"Well what else is there for me to try and fail at?" He responds, somewhat exasperated. "Thrown off the Avengers, deemed unfit to care for Audhild by myself, and then, to top everything else off... the first person to actually care about me for me leaves."

He hadn't quite meant to blurt out that last bit, but it had been on his mind lately. Well, it was always on his mind, but more at the front of it.