[Black shield and white tank] A line of sea and sky

Iron Man's departure was sudden, but Steve had always had a hunch.

He knew that their peace and recovery these days was just an illusion, and he could see Tony's dazed expression facing the floor-to-ceiling windows, thoughtful and preoccupied.

But Tony didn't like explaining, and if he insisted on not talking, Steve wouldn't be able to ask anything.

I don't know if I was waiting for this day, but they were very lingering in the last few days.Kissing and doing ///ai over and over again with the recovered body.There is some self-evident sadness in each other's eyes, but none of them dare to mention it. It seems that if they mention it, they will remind each other.

That day Steve went to make breakfast as usual, and Stark was no longer in the room when he came back.It took him about half an hour to make breakfast, and half an hour... was enough for Tony.

Steve gently put the plate on the table and looked at the shirt Tony had changed from last night.

He didn't want to cry, but when his fingers touched the fabric of the shirt, he grabbed it and put it under his nose, it was like a floodgate had opened.

His heart is so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable.

His pain came too late, because he never stopped filling himself with things.Whether it is looking for Tony in another world, or trying to transform Tony, or facing external voices and internal public opinion turmoil.

He deals with all kinds of conflicts every day, and Tony around him always tells him—"I will go, I will go."

It's just that he never felt that the other party could really leave, and he didn't dare to think carefully about what would happen to him if he really left.

After letting himself feel sad for a few seconds, he saw the USB flash drive on the dining table.Sure enough, Tony had planned it long ago, and even prepared the last thing left for him.

He didn't summon soldiers to search for Tony's whereabouts, and he didn't open Jarvis to ask about the situation.He just stared blankly at the USB flash drive, until he realized what it was, and then plugged it into the computer interface.

It was a hologram, very similar to the one left by his own Tony before.It's just that the other party is not sure where Steve will look, so now Tony is standing, facing the camera, facing Steve.

He was wearing a wine-red nightgown, and he looked like he was taped one morning.His hair was wet, and he had to wash it for this video.

He wanted to leave a good last impression of Steve, but he chose to show up in front of the camera in his nightgown.

He was smiling, still holding a glass of wine.He was like Steve's original Tony, but Steve knew that everything about him was different except his face.

"Thank you for not coming to catch me."

Tony predicted Steve's behavior as soon as he opened his mouth. His expression was very sincere. He raised his glass to the camera and took a sip—"Although I really want to wait for you to finish breakfast, but...you know, I don't Like to say goodbye in person."

I can't tell in person, they have spent so long, and their physical indicators have long since returned to normal.But Steve still insisted on urging Tony to eat three meals on time, insisting that the recipes for the three meals should be calculated by Jarvis' health assessment.

This is a habit, from the first glass of orange juice spilled, it has subtly infiltrated into the bone marrow.Tony himself didn't realize when he stopped splashing the orange juice on Steve's face, but drank it bit by bit, and then showed it to Steve as if to take credit.

"You sure don't know how much I hate you. You pulled me down from the altar and forced me to be a mortal like you. You want me to replace a past self. For me... God, I really I want to cut you into pieces."

Tony laughed, and Steve couldn't help but smile too.

Yes, from Tony's point of view, that was really stubborn and selfish on Steve's part.Tony has come so far, and Steve is trying to drag him back to where he started.Tony can even know what the world will look like ten or twenty years from now, but he has to pretend to be curious to keep pace with the world.

Time is the most terrifying prison, Tony didn't even dare to think about it, he would have to endure this brutal imprisonment for the rest of his life.

"But I can understand why you did this. We have all lost the most important people in our lives. We are so painful that we want to escape, but we dare not face what no longer exists. That's why we force ourselves Forget the past, but subconsciously desire to reverse fate."

They've all tried hysterically to do it, torturing others as well as themselves, but none of them have succeeded.What you want to forget will only be buried deeper in your heart, and trying to reverse your destiny will only make reality out of control and break the balance.

Neither of them got the desired result. The two created a maze according to their own desires, but they got lost in it and had nowhere to escape.

"But of course, it's not all bad. At least it made me understand a possibility—a possibility of not forgetting, not pursuing, but not being sad, not sinking."

Steve listened quietly, silently tightening his shirt.How much he wished that Tony could really appear in front of his eyes, so that he could reach out to touch and open his mouth to respond.But now he can only listen to Tony's sentence helplessly, every word and every sentence seems to be counting his crimes.

However, Tony didn't want to blame him.Captain Hydra has done countless evil things to him, but even so, in all fairness, Tony still has to say—

"I should feel lucky, because I met you." Tony raised the cup, but his eyes fell somewhere near his feet.He organized his words, took a deep breath, and faced the darkest corner of his heart for the first time——

"I can imagine what would happen if I met the original Steve. I would probably hurt him again, and ignore him again. I ignored everything he gave, and then used That immoral attitude slowly led him into a desperate situation. I know that his ability to withstand and act is not as strong as yours, so what should he do after I do this again. "

"Take the path of the past again, what should I do?"

Tony's expression sank, and his heart still hurt when he recalled all the disasters that man had suffered because of him.

He raised his eyes again to look at the camera, but his eyes were not stable.That vast and powerful guilt is always eroding him, every minute, every second.He was so hollowed out before meeting Captain Hydra that he decided there was only a tragic outcome and no chance of both surviving.

He loved his own Steve, when he wasn't what he was now.

He admitted that he had given Steve all the feelings Tony had at that time.But he obviously walked too fast, chasing the footsteps of time, constantly surpassing and negating his past self.And if that kind of Steve is put in front of him again—"I can't protect him, because I won't give my all. I can't love him as much as before, because I can't fall in love with anyone later."

