[Tony practically chokes out a laugh but does at least lift his own glass in return.]
Salute. [It's a wry agreement, but a genuine one.] And now I have to wonder about exactly what breed of asshole you've been meeting that you have that kind of a system for it.
[He shakes his head a little as he takes another, smaller sip. He knows exactly what he was like in the bad old days, and he's pretty sure no one else in the universe would categorize it as a level 2 of anything. Granted he hadn't been as bad to Cisco as he could have been, for which he is profoundly not sorry.
The trouble is that as much as he regrets a lot of it, things had felt so much easier when he hadn't felt a need to care about anything. It's like having a nice relaxing vacation and only realizing in retrospect that you were the most obnoxious kind of tourist ever. There are so many reasons why Tony's head is a complete and utter mess at the moment.
None of which are Cisco's problem. But Tony can't help but give him a slightly curious look.]
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Salute. [It's a wry agreement, but a genuine one.] And now I have to wonder about exactly what breed of asshole you've been meeting that you have that kind of a system for it.
[He shakes his head a little as he takes another, smaller sip. He knows exactly what he was like in the bad old days, and he's pretty sure no one else in the universe would categorize it as a level 2 of anything. Granted he hadn't been as bad to Cisco as he could have been, for which he is profoundly not sorry.
The trouble is that as much as he regrets a lot of it, things had felt so much easier when he hadn't felt a need to care about anything. It's like having a nice relaxing vacation and only realizing in retrospect that you were the most obnoxious kind of tourist ever. There are so many reasons why Tony's head is a complete and utter mess at the moment.
None of which are Cisco's problem. But Tony can't help but give him a slightly curious look.]
You only forgot some things, right?