“...wait, you think I’m cute? Awww. You flatterer.”

"Well, I think he's cute. What does everyone else think?"

Natasha assesses him. "Cute."

"Fucking adorable." Clint's face is completely serious. 

"Edgy as fuck, and also extremely cute." 

He feigns swooning backwards onto the carpet.

That is....also very cute. 

Asher is pondering whether his type is "mysterious vigilantes whom everyone thinks is a menace and who hate taking their masks off or telling anyone their names" and if so what that says about him as a person.

Marlo is well aware that the swooning was deliberate and for dramatic effect. He still offers Deadpool a hand. 

Deadpool takes it, and once he’s up he takes a second to let go of it.

“You should invite me next time you throw one of these things. I’m out of freaky coincidences for, like...ten pages at least.”

"Why would you not be invited to literally everything," Sasha says, at the same moment as Bruce says "What does that even mean." 

"He would not be invited to everything because he commits lots of murders and-- some of us disapprove of that. Bruce and I disapprove of that."

"If he's here he can't be doing murders," Clint says, very sensibly. 

"Can't fault that logic." 

"I guess he's invited!"

He blows the room a kiss and flops aside against Sasha’s knee.

“This must be what friendship feels like! Tingles a little.”

It's really a shame that Sasha can't pet his hair. He settles for resting his fingertips on Deadpool's shoulder. 

Imagine how Asher feels! He can't pet anyone's hair!

There are nonzero people in the room whose hair he could pet, except for how actually no there aren't. 

(Clint has had his hand on Natasha's hair since Whatney woke up with a hole in his suit.) 

Sasha is perfectly happy to stay here and quasi-cuddle Asher and Deadpool, but possibly one of the other people in the room has other plans. 

Marlo ignores the inexplicable swell of annoyance towards Asher. Asher hasn't even done anything objectionable. 

Natasha disappears.

Clint leaves pretty much as soon as Natasha's gone; Banner awkwardly thanks Asher and goes a few minutes later. 

Marlo waits a few more minutes until he realizes he doesn't know what he's waiting for, and then stands up and says "Goodnight, it was good to finally meet you" to Spiderman and Deadpool and makes his way out. 

He waves, then glances aside at Asher and Spidey.

“...Iiiii’m just gonna head back home. Lots of murders to plot.”

He pulls himself up, and — wow, someday he is going to build a wink function into this suit — heads towards the elevator.

He calls "Have fun plotting your murders!" at Deadpool's back, and then he's alone with Asher. 

Asher pulls off his shirt. "Velvet Goldmine?"