She's silent for a moment, turning those words over for a moment. Considering exactly what he's let her see, by uttering them.
It's not her place to judge him. But if it were... she'd be favorable in her ruling.
"Why does it have to be one or the other, though?" she finally asks. "Sometimes... things just end up being mutually beneficial. That doesn't make them less valid than if they weren't."
It's sort of like her and SHIELD - well. The right side of SHIELD. Fury and Clint. Steve. That had been good for her, and at the same time, she'd been trying to do good. One just came hand in hand with the other.
She thinks this might fall along similar lines for him. "Just because it's the right path doesn't mean it needs to be the hard one. Or the self-sacrificing one. That's Steve talk, and Steve's sort of an idiot sometimes."
That is said fondly. She thinks he might have been learning. Slowly. But the world ripped the rug out from under their feet, and everything's turned around.
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It's not her place to judge him. But if it were... she'd be favorable in her ruling.
"Why does it have to be one or the other, though?" she finally asks. "Sometimes... things just end up being mutually beneficial. That doesn't make them less valid than if they weren't."
It's sort of like her and SHIELD - well. The right side of SHIELD. Fury and Clint. Steve. That had been good for her, and at the same time, she'd been trying to do good. One just came hand in hand with the other.
She thinks this might fall along similar lines for him. "Just because it's the right path doesn't mean it needs to be the hard one. Or the self-sacrificing one. That's Steve talk, and Steve's sort of an idiot sometimes."
That is said fondly. She thinks he might have been learning. Slowly. But the world ripped the rug out from under their feet, and everything's turned around.
Maybe soon it will be better. She hopes.