[ She doesn't actually do a great deal of digging as to Tony's past. It's kind of a silent bargain between them, or maybe she's imagining that part but she knows he doesn't look into her past and fair's fair, right?
Nobody needs to spend all their time burdened by the past, and that includes the people around them knowing about it. Sometimes it's better to just leave it buried there.
But sometimes you find things out completely on accident, and when someone made a casual joking reference to Tony's long and storied history with kidnapping, well. She'd gotten a little curious. She knew about Afghanistan, but they'd made it sound a lot bigger than that, which dovetailed in with comments he'd dropped himself over time. It was somewhere in the middle of SHIELD's file on his childhood that she gets frustrated and pushes her chair clear so that she's in his line of sight. ] Exactly how many times have people tried to kidnap you?
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Nobody needs to spend all their time burdened by the past, and that includes the people around them knowing about it. Sometimes it's better to just leave it buried there.
But sometimes you find things out completely on accident, and when someone made a casual joking reference to Tony's long and storied history with kidnapping, well. She'd gotten a little curious. She knew about Afghanistan, but they'd made it sound a lot bigger than that, which dovetailed in with comments he'd dropped himself over time. It was somewhere in the middle of SHIELD's file on his childhood that she gets frustrated and pushes her chair clear so that she's in his line of sight. ] Exactly how many times have people tried to kidnap you?