[Captain America] Don't force me to grab a man with you

It was a memory of great steel that made me feel ashamed and want to die.

"Ah, what did Nini say? Chris on the other side laughed at you for wetting the bed at the age of 5?"

The black-haired woman bent down to look at the red-faced little Tony in front of her, rubbed her chin for a while, then rubbed his head and said.

"You should be glad that Chris doesn't know that you haven't been weaned at the age of 2." She didn't notice the little Tony who was already frozen beside her, and then said, "You know how I put you on before you were 2 years old." Did you call back?"

Ingrid smiled, and unbuttoned her coat to reveal the suspenders inside.

"As long as I half-open the hem of my clothes like this every time, no matter what you are doing outside, you will run back quickly, which is more convenient than calling your name Nini."

Of course, Ingrid would never admit that every time he weaned little Tony, he cried miserably, so she couldn't help but just kept breastfeeding like this. In the end, the 2-year-old Tony felt ashamed and didn't continue. Holding a bottle and drinking milk.

As for the name Nini, because he didn’t have much money, Tony wore skirts that Ingrid modified from her own clothes until she was 6 years old.

With his chocolate-like brown hair and hazel eyes at that time, he was so cute that he was not much different from a little girl.

Including Little Tony himself, before he was 6 years old, he always thought he was a girl...

Therefore, parental education is sometimes very important.

As long as Tony can remember, he knew that his family environment was not very good. The 'single mother' Ingrid was working hard to earn money to support him when he was still young in an unfamiliar place.

So 5-year-old Tony can already wash his own clothes and cook by himself. He is cute and cute, and anyone who sees him will praise him.

Compared with other children who are still playing with their peers and don’t understand anything, 5-year-old Tony will bring back a large basket of milk from the milk station, ride his small bicycle, deliver milk and collect milk bottles from family to family .

Because he understands that his single 'mother' Ingrid has worked very hard to support him every day, and little Tony has always wanted to lighten the burden on his 'mother'. People in China would go to the milk station to get milk after getting up early, and little Tony knocked on the door of one family after another when his "mother" was out for work one day, asking if they needed milk delivered to their door, and it only cost a penny.

When making such a proposal with others, some will look at his cute face and agree to his proposal, and some will just slam the door and close it, and the wind that blows when the door is closed makes his face burst with pain .

But Tony persisted in this way, convincing the whole town.

Holding the hard-won 28 pence every day, I threw the hot coins into the small box I made one by one.

He knows better than anyone else the hard work of his 'mother', because of her good looks, the men in the town stare at this single mother.

He also thought his 'mother' was beautiful.

She has bright teeth and red lips, and her skin is pearly white, clean and almost transparent. Every smile of hers ripples from her cheeks, passes through the street, and spreads into the distance.

Tony didn't understand at all that she was so beautiful, why would a man abandon her.

This is not the most important thing, she is equally elegant and impeccable, compared to those women whose arms are as thick as his waist digging dirt in the trenches, his 'mother' is as elegant and beautiful as a flawless handicraft.

Someone had told him what the image of a mother was.

Most of them are full of motherhood, gentle smiles shrouded in a halo of yellow, hazy eyes bathed in cooking heat, and seeing a child is seeing the whole world.

But that doesn't seem to be the case with what he's seeing, Tony thought.

The 'mother', who is often invisible all day long, sometimes brings back some plush toys for him at night, and her attitude towards him is not so gentle.

When he came home late at dusk, he beat him up with a ferocious smile, cooked dark dishes in an unpleasant and weird smell, looked at him with gentle eyes that seemed to be filled with a trace of sadness.

Although such a 'mother' is really terrible, there is one thing he always firmly believes in.

She's exactly what other people describe as a mother figure, that is.

All love him.

"Ingrid, I'm back."

After the woman heard the voice, she naturally put down the newspaper in her hand, opened her arms, and in the next second a small figure threw herself into her arms.

Tony hugged her neck and kissed her on the cheek with a smile.

The woman patted his thigh that was clamped around her waist, Tony struggled a bit, and slid off her obediently, revealing his dirty face.

"Go out and play around and get yourself so dirty."

Even though he said so, he still took the handkerchief he had prepared long ago from the table without any complaints, and gently wiped the mud on his face with the handkerchief up and down his cheeks.

Little Tony enjoys this time of the day the most, and he is even willing to play housekeeping games with those stupid kids that will lower his IQ.

She has a beautiful and delicate face, and a curvy figure, but she wears a fruit-scented perfume that only girls would wear.

Little Tony took a deep breath, and after a while, his nose was filled with the pleasant smell of orange, which was once defined by him as the smell of his mother.

While Ingrid always denied that she was his mother, telling Tony Jr. that his parents just couldn't find them temporarily, Tony Jr. always shrugged off the phrasing.

So there are parents who haven't found their child for five years?

So young Tony always thought so.

