"We were both covered in that stuff back at lab and it's been hours since. If it's transmitted by skin to skin contact then I've exposed several back at HQ as well." He should have been more careful, should have insisted that the team get checked out as soon as the debrief had concluded. There was no telling how many people he'd inadvertently exposed to whatever this was. "We have to get a message to them as soon as possible and maybe sealing off the garage from access as a temporary quarantine until we figure this mess out."

Except, by JARVIS analysis, it wasn't going to a simple matter of waiting it out locked in Tony's garage-slash-workshop and hoping that the people back at HQ would know what to do.

"JARVIS does that mean what I think it means?" Steve's cheeks, already rosy from the fever, darkened in embarrassment. "This stuff is making me doll dizzy?"