The teasing did feel normal — which makes Steve feel relieved and guilty at the same time. Sure, all he wants are for things to go back to normal with Tony and for them to keep going right where they left off, but Steve knows he doesn’t deserve it. Just like how he doesn’t deserve the shield Howard made him.
“There’s a boy here. Barry Allen. He’s got a good heart, and he reminds me of that kid you found in Queens.” Steve wraps his arms around each other. “I think you’d like him.” He pauses a little longer than normal after that and Steve's eyes follow Tony’s. Whatever it is he’s preparing to say next, Cap isn’t comfortable with it.
“Tony, you should know that- however we ended up here, I can feel that my body is different.” It’s part of the reason why he thinks they might actually be clones. “I can’t do everything I used to.”
He knows he’s just given Tony exactly the right opening to interrupt him with a joke about of how old he is, or performance issues, but Steve just pushes forward.
"But Barry and I might’ve accidentally stumbled onto something the other night. We’d both been assigned as security detail. Guarding people that the Computer refers to as ‘mutants.’"
Once he starts, Steve has no issues telling Tony the rest. The guy Steve was guarding was a man named Xeno Fane, and anything he came into close enough proximity, Steve had felt stronger — just as strong as he remembers feeling in his memories.
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“There’s a boy here. Barry Allen. He’s got a good heart, and he reminds me of that kid you found in Queens.” Steve wraps his arms around each other. “I think you’d like him.” He pauses a little longer than normal after that and Steve's eyes follow Tony’s. Whatever it is he’s preparing to say next, Cap isn’t comfortable with it.
“Tony, you should know that- however we ended up here, I can feel that my body is different.” It’s part of the reason why he thinks they might actually be clones. “I can’t do everything I used to.”
He knows he’s just given Tony exactly the right opening to interrupt him with a joke about of how old he is, or performance issues, but Steve just pushes forward.
"But Barry and I might’ve accidentally stumbled onto something the other night. We’d both been assigned as security detail. Guarding people that the Computer refers to as ‘mutants.’"
Once he starts, Steve has no issues telling Tony the rest. The guy Steve was guarding was a man named Xeno Fane, and anything he came into close enough proximity, Steve had felt stronger — just as strong as he remembers feeling in his memories.