His mother, Ingrid, gave birth to him unmarried, and his nominal father abandoned both of them, and then her mother, Ingrid, had to take him around to find a job to support him. The love in her heart was endless. Allowing her to tell her son that he was abandoned by his father.

If Ingrid knew that little Tony thought so, she would probably go crazy.

And Tony's weird fantasies are all because of the stories Ingrid told him since he was a child.

Little Tony, who was a little over two years old, heard the children of the same age proudly showing off to him. Every night, his mother would lie on the bed and tell them stories to lull them to sleep.

Little Tony, who has been very obedient since he was a child, suddenly became a little envious of other children this time, so he looked at Ingrid pitifully after returning home, and begged her in a low voice.

Telling a story before going to bed is not an excessive request, so Ingrid agreed to him without the slightest hesitation, and the problem arose. How many fairy tales have I heard? After telling some popular stories, there is no story to tell. Then, thinking of Tony, who is only two years old and still in the ignorant stage, Ingrid changed her story to the protagonist Make up a story about his name and tell him.

When other children were still immersed in fairy tales such as the rabbit and the big bad wolf princess and prince, Tony already understood the basic classification of medicines. When other parents told their children about Little Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Ing Reed had already started telling Tony about the construction of the gun.

But Tony's favorite is the love story between Liz and Deer Boy. Although the captain who always intervenes in it is a bit annoying, he is still attracted by the vivid three people in the story.

Then after the deer disappeared, Liz went crazy, and Tony asked her very incomprehensibly.

"Why should Liz be sad? Can't find a new buck?"

Ingrid was amused by him, touched his head and said with a smile.

"Wouldn't you be sad if I took your bear?"

Tony thought for a while, hugged his favorite bear doll tightly in his arms, and stared at her vigilantly.

"I won't let you take it away."

Ingrid looked at his nervous expression, smiled and shook her head with a gentle tone.

"It's like your beloved little bear, who has been by your side all the time. You are used to its existence, so you don't feel sad about losing it, but after I take it away, you won't be able to sleep without the little bear, and then start I miss life with bears..."

"Liz has lost her favorite bear."

After listening to such a long paragraph of words, the child has lost energy for a long time. Little Tony yawned in a daze, as if he felt that he understood what she said, but it seemed that part of him did not understand, but He knew that if he lost the little bear, he would cry very sadly.

Little Tony, who was thinking this way, finally couldn't resist the increasingly intense drowsiness, and finally hugged the little bear in his arms tightly, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

In a scene shrouded in thick fog and the surrounding environment blurred, there was a figure whose expression could not be seen and was crying with his back to him. His shoulders raised and lowered, and the suppressed strong sadness could even make him just watch feel it.

The young Tony noticed that he was not on the familiar little bed, and hugged the only cub in his arms tightly with some unease. The female-specific voice came to his eardrums one after another with a weeping and trembling voice, making the little bear Tony soured.

He suddenly felt that the woman not far away seemed less scary, and he approached the woman cautiously step by step with his bare feet.

The closer you get, the more familiar the woman is. It is very similar to the Liz described by her mother. She also has long black curly hair and a long black gauze skirt. The woman hugged her body and turned her back to him, crying softly.

"bucky... bucky..."

Little Tony, who heard the voice, was even more sure that the woman in front of him was Liz.

The kind little Tony felt very uncomfortable hearing Liz crying so miserably. He ran to Liz with the bear in his arms.

"Liz, Liz, don't cry, okay?"

Liz ignored his cry and covered her face with her hands, big and big tears streaming from between her fingers.

Little Tony anxiously circled around Liz, finally looked at the little bear in his hand, and handed the little bear to Liz in front of Liz.

"Although I can't find your favorite deer, I will give you my favorite bear."

"So don't be sad, please, Liz."

Liz seemed moved by his words, slowly put down her hands covering her face, and slowly raised her head.

Then little Tony woke up.

Belly swollen.

"You shouldn't drink so much water at night."

Tony, who woke up from the dream and couldn't see Liz's face, felt extremely regretful, although he was also a little glad that the bear was still by his side.

He looked around the room in darkness, and was going to ask Ingrid to go to the bathroom with him, but after thinking about it, Little Tony raised his arms to cheer him up.

"You can do it, don't be afraid, Tony, don't bother Mom, you can do it, Tony."

So saying little Tony got out of bed and put on his slippers.

Until his body was completely plunged into darkness, little Tony tried his best not to tremble in his legs, held the doorknob on tiptoe and unscrewed the doorknob bit by bit, then closed his eyes and rushed out.

In the end there was only one corridor left!

Little Tony raised his hands, opened his eyes and prepared to rush to the head in one breath.

There was a ray of light in the middle of the supposedly dark corridor, illuminating the entire corridor.

Is mom still asleep?

Little Tony raised his foot, stepped on the floor lightly, and approached there carefully step by step.

Through the half-closed door.

