"Yeah?" While his hands found his hips, Tony did his best to appear stern before he broke with a playful wiggle of his brow. "See? Just--just re-affirming what I knew. You admit fault when it's on your own damn terms. We've got so much in common." Taking Thor by the waist, Tony tugged him in for their first kiss in days.

The flirting, the idle banter--it brought Tony no closer to any information his curious mind craved but when the need for reassurance was there, he'd provide it. Tony had enough to fight without it being his comrades. Again.

"I'm staying the night. Right? Right. I'll put on dinner."