( colligo ¬ get collected ) → communications.

( Tony Stark, you have TWO new messages )

( Canton Everett Delaware III, you have ONE new message )

I didn't ask you, because I know you already have your own separate life and a place of your own. And it would just be... you know. Weird.

[ a few seconds later ]
And I think you know this already, but in case you don't.

[ a few seconds after that ]
You'll always have a place here. If you ever want it.

[ a few seconds after that ]
Just so we're clear.

This is a mass text.

[ sent immediately after ]
Does anyone know where the fuck I am?


[ several moments later ]
Guys?

[ sent immediately after ]
Rogers? Banner? Barton? Guys? Hello? I think we've got a problem.

[ sent immediately after ]
Why did I just wander outside of the tower into a city that is not New York?

[ sent immediately after ]
I know the city's under construction, but this is definitely more change than anticipated.

[ sent immediately after ]
Is this more of Loki's bullshit?


[ several seconds later ]
And why the fuck is there a painting of ROBERT DOWNEY JR in the lobby?

( left in the lobby of Stark Tower )

I have debated how to broach this topic or whether it is appropriate to address it at all, but I feel, given recent events, that to remain mum when my instincts demand otherwise would do both of us a great disservice.

[ a few seconds later ]
I had never fully considered the position I was placing you in when I took you after I first arrived. You were strong, capable, loyal, and you had the thing I lacked most in my own being: an ability to follow through upon what had been laid out before me. Your Coulson was right when he said I lacked conviction in my actions, probably more right than even he realized.

[ immediately after that ]
I needed you. I cared not for your safety or your well being. In the moment, you were tools to me, no more, no less. But even tools are something to be respected and admired when they perform their tasks admirably, when they outstrip all of your assumptions about them. In the end, I admired your capabilities as well as your personal strengths.

[ a few seconds later ]
It was never my intention to cause the lingering damage I did as I was always certain that there would be no lingering to be had. Perhaps not the best of reasonings, but it is what it is. It is easier, I thought, to have others direct your way. Easier, perhaps, but not always as desirable.

[ immediately after that ]
I know my words likely mean very little to you. There is nothing trustworthy in my tongue. There never has been, and there never shall be. Take what I say however you wish to, but know that I am truly regretful of the pain I have caused.

I adore you.

[ a few seconds later ]
I just felt like saying it.

[ immediately after that ]
Also, which one of us gets to tell Jim that he has to start working on a new nickname for me?

( Clint Barton: you have 4 new messages )

( Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker & Kitty Pryde: You have 4 new messages )

( Tony Stark: You have 2 new messages )

I just went through a door I didn't mean to go through. I don't want to go there again. It was scary. Really scary.

[immediately after]
I've never done that before. I always can just not go somewhere but this time I just did and I didn't like it.

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