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Maybe, Bruce thinks as he listens to Tony, what Tony really needs is someone who can hear him doing a shitty job of explaining bad decisions and not get pissed off at him. His nails scrape audibly in the stubble on his jaw as he scratches there and looks at Tony, saying nothing while he tries to find the reasonable anger that should be there for this situation.

It just isn't there, and this is part of why he'd asked Kiara to put it back. All he's got now is that empty space and tired resignation.

"What's done is done." He shrugs and puts a hand on the table to brace himself as he leans in toward Tony. "But I'm going to give you some advice you'll probably ignore - when you make a choice that's going to impact a friend's life more than yours, don't do it unilaterally. That's how you lose friends." On that Bruce is speaking from experience.