If Tony had things to drop, he might have. He thought that was the end of it, no more feeling like he was pulling teeth. Fury should have called his pet Labrador back to base, why stay here? Tony stopped dead in the tapping of his fingers, smack dab in the middle of a line of code.

"How long will you be staying with us, Captain?" Trust JARVIS to speak for Tony when the genius couldn't find civil-enough sounding words to say.