[ The waiting is also weird, but ultimately a good thing. Tony will totally turn on you if he feels at all cornered, and pushing him is a pretty fast way to produce that feeling. So, waiting, while it makes him feel weird, is better than pushing; which she obviously knows already, but still. He takes the reassurance, if for no other reason than because right now he technically has to, and runs with it.
But it's hard to mask the sheer weight of the reaction he has to her acceptance. There's just too much of it, and to a level he's not sure what to do with. It doesn't really help that there's a handful of people who know about the basics, but there isn't anyone else who was there, or saw the events, and there wasn't any video, so. The pure level of relief that comes with a lack of any negative response is almost palpable, even if she weren't currently attuned to his state of being. The addition of positive things between everything else doesn't help that much. You're going to make him overdose on emotional positivism.
The physical though, overdoses there are okay. He goes as squirmy during that long moment as one can reasonably go while handcuffed to a headboard and effectively pinned underneath someone else - you can't look at him like that after he's shared so much like that, okay. He'd sort of prefer you didn't look at him at all, but hey. Pickers, beggars, choosers, things people can't be. Tony doesn't have to work so hard to smother his own reactions, although his eyelids do go a little fluttery again, trying to keep them open, hands clenching into fists for a few moments. More relief. Just saying. It's a pretty good outlet for all that tenseness. ]
who is the little spoon
But it's hard to mask the sheer weight of the reaction he has to her acceptance. There's just too much of it, and to a level he's not sure what to do with. It doesn't really help that there's a handful of people who know about the basics, but there isn't anyone else who was there, or saw the events, and there wasn't any video, so. The pure level of relief that comes with a lack of any negative response is almost palpable, even if she weren't currently attuned to his state of being. The addition of positive things between everything else doesn't help that much. You're going to make him overdose on emotional positivism.
The physical though, overdoses there are okay. He goes as squirmy during that long moment as one can reasonably go while handcuffed to a headboard and effectively pinned underneath someone else - you can't look at him like that after he's shared so much like that, okay. He'd sort of prefer you didn't look at him at all, but hey. Pickers, beggars, choosers, things people can't be. Tony doesn't have to work so hard to smother his own reactions, although his eyelids do go a little fluttery again, trying to keep them open, hands clenching into fists for a few moments. More relief. Just saying. It's a pretty good outlet for all that tenseness. ]