"She's tough," he agreed, "She'll be fine. I should... unwind before I go see her, though."

It was one thing when he was threatened. Or Steve, or Diana, or Clark. As tough as Lois was, she was human. If she was shot in the chest, she'd die. Her life was, in the end, much more tenuous than theirs. And the downside of having emotion again were these things, these instances, that pushed him so deep into his past that he wasn't sure he could come out. Into that ice-cold rage that meant someone would lose their life. More than one someone if they got in his way.

He'd thought he was past that. Or at least that he was prepared. Now, he was facing the fact that he wasn't.