#he will shhot you politely

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Sorry, it's me again with a prompt: Huth accidentally eavesdrops Archer talking to one of their subordinates (someone Archer is quite friendly with), and hears Archer say, completely unprompted, very kind things about Huth. The next few days Archer wonders why Huth is suddenly being so kind and considerate to him. (Bonus scene, if you want to include it: Huth, being an idiot, accidentally reveals that he heard Archer and Archer reacts...how? 😂)

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“- Wouldn’t be surprisedif you earned yourself an Iron Cross at this rate” said Weber.

Archer sipped his coffeeand shook his head. “Not at all sure I would deserve that” he said “or if I didget one it would be for all the wrong reasons.” Weber frowned and cocked hishead. He had a thin, brown, intelligent face, handsome in a changeable way thatseemed to reflect his inner life more than was usual. Archer did not exactlytrust Weber – trust was a luxury he was trying to wean himself off – but heliked him a great deal. At present the other man was perched on the edge of hisdesk, nursing a cup of coffee and looking at Archer at though puzzling him out.

“I don’t see” saidWeber slowly “how anyone could fault you over your work, really. Maybe you feeltoo many civilians got hurt…” Archer’s face became a blank “but you couldn’t beblamed for that. You did your best. And you prevented disaster, real disaster, didn’tyou? Everyone was talking about it. They don’t say so but they admire you.Everyone. You deserve recognition for that.”  

Archer took anothersip and reflected for a moment. “I don’t consider myself admirable” he saidflatly. “If anyone deserves admiration, Huth does.”

In the next room, afigure stiffened momentarily, and then slowly continued to sort silentlythrough files. It now had the air of an animal with its ears pricked up.

“He had far less todo with it” said Weber, doubtfully.

“I know” said Archer “butlegwork and decision-making are very different areas of work. When you are inamong these rebels and everything is life or death for you, you often find thatthe hard decisions are made for you, or you have made them already, or therewas never any choice in the first place -” Weber was frowning as though thismade little sense to him “- everything happens quickly and at high stakes, youhave no real breathing room. So you tend to just move forward and do the jobyou have to do. Huth though, he has the reallyhard job. It takes real fortitude to do what he does. And he carries it offreally well.”

In the next room, thefigure turned its head to the door as though craning to hear more of this.

“Huth has to sitback, deliberate, then make the hard decision” continued Archer “he has to puthis name to the document, and send it off. Ever considered the sort of inner strengthyou need to do that? It is not about being callous. It is about weighing thesituation and taking the decision on yourself. And in addition, he has to be asoldier, be everything an officer needs to be, and never show weakness at thosemoments when – being human – he must be just ready to drop, or scream his headoff. Now there’s someone worthy of admiration.”

The man in the nextroom had completely forgotten his paperwork.

Weber considered thisspeech for a moment and gave a doubting smirk. “Most of the fellows would justcall your boss an intimidating, overworked bastard” he said.

Archer chuckled. “Well,you can also see it that way” he said. The two men finished their coffee.

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Over the next fewdays, Archer counted six peculiarities in Huth’s behaviour, all of whichtotalled up into a worrying phenomenon that he tried in vain to analyse.

1.     The cupof hot coffee always left waiting for him which no-one else, it turned out, wasresponsible for.

2.     Theoffer, quite out of the blue, to find him a better, more efficient assistant,since the current dogsbody left loose ends that he had to tie up.

3.     Thebrand-new, expensive gun, bought for him personally and left without comment ina box on his desk.

4.     Thesudden use in conversation of the words “please” and “thank you.”

5.     The unexpectedorders to go home early “because you are no use to me tired, Archer.”

6.     Thedisconcerting, soft look in his eyes, that he kept catching when he turned tofind Huth watching him. In a lesser man it would almost be called…soppy?

Sitting at his desk, Archer set out the symptoms likeunconnected factors in a case and tried to deduce the cause. Nothing came tomind. He had done nothing to make Huth’s attitude soften that he knew, so thatleft the cause an unknown. Archer did not like unknowns, not when they impactedintimately on his working relationships.

The door banged openand Huth strode into the room.

“Get me the Schneiderfile would you?” he muttered.

“At once sir.” Archerpulled it deftly and handed it over. Huth pulled a scrap of paper from hispocket and compared it with a document in the file. He smiled. Taking a PrimaryArrest Sheet from the drawer he signed it and placed it in the out box,slipping the scrap into the file and handing it back.

