[ This isn't the sort of thing that Steve Rogers would normally agree to. He is not a spy— not a judgment, just a statement of fact. It simply isn't his skill set. He also has misgivings about the way that Director Fury— and by extension S.H.I.E.L.D.— have handled his return. (For now, he keeps those thoughts to himself because, frankly, he doesn't know where else he would go.)
On the face of it, he has very little reason to go along with this. And yet.
It so happens that S.H.I.E.L.D. locates Captain America's arctic wreckage just as Colonel Rhodes finds Tony Stark in the middle east. The media frenzy around Stark's triumphant return, they tell Steve, is only a fraction of what he could expect if his story got out. It makes Steve feel sleazy, like he is letting Tony Stark take the heat for him while he hides.
When Fury offers him the mission, Steve doesn't need to think it over. Just because Stark is home doesn't mean he is safe. Steve can't spare him the unwanted attention, but he can protect him from a repeat attempt on his life.
He doesn't start to rethink that choice until he is standing in a jarringly modern cliff-side mansion being called eye candy, a new euphemism that Steve contextualizes with help from Tony's comment about liking blondes. Pepper leaves too soon and then he is being bribed. To say it's not what he expected would be understating things. ]
You really think she wouldn't notice? [ He gestures in the direction Pepper disappeared to. ]
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On the face of it, he has very little reason to go along with this. And yet.
It so happens that S.H.I.E.L.D. locates Captain America's arctic wreckage just as Colonel Rhodes finds Tony Stark in the middle east. The media frenzy around Stark's triumphant return, they tell Steve, is only a fraction of what he could expect if his story got out. It makes Steve feel sleazy, like he is letting Tony Stark take the heat for him while he hides.
When Fury offers him the mission, Steve doesn't need to think it over. Just because Stark is home doesn't mean he is safe. Steve can't spare him the unwanted attention, but he can protect him from a repeat attempt on his life.
He doesn't start to rethink that choice until he is standing in a jarringly modern cliff-side mansion being called eye candy, a new euphemism that Steve contextualizes with help from Tony's comment about liking blondes. Pepper leaves too soon and then he is being bribed. To say it's not what he expected would be understating things. ]
You really think she wouldn't notice? [ He gestures in the direction Pepper disappeared to. ]