"Could be worse. Could've put you on literal babysitting duty for Laura. Our own resident battle nanny."
He can't even argue the cases all around of post-traumatic stress. He's got his shit, Nat's got a whole dossier of trauma, Tony's probably got so many things going on he hasn't realized are traumas but the nearly dying in space thing has very clearly got him freaked out, Bruce is finally working on his issues with the other guy, and Steve's got being a man out of time.
So no. Phil does not have an enviable job. And he's right. It's going to bubble up to a point where he can't hold it inside himself anymore. There's only so much that logic and rational thinking and friendly chats can do with something so enormous. It might be quiet or it might be loud, but however it happens, it won't be pretty.
He claps Phil on the back. "What they'll do is worry. I'll be here. And if I'm not here, someone better call me so I can be here."
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He can't even argue the cases all around of post-traumatic stress. He's got his shit, Nat's got a whole dossier of trauma, Tony's probably got so many things going on he hasn't realized are traumas but the nearly dying in space thing has very clearly got him freaked out, Bruce is finally working on his issues with the other guy, and Steve's got being a man out of time.
So no. Phil does not have an enviable job. And he's right. It's going to bubble up to a point where he can't hold it inside himself anymore. There's only so much that logic and rational thinking and friendly chats can do with something so enormous. It might be quiet or it might be loud, but however it happens, it won't be pretty.
He claps Phil on the back. "What they'll do is worry. I'll be here. And if I'm not here, someone better call me so I can be here."