“I think we havenearly seen the end of that case” he gave Archer a grin. “Things look set toquiet down now we are mopping up the last of that cell. Your friend Weber had apoint you know, you deserve that Iron Cross and I mean to see that you get it.”

Archer had beenexamining the scrap in the file. His head whipped up. “…You were in that day sir?”he said eventually.

There was a longpause. The ticking clock and the sound of birds outside suddenly seemed veryloud.

“I had to drop by to retrievesome paperwork” said Huth eventually. He suddenly seemed as stiff as a mannequin.“I was only in for ten minutes or so.”

“I had no idea sir.”

“I was noteavesdropping.” Seeming to recover from his embarrassment, Huth flashed achallenging smile his way. “What you said was perfectly accurate, of course.”He patted Archer’s shoulder “One day you will have to do the same I am sure.”

“I would hope not,sir.”

“Well, hopes areconstantly disappointed.” Huth paused by the door “I meant it about the ironcross. Merit should be recognised, Archer.” He left.

Archer tried to dopaperwork for the next ten minutes. Eventually he gave up and went to gethimself a coffee. He checked the adjoining room carefully, just in case.  

[snuggly-eve]

Tony and Bruce didn’t have a working interface, which means Uptron was a mess of code that couldn’t do jack shit. The mind stone gave him intelligence, but he based his understanding of the world on the internet, which is a hellish dumpster fire on a good day, and his personality on the charismatic douchebag persona Tony puts up for the public.

Wanda also pulled Tony’s greatest fear, that he can’t protect the people he cares about and their deaths will be the fault of his inadequacies, to the forfront of his mind in HD, which he dealed with like a champ considering the other avengers, including a god, were completely out of it during and afterwards. That’s a little more than a nightmare. Plus, she did it willingly, any effect Tony has on her is unintentional.

Tony also funded the united states not because he agreed with the war, but because he wanted his people safe. The moment he saw terrorists got a hold of his weapons through Stane, he shut down everything in his company that could kill. Wanda joined fucking nazis of her own free will, no manipulation. Strucker barely even said they were american, much less SHIELD, and she has mind control powers, you can’t convince me she and Pietro didn’t know who they were working for. Plus:

Does this look like a sane person, considering she just set a guy on the path to hopefully killing himself and his innocent friends?

Also, excuse me if a have no sympathy for the non-american-citizen who trespassed into a sovreign nation, conducted illegal operations that resulted in multiple dead civilians, which included 11 Wakandans plus an unknown amount of nigerians and other civilians, and was punished by staying in her home, complete with everything she could ever possibly want including her super toaster boyfriend, with no strings attached except ‘don’t leave because everyone outside these doors wants you dead’. Wanda threw a tantrum over nothing, and like Tony said: She was safe, and Clint took her from that.

And showing remorse or guilt doesn’t mean she’s a good person, just that she’s not a psychopath. Congratulations, she’s cleared the lowest bar possible.

And I’m not going to comment on Infinity War Wanda because that’s my favourite characterization of her and the only one I’m willing to say even remotely resembles comics Wanda.

And as for Civil War: Peter’s stronger than all of team cap conbined three times. Vision’s Asgardian level, as is Tony’s and Rhodey’s armours, and that’s not counting the array of weapons they skipped

Non of which were used against the actual combatants. Rhodey used sonics and a stun baton, and we didn’t see Tony shhot at anything except Wanda’s cars and Clints arrows. Natasha has ballistics and T’Challa had no chill and an indestructable vibranium suit. If they wanted team cap dead, team cap would be dead. Plus team iron man had the advantage of staging an ambush.

Meanwhile, team cap allowed giant man on the field, who was throwing trucks and planes around, Steve dropped a storage container he had jo idea wether or not Peter could lift on him, Wanda dropped a parking garage on Tony, Sam could’ve snapped Peter’s neck with Redwing had Peter not had powers, etc. Team cap was very much fighting to kill.

And finally, by making things worse I meant that she was causing extreme political tension, as seen in Nigeria and probably before.

Friendly reminder that Wanda Maximoff willingly and conciously set off the Hulk onto a city full of innocent people, effectively killing possibly hundreds and never had to face any consequences for it.