Re: log: Tony's Super Secret Facility
None of the Avengers really had a problem with death. Tony took killing very seriously, but he didn't abhor the act. Natasha was a deep well of unknowable capability, and while Tony was fairly sure that Bruce would avoid violence wherever possible, all that anger didn't come from nowhere. No, Tony's problem was mass death, or unnecessary death, and also death he didn't have opportunities to prevent. (All of these factors applied to the uncounted thousands he was responsible for, but that was just part of being Tony.)
Tony watched Bucky's eyes and brain, splitting his focus with effortless ability, working numbers in his head and allowing his software to track the patches and put together a more coherent timeline simply based on the materials used. Such calculations wouldn't be complete any time soon, but he could get started on them, and start he did. He watched Bucky's brain react to his ball game and Bruce's hands, the water and the words. "Steve," Tony said, "never knows what's good for him." There was not a smile in Tony's voice, but he was a hard read too.
"You do a really shitty job of repairing yourself," Tony said, bluntly. "Compared to me, you're like a ten year old playing Operation with a ball-point pen, and I'm a brain surgeon. Judging from your leg, you're shitty at repairing yourself in all kinds of ways. Also, judging from how much fucked up shit they have done to your head, you're not going to be any good at taking care of yourself for a while, pal." This was all said in the most even, the friendliest of tones, almost casual.
"I don't keep my friends prisoners unless they ask me to," Tony said, glancing at Bruce in the tiniest turns of his head. The game was winding down and had inexplicably switched to a car jingle in the style of Irving Berlin. "But I am asking you to ask me to. You should stay with us until you figure out what is in your head that's you, and what's them. Even he's," jerk of his thumb at Bruce, "noticing when you just space off without notice, and you like to tune me out, which is really annoying."
"Also you keep running off and killing people. You're doing a lame job cleaning up after yourself, and it would be more efficient," Tony emphasized this word, "if we worked together."