how could i be mad when you took my idea and made it art
Steve staggers back like he’s been shot
“Tony?” he asks, anguish dripping through his voice, “Tony - what’re you - have you been - “
Iron Man - Tony holds up a gauntleted hand, “I won’t ask again Steve, did you know?”
Steve gulps, but tightens his hold on his shield
He’s seen that look in Tony’s eyes too many times to not know what it means, it means that Tony’s getting ready to fight
“I suspected,” Steve says firmly, because the honest to god truth is he didn’t know for sure, “I suspected but I didn’t want to know, so I never followed through”
“How convenient for you,” Tony spits out, and there’s a second’s pause before Tony lifts up the gauntlet and fires at Steve’s chest
“I appreciate how easy it was for you to put aside my mom’s death,” Steve barely gets his shield back up in time to cover himself, “I’m sure that was very hard for you”
Out of the corner of his eye, he can see Bucky making a lunge at Tony - trying to stop him
He opens his mouth to yell out at Bucky, to tell him to stop - but Tony turns around and shoots Bucky’s arm clean off
Bucky’s cry echoes through the cage
“That was your one and only warning shot Winter Wonderland,” Tony intones, “don’t test me”
He turns back to Steve, “T’Challa is waiting outside. I’ll send him in to pick up after you”
And before Steve can say anything, he watches his boyfriend’s face fall away and a familiar metal mask slip into place - and then Iron Man pushes off the ground
“You always knew how to pick ‘em Stevie,” Bucky says from where he’s crouching on the floor, clutching his shoulder, “never really knew how to make them stay though”
Steve doesn’t reply, eyes up in the air at the trail Iron Man had left in the sky
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