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deanna troi (public)
T (private/personal)
@tony.stark (neural implant)

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[interloping]

Yeah.

[ Peter has no intention whatsoever in tangoing with the Doc for the next forever if he can help it — so no worries there.

(Unless he goes rogue and tries to take over the city, and then he'll have no choice. Great power, great responsibility, and all that.) ]

You offering a cuddle and a warm mug of cocoa? [ The joke is there, but the quippiness is largely softened by the solemnity in his voice, the gravity of the situation still just a little too heavy to pass off as light. ] No, I'm — I'll be okay. I think I just needed to tell someone so I didn't feel like I was going crazy. Sorry you were the lucky winner.

[ But, despite everything ... he isn't really sure there's anyone else here he'd rather tell something like this to. ]

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Maybe not the cuddle, but we can go out for that warm mug of cocoa. It'll be my treat.

[ he can understand the need to confide in someone. it would take a considerable weight off of his own shoulders if he had that option. unfortunately, the only person who he could confide in isn't here — nor in the best state to have that talk even if he was.

so he's glad that he can at least fill in that role for pete, even if he wouldn't typically be his first pick. ]

And you don't have to apologize. I know we don't always have the... easiest relationship with each other, but I'm here to listen.

[interloping]

And here I was looking forward to the cuddle. [ Tony, you tease. ] But I'll take the cocoa.

[ He takes a breath then, a little like he has to recover from an emotional gut-punch thrown his way with those words. No, they haven't always had the easiest relationship, sometimes it was downright crappy. But of everyone he's ever known, superhero or not, Tony Stark had a knack for really getting him. Not even just the good and quippy, those really nerdy science jokes they could sling back and forth and never miss a beat, but the other stuff too. The ... darker stuff.

Sometimes he hated that. Actually, a lot of the times he hated it. ]

Thanks, T.