"When I'm there to keep you out of trouble." That answer is simple, and given with playful chiding, feeling almost as easy as it normally comes for them. She was trying. "Although sometimes you manage it even then."

Natasha reaches out then, only the slightest hint of hesitation before her fingers brush against his arm. "You might as well sit down. You're not supposed to be up and doing anything strenuous yet, are you?"

Usually she'd be checking his injuries for herself right about now, but she wasn't sure he'd welcome that yet.