[ continued from HERE. ][ Sam shrugs a little. The gesture almost seems dismissive, but the way he briefly glances down, frowns, lips pressing together - that isn't. ]
Yeah. Don't change the fact that Avengers failed you.
[ Failed Natasha, too. His expression twists for a moment - the sympathy and understand and patience he gives her overshadowed by grief and bitter anger. Because he too returned to a world that suddenly lacked Natasha, and had to swallow down his thoughts when there was no large funeral service for her, just a small headstone in Ohio that Sam didn't even know about until much later. ]
You deserve to have the ways in which you were failed acknowledged and addressed. Someone should apologize to you for how you were let down. Someone should see you and know that's the least you deserve. I'm the one that's here - so I'm the one who takes responsibility. [ Sam swallows. ] I'd give you more than words if I could.
[ Hell, he'd throw himself off a cliff on an alien planet to give her back her sister, quite honestly, because Natasha didn't deserve that - to die so far from home, not even her body brought back. ]
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[ Sam shrugs a little. The gesture almost seems dismissive, but the way he briefly glances down, frowns, lips pressing together - that isn't. ]
Yeah. Don't change the fact that Avengers failed you.
[ Failed Natasha, too. His expression twists for a moment - the sympathy and understand and patience he gives her overshadowed by grief and bitter anger. Because he too returned to a world that suddenly lacked Natasha, and had to swallow down his thoughts when there was no large funeral service for her, just a small headstone in Ohio that Sam didn't even know about until much later. ]
You deserve to have the ways in which you were failed acknowledged and addressed. Someone should apologize to you for how you were let down. Someone should see you and know that's the least you deserve. I'm the one that's here - so I'm the one who takes responsibility. [ Sam swallows. ] I'd give you more than words if I could.
[ Hell, he'd throw himself off a cliff on an alien planet to give her back her sister, quite honestly, because Natasha didn't deserve that - to die so far from home, not even her body brought back. ]