[ He already misses the contact, even if they are getting angry with each other now.
There's a comment about how taking it for ten years means she shouldn't have to anymore, that she's probably taken more than her share as it is and that he doesn't mind stepping in. He's had a pretty decent crash course, he feels like, and it goes against survival instincts, natural instincts, sentinel instincts, and just plainly what he wants to let her just get up and blindly protect him regardless of the situation. The headache and sensitivity he's been keeping at bay are blossoming over, but it doesn't stop him catching the quiet words.
And they're not fair. He understands them, because he could have just as easily said them to her, but that doesn't mean that he likes them at all. The comment he was preparing falls apart before he even draws the breath to say it, and he looks at her for a few more seconds before looking away instead, because he doesn't know what to say to that. The longer he doesn't know what to say to that, the more the fight ebbs back out of him, the more he thinks there probably isn't an answer for it, the more tired he feels all of a sudden. So it's a little while later that he replies, and it's not combative, nor resigned - he's just giving her information she might want. ] SHIELD's four minutes out. I can hear them coming.
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There's a comment about how taking it for ten years means she shouldn't have to anymore, that she's probably taken more than her share as it is and that he doesn't mind stepping in. He's had a pretty decent crash course, he feels like, and it goes against survival instincts, natural instincts, sentinel instincts, and just plainly what he wants to let her just get up and blindly protect him regardless of the situation. The headache and sensitivity he's been keeping at bay are blossoming over, but it doesn't stop him catching the quiet words.
And they're not fair. He understands them, because he could have just as easily said them to her, but that doesn't mean that he likes them at all. The comment he was preparing falls apart before he even draws the breath to say it, and he looks at her for a few more seconds before looking away instead, because he doesn't know what to say to that. The longer he doesn't know what to say to that, the more the fight ebbs back out of him, the more he thinks there probably isn't an answer for it, the more tired he feels all of a sudden. So it's a little while later that he replies, and it's not combative, nor resigned - he's just giving her information she might want. ] SHIELD's four minutes out. I can hear them coming.