"You know," he says, tracing a line from Tony's ear down to his chin. "Tell you how much you meant to me. You and our little excursions. You were one of the first Midgardian friends I made." Jane and Darcy and Selvig had been the first. "One of the only Midgardian friends I made. You and Rogers. Banner and Romanoff. Barton and Rhodey."

Some of them he was closer to than others, but still he considered all of them his friends.