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[agentx13]

Dinner's a Chinese take-out spread.

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[oldfashionedhero]

[There's a wild look in her eye when she looks up at him again and he is reminded of when he'd touched her earlier. He recognizes he's hit upon some deeply ingrained fight or flight response and he's about to say her name again when she throws the first punch.

It lands solidly, the surprise from it more than the momentum sending his shoulder back before he catches himself. Another lands and he reaches out instinctively, his fingers landing on her shoulders to stop her.

He used to imagine all the times he as fairly certain she would've loved to have thrown a punch his way, but she has never actually done it and for a moment he's afraid she's trapped in some kind of flashback. In some raw need to escape.

And then her words cut through him. They hit him harder than any fist could've and for a second Steve's face freezes into one heavy with guilt and regret.

He doesn't have an answer for her. He should've been there. He should've known. He should've kept that promise he'd made to himself and Peggy the first day he'd met Sharon, but he hadn't. He hadn't even known until it was too late.

His hands tightened on her shoulders reflexively. Shame burning through him as he shakes his head.]

I'm sorry. I should've... I didn't know.

[It's never going to be good enough. It's never going to take back the hell she's been through and he knows it.

He deserves to lose her trust after this. He deserves to lose her. But he can't.]

Sharon, please.