@cloudtm sent a meme: “Do it or I’ll make you.” + Public with Steve.
'Make me.'
That's what he'd say, to anyone who wasn't the disgraced and terrifying entity that Steve goddamn Rogers had become. The fact is, Steve making him do something would involve curbstomping. Metaphorically, and literally, and then even worse.
( And probably taking out his teeth, one-by-one. )
There's a collective laugh, here, an awkward, somewhat uncomfortable chuckle of the armed men -- hardened, kills under their belt -- witnessing this, seeing if he'll go along with it.
His face is red, hot, can't make eye contact with anyone; the room falls into a louder guffaw when he leans down, and opens his mouth wide, tongue out --
-- and shamefully laps at Steve's mud-encrusted, filthy boots in wide stripes --
















