[ He nods, because he gets it. That same fear rattles around in his head every day, but- ]
We've been through a lot together. Not just... professionally, but personally. I think we've all tried really damn hard. Hard enough to know we don't wanna give up on any of this. On each other.
And... when I think about that fear- because believe me, I have it too, especially when I think about what Sam and I used to have- I realize how different it is. How important. I can't speak for the rest of our team, but I know how it is for me, and I'm almost certain they feel the same.
[She would never have been able to say it, if she didn't know he would get it. Getting some sort of pacifying, forced positivity reassurance would be worse, in certain ways, but she could count on Bucky not to try something like that.
And those facts combined meant that the reassurance he did offer now, she believed. His almost certain was quite a statement.]
[ Bucky knows that pacifying is the worst thing someone can hear- and he's never been one for forced anything, let alone positivity. He really means what he says here. ]
It does, yeah. It was rough at first, it really was- but you really think that even without the Avengers name hanging over our head, any of us would just walk outta here?
No. No, I don't think any of us would just walk out of here, I don't - well, Alexei is attached to the name, but not more than the team. I don't think the rest of us are really that attached to it.
But. [She struggles for a minute, with how to phrase this.] If someone tried to divide us and not just take away the name, if something horrible enough happened during that - I don't know. It is just hard to believe we could really get to keep this even as long as we have. It's better than we started this, but it just lingers, that fear.
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We've been through a lot together. Not just... professionally, but personally. I think we've all tried really damn hard. Hard enough to know we don't wanna give up on any of this. On each other.
And... when I think about that fear- because believe me, I have it too, especially when I think about what Sam and I used to have- I realize how different it is. How important. I can't speak for the rest of our team, but I know how it is for me, and I'm almost certain they feel the same.
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And those facts combined meant that the reassurance he did offer now, she believed. His almost certain was quite a statement.]
Really? It feels different to you?
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It does, yeah. It was rough at first, it really was- but you really think that even without the Avengers name hanging over our head, any of us would just walk outta here?
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But. [She struggles for a minute, with how to phrase this.] If someone tried to divide us and not just take away the name, if something horrible enough happened during that - I don't know. It is just hard to believe we could really get to keep this even as long as we have. It's better than we started this, but it just lingers, that fear.