We haven't been teenagers for a long time, Rogers. You could've found something better since then.
[ While it's self deprecation, he can't claim that his thoughts when it came to himself were as low as they can be at times now but that's what coming out of decades worth of brainwashing will do to a guy. ]
I know of more than a couple. [ Beat. ] You wanna go to an abandoned Hydra safehouse?
Were you looking? There was Carter, two of 'em between Peggy and that niece of hers, later.
[ Maybe it's because she mentioned it herself, that she's never slept with a man before but he has to wonder if she'd looked, she just didn't look at men. ]
I'm with you 'til the end of the line.
[ She didn't need to tell him that she'd always choose him - he's seen it already. When she came looking for him after she found out he was alive, how she chose him over Stark's kid, then visited him in Wakanda when he was awake during that time, even if she was on the run from the government. ]
Quoting their mutual promise from long ago makes her smile. ] Me too. And why not? We can get more done with less. Besides, might as well have better memories of those awful places.
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[ It might be intended as a joke, but there's a little truth to that. He tries again a moment later with something with more sentiment: ]
I guess I oughta take you somewhere it's not gonna matter if we break a few walls.
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Well except the broken wall part. Just the bed, at least.
[ She's not joking. ]
Ooh, how romantic. Like where, an abandoned HYDRA safehouse?
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You could've found something better since then.
[ While it's self deprecation, he can't claim that his thoughts when it came to himself were as low as they can be at times now but that's what coming out of decades worth of brainwashing will do to a guy. ]
I know of more than a couple. [ Beat. ] You wanna go to an abandoned Hydra safehouse?
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I know we've changed. I know we've done things. You've done things. But I will always choose you.
[ She'll believe in the good in him when he can't, when all he sees is the blood and the faces of those he'd killed. ]
We were gonna destroy those anyway. Might as well?
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There was Carter, two of 'em between Peggy and that niece of hers, later.
[ Maybe it's because she mentioned it herself, that she's never slept with a man before but he has to wonder if she'd looked, she just didn't look at men. ]
I'm with you 'til the end of the line.
[ She didn't need to tell him that she'd always choose him - he's seen it already. When she came looking for him after she found out he was alive, how she chose him over Stark's kid, then visited him in Wakanda when he was awake during that time, even if she was on the run from the government. ]
We planning on destroying all of 'em like this?
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[ Moving on isn't her strong suit.
Quoting their mutual promise from long ago makes her smile. ] Me too. And why not? We can get more done with less. Besides, might as well have better memories of those awful places.