"The stable-ish one." He wants to be offended, but he simply doesn't have the energy. Doesn't want to feel anything negative for Steve now in any case, even if it were deserved. Which it isn't - it very rarely if ever is. "You're rude for the pillar of America." It only makes him hold Steve tighter, wanting him to feel in some physical way that he never has to face all this alone. It makes his skin pull unpleasantly under his clothes, but he doesn't even really notice or register the pain. It feels phantom after so long with a hole in the middle of him.
"You got me. I'm the one they said was too unstable to be an Avenger when they have a giant green guy smashing shit up no problem. But lil' old me? No can do." He says it breezily of course, not that it doesn't still bother him -- still hurt, a little. "But I'm the one who got you back. That makes me the most valuable guy on the planet."
And if he can keep Cap safe then maybe he really is. He doesn't want Steve to feel this way either. He knows he can't fix it the way he fixes his other problems; all he can do is wait, and he sucks at waiting.
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Date: 2015-02-08 06:10 am (UTC)"You got me. I'm the one they said was too unstable to be an Avenger when they have a giant green guy smashing shit up no problem. But lil' old me? No can do." He says it breezily of course, not that it doesn't still bother him -- still hurt, a little. "But I'm the one who got you back. That makes me the most valuable guy on the planet."
And if he can keep Cap safe then maybe he really is. He doesn't want Steve to feel this way either. He knows he can't fix it the way he fixes his other problems; all he can do is wait, and he sucks at waiting.