It doesn't have to be SHIELD, it doesn't have to be anything.
[And there is desperation, not so much that even a God could have noted, but he could. Because as much as he isn't James, he is still Winter Soldier. He knew her too well to mistake it.
Her hand is warm and smooth, deceptively small and soft on his. But that hand had killed, had destroyed lives even without death. She was, after all, the pride of Red Rooms achievements.
That was when the next natural conclusion came to her, one she'd been too blindsided to see before.]
I should have guessed they would send you. It would be only natural for either of us to be sent after the other.
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[And there is desperation, not so much that even a God could have noted, but he could. Because as much as he isn't James, he is still Winter Soldier. He knew her too well to mistake it.
Her hand is warm and smooth, deceptively small and soft on his. But that hand had killed, had destroyed lives even without death. She was, after all, the pride of Red Rooms achievements.
That was when the next natural conclusion came to her, one she'd been too blindsided to see before.]
I should have guessed they would send you. It would be only natural for either of us to be sent after the other.