[ I doubt that will work either but it's worth a shot. It might work - it's more likely to than any of the arguments she gave him earlier, with the exception of the 'if you died i might turn into an extreme hoarders' aspect of I need you that he in turn employs directly back with her. He's the same way with her that she is with him - and in some respects it works for them. When they're all but tripping over their own swords for the other, though, there tend to be some issues.
Right now it's just autopilot until they can stop moving, because he wouldn't be able to function right now otherwise. Neither one of them is functioning very well right now at all, and if she was taking care of them on the roof and on the ride, then he's doing it at least for the duration of this walk to whatever nice, dim, quiet room is waiting them beyond the din and bustle of their arrival.
He can, at the very least, tell that she doesn't want to be touched - really anyone who looks at her probably could - and he holds her closer to himself, stares at anyone who gets too close to her, and more or less they back off. SHIELD medical is attentive and pushy, being overused to people who attempt to shrug off medical care when they actually do need it, but they're not stupid, and after a while someone with enough authority and sense orders them to be left alone by the majority and leads them to indeed that dim and quiet room. There, she does indicate that they need at least to be checked for immediate injuries, things that could require urgent attention within the next few hours, but that it would be another guide who came in to do so and that after that, they would be left to themselves to recover. ]
this setup got complicated quickly
Right now it's just autopilot until they can stop moving, because he wouldn't be able to function right now otherwise. Neither one of them is functioning very well right now at all, and if she was taking care of them on the roof and on the ride, then he's doing it at least for the duration of this walk to whatever nice, dim, quiet room is waiting them beyond the din and bustle of their arrival.
He can, at the very least, tell that she doesn't want to be touched - really anyone who looks at her probably could - and he holds her closer to himself, stares at anyone who gets too close to her, and more or less they back off. SHIELD medical is attentive and pushy, being overused to people who attempt to shrug off medical care when they actually do need it, but they're not stupid, and after a while someone with enough authority and sense orders them to be left alone by the majority and leads them to indeed that dim and quiet room. There, she does indicate that they need at least to be checked for immediate injuries, things that could require urgent attention within the next few hours, but that it would be another guide who came in to do so and that after that, they would be left to themselves to recover. ]