How the Good and the Villain Saved Each Other

The moment he saw Peggy, Steve's eyes turned red involuntarily.During the time when he just got out of the ice, he was always at a loss. The strange world rejected him, squeezed him, and made him feel at a loss. It was not until he found Peggy, his best girl, that he finally found the relationship between himself and the world. connect.

And now, he lost her again.

In fact, he had already prepared for it a long time ago. He knew that he would lose her one day, just like losing his mother, losing Howard, and losing his comrades in the Howling Commando. in various ways.

But when that day really came, he still couldn't accept it.

He tossed the last white rose to the coffin in the deep tomb, and then stepped aside, silently watching the earth fill up the entire tomb bit by bit, completely burying his old friend, but his heart seemed to be dug out a big hole.He misses Bucky more than ever before, wants to see him, hear him, hold him, make sure he's all right, make sure that Steve Rogers isn't alone in the world, that there's always someone who can Be with him until the end of everything.

"Hey, you live here too? It seems that we are neighbors again." A sweet female voice sounded beside him, and Steve, who had his head down, came back to his senses and found himself standing on the first floor of the hotel In front of the elevator, when he turned around, he saw Sharon, the blond beauty who had pretended to be his neighbor Kate, but was actually an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., smiling at him.

"Hey, what a coincidence, neighbor," he nodded politely, barely a little humorous, "I didn't even know you were Peggy's niece before."

The blond girl shrugged: "Since I was a child, Aunt Peggy has been the person I respect and love the most. My mother once advised me not to enlist in the army, but she was in favor of it. She gave me the first thigh holster."

Steve smiled shyly, reminding himself not to fantasize about Bucky wearing a thigh holster, and decided to change the subject: "Are you still in Sky Hammer?"

"No, of course not," Sharon shook her head, "I'm in the CIA, and I'm flying to Berlin tonight to join the Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force."

"sounds good."

"Yeah," Sharon replied, and they fell silent for a little while, with Steve scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment, praying to himself that the elevator would come soon, with a girl you'd hit on and tried to develop a romantic relationship with. It's torture to be together - especially when you're already in a relationship.

"It's still early," the girl broke the silence, and raised her hand to look at her watch, "Would you like to have a cup of coffee together? It's an answer to your last invitation."

Her tone was so generous, and her smile was so sincere and natural, as if this was just a normal interaction between friends, so that Steve didn't know how to refuse.

Maybe I could go for drinks with her, he thought, and pretended to mention Bucky casually, how I had a crush on him 70 years ago, and how we were together 70 years later, so that Sharon Then I won't misunderstand that I still have affection for her beyond a friend.

However, Steve's devious strategy was not implemented as expected, because soon the closed-circuit television screen next to the elevator door attracted their full attention-it was the United Nations building in Vienna. Earlier today, representatives from 117 countries Gathered here to ratify the Sokovia Accords, designed to contain the Avengers, and now this paragon of modern architecture is in flames and beyond recognition, with firefighters spraying water on it and billowing smoke Hovering in the sky for a long time.

What happened?Steve frowned, and the news anchor quickly gave an answer: "The United Nations building where the Sokovia Agreement summit was being held was bombed. At least 70 people were injured in the attack, and 12 people were injured. Deaths, including Wakanda's current king T'Chaka. Authorities have released a video of a suspect identified as James Buchanan Barnes, the notorious Hydra operative linked to multiple terrorist attacks and In connection with the political assassination..."

This is planting!This idea flashed to Steve the moment he saw Bucky's face in the video. Someone must have done all this pretending to be Bucky. Who is that person?what purpose?And how can he clear Bucky of the suspicion?

At this time, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated, and Steve glanced at the caller ID and quickly pressed the answer button: "Rocky, the United Nations building was attacked, and Bucky became a scapegoat."

"Listen, Cap," the evil god's voice was still powerful and calm, but Steve was keenly aware of the almost undetectable waves, "We're running out of time, Barnes is in Bucharest now, and Tony is on his way there , you have to be quick, you have to find Barnes before him, and then you run away together, don't come back. He knows, he still knows, at the wrong time—"

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Two hours ago, Avengers Tower.

