Tony shook his head. “You fighting wit Johnny?” he asked, looking worried before huffing at Dum-E’s perking up and whirring happily and rolling off to find something else to be a disaster at. “i’m fuck up.” Tony protested. “i’m… aweful. Just aweful and everyone leaves me.” he whined as he flopped over onto her so he was resting against her instead of the couch. “try so hard… everyone always ends up hatin me… you hated me. N johnny hates me, n Clint hates me and even the frosty sickle hates me.” he whined at her when she took his bottle away. “your… not my dad.” he protested. “can’t tell me what to do.” he sighed and laid his head on her shoulder. “I broke it. I always do…” he sighed. “Pepper didn’t say we where over, but I know the signs. Always happens like this.” he admitted. “it’s been coming. She didn’t care about the purchases. She…” his lip trembled. “she just ‘needs a break’, cus I’m too much. I’m always too much. Everyone says I’m too much, but I tried so HARD steph… I tried so hard this time.” he sniffled and looked up at her. “you still like me right?”<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Loki shook her head. “Johnny you know she’s blunt.” she reminded him, smiling. “you thought it was endearing. And you are indeed a hothead, not that I mind that bit.” she admitted with a chuckle. “she is happy with us. But Johnny you have to understand, Steph has spent her entire life running. We can’t expect her to be in a new relationship, in a new era, in a new world, with new responsibilities and worse, a pregnancy she thought she could not only never have, but was terrified to want. We are new. We bring new emotions. Bucky and Tony are familiar parts of her past. Bucky grew up with her, and Tony is familiar because he behaves a lot like her. She needs familiar when she’s at her most overwhelmed. We overwhelm her johnny, but that’s not a bad thing. It just means she needs to have time with people that are familiar. To settle herself. Running away is what she’s always done, it’s how she copes.” or Loki thought so anyway. She paused, blinking when the phone went off, her head tilted. “no she doesn’t… that’s worrying.” she paused to kiss Johnny. “we’ll talk okay? You and me and Steph. We need to, we can’t just let this fester away like it has been. It’s not good.” she admitted before picking up the phone, frowning. “oh fuck.”