[Now, that sympathy is specific. She considers lying about it, but there are too many variables, too many ways her cover could be blown. To pretend she's from a world without Captain America paints her into a corner, and while she's certain she could get out of it if she really had to, the best lies are the ones that hold a kernel of truth.
There's no way this story won't hurt, and a woman who manages an art gallery doesn't have the benefit of knowing Rogers enough to gauge how his best friend might grieve for what she's about to say. But Tatiana, as it happens, still has enough tact to speak gingerly,]
He's alive.
[Start with the good news.]
Captain Rogers [Not 'America'. She knows Rogers hates the attention.] crashed. Um-- a few days before the war ended. He was lost for almost seventy years, but-- a couple years ago, we found him again. And he'd survived. The serum, you know? It must've kept him in suspended animation, at least that's the popular theory. I think he's working with the army again or something, that's -- the last I heard. Sorry. I wish I knew more.
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You're Bucky.
[Now, that sympathy is specific. She considers lying about it, but there are too many variables, too many ways her cover could be blown. To pretend she's from a world without Captain America paints her into a corner, and while she's certain she could get out of it if she really had to, the best lies are the ones that hold a kernel of truth.
There's no way this story won't hurt, and a woman who manages an art gallery doesn't have the benefit of knowing Rogers enough to gauge how his best friend might grieve for what she's about to say. But Tatiana, as it happens, still has enough tact to speak gingerly,]
He's alive.
[Start with the good news.]
Captain Rogers [Not 'America'. She knows Rogers hates the attention.] crashed. Um-- a few days before the war ended. He was lost for almost seventy years, but-- a couple years ago, we found him again. And he'd survived. The serum, you know? It must've kept him in suspended animation, at least that's the popular theory. I think he's working with the army again or something, that's -- the last I heard. Sorry. I wish I knew more.