"You asked us to amend the three agreements, and we did so, but now you tell me that you don't want to sign?" The Secretary of State was so outraged that he wanted to slap the table, and he tried hard to maintain his demeanor, "I never knew that Stark would go back on his word. "

"I didn't go back on my promise," Tony blinked innocently, playing with the pen in his hand, "You must know that the 1787 Constitution was not ratified in 1789 for no reason, I just intend to act more cautiously, rather than being a guinea pig. "

"But someone has to eat the crab first." Stark fled the battle, and the rest of the people were either vacillating or resolutely opposed. When the United Nations summit is held, but no Avengers are willing to sign, the "Sokovia Agreement" will become a dead letter. Even a joke.

"Isn't there still Roddy?" Tony kindly advised the Secretary of State, "He will definitely sign it. We can use him as a model and add amendments to the agreement in practice, so as to reach a perfect agreement that both parties are very satisfied with. , the new Sokovia Agreement."

Ross took a deep breath.

"It's Loki." He squinted his eyes and hummed disdainfully. "He can always make you change your mind. I didn't expect Tony Stark to be led by the nose."

"Really? Come with me to use aggressive methods?" Tony rolled his eyes, "Is your military background attractive? There are no more high-end strategies and tactics available?"

The Secretary of State gritted his teeth and stood up. He had to go back and discuss countermeasures with his advisers instead of wasting words here with an oversized child.

"You'll regret it, Stark," he said at the end. "Trust someone like Loki, and you'll regret it sooner or later."

Watching the Secretary of State leave, Tony stretched himself, got up and sauntered back to the laboratory, but the housekeeper's voice suddenly sounded: "Boss, one of the two videos deleted by Mr. Rocky with the highest authority has been found. Back, do you want to play it now?"

"No hurry, Friday," Tony rubbed his hands enthusiastically, "let's go find Loki, and then you can give him a big surprise face to face, so that he will know that even if he is a god, he can't do it behind my back." Little moves." And he'd bet the guy's expression would be brilliant, like a cat with its tail trampled on.

Tony thought so, and his pace became brisk, but when he opened the door of their couple's suite, he found that Loki was lying on the couch in the living room and fell asleep, and the TV in front of him was playing the United Nations. The real-time live broadcast of the summit, with various papers and books scattered around him, and the thick "Sokovia Agreement" spread out on his lap, which were marked with marker pens of different colors. Forget, there is no need to mark anything at all, he usually just does this to make it more intuitive when explaining to alliance members.

He is just so nice and caring, Tony chuckled flatteredly, if Sol knew that someone was cared for by his naughty brother, he would be envious to death.

He stood where he was, hesitating between not waking Loki and giving him a kiss, and the evil god quietly woke up at this moment, and Tony suddenly felt that the moment those green eyes opened, there was a wave of pain in the room. An intoxicating scent of roses.

Oh, it turns out I love him more than I profess.

"How was the talk with the Secretary of State?" Rocky looked at his honey with a smile, yawned a little, and extended his hand to him, and the latter sat down beside his lover kindly: "Of course I'm fine, but he Just can't tell."

"You always know how to piss people off," Loki remarked in an almost admiring tone, as if that was some skill worth showing off.

"That's right, he was indeed irritated, criticizing me without hesitation, being led by the nose by you," Tony snorted displeasedly, "Am I being led by the nose by you? "

"Of course not, absolutely not."

"Then what are you hiding from me?"

Loki rolled his eyes, instinctively feeling uneasy.

"To be honest, it's unlikely that you know every story about me," he replied cautiously. "After all, I've lived for thousands of years, and there are too many things I've been hiding from you."

Tony smacked his lips: "Then let me remind you again, it has something to do with the encrypted files of S.H.I.E.L.D."

After he said these words with a smile, he was immediately taken aback by Loki's face - the evil god was as pale as paper, with green eyes wide open, just like Orestes being chased by the goddess of revenge.

"No, no, no," Tony shook his head, realizing that he had definitely discovered something. "What the hell are you doing without me, Loki?"

"I didn't mean to hide it from you," Loki said for the first time when he realized what it was like to be in the dark, "but it wasn't a good time, and I had to choose to keep my mouth shut. Believe me, Tony, whatever I did was because of Love you."

