"Yeah, that's pretty much Stick in a nutshell. He was an asshole," he replies with a faint laugh.

The question doesn't bother him. He's had time to mourn and he's lost since then so it's hard to quantify where the pain of Elektra's loss starts to mold into others. "You will be surprised to hear this but me and Elektra were complicated." It's a flimsy joke. "She was my college girlfriend. My first love. Maybe my only love, if I'm being real with myself." People had come and gone out of his life before and after her but none held the sway over him that Elektra had. "Yeah. She was. You know that building that fell on me? I was only under it because of her. Once it became clear there wasn't a way out, that we were gonna die together? I found myself at peace with it. Only problem was I didn't."