[ He never means to drudge up bad feelings in Tony, but somehow he always manages to. It's why he never wants to talk about his childhood, even if all Steve wants him to do is focus on the good parts of it. The parts where he'd been happy.

Jarvis had been a wonderful man. Steve's all the worse off for never having had the opportunity to meet him, he's sure of it.

But he doesn't want to hurt Tony by talking more about him when he knows that he always takes the good things well like everyone else, yes, but the hard things so much harder. ]

Trick or treating wasn't really a thing in my childhood, wasn't until I was a teenager that it really caught on. I guess --

[ He means to say Buck and I, but what he just says is singular. ]

--I tried to go a couple Halloween parties, but they weren't really for me.

[ He gently brushes Tony's hair back, and dots kisses on his shoulder, also ready to drift off anytime they decide to finish this conversation. ]

We could try this year. I'll even let you pick the costumes if you remember this tomorrow.