The dark-haired woman turned her back to him, holding a small pocket watch in her hand, propping her head up, wondering what she was thinking.

Little Tony knew what it was. Very early on, even though it was just a glance, after Ingrid discovered his existence, she quickly closed the watch cover, but Little Tony still saw clearly what was in the pocket watch.

A photo, a photo of a man.

Every time my mother took out this pocket watch, she always looked very sad, and then sat quietly, always sitting, sometimes for an afternoon, sometimes for a day, sometimes for a night.

Then she put down the pocket watch in her hand, hummed a slow and melancholy blues, circled her arms alone, and danced solo in the center of the living room, like a beautiful kite, floating in the sky above his head.

This is the time when he loves his mother the most, because such a mother is breathtakingly beautiful, but it is also the most sad time for him, because the string pulling the kite is broken.

The photo flashed by, but Tony could still clearly see the color of the man's hair in the photo. It was different from 'mother''s black hair, and much closer to his short brown hair.

A bold guess came to his mind, and sometimes he even thought that if his father showed up, he might accept him too.

Tony, who returned to the room after going to the toilet, thought so, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"Hey honey, wake up, we have to go."

Ingrid put the clothes on the bed and shook the sleeping little Tony awake.

The sleepy-eyed little boy yawned, didn't say anything, and obediently put the clothes she handed over on him, then folded the quilt, got out of bed, put on his shoes, walked to the front of the cabinet, took out his small leather suitcase, put Put the clothes in one by one, and finally put your bear on top.

After packing everything, Tony held the small box and stood in front of Ingrid.

They don't need to communicate, and Tony doesn't take the initiative to ask anything. They don't stay in one place for too long, and 'mother' will tell him to pack up and go to the next place, as if being followed by someone Catch up in general.

This time it was slightly different, Tony handed the small box in his arms to Ingrid.

Ingrid accepted the box with a puzzled expression, and shook it. The coins in the box jingled because of the shaking, and then Ingrid froze.

Looking at the well-behaved little boy in front of her, her eyes became sore unconsciously, just like a mother who failed to let her child live a good life, she hugged little Tony tightly, crying sporadically.

Ingrid, who was immersed in the pain of missing, was so moved by this child that she even forgot the existence of Bucky for a while.

In the later days, little Tony felt that his life had suddenly changed.

His mother spent less and less time immersed in memories, and began to take him to travel around the world on his own initiative, so he also learned many languages ​​​​of different countries.

In Paris, France, she took him up to the Eiffel Tower and told him a story with a smile.

Many years ago, she and two other people came here to play during the vacation time after completing the task, and then the three of them may have been drunk, even one of them who was not drunk had a fight with them, who dares to bet Jump from above.

Ingrid, who was drunk, jumped down without thinking. I heard that she was so scared that her lover at the time jumped down too. The last person also realized that something was wrong and jumped down quickly to catch the two of them. , Protecting them behind the shield is considered a safe landing.

At an altitude of more than 300 meters, her ankle was dislocated, Bucky's calf was broken, and Captain America suffered a comminuted wrist fracture.

"Now that I think about it, my back is getting chills. How could I jump off?"

Tony stood on the top and glanced down. The building had shrunk into a small cube, and he nodded in agreement.

Not long after traveling around, Ingrid brought him back to the United States again.

Then he was hugged by a middle-aged couple who had never met before.

Howard watched as soon as he let go of his hand, he ran back to hide behind Ingrid, looked at their son vigilantly, and stared at Ingrid with jealousy.

"What did you do to him?"

Ingrid, who was innocently angered, spread her hands and shrugged.

Tony, who later learned the truth, was deeply shocked.

The person who was completely regarded as a mother for 6 years has nothing to do with me, and it is largely because of her that she has been separated from her parents for such a long time.

It's not that the Howards didn't look for her, but that by chance, they missed her completely by coincidence.

In the past 6 years, the reason why Ingrid has no money is because she does not remember the password of the safe in the bank that Howard told her.

And Tony, who has been immersed in the pain of a single-parent family for so long, suddenly feels that he is a fool.

After seeing his family's property, thinking of the "poor" life in the past 6 years, little Tony just looked at the sky and said something lightly.

"It turns out that my family is so rich."

Although Tony returned to his normal life, he still remembered that memory from time to time.

It can't be called how comfortable it is for two people who don't have much money.

However, it was the happiest time in Tony's life.

No worries, no pain, no ambition to defend peace.

Even if you don’t have enough to eat, you still have your favorite mother by your side. Even if you travel to different places every day and your body is exhausted, you can still sleep peacefully in your mother’s arms.

Every time Tony Stark thinks back to that time, he always feels that happiness is unreal.

And before he knew it, Ingrid hugged him and fell asleep, looking at his peaceful and lovely face, the madness and persistence that destroyed everything in her heart gradually calmed down.

She was finally able to face Bucky who was about to go on a mission again with a calm mood.