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[abrightboy]

"Took him where?" Malcolm asks. "What did they do with him?"

[bossyboiler]

"I don't know!" Kate replies.

[abrightboy]

"Then why do you assume it was something bad?" Malcolm asks.

[bossyboiler]

"Why would it be anything good? I couldn't find him. Why would they disappear him if it was something good?"

[abrightboy]

“Was he disappeared or did he just go work in another office or department?” Malcolm asks.

[bossyboiler]

"Malcolm!" She snaps, "If it was in another office or department, I would have found him. His family and friends would have known where he was."

[abrightboy]

“So you really looked hard for him,” Malcolm surmises.

[bossyboiler]

"Yes!"

[abrightboy]

“Why would a bad person do that?” he asks curiously.

[bossyboiler]

"Because I let it happen. Because after I found out what happened, I didn't tell anyone. I didn't try to save him."

[abrightboy]

“You didn’t try to save him? Then why were you looking for him? Didn’t doing that compromise your position?” Malcolm asks.

[bossyboiler]

"I looked for him. It's only because I didn't stop looking that I was brought into the fold and told the truth. They gave me a promotion to keep me quiet." Or to keep her complacent and manipulated. Either way, Kate continues to feel like the worst person. What makes her any different from Winter's handlers?

[oldbookshop]

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Didn't stop to think that that might be a... difficult subject to broach.

[abrightboy]

It’s a pretty normal subject for me. They were okay after. I’m glad you missed that one.

[abrightboy]

"So what could you have reasonably done instead?" Malcolm asks.

[bossyboiler]

"Not taken the promotion? Ran my mouth to anyone who'd listen and possibly ruin my life in the process."

[abrightboy]

"And what would that have accomplished?" Malcolm presses.

[bossyboiler]

"I don't know. Probably nothing. I maybe would have got labeled as insane. Definitely would have lost my job. Been an embarrassment to all that know me."

[abrightboy]

"And if you sacrificed all of that, would it have saved him?" Malcolm asks.

[bossyboiler]

"No. I don't know." She sits back down across from him.

[abrightboy]

He studies her face for a second.

"What does all this have to do with Winter?"

[bossyboiler]

"What doesn't it have to do with Winter? He was taken. