“You make me sound like genital warts,” Tony half complains, but the younger Steve is very good at reading situations for more than lies and for sudden jumps. He can see the attraction between the two. He can see the affection. Even Tony is displaying it, in a quite accidental way. It causes his eyebrows to bunch up until Tony turns that charm back towards him. He can see the appeal. And he can see that these two men have been through a lot. Together and apart. It gives him the hope he never thought he’d have for making connections. “Don’t listen to me. Or take me too seriously. I don’t really hate you. He doesn’t really hate you,” Tony corrects. “But he’s grown up knowing all about you. So cut him a little slack. And maybe stick around when this is over.”
The information here is coming at the other Steve like it’s gushing from a pried open water hydrant, flooding the streets. It’s a lot. It’s almost too much, and he lifts just one hand as if that might stall the two. “I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves.”
Tony nods and steps forward, he’s got one hand in his pocket and the other makes a grand gesture. The projector in his wrist watch flickers on the dark wall, showing a simulation he had prepared years ago about the Chitauri invasion. “I don’t want to go into too much detail, but you win. There’s just some things we need to make sure don’t happen. When you capture Loki, you’re going to put him in a cell designed for the Hulk— Hands down, Rogers. This isn’t the time for questions. You’ll meet all of these people in a few days. Okay, so there’s going to be a purposeful distraction by the SHIELD agents Loki has brainwashed, or at least, he’ll be expecting it. We’re going to keep that from happening. And that’s going to be the biggest point of change. What we have to do is make Loki think he’s won. He needs to open the portal so that the Chitauri can invade. They’re aliens. He told you it was gonna get weird.”
Tony glances at his lover. Lover. Such a strange word.
“So we are going to have to fake it and protect everyone, as usual.” And Steve and Tony need to learn to work together. “We’re going to take care of the rest just as soon as the invasion starts. We need Thanos to think that Loki failed properly so that he doesn’t come to Earth any time soon. We can’t handle him. Not yet.”
It’s a lot of information. He knows that. He just hopes it’s not too much. They really do need his help here.
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The information here is coming at the other Steve like it’s gushing from a pried open water hydrant, flooding the streets. It’s a lot. It’s almost too much, and he lifts just one hand as if that might stall the two. “I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves.”
Tony nods and steps forward, he’s got one hand in his pocket and the other makes a grand gesture. The projector in his wrist watch flickers on the dark wall, showing a simulation he had prepared years ago about the Chitauri invasion. “I don’t want to go into too much detail, but you win. There’s just some things we need to make sure don’t happen. When you capture Loki, you’re going to put him in a cell designed for the Hulk— Hands down, Rogers. This isn’t the time for questions. You’ll meet all of these people in a few days. Okay, so there’s going to be a purposeful distraction by the SHIELD agents Loki has brainwashed, or at least, he’ll be expecting it. We’re going to keep that from happening. And that’s going to be the biggest point of change. What we have to do is make Loki think he’s won. He needs to open the portal so that the Chitauri can invade. They’re aliens. He told you it was gonna get weird.”
Tony glances at his lover. Lover. Such a strange word.
“So we are going to have to fake it and protect everyone, as usual.” And Steve and Tony need to learn to work together. “We’re going to take care of the rest just as soon as the invasion starts. We need Thanos to think that Loki failed properly so that he doesn’t come to Earth any time soon. We can’t handle him. Not yet.”
It’s a lot of information. He knows that. He just hopes it’s not too much. They really do need his help here.