[ All Steve knows is the little bits that Tony's shared with the group and what he got from the files he looked over before he even agreed to working with SHIELD. Back when he was still trying to piece everything together. His life mostly. She doesn't need to know how Howard and Maria died. She doesn't need to know that HYDRA sent Bucky after them. Not yet anyways. He'll tell her, but dumping all of it into her lap right now seems cruel. It's not like either of them can act on the information entirely. They have more than enough time to do something if she does somehow convince Steve to alter these things. The changes will create a branch off, but him staying here has already done that in a way.
Who else? That's a loaded question. She takes him by the hand and moves him to the sofa once more. The music plays on, but he can hardly pay it any attention right now. Not when she wants to know things. It's a lot to take in. The team. He's not sure if he should tell her about everyone, but he can tell her about the ones that might interest her. Once they're settled he smiles at her. ] Team's kind of got a revolving door in a way. It can change. [ People come and go. They fall in battle. He's still not certain how he'll begin to tell her about the death of Tony in the future. It's best she knows just the good for the moment. ]
Thor's from Asgard. In uh--[ He looks upward briefly. ]--space. [ His hammer is stashed on the block for now. He didn't think he could go walking around with it in his hands. ] Nat and Clint were members of SHIELD long before they ever brought together the Avengers. As for Bruce--he was trying to recreate what they did to me. Things went south and he was exposed to pretty high levels of gamma radiation. After that he got some abilities. [ It's very difficult to explain the Hulk especially considering how far Bruce and his other side have come. ] That was pretty much the first bunch though. Of the team.
[ under different circumstances, the moment would have been tender. romantic. her fingers, tangled in his, and their knees bumping as they sit so close on her sofa that they might as well still be dancing for all the space between them. her thumb catches on the architecture of his wrist; she learns it, slow and eager, even as she learns about so much else. ]
Abilities.
[ she echoes the word, head tilted in curiosity. it’s a broad word. one might argue that any old person has got abilities of one sort or another. her ability to crack a russian one-pad in under five minutes might be considered remarkable in its own right. but the way steve says it, she imagines he must be speaking of a whole different scope. ]
How many of your—[ a pause, a winkle of her nose ]—Avengers have abilities?
[ For a long time it was only him and the Red Skull with some sort of abilities. All from the super soldier serum though. It was difficult for him to learn these things in such rapid succession when he woke up from the ice. He's not even sure how to explain Wanda's abilities because to be honest he doesn't understand them completely. He wonders if she does. But at the same time Steve isn't scared. The unknown isn't scary in that sense. She could probably do more damage out of all of them, but it doesn't matter. Because he knows the person. Just like he knows Thor. He knows Carol. He knows Bruce. Fear can make you do funny things if you let it. ]
These days? More than a few. Some didn't quite make it though.
[ Vision is gone. Pietro as well. ]
Five not including myself. Some people are just extraordinary. Others have suits that let them do things. Special things.
[ He decides explaining Rocket would be just too complicated. It's not a really easy thing for him to even explain because Rocket doesn't share everything. Just what you need to know. ]
SHIELD founded the Avengers. You would be pretty proud of it. It's brought a lot of amazing people together. People that consider each other family.
[ there’s a heaviness to his euphemism. some didn’t quite make it through. peggy mightn’t know much about powers, about grand crime-fighting teams, but she’s known enough loss to hear how it stains a sentence. quickly, and on instinct, she grabs for his hand. she holds it tight. ]
It would appear the world gets rather—bigger. In the years to come.
[ she sucks a breath through her teeth; is such growth a good or a bad thing? there’s an unsettled sensation in her stomach as she wonders whether she’ll ever be prepared for what’s to come. beyond that, should she be prepared for any of it? there’s a desire, an urge, to treat steve a little like a crystal ball—to plumb him for anything that might be useful.
already, he’s proven himself quasi-resistant. but peggy thinks (peggy knows) that she could overcome it. the question remains, then: should she? ]
And yet here you are. [ there’s no jealousy, this time. no vulnerability. just shrewdness. ] What changed?
[ what really drove him back to her? what opportunity arose? what problem got solved? ]
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Who else? That's a loaded question. She takes him by the hand and moves him to the sofa once more. The music plays on, but he can hardly pay it any attention right now. Not when she wants to know things. It's a lot to take in. The team. He's not sure if he should tell her about everyone, but he can tell her about the ones that might interest her. Once they're settled he smiles at her. ] Team's kind of got a revolving door in a way. It can change. [ People come and go. They fall in battle. He's still not certain how he'll begin to tell her about the death of Tony in the future. It's best she knows just the good for the moment. ]
Thor's from Asgard. In uh--[ He looks upward briefly. ]--space. [ His hammer is stashed on the block for now. He didn't think he could go walking around with it in his hands. ] Nat and Clint were members of SHIELD long before they ever brought together the Avengers. As for Bruce--he was trying to recreate what they did to me. Things went south and he was exposed to pretty high levels of gamma radiation. After that he got some abilities. [ It's very difficult to explain the Hulk especially considering how far Bruce and his other side have come. ] That was pretty much the first bunch though. Of the team.
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Abilities.
[ she echoes the word, head tilted in curiosity. it’s a broad word. one might argue that any old person has got abilities of one sort or another. her ability to crack a russian one-pad in under five minutes might be considered remarkable in its own right. but the way steve says it, she imagines he must be speaking of a whole different scope. ]
How many of your—[ a pause, a winkle of her nose ]—Avengers have abilities?
[ but she commits each name to memory. ]
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These days? More than a few. Some didn't quite make it though.
[ Vision is gone. Pietro as well. ]
Five not including myself. Some people are just extraordinary. Others have suits that let them do things. Special things.
[ He decides explaining Rocket would be just too complicated. It's not a really easy thing for him to even explain because Rocket doesn't share everything. Just what you need to know. ]
SHIELD founded the Avengers. You would be pretty proud of it. It's brought a lot of amazing people together. People that consider each other family.
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It would appear the world gets rather—bigger. In the years to come.
[ she sucks a breath through her teeth; is such growth a good or a bad thing? there’s an unsettled sensation in her stomach as she wonders whether she’ll ever be prepared for what’s to come. beyond that, should she be prepared for any of it? there’s a desire, an urge, to treat steve a little like a crystal ball—to plumb him for anything that might be useful.
already, he’s proven himself quasi-resistant. but peggy thinks (peggy knows) that she could overcome it. the question remains, then: should she? ]
And yet here you are. [ there’s no jealousy, this time. no vulnerability. just shrewdness. ] What changed?
[ what really drove him back to her? what opportunity arose? what problem got solved? ]