"I mean one day you were on the Enterprise, and the next day you weren't," he says, glancing over his shoulder. It occurs to him, not for the first time, that he could have imagined the whole thing. He's back where he started, Natasha and Clint are here, safe ... maybe Fury is just messing with him, and they're preparing a padded room as he speaks. He frowns.

"Do you remember?" he asks carefully, quietly. "Do you remember where we were?"