The thought may have crossed his mind, but her file also said she was Inhuman, which he knows very little about besides what was written in. People who claim to have powers tend to list that as a generalization and not bullet point specifics. She included a lot of things in the folder and for all intents and purposes, it got him there. For how long was a matter entirely up to her.
Bucky looks at the coffee, reaches down and moves it to the table beside before sliding into the booth. But before he lets her begin, he waves down the waitress and requests a fresh coffee. Only after one is brought over does he give Daisy his undivided attention.
"Who cares what I deserve. They don't. Why do you?" he replies, his tone definitely defensive and more than a bit skeptical that someone from SHIELD would want to help him. "What's in it for you? A promotion?"
She watches the coffee exchange, glad that it's working in her favor. He's not drinking the one she'd ordered, which she doesn't blame him for, but now she knows that he's planning on hearing her out. That's all she'd needed.
"SHIELD doesn't work like that anymore," she tells him, her words less defensive and more a simple statement of the nature of things. "It wasn't ever supposed to. The agency was founded under the core principle of protection and HYDRA corrupted that. More people should have seen it happening and been able to stop it, but that didn't happen and you suffered as a result."
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Bucky looks at the coffee, reaches down and moves it to the table beside before sliding into the booth. But before he lets her begin, he waves down the waitress and requests a fresh coffee. Only after one is brought over does he give Daisy his undivided attention.
"Who cares what I deserve. They don't. Why do you?" he replies, his tone definitely defensive and more than a bit skeptical that someone from SHIELD would want to help him. "What's in it for you? A promotion?"
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"SHIELD doesn't work like that anymore," she tells him, her words less defensive and more a simple statement of the nature of things. "It wasn't ever supposed to. The agency was founded under the core principle of protection and HYDRA corrupted that. More people should have seen it happening and been able to stop it, but that didn't happen and you suffered as a result."