“Seal the area off. There’s only three people here capable of going into that room unprotected. And that’s fine. The reactor has been installed and-- Think of it like Star Trek, Banner. You don’t want to go into the plasma reactor, right?” He was sounding better, having something really meaningful to work on was evidently agreeing with him. “I don’t think we need to remove it. Just keep people away from it. Unless other people are getting sick?”

He was a little out of the loop. Mohinder sat with him from time to time but it wasn’t always that easy to get real information out of the Indian. The man could talk, but he was mostly introspective about it. Tony tended to tune him out after awhile.

“Hey, by the way, I’m still a little mad that you thought I was dying and you didn’t come to see me.” He wanted to put that out there. “What if that was my dying wish? To see Bruce Banner one more time?”