All this time, Steve's been so careful not to worry his friends in the Nexus. Not to let them know what sort of horrors and battles he's had to drag himself away from in between trips to this place he's called a second home for a few years of his life. All of that effort to have some people still know him as Just Steve Rogers eaten away by a few unintended words from one of his battle comrades.
And still, Adia listened to Loki?
The gaze he turns on Caspar is steeled and full of a fight that only those who have had to face Steve Rogers down will have seen before. A refusal to be silent or to swallow back his beliefs. A fire that drove even the small sickly man he used to be to get his faced pummeled into the ground on so many occasions that he damaged his hearing in one ear. One more ailment gone thanks to his new body, but still remaining in his mind.
"This isn't the place for those kinds of stories." This isn't a fight he wants to have. Once it starts, he won't stop. Steve knows that. Knows himself. "Maybe some other time. It won't change what's already done."
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All this time, Steve's been so careful not to worry his friends in the Nexus. Not to let them know what sort of horrors and battles he's had to drag himself away from in between trips to this place he's called a second home for a few years of his life. All of that effort to have some people still know him as Just Steve Rogers eaten away by a few unintended words from one of his battle comrades.
And still, Adia listened to Loki?
The gaze he turns on Caspar is steeled and full of a fight that only those who have had to face Steve Rogers down will have seen before. A refusal to be silent or to swallow back his beliefs. A fire that drove even the small sickly man he used to be to get his faced pummeled into the ground on so many occasions that he damaged his hearing in one ear. One more ailment gone thanks to his new body, but still remaining in his mind.
"This isn't the place for those kinds of stories." This isn't a fight he wants to have. Once it starts, he won't stop. Steve knows that. Knows himself. "Maybe some other time. It won't change what's already done."