If you wanted a straight answer I'd have thought you'd know by now to have just kept reading.
[ It's not always a correct answer, but it's a hell of a lot easier than trying to get one out of Tony himself. The words are a little more biting, a little more bitter than he actually intends to direct towards her specifically, which matches the way he's mostly facing something else again. She's right, with her logic, and he's annoyed because the logic in talking is always either that you have nothing to hide and shouldn't have a problem with just spilling your guts, or that you're tight-lipped and taciturn because there's some deep dark secret waiting to be spilled instead. It's uncomfortable and messy either way, and he hasn't always seen what's so great about sharing things with other people. More often than not it just means it gets shared with everyone else, and more often than that, there's not much you can do about it anyway. At least not volunteering the information yourself gives you an indignant leg to stand on later.
Anyway. This isn't about whatever trust issues he might have. (Because he totally has them.) This is apparently about all the ones that have to do with those issues instead. He's not trying to be angry at her, because he gets curious too, and this is exactly the kind of thing he would have forced with her (except where, no, he is perfectly okay with reading everything he can first and then just confronting them with the information rather than trying to get it from them via confrontation). He's not trying to be angry, she's just making it difficult not to be. ]
You're just going to - get angry. Er. Angrier. And not at me, which I can handle. [ She's going to get the answer from him, he already knows that. He gets too irritated too fast to not wind up just giving it to her to make the situation stop. It doesn't mean he's going to just give in though, and right now he's in a weird state of paying a lot of attention to her without actively paying a lot of attention to her. ] You're gonna get mad for me, and I don't want it. So I'm pissing you off now and just asking you to read it - preferably on the other side of the house. Or maybe when I'm not here. [ Or he'll just finally look at her. This tag is long enough now where I feel like that's an okay thing to do again. ] I'll give you a brief, but - I don't want to feel it. Either or.
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[ It's not always a correct answer, but it's a hell of a lot easier than trying to get one out of Tony himself. The words are a little more biting, a little more bitter than he actually intends to direct towards her specifically, which matches the way he's mostly facing something else again. She's right, with her logic, and he's annoyed because the logic in talking is always either that you have nothing to hide and shouldn't have a problem with just spilling your guts, or that you're tight-lipped and taciturn because there's some deep dark secret waiting to be spilled instead. It's uncomfortable and messy either way, and he hasn't always seen what's so great about sharing things with other people. More often than not it just means it gets shared with everyone else, and more often than that, there's not much you can do about it anyway. At least not volunteering the information yourself gives you an indignant leg to stand on later.
Anyway. This isn't about whatever trust issues he might have. (Because he totally has them.) This is apparently about all the ones that have to do with those issues instead. He's not trying to be angry at her, because he gets curious too, and this is exactly the kind of thing he would have forced with her (except where, no, he is perfectly okay with reading everything he can first and then just confronting them with the information rather than trying to get it from them via confrontation). He's not trying to be angry, she's just making it difficult not to be. ]
You're just going to - get angry. Er. Angrier. And not at me, which I can handle. [ She's going to get the answer from him, he already knows that. He gets too irritated too fast to not wind up just giving it to her to make the situation stop. It doesn't mean he's going to just give in though, and right now he's in a weird state of paying a lot of attention to her without actively paying a lot of attention to her. ] You're gonna get mad for me, and I don't want it. So I'm pissing you off now and just asking you to read it - preferably on the other side of the house. Or maybe when I'm not here. [ Or he'll just finally look at her. This tag is long enough now where I feel like that's an okay thing to do again. ] I'll give you a brief, but - I don't want to feel it. Either or.