Maybe talk to someone about making some. People're always looking for projects around here, right? [He's kidding, but now that it's out there, he wouldn't exactly be shocked if it happened. People are weird around here, go figure.
Her question's a little bit harder to answer honestly, or kid around about, because he knows people can probably tell something's off, or up, or just a little different about him. It's not like he's been quiet about who he is, or what he'd been doing before the Admiral had grabbed him, and he knows there's a certain kind of deadness in the expression that comes along after months and years of exposure to combat. He does a pretty good job of hiding it, but when he's sore and tired and coming off of a couple days of feeling like complete and utter shit? Yeah, it probably shows.
So, he just shrugs. Maybe later, she'll be able to weasel something more out of him.]
I'm fine. This isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
[He says it like he's kidding, but boy, he so is not. Yeah, it sucks to have to recover from about a hundred different bruises and aches and pains, and actual broken ribs and what probably should have been a skull fracture, but this isn't the worst.
He's a soldier. He's been tortured, he's watched friends die, he's died himself. And as scared as he is about what this all means, because he hates thinking about what HYDRA did to him, what they tried to turn him into, at least he's in one piece, and he's got Steve around and plenty of other good people watching his back.
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Her question's a little bit harder to answer honestly, or kid around about, because he knows people can probably tell something's off, or up, or just a little different about him. It's not like he's been quiet about who he is, or what he'd been doing before the Admiral had grabbed him, and he knows there's a certain kind of deadness in the expression that comes along after months and years of exposure to combat. He does a pretty good job of hiding it, but when he's sore and tired and coming off of a couple days of feeling like complete and utter shit? Yeah, it probably shows.
So, he just shrugs. Maybe later, she'll be able to weasel something more out of him.]
I'm fine. This isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
[He says it like he's kidding, but boy, he so is not. Yeah, it sucks to have to recover from about a hundred different bruises and aches and pains, and actual broken ribs and what probably should have been a skull fracture, but this isn't the worst.
He's a soldier. He's been tortured, he's watched friends die, he's died himself. And as scared as he is about what this all means, because he hates thinking about what HYDRA did to him, what they tried to turn him into, at least he's in one piece, and he's got Steve around and plenty of other good people watching his back.
He's been worse.]