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Sam Wilson | Captain America ([personal profile] unclesam) wrote in [community profile] ethyraia 2021-05-23 12:42 am (UTC)

No excuses, old man.

[ Oh what's that? Dodging the earlier part of the statement, avoiding the complicated layers of that for a moment? But there's a flicker of something in Sam's eyes briefly. He takes those words and keeps them to process, doesn't reject them outright.

Even if the very idea feels wrong in a different way than it has in months. Because it was never about not feeling worthy of taking what was Steve's, it was about the larger picture. Here and now? It becomes a smaller thing. It becomes the feeling of borrowing another person's identity.

Sam catches the shield on his left and wipes some sweat off his brow with his right. He's been going at it for a while, but he's not about to slack. There's work to be put in. ]


No going easy on my either.

[ He tosses the shield back at an angle, lets it bounce off one of the pillars on the obstacle course, satisfied that it's on course right back to Steve. ]

How you holding up?

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