You don't have to be in pieces forever. Bruce has spent around seven years like this, and he's never thought of himself and the Hulk like that. Not once, not ever. He doesn't make Tony chase him for eye contact, especially not after that, and he looks up, but there's a pain and an uncertainty in his eyes that he can't begin to hide.

"How do you do this? You know us both so well." He could leave it at that and he almost does, but he closes his eyes and draws up his nerve and gets the words out. "You have so much faith in us. I don't know what I ever did to earn any of that, Tony."