[Pepper's silent after that. Not because these are things she hasn't heard, but she hasn't heard them this way. Sue recited them almost clinically, the importance of the information trumping any emotion she may have put behind it.

But Billy shows it all. Even if he keeps some of it from his face, it's in how he clutches the table. How he says we.]

I'm so sorry. [Because someone should be.] You shouldn't have gone through all of that.

And maybe you're right. Maybe it is better, so we can keep it from happening in our world. I just...I don't want Tony to be judged because of what that other version did. Which is asking a lot, I know, but the Avengers are still new for us, and so important to him--

[Because Tony knows, but Steve doesn't. Along with whoever else may show up from their world.]