Phil knew it would come and so didn't even try to hide from it. He doubted that Rhodey would appreciate his little brother's possible new partner being a coward.
And it really didn't take long before he was cornered by the said man in the kitchen.
"Sooooo..." Rhodey drawled behind him when he steps in the room. He was leaning against the wall his hands crossed before in front of him.
Phil immediately straightens his spine but calmly turns our to face this new challenge.
Calm down Phil, calm down! You have faced worse than this. You have been brought back from death and faced this talk with Fury. He berated himself silently in his mind.
Cause it was not fine. It was not like the talk with Fury. This was Rhodey Tony's big Brother in all but blood. Because if Fury didn't like him Tony would not care enough to listen even if it was his godfather.
But if Rhodey didn't like him his chances with Tony would be non-existent.
Not helping brain! Calm down!
Rhodey, not aware of Phils growing panic or aware and just not caring, keeps staring at his soul.
"So..." he continues again. "I have noticed you're closeness with Tony. And I would like to know just what are your intentions with my brother?"
"I was hoping to ask you if I could court him, sir," Phil answers like before.
Rhodey nods his eyes boring into him harder.
"You're a good man Phil. And Tony likes you. But he has been hurt a lot lately and over time. Your "Death" was one of those things" Rhodey explains evenly while quoting his death with his fingers.
Philip just gulps and nods but wasn't granted a chance to speak before the man was continuing.
"He was a mess after that. Kept blaming himself. So if and I mean IF I let you date him I expect you not to go faking your death or hurt him any other way if you can help it. And you will make sure you have done anything you can to help it" He glares down at him sternly at that. "Understood?"
"Understood" he nods earnestly.
"Good..." Rhodey says with a smile and moves to leave but is stopped by a confused voice behind him.
"Wait that's it?" Phil asks wide-eyed.
Rhodey just raises his eyebrow at him.
"I mean no threats nothing?"
Rhodey just chuckles at him.
"Tony is a big boy Phil. I don't own him but I will protect him if I can and I can see you would too. We both know if I told him that he shouldn't see you he would stay away. But I won't. You aren't after his money or fame or to hurt him so I'll let you stay" the unspoken 'for now' hanging in the air.
"Besides if you break his heart he would be the one to destroy you. I'll be taking the leftovers. And I will take them" Rhodey smirks at him evilly.
Phil gulps down and nods at the true statement.
Rhodey's smile softens and he pats Phil on the back." Take good care of him. I'm trusting you here. Don't break it"
Just then Tony walks in completely unaware of what was happening there.
"Am I interrupting?" he asks as he walks overlooking between the two men.
"Not at all Tones. Just having a chat with Phil. It's been a while since we have seen each other" Rhodey answers happily like he just didn't give a shovel talk to a highly dangerous agent.
"Oh! Right! We should do that too! I'm curious what super secret Agent stuff you have been up to since it never showed up on the scans."
"Not that I have been scanning shield activity" he adds innocently.
"Uh-huh..." Phil hums. Not buying it.
Rhodey snorts. "Well-" his retort was cut off by Friday.
"Boss! The rogue Avengers are approaching the zzzzz" she abruptly quiets.
"Friday? Baby Girls what's wrong?" Tony shouts in worry and his suit flies to him as they run.
He was still a bit exhausted by the training but he taps into the compounds system and pokes around moving towards The part that starts Friday.
His anger flares as he sees the dampener there. Blocking his baby. He sends a powerful energy pulse towards it breaking it in an instant.
He remembers. He gave those to Natasha. His eyes flared with red and blue as he zooms ahead to the point Friday had noticed them.
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"I don't think this is a good idea man" Sam whispers as they approach the compound.
Natasha had just done something to the AI Friday. And Sam didn't know Stark that well but he knew that the man was very protective of his robot kids and Rhodey bear.
Now Sam had already hurt Rhodey. So going in damaging his youngest was probably the best way to anger him instead of having a nice calm conversation.
"Shut up Sam if we don't do this Friday will warn Tony about us coming and we won't even get a chance to talk to him"
"Yeah but-"
"Now what do we have here?" a dangerous voice asks behind them. Making Sam freeze. He knew they were screwed.
Notes: oh damn me. I'm late once again but at least not much.
Did you like the shovel talk with Rhodey bear?
Is everyone okay? This corona thing us really getting out of hand. Our school just closed and we are doing studying at home so that's something.
I don't mind much though we had to cancel some future plans I would have liked.
Anyways stay safe, wash ur hands and thank you for reading! Leave kudos and comments and maybe a prompt in Tumblr Pinxku22
I also made this new Hamilton animatic so if u wanna check it out!
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