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A warning to the people, the good and the evil: This is war.
When Captain America broods, everybody notices. He's short, distant, uncommunicative. Some would even say rude. Fortunately he has an excuse, for the first few days - his arm, still healing. But once it's back in working order (he misses two missions in the four short days that it takes), there's no reason for him to be acting like this. At least, not in anyone else's mind.
Steve is too distracted to notice that they've noticed. He's just thinking about Loki's offer, weighing the Liesmith's words and trying to figure out if he meant what he said about sending Steve back - sending him home. Regardless, Loki couldn't have meant to help. If anything, if he really can do it, it would be to get Steve out of the way.
But that doesn't make him think about it any less.
He tries to go walking at night, but first Darcy finds excuse to go with him, and then the others notice and either follow with failed stealth or send a flock of SHIELD agents to shadow him. He finally smashes the locks on one of the doors in the middle of the afternoon and tells JARVIS that if the computer tells anyone he left, he'll start pulling out wires. He doesn't wait around to hear the dry sarcasm of the AI's reply.
Steve ends up in the one place he can think to go where, clothed in a dress uniform and wearing aviators, no one will bother him but the very young, and there aren't any kids there at this time of day. The Harbor Defense Museum, currently displaying a collection of weaponry from World War Two used in the protection of New York City. Steve presses his hand again the plexiglass over one display, looking at the tarnished barrels of the guns and feeling as old and angry as he did after breaking out of SHIELD's facility after they pulled him out of the ice.
Steve is too distracted to notice that they've noticed. He's just thinking about Loki's offer, weighing the Liesmith's words and trying to figure out if he meant what he said about sending Steve back - sending him home. Regardless, Loki couldn't have meant to help. If anything, if he really can do it, it would be to get Steve out of the way.
But that doesn't make him think about it any less.
He tries to go walking at night, but first Darcy finds excuse to go with him, and then the others notice and either follow with failed stealth or send a flock of SHIELD agents to shadow him. He finally smashes the locks on one of the doors in the middle of the afternoon and tells JARVIS that if the computer tells anyone he left, he'll start pulling out wires. He doesn't wait around to hear the dry sarcasm of the AI's reply.
Steve ends up in the one place he can think to go where, clothed in a dress uniform and wearing aviators, no one will bother him but the very young, and there aren't any kids there at this time of day. The Harbor Defense Museum, currently displaying a collection of weaponry from World War Two used in the protection of New York City. Steve presses his hand again the plexiglass over one display, looking at the tarnished barrels of the guns and feeling as old and angry as he did after breaking out of SHIELD's facility after they pulled him out of the ice.