and he finds out that like Obie said, Tony never really came back from the cave. And for Rhodey that has to really hurt.

Oh man. Yeah. You can see it so clearly, and now that we've been talking about how physical Bridges makes Obediah, it's interesting to compare Obediah's physical interactions with Tony and Rhodey's.

Is the current fic the Sentinel pieces? I've seen them, but after reading the first couple paragraphs of the first one, realized that I needed to save 'em for when I had more brainpower.