Steve probably shouldn't get off on Danny twisting to look at him like he's lost his mind. Like the words coming out Steve's mouth and going into Danny's ears are being banged in there with bricks. Making him look horrified and a little pained, but mostly like he wants to grab Steve's shoulders and set him straight. Which his mouth opens and starts doing already, because that's Danny.

And. Yeah. Maybe he shouldn't get off on it. But it's normal and it's flawless, and Steve is stupid for it.

The kind of stupid that makes him tense his mouth and shake his head, eyes getting brighter, and rail, right off and back as soon as Danny's mouth has managed to even close long enough for a breath. Shoving in words, like Danny might not even slow down or stop. And he really might not. That was Danny. But Steve didn't mind ramroding right over it if he started back in two seconds from now either.

"Alternate universe that just happened to have our history up until like the last ten minutes?"

He wasn't actually sure on the time frame, or even much in the way of being sure the rest of that was entirely true but it came out fast and direct anyway. Confident and sharper, like it's laughable Danny thinks he has any leg to stand on with the comparisons to the others.

"Even if it was," Steve added in, bringing his hand in a vague wave toward Danny. "The tacked on ending was just crap. Like it'd been shoved in and sewn on from somewhere else." It'd been an excuse for a gun mowing down. That was mostly what he remembered. Over the top even for what he considered plausibly real for anyone to buy.

Before adding anyone who'd been in circumstances like those circumstances.