open post (steve rogers)

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steve rogers / captain america open post.

※ looking for a thread with an all-american super soldier?
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While Wanda dances around what she's actually saying, Steve can hear the true meaning in her words. What she's really saying is that she's relieved that most of the team hadn't seen what she'd done while working on Ultron's side.

Because it's true, it hadn't been pretty, especially what she'd done to Bruce. Steve and Natasha have forgiven her for the dreams she'd shown them, but forcing Bruce to go berserk in a populated city, well...

Who knows where Bruce has gotten to these days. Natasha's been trying to track him down, but the guy knows how to hide. If he had been here, though, Wanda's initiation into the team would have been a lot shakier.

"There is that," Steve says after a pause. "I've made sure they all know that you're one-hundred-percent with us. You shouldn't have to worry about anyone being suspicious because of what happened before."

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"If they are," she begins to reason, letting her hands come to rest together in her lap as she looks up at him, "I will not blame them. All I can do is show them whose side I am on."

Even with everything explained, even with Steve's assurances, she's not so vain as to let herself believe that his word will be enough. Maybe for some, it will be-- but there's also the fact that it's not only about proving herself to the rest of the team. It's going to be a long, long while before she forgives herself for what's been done, even if she'd believed her reasons at the time were just. It wasn't enough. She's not sure there's any reason that would be.

"I am glad you trust me. ... thank you."

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San will take him at his word, Steve thinks. Natasha's got the information to form her own opinion, and the Vision also seems to have taken to Wanda without any hard feelings. Granted, he hadn't even existed prior to Wanda's defection to their side, so that might have something to do with it.

So the real difficult sell, if there is one, will be Rhodey. Especially given that he's Stark's best friend and Wanda doesn't have the best opinion of Tony even now. Still, they're going to have to make it work and they've all remained civil so far.

"Exactly. Just do your best, prove what you can do, and work hard, and everyone's gonna come around." He smiles in what he hopes is a disarming way. "Once we're going on missions and doing the real thing, trust starts to form pretty fast." Given that they're putting their lives in each other's hands...