This wasn't helping Tony understand what he was doing that made her use the word 'hateful', but she must have been an awful pet owner if that was the standard. It seemed to him that she was going to great lengths to answer what she had asked him for herself, leaving him speechless and overwhelmed. Still trapped on the ground in a magical bubble with far too little space to himself, and it was getting really hot in that suit. If she hadn't started all wrong, it might have been easier to take in.
"Do you listen to yourself?" he finally said, more aggressive than he should have been, he realized belatedly, if he didn't want her to start yelling again. There had to have been a better way to respond, but he certainly didn't know it and instead forged on. "You're asking me to fix this, too, do you even realize that? You can't have both," he pointed out. There was no reason to tell him any of that self-pitying bullshit; that had nothing to do with him and if she really meant it she would be on the couch with a therapist and a rough draft of her recovery plan. "You want to take responsibility, show me you can without the dramatics. You want me to think you trust me? Don't call me to take out your garbage, don't disappear in the middle of the night on a suicide mission, and don't accuse me of not caring when I would have done anything to get your brother back the second I knew you would be safe, too." That shouldn't have been too complex for her to figure out on her own, but Tony was still here explaining it to her and it made him raise a hand to his faceplate, which gave him no relief from the spike of pain between his eyes. What he didn't know how to handle was her accrued debt that only one of them had been keeping tabs on; that was entirely unprecedented. On his end, the only way to make her feel better was to cut her off, but he already tried to quit the team that wasn't his anymore and yet here he was. He grit his teeth and tried to breathe deeply, compartmentalize and regain focus on the task at hand, but he was running too hot and whatever that building was they should have been heading toward couldn't be a big enough puzzle to solve to hold his attention. A little calmer, at long last, he said quietly, "You're the one person who knew who she was to me, and it was still more important to you to get your revenge. Why should I trust you?"