[He knows Natasha's soothing technique, but that always comes after the fight. It comes after, when there's more calm. And after the seeming betrayal at Sokovia, he's not sure it would work anyway. Not sure it would've ever worked from someone not Nat in the first place. So he knows better than to try it.

In theory, later, sometime, he can talk to Banner about it. Banner's a little bit not here at the moment. Clint does not shake or start or move when Hulk steps closer. He is always prepared to move, but one step does not make him abandon the post he's taken. This can be salvaged. Maybe.]

He's not. here. [For the love of god, he hopes that's true. What a disaster if he turned out to be an inadvertent liar about this.] I know it's scary. I know you're hurting right now. [Because he remembers how suddenly and clearly it hit, the memory of Vormir, like it was happening all over again. How the grief and the panic and the guilt had been overwhelming. And the Hulk is like an open wound about Bruce's memory, all of that stored directly on the surface with a need to lash out about it.] But it's not happening. You remembered it, but it's not happening. There won't be anymore blood, okay? Unless you smash people. And you don't want to do that. You don't want to hurt anyone who doesn't deserve it.