Was this some kind of suicide thing? Even the crowd below seemed to hold their collective breath for the pause in which Iron Man hesitated, repulsors charged, unreadable. She seemed pretty peppy for being suicidal. The S.H.I.E.L.D. intel on Rogue told Tony that she had bounced from the X-Men to some dark places before landing on the Brotherhood; maybe it was just flagellation.
Abruptly, Iron Man changed tactics, clenching his fists and launching himself forward to slam his shoulder into her and get her rattled. Fury could appoint her a therapist when Iron Man brought her in. Tony didn't exactly offer the most sympathetic shoulder to cry on. But Death by Avenger was, first of all, a statistically rare occurrence, and second of all a particularly grim one. There had to be something else going on...