"I can take it," Tony said to her, giving Nikita a flat-mouthed, thin-lipped look that was only a little too serious. Because Tony was not actually ready to guarantee he could take it.

Not without whining about it, at least.

He wasn't, after all, exactly a Steve Rogers. That was fine.

"You do what you need to do. I just don't want to leave a paper trail with this kind of thing. It looks bad, I know from experience. Way too much experience. I like what I do. I don't want to stop doing it."