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“He’s awake.” Two words. Two extremely simple words. And yet, they carried with them a power only few could understand – cutting through 70 years of pain and mourning, causing her heart to stop and her breath to catch.
She doesn’t answer Maria; it never even occurs to her to do so. She just simply hangs up, heading for Midtown and the coordinates sent to her phone. Somewhere, in the very back of her brain, a tiny voice tells her that there’s something she needs to do, people she needs to call. Like the Commandos. They deserve to know too. And they deserve to find out from her, one of their own.
She’ll feel bad about that later. When the boys relay to her the story of seeing the two of them on the nightly news. But they’ll also understand. Or at least she hopes they will. It’s hard not to have tunnel vision in this moment. He’s awake. All she has to do is go to him. And that is what she’s concentrating on. Getting to him.
The scene in Times Square is not what she’s expecting – helicopters, swat vans, several dozen SHIELD agents all with their weapons at the ready. Was this really the welcome wagon they had rolled out? This was…it wasn’t like the Hulk was destroying Harlem again.
The cab barely comes to a stop before she’s jumping out, tossing a fifty back at the driver and telling him to keep the change. She doesn’t have time to wait. She doesn’t have time to do anything. She just needs to get through the crowd. Which is why her SHIELD ID is already out and at the ready.
She pushes her way through the sea of onlookers and agents, paying no attention to either. She can hear the voices following her. Tourists wondering what is going on, who she is. Wondering if something’s happened or maybe they’ve stumbled onto where someone was filming. Lower level agents watching her in awe, some calling up the line to their supervisors, trying to get word to Fury that she’s made it.
And they must have succeeded. For as she appears behind Fury (just in enough time to hear him say something about being asleep for 70 years), he steps aside to reveal her. As if he’s had it planned the whole time. She wants to be angry with him for that. But she can’t.
She can’t be angry about anything right now. Because there he is. Not even ten feet from her. All it would take was a few steps and she could touch him.