Lydia's face sort of falls again, both for Tony and for Ray, when he's hopefully eventually released. Before she can stop herself, she's looking concerned and sympathetic all at once and murmuring more to herself than to him, "oh, sweetie, what did they do to you…?"
How could he not remember? This place and the things that happened here the first month or so she'd been around were pretty hard to miss or forget and Tony had been there for most of them, too.
She seems to snap out of a train of thought, then, looking back at him rather than...sort of through him.
"A couple of months ago. You were teaching me to fight after the hate group attack. You gave me this thing, um, like I pressed a button on it and there was this, like, not-quite-an-explosion-but-also-totally-a-minor-explosion that went off. So that if the ASS came back for round two, I could buy myself some time in a pinch. ...and then you were arrested before you could finish making me a replacement after I panicked and used mine on some random group of INFRAREDs that I thought were following me…"
When she doesn't see any recollection on his expression right away, Lydia deflates a little. "Never mind. Anyway, Steve is here, still. He can probably fill you in more than I can. We weren't that close," she says, and it's a lie, because Tony took her under wing the way Melissa McCall always seemed to have done with Stiles. She'd realized not too far into their lessons that he wasn't just teaching her to fight. He actually seemed to care whether she learned it well enough to prevent another attack. Not that Barry didn't when he was teaching her, it had just been a bit of a surprise coming from Tony. He seemed a lot more...aloof than Barry, was all. Tony probably never would've admitted it, but yeah. They were close.
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How could he not remember? This place and the things that happened here the first month or so she'd been around were pretty hard to miss or forget and Tony had been there for most of them, too.
She seems to snap out of a train of thought, then, looking back at him rather than...sort of through him.
"A couple of months ago. You were teaching me to fight after the hate group attack. You gave me this thing, um, like I pressed a button on it and there was this, like, not-quite-an-explosion-but-also-totally-a-minor-explosion that went off. So that if the ASS came back for round two, I could buy myself some time in a pinch. ...and then you were arrested before you could finish making me a replacement after I panicked and used mine on some random group of INFRAREDs that I thought were following me…"
When she doesn't see any recollection on his expression right away, Lydia deflates a little. "Never mind. Anyway, Steve is here, still. He can probably fill you in more than I can. We weren't that close," she says, and it's a lie, because Tony took her under wing the way Melissa McCall always seemed to have done with Stiles. She'd realized not too far into their lessons that he wasn't just teaching her to fight. He actually seemed to care whether she learned it well enough to prevent another attack. Not that Barry didn't when he was teaching her, it had just been a bit of a surprise coming from Tony. He seemed a lot more...aloof than Barry, was all. Tony probably never would've admitted it, but yeah. They were close.