Six Sentence Sunday

[boogiewoogiebuglegal]

 From my RBB story, "Home is the Hunter"

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One of SHIELD’s first actions, after they had retrieved him from the isolated cabin, was to install him in a small apartment in Brooklyn.  Even that had felt like the worst kind of manipulation---here you are Captain Rogers, here’s an empty apartment in a city you no longer recognize--- but at least he’d been allowed to live somewhere that wasn’t the SHIELD barracks or, worse, that cold and isolated cabin.

Steve hadn’t been born in the 1820s; he was well aware that SHIELD had an agenda. It was clear enough when they talked to him; they spoke of “Erskine’s great gift to the nation” and what it would mean to the country to have him alive and allied with SHIELD and all the “greater good” his presence represented…but Steve had been born at the beginning of one war and sacrificed himself to end another and he was done. He was also not nearly dumb enough to tell them so outright, not until he got his bearings in this strange new century.

 

Comments

[mrs_d]

oh Steeeeeeeve :'(

[boogiewoogiebuglegal]

I know. :( But looking back at "The Avengers" and the end of CATFA with what we know from TWS (e.g., that SHIELD was infested with Hydra and had been for decades) and...there is no way they wouldn't attempt to manipulate him for their own purposes, cloaked in patriotism or playing off his sense of guilt, what have you. They just don't understand him As they will find out. ;-)

[auntiesuze]

Can't wait to read this!

[boogiewoogiebuglegal]

Oh, I hope you like it! \o/

I'm having a lot of fun writing angry, suspicious, disaffected Steve---because really, why wouldn't he be? The fact that we never actually got to see him run through even a glimmer of those emotions early in the MCU is ridiculous. Throw somebody forward in time 70 years and take him away from everything he knew, and what? You want Pollyanna? Not likely.