Re: Batman/Maria/Superman (or - After the longest car ride ever)
She couldn't help the startled blink and level stare as he admitted just how much he could hear. How in the world did the man stay sane? she sometimes felt that there was too much confusion and conflicting noise when she stood on the bridge of the Helicarrier and every station started signalling. It was also...incredibly personal, to hear him casually mention that he could tell how fast her heart was beating.
She had to stick to the topic at hand and not bark at him to keep his ears to himself. "IEDs are noisy things; humans, hearing one, can have hearing damage. Two hundred, and hearing the full range of the explosion? I'm surprised you don't."
He kept calling her "Miss Hill," but when he described the pain he experienced, she didn't hard the heart to tell him that it was "Agent Hill" or "Ms Hill" if he so insisted. That wasn't the point. They had wanted to know what it took to wound him, and here it was, and a description of it. "It would have killed you," she said quietly, but levelly, not quite a question. She knew a little of the pain a home could cause, but this...this was beyond her understanding entirely. "He not only attacked you, he wounded you - physically and emotionally - and would have killed you. Could have killed you."