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It’s been only one week since he last saw it - at least for him. For the world it’s been nearly seventy years, and of course they forgot. Or maybe it just hadn’t been documented well enough.
He tries not to think too much about the reasons while he watches Selvig carefully carry the Tesseract away. Steve doesn’t follow, not yet, remaining next to the machine it had been held in on Stark’s rooftop, to take a moment and just breathe.
From up here the destruction the aliens have left behind all over Manhattan is painfully obvious. People have come back outside, slowly, tentatively, tiny from so far away.
The others are still where they have found Loki, taking care that he isn’t going to pull any last tricks. He should get back to them. But Steve’s gaze lingers on the city below him that still feels familiar, in its core, but right now looks so foreign that he could just as well be on a different planet.







