"Not if you keep it warmed up," Tony suggested, the compliment earning Gladio a warmer purr in his tone and another turn for Tony to wink over the rim of his glasses. That was two times now, though, that Gladio had presented a problem, making it Tony's problem. "D'you need, I don't know, a stick?," he asked, sauntering closer this time to consider the work the doctor had done. Not exactly the kind of work that he'd let the Avengers settle for in the middle of an ongoing crisis. "Doc's not here," he noted, both as an apology, the culprit wasn't nearby to bear the insults, and an invitation to go against whatever recommendations they had given, up to and including poking a stick in there.
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