[ She will acknowledge her total hypocrisy all day long if that's what will get him to let her take the hits and help him. It's okay, she knows that, she just - it's not that she couldn't live without him, because if she knows anything about herself it's that life goes on and she goes with it and she's not dramatic enough to think that any one person holds the only meaning in life. But if there was ever a choice between him and her, for her it wouldn't even be a choice. He matters too much.
She can't monitor his mind very well right now, but generally he's good about letting her know what's okay and what isn't in regards to touch, so she feels okay enough keeping her hand around his and her other touching him at moments to guide him along the way as necessary, flinching away from anyone else offering assistance and using him in some respects as a shield because they won't try to touch him, they at least know better than that.
The problem with being off the helicopter is that the next step is medical attention of some kind, being whisked into the building of whatever hospital it is they've been taken to. Probably the SHIELD one. And she still doesn't really want people touching her, or trying to separate her from him, or any of this. He's scaring her a little, with how absent he's becoming from his own body, with how little power she has at the moment to try to pull him back aside from just drop her shields and let his cover her as she leaves her mind open to his, weary and exhausted and concerned and desperate with need for him to be okay. She can't separate anything out right now, can only be there and keep moving towards the general area they're being shepherded to while trying to dodge concerned hands. ]
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She can't monitor his mind very well right now, but generally he's good about letting her know what's okay and what isn't in regards to touch, so she feels okay enough keeping her hand around his and her other touching him at moments to guide him along the way as necessary, flinching away from anyone else offering assistance and using him in some respects as a shield because they won't try to touch him, they at least know better than that.
The problem with being off the helicopter is that the next step is medical attention of some kind, being whisked into the building of whatever hospital it is they've been taken to. Probably the SHIELD one. And she still doesn't really want people touching her, or trying to separate her from him, or any of this. He's scaring her a little, with how absent he's becoming from his own body, with how little power she has at the moment to try to pull him back aside from just drop her shields and let his cover her as she leaves her mind open to his, weary and exhausted and concerned and desperate with need for him to be okay. She can't separate anything out right now, can only be there and keep moving towards the general area they're being shepherded to while trying to dodge concerned hands. ]