"Youth? That was five years ago, admit it." Gladio grinned. He was being generous with five but assumed he wasn't doing any of that stuff with Pepper. Unless Pepper was the one to cuff him and leave him hanging. In that case he felt he could understand it. Sometimes Tony pissed him off that much too.

Gladio's own arm moved around Tony then, tightening to pull him closer. Yes, he'd said happy. He'd hoped for a lighter mood but something told him that maybe this was a thing Tony needed to talk about. Especially if it was something that caused him nightmares. "... You were trapped in space?" He asked as delicately as he could, doing his best to keep his tone even. It was touching on a fear of his own, one he'd never even realised he'd had until that first mission on the Voidtrecker.