You going out to take care of some bad guy tail without me? Impatient much? [ And it's said with some levity, but he's not always that great at injecting that sort of thing properly - it tends to be too brittle when it comes around his teeth, hits the air at an awkward angle and falls flatter than the affect from which it was given. In certain cases, of course Tony Stark can fake his way through, but at times like this when he doesn't actually want or see the need to? He doesn't need to trick her into thinking that he's okay with whatever she's avoiding, because he isn't. That's actually the part he wants her to be aware of.

And he is genuinely glad that she does seem to be okay. He... mostly trusts her to actually take care of herself if she's seriously injured, if only because it's less annoying to heal up properly and therefore faster than it is to be stupid about it. ] Must have been pretty important to drag you away from your nightly bedside vigil without so much as a note.