Clean. Tony harbored a healthy distrust for Nick Fury and hardly considered him clean, but he got what Rogers meant. It was... a relief, weirdly, to hear that Fury wasn't HYDRA.

"Great," he replied flatly, heaving a sigh. "I guess I should ask what tried means, but to be perfectly honest I don't really care."

He looked away, brow furrowing as tension came back to his jaw.

"So when you say forced, is that forced the way he was forced to try to kill me, too?"