You’d been Tony’s favorite student for a while. You always participated enthusiastically, had some of the funniest quips and jokes he’s heard from a student, and he even found himself telling the avengers about moments in a fatherly tone. Until you became more quiet, and when you were loud, it was an antagonistic insincerity that didn’t seem like the person you were at the beginning of the year at all. And so you were staying a bit after school while he graded papers, the atmosphere tense.