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Well.

I went out today to see if I could help with the fact that there's no sun, and I saw this man making lightning and cutting himself, and he was terrorizing the entrance to the underground, so I told him to cut it out. He cut himself and tried to hit me with lightning, but I blocked it, and after I managed to get him somewhere safe where he couldn't hurt anyone else, I noticed that my shield feels right again!

So I guess it just had to be hit by lightning. But the fact that it feels normal makes me a whole lot calmer about this whole thing.

[Pause]

But really, try to use these powers for good, okay? Especially if you have to something terrible to make them work.

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[That makes her feel a little better.]

That mission I mentioned? After I left the compound, I made it back to the Manders somehow. Almost died in the process but once I was better, I went to Rolling Stone magazine and told someone what happened. They ran a story that sort of made me sound like one of those fables a parent tells their kid to get them to behave. And the people I mentioned? My dad and all them? I don't think I could tell them what happens to them. Not even the people from The Shop. S'why I don't ever want to see them here.

[He's quiet for a long time]

I got experimented on, too. They gave me a serum to make me a better soldier. The army didn't treat me badly. I served my country.

But it was my choice, I knew what I was signing up for. I'm sorry about what happened to you.

[Is it weird this also earns him brownie points? Or is that just the norm for special people like them?]

Don't worry about it. It was years ago and life has been significantly calmer, since.

[She fiddles with her fingernails a moment, watching Steve.] Thank you for listening. I appreciate it. I think you're the first person I told that much to, even if that is the short version. And I feel bad for being depressing.

[Even though quiet honestly, she wasn't all that upset when she told her story. Annoyed, sure. Upset? Not so much.]

So, what were you like before the serum, if I may ask?

[He laughs at the question, because, well.]

I was short, and skinny, and I had asthma. I couldn't pass the medical portion of the army entrance examination.

I bet that's hard to believe now. Sometimes I still feel like him.

[Charlie gives him a very obvious, very disbelieving once over.] Seriously? I'm having a hard time believing it, now. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, though.

I was only five foot three, before.

But an army doctor, he was impressed with me, so he suggested me for the program.

That's amazing. A positive side to the wonders of science. Another random question, were you just as nice then as you are now?

[As flirty as this sounds, she's actually curious.]

[Pause, and he fumbles a little because well that's who Steve Rogers is]

I guess? I don't think I changed that much.

Are you still a soldier back home? And if I ask anything you don't want to answer, let me know. I don't like overstepping anything and making people feel uncomfortable.