[ If he were in a vaguely better mood then that might have registered properly, but Tony is moderately combative at best and downright confrontational when he's anything less than that. Confrontational when he cares to be, anyway. Evasive as fuck at the same time. It all sounds confusing but it goes together pretty well anyway.
He doesn't actually fight against her grip but he doesn't stop moving his hand entirely until she speaks again, and at that point it's not just his hand but all of him that pauses. He'd since returned his gaze to the table - even if there weren't actually files on it, he could still focus on the component parts strewn about the surface - and at her words whatever thought processes that were still devoted to the project (if there were a way to allow the entirety of the sheet to be connective, no wasted space, but where would that store the data then? along the side, perhaps? a slim memory bar to be perforated and removed for transferal) skitter to staggered standstills and twist and tumble into thinking about the new idea instead.
He doesn't have any true problem with the idea, and to be honest, it's very much not unappealing, he's just not sure how submissive he actually feels right now. He is, in fact, pretty sure he'd fight her most of the way. But maybe that's the point of it, because it feels pretty boring pretty fast when you just lie there and take whatever's coming.
So it's about the closest she'll actually get to an acceptance when he looks at her again and says: ] And what makes you think I'm going to listen?
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He doesn't actually fight against her grip but he doesn't stop moving his hand entirely until she speaks again, and at that point it's not just his hand but all of him that pauses. He'd since returned his gaze to the table - even if there weren't actually files on it, he could still focus on the component parts strewn about the surface - and at her words whatever thought processes that were still devoted to the project (if there were a way to allow the entirety of the sheet to be connective, no wasted space, but where would that store the data then? along the side, perhaps? a slim memory bar to be perforated and removed for transferal) skitter to staggered standstills and twist and tumble into thinking about the new idea instead.
He doesn't have any true problem with the idea, and to be honest, it's very much not unappealing, he's just not sure how submissive he actually feels right now. He is, in fact, pretty sure he'd fight her most of the way. But maybe that's the point of it, because it feels pretty boring pretty fast when you just lie there and take whatever's coming.
So it's about the closest she'll actually get to an acceptance when he looks at her again and says: ] And what makes you think I'm going to listen?