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[sivis_pacem]

[Perched on a rooftop, brooding.]

What.

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[juststeverogers]

Nah. Just, thanks for helping out.

[His smile is sincere.]

Things would have been a lot worse without you. You saved a lot of lives tonight.

[sivis_pacem]

[The look Steve gets is no less suspicious for the clarification. Sure, he's got enough of a bead on the guy now to figure it's sincere enough, but that doesn't stop the feeling that there's another shoe somewhere waiting to drop. He's too used to the usual line, the one where he's a murderer and needs to be stopped, that he needs to quit his methods and find a different hobby before somebody decides it for him. Real thanks, at least from the guys who run around in their PJs, well that's gonna take some getting used to.

He packs another part away and sits back on his heels, looking for a better answer. Turning the words over and getting them lined up just right before he answers.]

You draw the short straw to come over here and tell me that, or you pick it yourself?

[juststeverogers]

[People forget that Captain America is a soldier, first and foremost. That he's killed on the front lines. That he continues to take lives when he has to, in order to protect innocent lives.

Or Avenge Them.

It's not his preferred plan of action, but neither is he some idyllic perfect protector of justice, truth, and the American Way.]

I chose to. Really so hard to believe?

Now, I don't know about you but I'm starving. Know any good takeout still open this late?

[sivis_pacem]

[He's silent for a few long moments while he weighs it over in his head, but...hey, he's got a point. If there'd be anybody who'd choose to do it, it would probably be the guy with the shield. So instead of protesting any further, he just grunts in something like acceptance, packing the rest of it away and stashing it to pick up later. Nobody's going to be up here for a few hours anyway, he's got time to come back if he plays things right.]

There's a cheap burger place around the corner.