Re: Natasha & Phil
No, being on the sidelines wasn't like him. But he'd needed it, after everything. A little while. He hadn't gotten the chance to have what he'd thought he was getting, so he'd needed... something. Anything. Any kind of break from what his life had become the last few years.
"I would," he said after a moment. "Maybe a while ago, I would've been content to largely be on the sidelines. And maybe even now, I should take the same sort of position I once had -- " When he'd been the agent to oversee her and Clint, and others. When he'd wrangled agents, not led a team of his own. " -- but anymore? It's not who I am."
He had a feeling that if anyone could understand that, it'd be her.