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After a mission goes awry, Agent Coulson falls apart. The Avengers put him back together again.
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- Part 5 of Love Is For Children
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Ch6
"So that scientist Hulk rescued, you really know him?" Tony said to Bruce.
"Yeah, John and I worked together in grad school for a bit," Bruce said. "It's hard to believe the Other Guy actually recognized him."
"Picked him out of a crowd," Tony said. "Listen, if he doesn't want to work for SHIELD, I would gladly offer him a job at Stark Industries."
"That's nice of you, Tony, thanks," said Bruce.
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Steve frowned. Phil was ... sort of vibrating in place. That bothered Steve, because Phil never paced, never fidgeted, always held himself under perfect control. Tony flitted around when agitated, but he was leaning lazily against the back of the couch with Bruce. Deciding when to overlook things, and when to step in, required some careful thought in a group full of self-sufficient but damage-prone people. On the Helicarrier, Phil had seemed fine, maybe a little tense on the ride home, but now something was obviously bothering him. Whatever it was, it was getting worse."Phil, what's wrong?" Steve asked quietly.
He was not expecting Phil to grab him hard enough to make him gasp.
"You were dead," Phil said into Steve's shirt. His hands fisted in the fabric over Steve's back. "There was enemy fire, the comms went out, the quinjet went down, I thought you were all dead."
Steve wrapped his arms around Phil. "Sorry about that," he said. "We're all okay, though. We're safe." Steve could hear Phil's heart pattering, faster and shallower than he liked.
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"You spent twelve hours thinking we were all dead, and you're embarrassed because you bit your nails?" Tony said incredulously."Not helping, Tony," Clint said.
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So that's what he needs, Steve thought, something to fight against, something to push him into what he wants so he doesn't have to feel guilty for accepting it. Okay, I can do this.
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The whole process required Steve to gauge his strength very carefully, using just enough force to overpower Flip without hurting him.Though really, Steve admitted to himself, if he didn't want this he could dump me on the floor. That had actually happened in more than one sparring session.
By the time Steve managed to get the rest of the suit off, Flip was breathing hard, but he seemed oddly steadier than before. So that was an improvement.
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"Thank you for everything," Flip said to Steve, wrapping him in a hug."You're welcome," Steve said. "Turnabout is fair play."
Flip giggled. "I wondered about the name."
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"You're welcome," Betty said. "We all have the day off. Director Fury tried to whine something about further debriefing to me. I reminded him I wanted to get at least six hours of sleep before looking after the team today, and the rest of you started the assignment earlier than I did so you obviously needed more time to unwind. I also pointed out that if he breaks the guy who usually does your paperwork, Hulk will come smash his favorite flying toys again. He was delightfully cooperative after that.""That's ... quite an accomplishment," Steve said. Most people had far less luck convincing Director Fury to be anything approaching reasonable. Then Flip peeked out from behind the other members of the team.
"Morning, Flip," Betty said calmly. Then she reached out and tousled his neatly combed hair into a complete mess.
"Hey! Cut it out!" Flip protested.
"No. Little boys shouldn't be too perfect. It makes them grow up into boring men," Aunt Betty said, a spark of mischief glinting in her eyes. "Now go sit down."
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"No," Uncle Tony said. "You're too young to put product on your hair. You'd look like some rich old bag's show dog."Flip snickered at that image, and agreed to settle for almost perfect hair.
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ch6
original writing
hm, fluffy
good for one read