Tony shakes his head here and because Steve is starting to get the Cliffs of Dover look on his face again, he reaches across the paper work and the paper plates to cup the blond’s neck. He craves attention no matter the circumstances, so this is all pretty usual for him anyway. When blue eyes meet his, either with pleading or annoyance, Tony will lightly thumb the edge of his ear and then sit back. “We’re jumping too far ahead. I like chess, but we’ll have time to pick up the rest of the end game and plot strategy.”
To be honest, Tony doesn’t really want to deal with Bucky now. And maybe not for a long time. It’ll be a few years before the Winter Soldier is reactivated, right? He’ll sleep, undreaming, while Tony makes sure that Barnes won’t manage to worm his way back into Steve’s life. The blond might be able to share, but Tony has never even tried to fool himself about that aspect of his personality.
He’s selfish. He likes being selfish. He’ll guard being selfish until his last breath.
“We can work on feeding me information on everything. FRIDAY is more advanced that JARVIS ever will be. It’s going to be easy to block myself from what I don’t want me to know.” Tony shakes his head. “This is confusing.” He wants to smile, and he tries, but it’s half hearted.
They both have a lot of baggage here.
“We have to make sure the other me doesn’t know about us meeting with the other you. We’ve got to do it before Loki shows up, before anyone gets to the hellicarrier, so that we can count on him to get us the scepter once it happens. Did you go back to that church before this mess? I’ve read that you’ve got an eidetic memory?” But it’s been years since all of this happened for them. How could Steve remember his own movements when they hadn’t mattered until SHIELD sent him to handle Loki in Germany?
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Date: 2018-07-09 06:25 pm (UTC)To be honest, Tony doesn’t really want to deal with Bucky now. And maybe not for a long time. It’ll be a few years before the Winter Soldier is reactivated, right? He’ll sleep, undreaming, while Tony makes sure that Barnes won’t manage to worm his way back into Steve’s life. The blond might be able to share, but Tony has never even tried to fool himself about that aspect of his personality.
He’s selfish. He likes being selfish. He’ll guard being selfish until his last breath.
“We can work on feeding me information on everything. FRIDAY is more advanced that JARVIS ever will be. It’s going to be easy to block myself from what I don’t want me to know.” Tony shakes his head. “This is confusing.” He wants to smile, and he tries, but it’s half hearted.
They both have a lot of baggage here.
“We have to make sure the other me doesn’t know about us meeting with the other you. We’ve got to do it before Loki shows up, before anyone gets to the hellicarrier, so that we can count on him to get us the scepter once it happens. Did you go back to that church before this mess? I’ve read that you’ve got an eidetic memory?” But it’s been years since all of this happened for them. How could Steve remember his own movements when they hadn’t mattered until SHIELD sent him to handle Loki in Germany?