"That is the short of it, yeah," Tony said, managing to pull the curtain of sangfroid down again. It was rare that a subject could that easily throw him off his guard. That made it worse.
He pointedly stuffed one of the blue cakes into his mouth whole. Vodka would have been better, but cake was a quick substitute.
"The UN was on my ass to arrest Cap and the others. There were reasons, a political nightmare. Anti-vigilantism Accords signed into place. But we were still friends, mostly. I said go easy on them. And then somewhere along the line, going easy on them turned into 'beat their asses' which quickly all went to shit. Do you know Rhodey? You guys even have a Rhodey? He's my buddy. The reactor in his suit got taken out, it was a freak accident. He went down. Crushed half his vertebrae, severed his spine. That ended it pretty quickly."
She was, for whatever reason, only the second person Tony had admitted this to, after Phil. He wondered why. SHIELD training? Maybe. Or maybe she just had a kind face, when it wasn't covered with spider webbing.
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He pointedly stuffed one of the blue cakes into his mouth whole. Vodka would have been better, but cake was a quick substitute.
"The UN was on my ass to arrest Cap and the others. There were reasons, a political nightmare. Anti-vigilantism Accords signed into place. But we were still friends, mostly. I said go easy on them. And then somewhere along the line, going easy on them turned into 'beat their asses' which quickly all went to shit. Do you know Rhodey? You guys even have a Rhodey? He's my buddy. The reactor in his suit got taken out, it was a freak accident. He went down. Crushed half his vertebrae, severed his spine. That ended it pretty quickly."
She was, for whatever reason, only the second person Tony had admitted this to, after Phil. He wondered why. SHIELD training? Maybe. Or maybe she just had a kind face, when it wasn't covered with spider webbing.