“Both. What will you give me if I can disarm this thing in ten minutes?” He can’t help but flirt with and tease the other man. Nothing can ever come of it. Maybe that’s what makes him safe. Tony can have his closeness without it ever going too far. There’s not going to be extended contact and he has spent the better part of two days easing into a romantic sort of friendship with his absentee friend.

Most of him knows that’s because he craves that sort of connection and Banner is the only one giving him that attention right now. The rest of him doesn’t give a flying fuck what his reasoning behind this one sided, forced platonic love affair is.

He has already cracked open the box. This is all alien to him but the guy’s taught himself languages in the span of a few hours to conduct complicated business transactions. He can do this.