[ Tony may feel like he's at the end of his rope, and that's fair. He's been through a lot, and he's battling his own mortality, again. It seems like old news with Tony, but Steve is still battling with this, emotionally. If Tony dies, he doesn't know if he'll be able to take up the shield anymore. He doesn't know if he'll be able to look at it anymore.
She's done him well, but now he associates her with him, all the time. And if Alice loses one parent, he'll have to choose his daughter over the world, no question. He'll have to raise her, knowing the world took Tony from them. Knowing he couldn't ever risk having his child have to bury both her parents in short succession, because both of them knew what it was to be young and without them. ]
We can retire after this.
[ The two of them, together, he means. He doesn't want to imagine a future without Tony in it. ]
You, me. Stay at the house. Get paged in only on emergencies.
[ And spend most of their days sitting on their chairs in the backyard, overlooking the calm of the water. Those are some of the most beautiful memories he has with Tony there. They could make so many more. ]
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She's done him well, but now he associates her with him, all the time. And if Alice loses one parent, he'll have to choose his daughter over the world, no question. He'll have to raise her, knowing the world took Tony from them. Knowing he couldn't ever risk having his child have to bury both her parents in short succession, because both of them knew what it was to be young and without them. ]
We can retire after this.
[ The two of them, together, he means. He doesn't want to imagine a future without Tony in it. ]
You, me. Stay at the house. Get paged in only on emergencies.
[ And spend most of their days sitting on their chairs in the backyard, overlooking the calm of the water. Those are some of the most beautiful memories he has with Tony there. They could make so many more. ]