"That's the thing," he says, squeezing Steve's hand again. "I felt like I did. It was like -- stuff carried over even though we were different people. Does that make sense?" Well, no, obviously. None of this bullshit made any sense. "You mattered to me. Just like you do now." Otherwise he wouldn't have tried to gloss over the whole meeting with Pepper. Steve knows he never keeps anything from her, in any universe.