’s going to be fine.

“Every other wrong that we have to right—” He’s talking about HYDRA, about the Winter Soldier, about Extremis, and about what’s being done to Wanda and her brother – “we do that ourselves. The rest of us are going to have other things to worry about that doesn’t involve government conspiracies. We fix what we can, feed information about what we can and-- I can’t believe I’m saying this, after that we’re hands off. Shaping the world is where it gets messy.”