[They botched it. Zemo's men had screwed around and botched it. There was a third explosion of anger and lightning across his temporal lobe before he took her hand one more time.
And there was a different quality to his voice. A quality that said obey, a quality that said follow. Something robotic.]
Stay here.
[It's a few moments before he's standing there in her bathroom, gripping the sink and staring at himself in the mirror trying, trying to figure out where to go and what to do. The future was a grey fog. The past a dark storm cloud there was only the now and how the person he had sworn to protect had been hurt and mutated and torn.
Failure was not an option. Not on this magnitude. Not...
His hand connected with the glass and it shattered. Trite and true, he grabbed a piece of it - a large one and carried it back into her room.]
They lied to us. [To me.] ...Now look. And remember. Be strong.
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And there was a different quality to his voice. A quality that said obey, a quality that said follow. Something robotic.]
Stay here.
[It's a few moments before he's standing there in her bathroom, gripping the sink and staring at himself in the mirror trying, trying to figure out where to go and what to do. The future was a grey fog. The past a dark storm cloud there was only the now and how the person he had sworn to protect had been hurt and mutated and torn.
Failure was not an option. Not on this magnitude. Not...
His hand connected with the glass and it shattered. Trite and true, he grabbed a piece of it - a large one and carried it back into her room.]
They lied to us. [To me.] ...Now look. And remember. Be strong.