@ultimatecaptain sent a meme.
“And isn’t it just so pretty to think, all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?”
She had been ill at ease since being leveraged into her position at SHIELD for a slew of reasons, not the least of which was how hard she had tried to leave her past behind... and with the proof positive that HYDRA had, in fact, infiltrated SHIELD to its core had just proven to her that nothing and nowhere was safe from its grasp. Even those like Fury and Coulson who had led the charge to purify SHIELD and had in theory always led with the best of intentions, humanity was flawed and those that meddled with the powers of gods, of aliens and technology beyond their understanding were only inviting corruption and strife.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"Agent Walker... With all due respect, and bearing in mind that I do not know what you know of my past, I would very much appreciate you refraining from using any allusion to me being on anyone's tether in the future." She trusted him about as far as she could throw him. "That being said, I am happy to assist you in any way that falls within my role here at SHIELD, but I find the idea of predestiny to be ... unlikely at best, at laughable, at worst."
