[ The worst part is easily that she knows what he was thinking, knows that she would have done the exact same thing if he hadn't been better at it, if she hadn't been dizzy and disconnected too much to realize what he was doing in time to head him off and make them not care about him.
She would have done exactly the same thing. Wanted to do the same thing. She knows exactly how hypocritical she's being right now and that his frustration with her is reasonable, it's just that every time she tries to be reasonable in turn about it she thinks about him in pain and every part of her balks and refuses to cooperate with anything that allows that. She's accustomed to the idea of being hurt herself, desensitized to it being something worth much consideration, but he's an entirely different matter.
And he doesn't look really good right now, and definitely not like he's actually fine. Very much not like he's actually fine, and she pauses and watches him more closely, brushes against his mind in search of permission to help. ] Tony.
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She would have done exactly the same thing. Wanted to do the same thing. She knows exactly how hypocritical she's being right now and that his frustration with her is reasonable, it's just that every time she tries to be reasonable in turn about it she thinks about him in pain and every part of her balks and refuses to cooperate with anything that allows that. She's accustomed to the idea of being hurt herself, desensitized to it being something worth much consideration, but he's an entirely different matter.
And he doesn't look really good right now, and definitely not like he's actually fine. Very much not like he's actually fine, and she pauses and watches him more closely, brushes against his mind in search of permission to help. ] Tony.