Apartment Above Stark Industries, Saturday evening

[heroic_jawline]

Steve was back in his old room--normally the guest room--hunting under the bed for one of Patriot's squeaky toys and taking a minute to just...be lonely. It wasn't that he didn't love Tony in all of his various incarnations (the pony had been hilarious), but being so much older right now had made their normal relationship extremely strange and something he wasn't willing to even discuss with a teenaged version of Tony.

And while he was doing his very best with teambuilding back at the new Avengers HQ, he got the feeling they saw him much more as Cap and less as Steve. So here he was, hiding in his own home, but at least he was being honest for a moment with his feelings?

Patriot whined and nudged his hand. "I'm looking, boy, I promise," he murmured, "and then we can go out."

Patriot's tail started wagging excitedly.

"Oh, you know out now too? We're in trouble."

[OOC: Mostly establishy!]