Steve "Indiana State Hoe" Harrington (mr_mom) wrote in snapthread,
"So you're just resigned to - to being stuck here?!" Steve's voice climbed an octave, unbidden. The reminder from Tony gets him to breathe, and he let Tony help him light the damn smoke. "Well bully for you, dude. I'm gonna need a fuckin' bean to get to your level of chill. Fuck."
"Wait - so you have to deal with that shitshow too? Shit, we thought we'd stopped it." No rest for the wicked, apparently. Steve held the smoke in his mouth for a moment before inhaling it, then slowly letting it out. The familiar burn was soothing to the nerves amid all this bizarre shit - and it got him to slow down his breathing, so. No panic attacks today, thanks. "You've seen all that crap with the teeth - and you're still not worried?"
Tony asked him the question just as Steve was taking a second drag, and he coughed, caught by surprise. His eyes watered, and he stared up at Tony in total bewilderment. Why was everything in his life so fucking nuts all the time? "What the fuck was in your Cheerios this morning?"
Everything Tony's saying makes a horrifying sort of sense, though, especially given how...commonplace Tony seems to find the weird phone thing - and he still hasn't seen Back To The Future all the way through, so like. Dammit.
"It's - I'm - it's - I'm from 1985." It sounds stupid as hell when he says it aloud, but then, he helped find an evil Russian laboratory beneath the ice cream parlor where he worked so really, how high does it rank on his list of crazy?