"I don't like this rhetoric, I don't like it very much," Lord Stark lowered his face, leaning back to distance himself from Loki, "Tell me everything, while I still want to hear it."

Loki remained silent. He struggled, but he was still lucky. Maybe what Tony discovered was something else?Maybe his secret is still lying in the corner dusty?

"Okay." Tony glanced at the evil god, and the other party's tightly pursed lips seemed to indicate that some kind of danger was approaching. "In that case, play the video on Friday."

As a result, the road in the dark appeared in front of Rocky again, and in the lower left corner, the time that planted today's bitter fruit flashed: December 1991, 12.

"I know the road—" Tony murmured, with eerie silence, and Loki clenched his fists, no luck, no lies, Tony was about to find out, he had to stop it.

"Stop, Friday, you must stop!" He raised his head and yelled at the artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, no artificial intelligence can compare with Jarvis. He loves his sir and is even willing to deceive him just to love him ;Friday is powerful but too young to understand human emotions, only to perform tasks faithfully.

In the video, the old car that Howard and Malia were riding in has flashed on the right side of the screen.

"Tony, listen to me," Loki stood in front of his lover, grabbed his shoulders with both hands and shook vigorously, "Order Friday to turn off the video, turn it off now, you don't know what kind of magic box you are about to open—"

"Get out of the way, Rocky." Tony replied in a hopelessly nonchalant tone, his eyes fixed on the screen, and he saw the car being attacked, Howard covered in blood, the murderer on the motorcycle, and the murderer's face.

"James—" he murmured the man's name softly, almost tenderly, but in the video, the metal arm punched his father's head one after another, spattering blood and brains.

Then his mother, and the Winter Soldier this time with the human hand.

"You already knew." Tony turned his head to look at Loki bit by bit, his eyes were as cold as ice.

"But that's not him, Tony, you know it all too well, it's Hydra that controls him."

Tony ignored Loki's justification, and his brown eyes tightly strangled the other's throat: "You knew it four years ago, and you kept it from me for four full years."

"As I said, it wasn't a good time."

"And after that? Why didn't you say it after that?"

Loki closed his eyes, his teeth chattering, his proud silver tongue froze, unable to utter a single excuse.

"Isn't that good?" he finally said, determined to be honest. "Which would make you happier if your parents died in a car accident than if your father died in an assassination? Why bother with the truth, with the past?"

"Because that's my mother," Tony yelled, grabbing Loki by the collar, "God knows how guilty I was, and I kept blaming myself for not getting along with them, saying goodbye to them, And now I finally know that someone forcibly took them from my life."

The two looked at each other, the brown eyes were like a raging fire, and the green eyes were dim like a flame that was about to burn out and struggle.

"Does Rogers know?" Tony asked, squinting again just as Loki was about to answer, warning, "Don't lie to me."

The evil god swallowed nervously: "Yes, he knows."

"When?"

"Perhaps after Washington."

"Fuck!" Tony was furious and had nowhere to vent, so he overturned the innocent coffee table at his feet, and the cups and fruit plates were scattered all over the floor, and then he started to pace up and down the hall quickly, Like a wolf trapped in a small cage.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He growled, both to himself and to question Loki, "Do I look that bad? Am I going to seek revenge on the Winter Soldier indiscriminately? "

"You won't," Rocky replied hastily, "but you need to understand James first, and what kind of person he is before you can make the right choice. We just want to take it slowly."

"Rodgers might think so, but you won't." Tony suddenly stopped and stared at Loki, "You must have some other reason, tell me."

"No, Tony, there's no other reason."

"tell me--"

"Not really, I swear."

"Okay, then you swear on my life, I will believe it," Tony poked his neck, "tell me, 'Odin the Father of the Gods, I, Loki Odinson, hereby swear that if you Hide something from Tony Stark and let Hades take his soul and life immediately.' Speak, Speak Now!"

He looked at Loki, full of expectation, but that person still pressed his lips tightly, like a stone statue that would never speak.

"So, you're lying to me again." Tony closed his eyes, and he could hardly stand up due to fatigue, "Of all the people, the only person who can't lie to me is you, and of all the people, the person I trust the most is you— God, it's ridiculous that the person I trust the most is you."