He is lonely, but also conceited.He couldn't continue pouring out his love for someone who wasn't on the same level as him.Tony Stark's body may not be guaranteed to be pure, but his soul has not been given to anyone other than Steve.But Steve couldn't get enough of it, it had a large wild area.

He kept withdrawing love from Steve, but there was no one to give that excess love to.The barren land is getting wider and wider, which makes Tony become anxious and irritable.He also tried to describe the emptiness and emptiness to Steve, but Steve couldn't understand it, couldn't touch it, and the plane where Steve was located didn't have a decoding program that could explore that unknown area.

Tony has not changed his heart from the beginning to the end, but he can no longer love each other as much as before.

"Until I met you." Tony smiled hastily, with helplessness towards the situation and mockery at himself, "You let me see... a different kind of power. You kept fighting with me, Keep hurting and surprising me, but you know me."

Only by knowing me can you hurt me.

Only when you understand me can you touch me.

"I've been thinking these days how great it would be if you were my Steve. I wouldn't have to live with guilt and worry about not being able to get by without my pull. I'm honestly jealous of you Stark, but I also wonder if in my world, if I die, Steve will become you too."

Steve took a deep breath, fighting back the throbbing in his heart.He wanted to tell the other party that he thought so too, but Tony couldn't hear what he said.He had never thought of a hologram as such a cruel invention that people thought they could give each other a hug, but they couldn't actually touch anything.

"But unfortunately, we belong to two worlds. That doctor was right that day, I can't go back to the past. I brought too many elements of the future, if I survive in your world for a long time, it will destroy your world blow."

Not necessarily today, not necessarily tomorrow.But these effects are like a low-version computer running a high-version program. It cannot carry such a large amount of data, and the CPU will be burned.

"I don't want to bring this destruction to your world, I'm not going to destroy another Steve. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)) And Tony can understand why he's doing that."His Adam's apple rolled up and down and swallowed non-stop, and he suddenly couldn't say anything.

The scene in front of Steve's eyes was blurry, and he wanted to be as strong as Stark thought, but he couldn't do it, and his tears kept sliding down his face.He sucked so hard that he almost broke the back of the chair he was holding on to.

He hated himself so much, hated himself so much.He suddenly felt that he shouldn't be making breakfast today, and he shouldn't be making breakfast after Stark woke up.He couldn't let Stark out of his sight, not for a moment.

But another voice told him that even if it wasn't today, he would still leave tomorrow.The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... Tony will still go.

This Tony always belonged to the future, and sooner or later he had to go.

Tony calmed down a bit, and brought a smile back to his face.He started Stark-style ridicule again, knocked on the lens, and said to Steve on the other end of the video—"Don't you cry? Don't cry, you don't look good when you smile, and it must be even uglier when you cry .”

Steve nodded vigorously, swallowing all the soreness in his throat.

Tony was still looking at him in front of him, but the progress bar had come to an end.

"Let me see you a little longer."

Tony said softly, as if he could actually see Steve's face through the darkened camera.

"Let me see you a little longer."

He repeated it again, his face was calm, but his voice was trembling.

Steve raised his head, separated from Tony by the virtual and real space.Tony raised his hand to the screen, and Steve pressed his hand up too.

It was as if someone was turning on their communication equipment in the dark, and the sound waves passed through time and space, so that when they said that sentence, the two of them actually spoke in unison.

It was such a short sentence, but neither of them had a chance to say it in person.What a beautiful oath that was, but unfortunately none of them had the possibility of fulfilling it.It was such a ridiculous game, but how could they play so awkwardly, crying like a fool, yet laughing so happily.

The holographic image disappeared, and the room returned to silence.

It was empty, except for Steve.

He stood there for a while, then unplugged the USB flash drive plugged into the computer.He put it in his pocket, and after sorting out his emotions a bit, he raised his head slightly and asked Jarvis——

"How's the armor going?"

Jarvis responded quickly—"It was cleaned up at 32:[-] last night, and it is now in the storage warehouse. Do I need to send it to you?"

"Here." Steve said calmly, keeping his tone.

A few seconds later, the conveyor belt placed the armor and shield in front of Steve.After a while, Steve puts it on.

He looked at the resprayed paint on the shield, and walked silently towards the door.

Knowing that what happened next would ruin his reputation, he gave up everything he had set upon himself and fled to the unknown wasteland.Because he is Captain America or Captain Hydra, his behavior at the moment as a belief is ridiculous and shameful.

But after all, he is a human being, and as a human being, he has his own loves and hates, and things he wants to pursue.

He never wanted to be a little monkey riding a unicycle with a flowery umbrella on the stage. Those applause and applause could not make him feel the value of life.

In his heart, the most important thing is not to let the tragedy of the Civil War repeat itself, and the strongest desire is to hold Tony in his arms again.And when he has felt the warmth, the truth, and the beauty of this world, he can ignite his fighting spirit and make bloody efforts to protect this beauty.

If even this beauty disappeared, then everything he did would no longer be meaningful.

He's Steve Rogers, as Tony said he's essentially just the little guy from Brooklyn.He can be everyone, everyone around us.

And it is precisely because he is a human being that he can represent human beings.

He has his own narrowness and selfishness, but when he wants to protect his beloved, he can ignite a courage to fight against the world from his body.

Before parting, he gave another order to Jarvis—"release the Avengers, give the security authority to the core members of the Avengers, and notify them to take over the building."

After receiving a brief response from Jarvis, Steve didn't stay any longer, and completely left the luxurious and empty building.

Yes, Tony is indeed leaving.He is from the future and he cannot go back to the past.

But Steve can move forward, he is a person from the past, and a person from the past should go to the future.

He has already taken many steps, and he does not hesitate to take another step.

He said he was going to catch up with Tony.

He won't break his word.

TBC