Steve smiled. "i know. and he knows. he's just super cute right now because your new and he's a lot like a dog trying to get attention." "hate you." "love you to Jamie." Steve teased. "Fury is up to something i think. there's no way Phil stayed away this long on his... oh..." he blinked at Phil and Phil nodded. "you would be right." Phil admitted, letting Tony fuss over him as he sat down with a sigh. "hey Clint." Phil murmured, studying his lover and then Grant as he walked in. "i'm pretty sure i shot you." "i'm pretty sure you missed." "i'm pretty sure i didn't." "i'm pretty sure your mistaken." "Grant? are you hurt?" Steve demanded, Grant rolling his eyes and lowering his borrowed jeans just enough to show that he had been grazed across the hip and it was already mostly healed. "no i'm not hurt." "so. explanations?" Pepper demanded, Phil nodding. "yes of course please, keep in mind that i don't really... understand a lot of it." he admitted. "and what i do understand is hard to explain because it just doesn't make any sense..." he admitted, Grant looking amused. "as you might know... i died on the Helicarrier. at least, that's what they tell me. Fury claims i was dead for a full week. although, technically speaking... i am still dead." he admitted.
"after i woke up i scared about... fifty people by walking out of the morgue. luckily enough i woke up before they started embalming me." he admitted. "i don't understand." Pepper interrupted and Phil shrugged. "neither do i. i felt fine. if a little naked. i just got up, walked out, that was that as far as i understood it at the time... turns out my heart has stopped. i had no brain activity, and i wasn't breathing. by all accounts, i was dead." "wait... has stopped?" "yes. has. it still isn't beating. it's... weird." he admitted, rubbing his chest. "by all rights, i am in fact, dead right now." Phil admitted. "Fury refused to let me go when he realized i was up and walking. he claims it's because he's scared of what might happen to me. while i feel fine, i'm getting worse. i sleep less, eat less and while i feel phone, my physical body is showing the strain. he thinks i'm infected, going to turn into a Zombie or something, like that. something i have to admit, i'm a bit concerned about myself." he admitted. "when Thor found out what happened. he brought us Loki. we;ve been trying to get information out of him but... something is wrong with him." Phil admitted. "he just repeats the same stuff. over and over like he's been... brainwashed, or had his mind erased or something." Phil admitted. "Fury's scared i might be contagious, but i know better. if i was, the people i've been interacting with until now would be too. so i slipped out while he was busy with some woman making idiotic claims." he admitted. "and came here. Fury has made no headway into what's wrong with me and now he's just being stupidly stubborn. if anyone can fix me, or find out if i'm going to actually die or... metamorphose or something, it's the people here."