[ thankfully for her, sam has always been pretty decent with words. he's always liked talking, with people and around people, and about anything and everything. when he was little, it always came down to his titi asking what his grand plans were, and he always had to have an answer. now? now it's speeches in front of television cameras and trying his best to convince someone to put down the gun.
it's worked pretty well for his captain america career, no matter how short that was before abraxas.
but really, it's not like he has a perfect track record. he's had his weeks, months, where he was on autopilot more than he wasn't. getting out of bed is the hardest part, during those tougher times. and now? now she's here.
sam laughs, shaking his head. ] You could- I'm a great hugger.
[ it's the mention of his mother that has sam...not sobering, exactly, but there is a kind of stillness that comes over him even as he smiles. a little melancholy, but okay. he nods. ] She was. I don't even want to think about everything she'd do if she ended up here. This whole brewing war would have been sorted over a Sunday dinner and that would be that.
[ and as claire starts talking, sam listens. he picks up on a bit of that convoluted she'd been worried about, on the way the timelines don't really line up. he's about to ask about it, too, when she mentions time travel, and sam just sort of. accepts it all at that point. considering all the chaos that time travel caused for him and his back home? he can only imagine having to counter lives, and people, and what to do on top of all of that.
his smile turns sympathetic when she mentions her husband - about decades of time separated, to finally be reunited, and then this. he sets his own glass, which he'd been drinking every now and then during her words, down. ] I'm sorry about you and your husband. Especially after waiting for so long. [ it's genuine, his apology. even if he knows he had no hand in it, that situation...he can only imagine.
her warm smile is met with an equally warm one in return. ] Finding your people is the only good way I've found to combat all this. And I don't want to give you any false hope, I don't know the first thing about how all this works, but I've seen people come and go from here. All from different places, different times. If you and your husband have made it this far, I'm sure something like the Singularity won't stop you, either.
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it's worked pretty well for his captain america career, no matter how short that was before abraxas.
but really, it's not like he has a perfect track record. he's had his weeks, months, where he was on autopilot more than he wasn't. getting out of bed is the hardest part, during those tougher times. and now? now she's here.
sam laughs, shaking his head. ] You could- I'm a great hugger.
[ it's the mention of his mother that has sam...not sobering, exactly, but there is a kind of stillness that comes over him even as he smiles. a little melancholy, but okay. he nods. ] She was. I don't even want to think about everything she'd do if she ended up here. This whole brewing war would have been sorted over a Sunday dinner and that would be that.
[ and as claire starts talking, sam listens. he picks up on a bit of that convoluted she'd been worried about, on the way the timelines don't really line up. he's about to ask about it, too, when she mentions time travel, and sam just sort of. accepts it all at that point. considering all the chaos that time travel caused for him and his back home? he can only imagine having to counter lives, and people, and what to do on top of all of that.
his smile turns sympathetic when she mentions her husband - about decades of time separated, to finally be reunited, and then this. he sets his own glass, which he'd been drinking every now and then during her words, down. ] I'm sorry about you and your husband. Especially after waiting for so long. [ it's genuine, his apology. even if he knows he had no hand in it, that situation...he can only imagine.
her warm smile is met with an equally warm one in return. ] Finding your people is the only good way I've found to combat all this. And I don't want to give you any false hope, I don't know the first thing about how all this works, but I've seen people come and go from here. All from different places, different times. If you and your husband have made it this far, I'm sure something like the Singularity won't stop you, either.