𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 nervous was an understatement , and her words of reassurance really did nothing to ease the nerves that had made home in his muscles . truthfully james had just done the tests to ward of suspicion . steve had been in the room when shuri had offered to do them and if he had refused the other would have inquired as to why . frankly tests in general brought on memories from his time in hydra’s lab . he remembered the cold and hostile environment , the poking and prodding ——
there’s a ringing in his ears , the young woman’s voice becoming nothing but muffled noise in the background . hands balling into fists , he’s losing his touch on reality . but he can’t let himself go there . nail of his thumb will dig lightly into the skin of his pointer finger , inflicting enough pain to focus on —— breathe in …. breathe out . it’s practiced , something he had taught himself whilst on the run . and slowly the ringing will grow quieter , allowing for her words to pass through .
completely fabricated . she was right , everything about him was not human , at least that’s what they had told him . despite his internal panic his face remains as stoic as ever , the winter soldier façade shinning through . ❛ i’m not sure i follow … ❜ and arms will cross over his chest with a shrug , a defensive stance , ❛ hydra did a lot of … experimentations on me … maybe something they did made it so your results came out weird . ❜ which in context wasn’t a lie .
Shuri had considered it, the fact that his DNA resulted so different due to the serum drastically changing its structure. The aftermath of experimentations had been another hypothesis, yet something didn’t quite fit well withing those theories. Even with the most drastic changes, she should have found some parts of his original genetics. Not everything could be changed, but everything in him was synthetic. Shuri couldn’t understand why he was not following, cause she wasn’t either. She was confused to say the least.
« Maybe. » The word however sounded as if she wasn’t too sure of it, her mind clearly spinning and pondering behind her dark hues. « But they would have had to tear apart your whole DNA and rebuild it to make it look like this. It’s not possible even with our technology. It’s like you were born like this… » She didn’t want him to feel like he was being scrutinized, that was not Shuri’s purpose anyway. She was just trying to understand whether she could use something in the way those data looked to help him break the programming. So that defensive stance she tried to work around.
« You know, human DNA is made of four key chemical bases, which are called adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. Yours is made of very similar ones, almost identical… but not quite. It’s like you’re not human but… a close replica. » And there she stopped, a smile appearing on her lips as the craziest idea appeared on her mind, almost a joke. « You’re sure you’re not a replicant, right? »
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