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Bruce gave Tony a bit of a look. "It can't all be revelations." He had always been one to avoid small talk, but it had been easier to do around Tony. Besides, his words were true, about the HQ. It was honestly preferred.

He was going to be damned surprised about how much of his past things Tony had managed to find, though.

It didn't exactly shock Bruce that Tony still had his fingerprints on file, but- "did you say the whole building?" That, on the other hand, did. What did Tony expect him to do with an entire building? Even having a room and lab of his own in the Tower had been more than he had ever personally had in his life, and now Tony had had a whole building waiting for him?

It made his heart thump hard in his chest in a way he wasn't sure he was prepared to deal with... or sure he was capable of dealing with.

He turned his gaze away to study the new forms of the Legion bots, then to the actual area that was, supposedly, his. He hadn't worked on anything, obviously, since he'd left the Tower and he vaguely assumed that, since the leak, most of his research had been cannibalized by someone. Maybe not, given how quickly Tony had tried to lock some things down, but he wasn't sure.

"...Tony..." A question there, asking without asking why.