[Phil frowns slightly, more in a worried-confused way than a you-have-failed-me way (It's all in the eyebrows), at Clint's change in stance.
Look like the incident has given Clint some emotional scars he'll have to talk him about. Not like it's the first time...
Just once Coulson would like a near world-ending disaster to not leave emotional scars on his Agents. They already have enough. That's why most of them are working for SHIELD.
The others were head-hunted.
The silence stretches to uncomfortable for one of the first times since they started working together.
Phil wants to make a joke. 'Really? You don't sound that thrilled.' But knows it would only fall flat.
Suddenly he feels very tired. It's as if all his years working for SHIELD, the stress of the job, the quiet guilt and grief at seeing Clint under Loki's control and not able to do a damn thing, and the impossible-but-has-to-be-true fact of his own death back home has become a massive physical burden, instead of an equally heavy but unacknowledged mental one.
Phil rubs his face tiredly, barely wincing even as the movement pulls on his still tender scars and ribs. Those wings are absolutely the worst thing for someone recovering from a sucking chest wound. Even one miraculously healed.]
I think we should drop the formality, don't you? This isn't a formal debrief, just.... just a catching up on things I should to know.
[A pause then the faintest of smiles and a bit of tired but genuine humor enters Phil's voice.]
Then again, maybe it should be a formal debrief, since you are rarely formal during those.
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Look like the incident has given Clint some emotional scars he'll have to talk him about. Not like it's the first time...
Just once Coulson would like a near world-ending disaster to not leave emotional scars on his Agents. They already have enough. That's why most of them are working for SHIELD.
The others were head-hunted.
The silence stretches to uncomfortable for one of the first times since they started working together.
Phil wants to make a joke. 'Really? You don't sound that thrilled.' But knows it would only fall flat.
Suddenly he feels very tired. It's as if all his years working for SHIELD, the stress of the job, the quiet guilt and grief at seeing Clint under Loki's control and not able to do a damn thing, and the impossible-but-has-to-be-true fact of his own death back home has become a massive physical burden, instead of an equally heavy but unacknowledged mental one.
Phil rubs his face tiredly, barely wincing even as the movement pulls on his still tender scars and ribs. Those wings are absolutely the worst thing for someone recovering from a sucking chest wound. Even one miraculously healed.]
I think we should drop the formality, don't you? This isn't a formal debrief, just.... just a catching up on things I should to know.
[A pause then the faintest of smiles and a bit of tired but genuine humor enters Phil's voice.]
Then again, maybe it should be a formal debrief, since you are rarely formal during those.