[ tony's not wrong. indeed -- she's had tastes both first-hand and hearsay of how this place can trip a man's programming. if programming is even what it can be called. she's quite certain what happened to mister hunter is markedly different from what happened to barnes, but the two instances still stand together in her imagination.
if he came back, if something happened to activate whatever behaviours hydra had implanted in him, then could they even stop him? and if steve was here, would he do what had to be done? an uncharitable part of her thinks not. but she knows that's the part that's thinking less with her head and more with a broken heart. ]
A follow up, then. [ she changes their 'rules' on the fly. ] If either does return -- I'm not saying you contact me first, exactly, but awfully damned soon once it happens. We'll talk.
[ she doesn't want to be left out in the cold. more importantly, she doesn't want either tony or herself to do something stupid and rash.
it's almost as though she's suggesting her hat is in his ring. ]
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if he came back, if something happened to activate whatever behaviours hydra had implanted in him, then could they even stop him? and if steve was here, would he do what had to be done? an uncharitable part of her thinks not. but she knows that's the part that's thinking less with her head and more with a broken heart. ]
A follow up, then. [ she changes their 'rules' on the fly. ] If either does return -- I'm not saying you contact me first, exactly, but awfully damned soon once it happens. We'll talk.
[ she doesn't want to be left out in the cold. more importantly, she doesn't want either tony or herself to do something stupid and rash.
it's almost as though she's suggesting her hat is in his ring. ]