Chapter Update: Full of Grace, chapter 10: If I Can Dream
Sam Wilson is a superhero. And Natasha starts to think maybe they’re in over their heads.
Content warning for discussion of suicidal ideation.
“I thought you were dead,” he said, blank-eyed. She retrieved the discarded grenade launcher– those things weren’t cheap– and started to walk back to the transport, but he was still standing there, so she doubled back and caught him by the arm. It wasn’t just his hand, his whole body was trembling finely.
“James,” she said. “Are you okay?”
“I thought you were dead,” he said again. “I couldn’t find you and I thought you were dead.”
“I’m better than that,” she said, a little crossly.
He blinked, and the expression he turned on her was so blank it didn’t look like he’d ever been a human. “Anyone can get unlucky,” he said.
