AN: Sorry for the delay I just got a new job and caught the flu so I've been either at work or asleep. I'm finally starting to feel better so I'll try to get back on updating at least once a week. :)

Four months. That's how long it had taken Fury to pull some strings and get the others back from Wakanda. Four lousy months was all he was supposed to need to be ok with everything that went down.

Fuck that.

Tony was still pissed. Tony had every right to be pissed.

So no he wasn't playing nice the way Fury wanted; the others could live here all they wanted but Tony didn't have to see, hear, or talk to them if he didn't want to.

Pepper had told him to throw them out. She'd been absolutely furious on his behalf and Rhodey was right there with her despite still being in Physical Therapy. But Tony couldn't bring himself to drop the metaphorical hammer. It was the Avenger's facility and they were Avengers. The world needed them.

And maybe Tony had wanted to believe in Fury's plan for once in his life. Maybe he'd missed them. After all, not everything had been bad.

Tony could still remember the good times.

Although it had turned out that Bruce had been right in the end. The Avengers had been nothing but a ticking time bomb it had just taken a little longer to go off.

Iron Man wiped the sweat off his forehead smearing some grease on his skin in the process.

It wasn't like Tony wasn't trying. He'd even started to see a psychiatrist. Dr. Molly Hunt.

Tony liked her. She didn't push.

For the first month Tony had shown up ready to spill his guts get some clarity but when he'd gotten there it had been harder than he'd imagined. It wasn't like talking to Bruce. Tony wasn't stupid he knew when he started in on a story with his science bro that he'd be asleep within the first 5 minutes. It was so much easier to talk to someone who wasn't paying attention.

In the end, he'd never said a word. Some days he'd even fall asleep on the couch until it was time for his appointment to end. She never commented on his silence.

After a month of this, he'd began ranting. He never talked about anything important in these rants just whatever happened to be on his mind at the moment.

Molly would simply listen. And that was another reason Tony liked her. She didn't take notes or record his sessions she just sat with her hands folded in her lap and listened.

She'd ask a question or two when it was relevant but didn't call him out on his bullshit answers.

So that's how their sessions continued and sometimes Tony would find himself talking about Steve or the other Avengers and he'd wondered when he'd gotten comfortable enough around her to actually be honest.

"He's been more and more insistent the last two days. I can't leave my lab without checking with JARVIS because he's been waiting around trying to ambush me." Tony scowled.

"Maybe what he has to say is important." Dr. Hunt answered.

"Of course it is. That's not the point."

"I see."

"Oh really?"

"You want Captain Rogers to seek you out for something other than business and he hasn't."

"Not true. He's tried before this."

"But never this persistently."

Tony frowned at her. "Your good. I don't like it."

She held up a hand to placate him. "Forgive me, what was I thinking?"

The real truth, Tony didn't care to hear Steve try and apologize again, emphasis on Try because his apologies never actually came with the words 'I'm sorry'. And He definitely didn't care to talk about Avengers business with the man. God knows he and Tony never agreed on that.

He was tired of fighting with the super soldier and that was all they had ever really been good at.

And every talk they had would lead back to Barnes.

The very last person Tony wanted to acknowledge. In fact, he'd made it a point to pretend that said man didn't exist. That way he wouldn't have to think about him at all. Easy.

Steve, of course, was far too stubborn and Tony should have been expecting this.

"Tony we really need to talk." Steve rolled his eyes as Tony stuck his fingers in his ears and said loudly on repeat " LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." As he tried to find a way to slip past the Captain.

"Very mature." Steve sighed. "Damn it, Tony, this is really important and you deserve to know."

Tony stopped his blathering "Oh I'm sorry did you want to tell me something, I mean your so good at keeping secrets. I just never know."

And that hurt.

If there was one thing Tony excelled at it was finding someone's weak spot and twisting the knife.

"Tony look, this is…. It's hard to explain." Steve floundered for words. "Maybe we should just talk first. Really talk."

"Nah, Personally I'm a fan of just ignoring this problem until it goes away."

"Damnit," Steve mumbled under his breath trying not to fight with the genius. "I don't want to fight with you, Tony."

"That's certainly new."

Steve threw up his hands and Tony took joy in the way the blonde looked like he wanted to hit his head against a wall. He lived for the simple things in life. "You know what. Here." He thrust a file into Tony's hand before the engineer could tell him he didn't like to be handed things "This is what's happening at SHIELD-"

"SHIELD doesn't exist."

"That's Bullshit and we all know it." Steve half wished Tony would comment on his language but Tony resolutely ignored the familiar jab. "Will you just look at the file."

"Maybe if I get some free time, but you know me, Busy as a bee." Tony pushed past Steve and the man lets him go knowing there was nothing else to be done. Steve had certainly tried.

"So you're just not going to look at it?"

"Honey Bear can we talk about something else."

"No," Rhodey said stubbornly. "You brought it with you, that means you want to talk about it."

Tony gave him a searching look "Have you been talking to Dr. Hunt."

"Stop avoiding me."

"Maybe I should hire you as my psychiatrist."

"No thanks."

"Maybe I'll just burn it."

"Oh my god. Just open the damn thing or I will." Rhodes rolled his eyes.

"Fine." Tony opened the file dramatically. His eyes skimmed the contents.

"Tony?"

"I have to go." Tony was staring at the file his face was unnaturally pale.

"Tony?"

Rhodey watched Tony catch himself. The genius forced a smile and leaned down to kiss him obnoxiously on the cheek "see you, sweet heart."

He was off before Rhodey could question him. Tony even ignored the nurse as she called "See you later Mr. Stank."

"What the fuck Steve!"

"I tried to tell you."

"Allow me to demonstrate trying. 'Tony, guess what, time travel exists and your dad is here from the past.' That's it Mission accomplished."

"All right! Look, I wanted to clear the air on a few things before we got into this."

"Clear the air? You think you can undo all of our hard feelings in a matter of minutes?"

"Alright fine. Not my best moment, but at least I'm trying. I can't say the same about you"

"I did all my trying before Siberia. I'm done trying."

Steve flinched and Tony couldn't help but feel pleased by the hurt on Steve's face. He was in a vindictive mood.

"Are you both done now?" Fury raised an eyebrow at the two of them. "Becuase we've got bigger problems."

"you're asking me to build a time machine like it's that simple," Tony said finally facing Fury and ignoring Steve

"Why don't they just recreate the rift machine." Steve spoke up "Howard said he built it."

"Seriously." Tony rolled his eyes voice condescending "We have to make sure they go back to their own time and just jumping into a random time portal is too risky they could end up a hundred years from now or maybe back in the prehistoric age."

"Exactly. We need to treat this delicately. That also means keeping your mouth shut about certain things. Playing nice." Fury leveled a look at Tony

"Please Fury I can smile and wave for them."

Maria Hill watched the two Avengers leave and looked back at Fury.

"This is never going to work."

"Let's just focus on damage control. I want to attempt to keep the timeline from caving in on itself."

AN: And Scene! XD

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