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“What did you feel?“

“That’s not what I said!”

“Talking to you is tiring.”

“You defeated it? Alone?”

“I’m sorry for your… loss.”

“Your argument is sound.“

“She was better than them.“

“So… it’s time. Are you ready?”

“You said I wouldn’t need them.“

“Confidence is quiet. You’re not.”

“You shouldn’t be afraid to admit it.“

“You’ve lived in isolation long enough.”

“I was never so foolish that I trusted it.“

“You knew she couldn’t have survived.”

“As it turned out, it was yours all along.”

“It’s hard to know what to make of you.”

“Soon, it’ll all seem familiar. Like home.”

“I was wondering when you’d speak up.”

“Right… why would I expect an answer?”

“I did say not to break anything, didn’t I?”

“Yeah, you could stop talking for a start…”

“I need some time to resolve my feelings.”

“No. You’re confusing will for sentimentality.“

“I never had time. I guess it was for the best.“

“You’re an idiot… a dangerous idiot, but an idiot.”

“Do you have any idea what that could do to you?”

“Don’t worry, we’ll take your secret to their graves.”

“I’m not sure. I remember yelling that I didn’t care…”

“I’ll always have a minute for you. Maybe even two.“

“There’s so much to discover before the world ends.“

“You have to use your smarts to count for something.”

“See? It’s easy throwing away worthless things, isn’t it?”

“That could be the least creepy thing you’ve said to me…”

“I’ve done all I can. From here on out, the rest is up to you.“

“Why are you talking like we’ll never see each other, again?”

“Now I see that I was just lucky to get a minute of your time.”

“Makes you wish you could kill them more than once, doesn’t it?”

“It might be worth taking a moment to examine what you just said.”

“Better for me, actually, to not have to waste anymore time on you.”

“Try not to forget about me while you’re out there changing the world.“

“She was the only one who took responsibility. The only one who could.”

“Oh, are you going to shut your mouth? Because that would be a surprise.”

“To say you have my gratitude feels woefully insufficient. You saved my life.”

“You’re strong, shrewd, capable… I could use someone like you at my side.”

“Being smart will count for nothing if you don’t make the world a better place.”

“You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death.”

“I guess growing up means putting what you should do in front of what you want to do, right?“

“The strength to stand alone is the strength to make a stand. To serve a purpose greater than yourself.“

“When we met, I thought I was a big shot talking to a pretty girl hidden away in the middle of nowhere.”

“You’ve obviously heard of me. You know what I’m capable of… why do you think this will turn out well for you?”

“What made her great was that she was willing to sacrifice herself. For others. For everyone who would come later.“

He banters with Clint, he makes crude jokes with Natasha, Sam and he still have this asshole friendship going on, and he bonded with Tony over cars and the distinct lack of one flying car.

Everything is going great and well right until something happens to the arc reactor and it’s going to kill Tony if someone doesn’t do something about it.

Everyone panics because what the hell do you even do, only Tony knows about it, but then Bucky starts to list all the relevant information.

They are able to save Tony’s life thanks to this but it turns out Hydra had Stane, and other people working at Stark Industry, collect as much information as he could about the reactor so that when the opportunity arose and the Winter Soldier came close enough to Tony, he could make it look like an accident.

“Just read this fucker and take it to court.”

“Tone down your depositions, A-hole.” 

“He may be a buffoon and a fool, but by God he was innocent.”

*grumble grumble* “Sexist bastards.” 

“I don’t want to come into work without teeth!”

“That asshole better stop fucking with my client or else I’m gonna…”

“There are only two pears left. I’m naming them Adam and Eve.”

“Organic seaweed? What the hell is organic seaweed?”

“You asking me fishing?… fuck YES I’m there!”

“When the weather gets hot, I just step out on my back porch and pour water over my head for an hour or two. Works every time.”

“He is an artist. Use of Comic Sans in legal documents is his creative outlet.”

“Throw some Wingdings on that shit.”

“What does a person have to do to get a fucking cob salad around here?” 

“I’m trying to decide if I should go insane and body-pump or go home and sleep.”

“You can’t just ring a bell, un-ring it, and then ring it again.”

“We lost. We lost big time. But it’s okay. I’m good. It’s cool. I’ve got whiskey. I’m good.”

*applying lipstick to go to the gym* “What kind of a crazy woman wears lipstick to the gym??”

“Are you going to shut up and FISH today?” 

“Do you know of any pet friendly cafes? I’m meeting an attorney tomorrow and he’ll have his non-service hunting dog along. Don’t ask why.”

“Publicly, I agree. Personally, I think it’s chickenshit.”

“Keto diet? Is that like for chemo? Ohmygod do you have cancer?!??”

“I don’t have a circle on mine. Where’s my circle?”

“Don’t judge my printouts. Paper is a renewable resource.”

“The stapler has been compromised.” 

“You know that one case? The one with the person from the company whose doing some crazy stuff?”

“I wasn’t fishing. I was lawyer-ing. Much less exciting.”

“For a priest, he’s kind of an asshole.”

“Brownies and bourbon? Sounds like my kinda party!”

A Year of Marvels: The Unstoppable #1 cover

The one from Avengers/Invaders by Alex Ross, that’s for sure.

Bucky (the WWII Bucky) narrates the whole thing in his war journal, and his future self - as Captain America - warns him to let go of the rocket so that he wouldn’t die and become The Winter Soldier… and his younger self consciously chooses to die, even though he could make sure he didn’t, even though it meant he’d suffer. He knew it was too much risk to change the past. So he held the Cosmic Cube in his hands and instead of saving himself, he saved his friend - Toro - without having to change the past. 

It just breaks my heart every time I read it.

about Tony Stark having an office in Paris?