[She was going to fight him, he could tell. Not physically - not yet anyway - but for the answers that she thought would fill in either blanks or lift some kind of terrible truth of her own past. He wondered how many people living knew where she came from, how she came to be or who had been associated with her. How isolating that must have been...
He continued to hold his stance and watched her, though he paused in their little conversation to down the rest of the milk from his glass. There was no point letting it go to waste after all and room temperature milk was of no comfort to him. It was time that allowed her to debate, to make her next move.]
You mean before you were placed in the SHIELD Academy for further training? That is curious, isn't it? Jumping from the Red Room under this man you're asking me about to SHIELD. I wonder why that happened. [It was a leading statement of course; he might not actually know the answer, but he was now curious enough that he would delve very deep indeed in this file to find out. Now he wanted to know more than ever exactly who he was dealing with.]
The Red Room? That I am, unfortunately, aware of. [Of OPUS, he spoke nothing of. To him, that was highly classified information that HYDRA was looking more deeply into.] The KGB are a highly effective force to reckon with, but they always seem to play their hands very carefully. Especially where they put their agents....
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Date: 2017-12-31 06:55 am (UTC)He continued to hold his stance and watched her, though he paused in their little conversation to down the rest of the milk from his glass. There was no point letting it go to waste after all and room temperature milk was of no comfort to him. It was time that allowed her to debate, to make her next move.]
You mean before you were placed in the SHIELD Academy for further training? That is curious, isn't it? Jumping from the Red Room under this man you're asking me about to SHIELD. I wonder why that happened. [It was a leading statement of course; he might not actually know the answer, but he was now curious enough that he would delve very deep indeed in this file to find out. Now he wanted to know more than ever exactly who he was dealing with.]
The Red Room? That I am, unfortunately, aware of. [Of OPUS, he spoke nothing of. To him, that was highly classified information that HYDRA was looking more deeply into.] The KGB are a highly effective force to reckon with, but they always seem to play their hands very carefully. Especially where they put their agents....