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"The last thing I want is to listen to strangers' problems." He barely listens to his friends' problems. Dr. Bruce Banner, shrink to the world's superheroes, maybe? He'd rather be homeless in South America again.

He waves Tony off and sprawls out on the bed again. It takes time to get to sleep, but eventually he does, lulled by the familiar rhythms of Tony's voice from the other room, even if he still misses the counterpoint of JARVIS's replies. FRIDAY's clearly competent, but JARVIS had been, in his way, a friend, and he was closely linked to Bruce's experience of Tony.

Once he sinks into slow-wave sleep, his body fully relaxes and Kiara's block reasserts itself on the anger that Bruce had been forced to pull past it in the name of survival. He barely groans as his body reshapes itself, leaving him lying in a Hulk-shaped depression in the mattress that slowly decompresses without the weight on it.

The moment that Tony makes any sound in the bedroom or gets onto the bed, he'll wake and lie there silently while he tries to remember where he is and whether there's any immediate risk.