Which was hilarious and gross to Tony, who started laughing before he could swallow his generous bite and made an ineffectual move to wipe the mustard off of Steve's cheek before abandoning it with an apologetic shrug. The nurse was going to have to find out about his bad behaviour eventually. Hopefully, Tony could just be gone by the time they could pin it on him.
When he could finally speak, he said, "Jokes on you, I'm just in it for the money." He did have a lifestyle to uphold, at least, and Tony had become very comfortable here, snickering at Steve while he was alive and not screaming in pain miles away where Tony couldn't get to him. There weren't enough burgers in Manhattan to make up for that. "Listen..." He hadn't really talked about this with anyone yet, and didn't think he had excuses to make with his resignation from any team so long ago, not until faced with bleak reality. The Avengers weren't fighting together anymore, but they didn't do nearly as well without having someone at their backs. "We've lucked out so far. Nothing's been so bad that...that no 'one hero' couldn't handle it on his own," he tried with a wry grin that didn't last. "But it's not always going to be that way. This thing in Queens...something bigger is coming. I can see it. That was a test run."