[ By this point the ritual's sink its teeth right into Steve, quite literally, and the pit has become an even more miserable place than it was before. With people at each other's throats or trying to draw one another into some sort of fold, he can hardly ever let his guard down.
Eventually, though, even he needs a break. A moment away from the paranoia, the anger, the way all of them are fighting off the worst infection he's ever known. The sleepless nights. The visions.
The Horizon isn't going to be a reprieve, not with that incessant hum and the way everything starts to shake as soon as he arrives, and yet he'll take a few minutes of that over what's going on in the pit right now. When Steve arrives outside Sam's house, he's a mess. He's wearing ripped, bloodied clothes, to say nothing of the strange wounds scattered all over his body — on his neck, his arms. His facial hair has grown in, similar to how it was while they were on the run.
But there, almost as if she was waiting for him, is Natasha. She looks untouched, unlike everyone with Steve, and the relief of that has him stumbling forward even as the ground tremors beneath his feet. ]
Nat—
[ He can't believe she's here. He almost wonders if he's seeing things. ]
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Eventually, though, even he needs a break. A moment away from the paranoia, the anger, the way all of them are fighting off the worst infection he's ever known. The sleepless nights. The visions.
The Horizon isn't going to be a reprieve, not with that incessant hum and the way everything starts to shake as soon as he arrives, and yet he'll take a few minutes of that over what's going on in the pit right now. When Steve arrives outside Sam's house, he's a mess. He's wearing ripped, bloodied clothes, to say nothing of the strange wounds scattered all over his body — on his neck, his arms. His facial hair has grown in, similar to how it was while they were on the run.
But there, almost as if she was waiting for him, is Natasha. She looks untouched, unlike everyone with Steve, and the relief of that has him stumbling forward even as the ground tremors beneath his feet. ]
Nat—
[ He can't believe she's here. He almost wonders if he's seeing things. ]