[ It breaks her heart to hear him ask those questions because she knows what he's really asking. Why didn't he stop it. And she can't tell him that either. She can't tell him that he'd been busy blowing himself up to stop a race of alien robots from destroying SHIELD and taking over the world.

Still, as much as it hurts to know that this is hurting him, his anger is almost... soothing. It's the reaction of someone who cares, which she needs pretty desperately right now. ]

We were in the middle of a mission. A big one. You couldn't have stopped it. [ Because he does need to know that, if nothing else. ] And yeah, he's... He couldn't control my power and brought the building down on himself. He won't hurt anyone else.

[ But she still wakes up terrified that she's back in that barn. And every second she spends in this place, she's reminded of what happened because of how weak her powers still are. Nathaniel Malick haunts her like a psychotic ghost and she worries she'll never be able to escape him. ]