Rhodey is always worried about Tony’s well-being
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both mental and physical. He protects Tony’s secrets even from the military. Similarly, the first person Tony wanted to share the secret of Ironman suit with was Rhodey. Even when Tony was “not a teamplayer”, he was working seamlessly with Rhodey. In fact, Tony asks Rhodey to lead and follows his instructions faithfully.
This perfectly portrays the level of trust and affection these two share.Rhodey is one of the few who can not only lecture Tony about his health, know all his secrets; have access to his tech… but is also perhaps the only one Tony will easily let lead without either questions or refutations.
Tony let the open tie hang around his neck, unbuttoned the top of his shirt, and Steve stared, for a second imagining holding him by that tie and pulling him closer and licking a line down Tony’s long, elegant neck—
Damn him.
Happy 616 day! Here’s a fic/art collab between @laireshi and I, based on this amazing moment in Avengers v4 #18 where it looked like Steve was talking to Tony while touching the nape of his neck. Read the fic, it’s incredible!! And you can see which panel I’m talking about in the cut below:
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