"You don't want to hurt me. Really." This was the second time that Steve referred to him as looking like someone he saw as a brother. That didn’t sit right with Tony, but he didn’t say anything snarky about it since, again, he wanted to survive this little ordeal and then feed this guy his repulsor. That also required letting him touch the reactor. “We don’t have healers. We have doctors. There’s metal lodged in my heart and this keeps those fragments from killing me. Pretty sure you’d die from a few good pieces of metal in your heart too.” Or so he hoped. He really, really hoped.

Tony averted his eyes as the metal was brushed at and manipulated. If Steve decided to crack it open, to turn it, to tug at it-- Well, he wasn’t sure what he was going to do other than yell a lot, but you’d better believe that there would be quite a bit of that.

His voice lowered. “I know you’re brainwashed, Rogers, but this is pretty much the worst thing that one person can do to another. So I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but you’re pretty damned disgusting to me right now. So step back and don’t touch me,” he growled in the blond’s ear as he leaned in close to inspect the circle of light. Tony held his breath in annoyance and a little bit of fear.