"And I already said I don't expect you to be!" she snapped, clearly annoyed now. He didn't understand and she still had no real idea of what he was getting at. "You won't be here for me all the time, fine, I get it. You weren't here when I spent those months in another country living on charity and before that when I was in my universe growing up with my mother all overprotective and when she freaked out and when we fought and when she married that jerk. I mean, god, even my you wasn't there! I don't need anyone! I just want- I'm just staying here because-"
Cassie shook her head and pressed her lips stubbornly together. What a lie. She did need someone, and she always had, and she always would, and not Tony or even her mother- and certainly never ever her stepfather Blake Burdick- could replace him. Cassie wanted to shrink and slink away and not be here thinking about her mom and thinking about Scott Lang- the true reason she chose to stay in this universe, so far from the familiarity and comfort of the world she knew. Cassie wanted to find her father.