"Okay, I will-- Sasha, I'm so glad you're alive, when Jarvis told me I don't know what I would have done--"

"When I get back I'm never letting go of you. 

— how much do you know about how it happened?" 

"I don't know anything, Jarvis just told me that you died. --Uh, maybe don't read your text messages, I freaked out a little bit."

"Okay. I — I think I'm going to let Asher tell you." 

He looks at his text messages. 

sasha jarvis said you were dead, please tell me that's not true

please

I don't know what I would do without you

I love you, I love you so much, I can't

I don't know why I'm texting you you obviously can't text me back if

I just... don't want this to be true

please text me back

I love you, I love you so much 

I can't remember what I said to you before you left and I'm worried that I forgot to tell you and now I'm never going to get to say it where you can hear

I'm so sorry

jarvis says you're alive and on the helicarrier, it took a while for my hands to stop shaking enough to text you this, call me when you get this? and maybe don't read the other texts

I don't know if you heard any of the things I said when I was talking to you, but dying seems kind of distracting so I want to send them to you and I'm sorry if you already know and I'm bothering you.

I'm really sorry. I love you. 

All of those things I said were lies. I'm apparently really susceptible to mind control and I'm going to work on that. 

I understand if you don't want to see me and you don't have to. I can find another place for Lev to stay if that's easier, or make myself scarce when you want to visit. You don't have to be worried about not getting paid to be Spidey and if there's anything else you need from me of course you can have it. 

I don't want you to feel like you have to talk to me but I think you should know that meeting you was one of the best things that ever happened to me and watching you die was the worst. 

I'm sorry. I love you. 

"I love you," he says to Lev, in Russian and then again in English, and then he curls up and cries very quietly. 

"Why is that man sad?"

Natasha climbs onto the helicarrier, glances around the room, and then heads to the back where Asher is. Clint follows her.

"...a lot of reasons," Marlo says, instead of trying to detangle it in a way a child this small will understand. 

"Do I get to watch cartoons? And eat pancakes?"

"Yes. Yes, you do. We don't have pancakes right now, I don't think, but — Jarvis, do we have a way to put on cartoons for Adam?" 

A screen flickers and displays the first episode of Steven Universe. 

"I've never gotten to watch CARTOONS before." Adam's tone implies that he is pretty much fine with the torture thing as long as he gets to have cartoons first.

He nods, neutral. 

...he leaves Adam to watch Steven Universe and goes and sits by Sasha. 

He's still crying but he'll take the additional shoulder. 

Cartoons are EXACTLY AS GOOD AS ADAM HAD IMAGINED. 

Z finally gathers the willpower to emerge from the bathroom.

He stops in his tracks when he sees the kid.

Adam hears the noise!

"You have a funny face. Are you a monster?"

"...yep. I'm a monster. I'm a nice one, though."

"Monsters are COOL."

Does Deadpool want a armful of five-year-old? Because he is going to get an armful of five-year-old.

Deadpool is thrilled.

He beams and hugs him.

"Yeah? I think so too."

"Do you have lots of teeth and claws and eat people?"

"...I did bite a guy's ear off once."

"COOL!"

"...I think we're gonna get along just fine."

He ruffles his hair.

"My name's Z. Do you have a name?"