"No, Buck, but I think if you did, Tony Stark would be on it twice," I tell him evenly.
"This man didn't put the Registration Act through. This man didn't get me arrested. This man didn't-" betray me. Turn against me after more than ten years of fighting side by side.
"-isn't that Tony Stark. He may be unfathomably smug and push every button you have- and most of mine, it's uncanny- but he's not the same guy. And I don't know about you, but all of that, all of it, is still raw for me. I know you've had more time, maybe you see this Stark more clearly than I do. In fact, I don't doubt that you do. But every time I see him, for a split second I still think it's the Iron Man I know, and if I haul off and hit him, Bucky, I might not stop."
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"This man didn't put the Registration Act through. This man didn't get me arrested. This man didn't-" betray me. Turn against me after more than ten years of fighting side by side.
"-isn't that Tony Stark. He may be unfathomably smug and push every button you have- and most of mine, it's uncanny- but he's not the same guy. And I don't know about you, but all of that, all of it, is still raw for me. I know you've had more time, maybe you see this Stark more clearly than I do. In fact, I don't doubt that you do. But every time I see him, for a split second I still think it's the Iron Man I know, and if I haul off and hit him, Bucky, I might not stop."