He had a feeling that old man Pierce was perfectly content to let Rogers live looking backwards, skipping along at Fury's insistence to get back into the world. It was a dangerous game, but it was also one that Pierce couldn't yet get too involved in either, since the Secretary had given up the position of Director of SHIELD years ago. Fury was too sharp a tack not to notice Pierce butting in, regardless of how good of 'friends' the pair might appear. So, this was all left to the very notion that everything would be fine and once Insight was up, all of their big problems would take a large gauge bullet to the skull.

He liked to think that they could get a little more out of Rogers than letting the legend himself wallow away in whatever it was that Steve did alone all the time. Oh he knew the guy went out and about here and there, but there was a significant difference in being out in the world and being part of it. He wasn't entirely convinced that Rogers was on board anymore.

"Come on, we're a team, Cap. We look out for each other," he said with a wave of his hand, all casual. His other still made attempts at smoothing Steve's hair into place, but it slowly changed to just gently massaging the back of the super-soldier's head, no pressure to be anything more than the offered touch. "You can make up your mind or change your mind whenever you want. I'm not the type to get easily offended if you do change your mind. Do whatever you want."