[ it's one thing to know that she's technically in charge of him and of strike every time they're on a mission together, that she's running the ops that fury gives her. technically, because there's compartmentalisation and she never knows when someone ostensibly under her command might have received additional orders as well. ( she has no idea about the degreee to which that is true, not yet. )
it's another thing entirely to have him tell her in this context. steph's not great at relationships; she'd spent most her life waiting for the right partner. brock rumlow definitely isn't, but she lets herself think about it for a moment, lets herself imagine.
she's not in love with him and he's not in love with her, but they can make it work. ]
Maybe we were just trying to escape your mother's religious rants about how sex before marriage is a sin. [ she's not entirely serious. ]
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[ it's one thing to know that she's technically in charge of him and of strike every time they're on a mission together, that she's running the ops that fury gives her. technically, because there's compartmentalisation and she never knows when someone ostensibly under her command might have received additional orders as well. ( she has no idea about the degreee to which that is true, not yet. )
it's another thing entirely to have him tell her in this context. steph's not great at relationships; she'd spent most her life waiting for the right partner. brock rumlow definitely isn't, but she lets herself think about it for a moment, lets herself imagine.
she's not in love with him and he's not in love with her, but they can make it work. ]
Maybe we were just trying to escape your mother's religious rants about how sex before marriage is a sin. [ she's not entirely serious. ]