A Lake in Maine, Tuesday Daytime

[tyler_gone]

Contrary to Tyler's fears, Steve Rogers' idea of a vacation did not turn out to involve helping old ladies across the street or cooking in a soup kitchen. Instead, they had taken their flying(!) Porsche(!!) to a very nice Bed and Breakfast near the Maine coast -- the kind of place with pillows you wanted to just curl up and live on and fresh local strawberries on the waffles at breakfast.

But they were not enjoying it right now. No, instead, someone had the brilliant idea to go fishing. In theory Tyler was all for the hunt-to-survive primitive stuff, but, after three hours of absolutely nothing happening, he was starting to decide mankind had given up on huter-gatherer lifestyle because it was boring.

"Y'know, I bet we can buy trout for, like, $6 a pound at the Safeway in town."

[OOC: For those guys. NFB due to distance.]

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[tyler_gone]

Tyler nodded slowly. The Steve/Tony thing was one of those things that he ... kind of understood, as long as he didn't think too hard. Wasn't like he could interfere with it.

"Can I ask you something totally different?"

[screwyoumarvel]

At least that made one of them who kind of understood it.

"By all means," Steve said. "Please."

[tyler_gone]

"Why'd you ask Tony to stake you right away ion that other place?"

Never accuse Tyler of being overly sensitive.

[screwyoumarvel]

...couldn't they talk about Steve's friends' deep concern for his emotional well-being some more?

"I know...what I'm capable of. I couldn't risk losing control. I couldn't risk that thing coming back," Steve said. "Why'd you tell him about it?"

[tyler_gone]

"But you were in charge." Because that always worked so well for Tyler. Really.

He was surprised by the other sentence.

"Why wouldn't I?"

[screwyoumarvel]

"Exactly," Steve said. "So while I was in charge I took care of the situation." By committing assisted suicide. It totally made sense at the time.

"It wasn't him. It's not his problem."

[tyler_gone]

"It wasn't him, so he won't worry about it." Because that made sense.

[screwyoumarvel]

"Granted I don't know this version as well as you do, probably, but...I don't really think that's Tony's way." See also: supersuit.

[tyler_gone]

Supersuit, right. The bitch of it was, Steve was right. Tyler just hadn't thought -- he heard it from Tony, so it made sense to tell Tony.

"I don't think I was thinking about it," he admitted, which was close to an apology. "It's not."

[screwyoumarvel]

"I hadn't planned on telling him," Steve admitted, "but I suppose for honesty's sake it's for the best you did."

[tyler_gone]

"I don't know," Tyler said thoughtfully. "It's not exactly what you call useful information."

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve's chest kind of hurt. "No. It's not, really."

[tyler_gone]

There wasn't a good answer.

"I -- next time I won't."

[screwyoumarvel]

"Tyler," Steve said, gazing out at the water, "I think we should all hope like hell there's not a next time."

[tyler_gone]

Tyler looked away, unfocused eyes settling on Nathan and Tony.

"Yeah."

He just didn't believe it. Something always happened. It was part of living where they did.

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve flicked his rod back, and went to cast--except something went very, very wrong.

"OW! Okay, OW!"

[tyler_gone]

Well. That was one way to get Tyler to quit being emo.

"Anybody know how to treat a fishhook to the scalp?" he called, looking right at Nathan this time.

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve stopped pulling, since that was only making it worse, and said, "Little help here?"

Scalp wounds? Bled. And it really showed up when you had close-cropped blond hair. This vacation wasn't going so well so far.

[shiroi_tiger]

"What in the name of..." Nathan glanced up from his own line to see... Steve. Bleeding. From the scalp. Lovely. "You missed."

Helpful.

Either way, he was making his way over to investigate, now, yes.

"Somebody, get me the first aid kit, would you?"

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"We have one with us?" Tony asked, actually looking away from his Blackberry.

[tyler_gone]

"Yeah, I think they gave us one with the tacklebox," Tyler said, and trotted off to find it.

He offered the ancient box to Nathan. "I can't guarantee anything in there."

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve pointed at the most likely source of ridicule with the hand holding his phone, since moving the hand holding the fishing pole resulted in more pain. "Tony, I don't want to hear it."

[shiroi_tiger]

Nathan took the offered first aid kit, and kind of stared at the contents.

And sighed.

"Before we do anything else that might involve pointed objects, we're getting a first-aid kit that doesn't come from an era before my own," he informed the men assembled. "Let's have a look, then."

At least the scissors seemed to be somewhat functional. The first thing he did was snip the line connecting that hook to the rod that Steve was still wrestling with.

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I'll remember that for next time we go anywhere," Tony said dryly. "Have you considered not hooking yourself, Steve?"

[screwyoumarvel]

The release of tension was helpful, at least. "Why no, Tony, that never occurred to me." Look at that, he could do sarcasm. "Nathan, get this thing out of my head."