He let out a terrible sigh that was not human, and staggered back with his hands on his forehead, as if Loki was something terrifying, and the only way to protect himself was to stay away. Loki stretched out his hand in vain, trying to touch him again Untouchable lovers.

"I love you, Tony," he murmured and repeated, "I love you." And Tony, staring at him, let out a sinister, plaintive, piercing cry—"Fuck you!" I love you, Rocky, I hate you."

These words pierced Loki's heart like a red-hot iron, and the mighty god was completely crushed in an instant. He leaned back slumped, and groped for the armrest of the sofa, as if looking for something that could support the weight of his whole body. The fulcrum, and finally almost fell on the sofa.

Tony lowered his eyelids, avoiding Loki's pain, lest he be shaken again by the shattering in those green eyes: "I want to be with you, Loki, God knows how much I want, but I can't stand it." It's endless lies."

He said, took off the ring on the ring finger of his left hand, and handed it to Loki: "We cancel the engagement."

Loki raised his head abruptly, and couldn't help shivering when he met the determination in his brown eyes. He didn't dare to look at his cruel lover anymore, so he could only stare blankly at the ring lying in his palm.He should readily take off his ring and return it to the other party, and then gracefully get up and say some scene words, so as to maintain the arrogance and dignity of being a god, but he can't do this - if he does this, the relationship between them is really over, completely It's over.

"No," he shook his head repeatedly, his voice hoarse like a lone wolf howling for a long time due to illness, "I don't agree, I don't agree."

They remained in this position for a long time, like two statues, until Tony got tired of waiting and threw the once cherished ring at Loki's feet.

"Whatever you want," he said, ignoring his ex-fiancé, turning away and ordering to the electronic housekeeper: "Friday, call the Secretary of State back and tell him I want to sign that agreement, right now."

Loki moved his lips but didn't utter a syllable, the big mistake was made, it was too late to say anything, Tony wouldn't believe him anymore, he even said he hated him just now.

"Bang", the door was slammed shut, leaving Loki sitting alone on the sofa, letting a dark determination and desire to protect occupy his entire mind.In order to keep the secret that must never be told, he has paid an irreparable and huge price. It is time to use extraordinary measures to make everyone who knows the secret shut up forever.

He just sat where he was, thinking fast in his brain, and finally spoke again after a long time: "Friday, has Tony left the building?"

"Boss left the building immediately after signing the agreement." The housekeeper replied truthfully.

"Wearing a steel suit?"

"Yes."

"He went to Sergeant Barnes?"

"Yes, your honor."

Loki sneered in his heart, this is really a brainless idiot, as long as his authority is not changed, even if he falls out with her boss, Friday will still reveal Tony's dynamics to himself without reservation.

He still kept his sitting position and was not in a hurry to stop it. In order to prevent the signal from being blocked or interfered, what they installed in the Winter Soldier’s mechanical arm was not a normal tracker, but an enhanced version of Loki’s magic, without the help of evil gods to locate it. At best, Tony can only know the general location of the Winter Soldier, and with the Winter Soldier's ability, it is not difficult to perfectly hide his whereabouts.

He thought this way, drawing up a death list in his mind: Peggy Carter had just passed away, luckyforher; Rogers and Barnes trusted him, and he could break their necks unexpectedly when he greeted them with a smile.It's not difficult to deal with them. The troublesome thing is that Rogers has mentioned some documents to him, some documents that can prove that Howard betrayed the Winter Soldier in order to save Tony. He must destroy these documents together to prevent more nights.

At this time, the TV screen suddenly shook with the sound of a huge explosion. Loki stared at the screen, and frowned after learning that the UN building was destroyed, Barnes became a suspect and was wanted by the whole world. This is not good news. Tony is likely to find the Winter Soldier ahead of time, and the latter will reveal the deadly secret.

Loki lowered his face and immediately dialed the number of Captain America.

"Listen, Cap," he said, trying to sound urgent, "we're running out of time, Barnes is in Bucharest, Tony's on his way there, you gotta be quick, you gotta get to Barnes before he does." Ernes, then you run away together, don't come back. He knows, he still knows, at the wrong time—”