-- She watches it all. Freshly isolated, Peggy watches him slip back into Captain America as she slips easily back into being the spy. To be a friend and a woman and a confidant...these are roles she'll find again when he needs them of her. For now, she is once more an intelligence officer. Called upon to report to him with a very distinctive and singular butcher's bill.

Her eyes flicker to the ceiling as she summons the dates to mind. It's been awhile. Longer, certainly, than she allows him to believe. "1945," is her eventual answer. "January--"

She understands why he asks. She can see it in his every line when she watches him again: he believes he can change it all, and in many a fashion she wants to believe him. Why shouldn't she believe him? If Barnes can be saved, then maybe...

"Steve--"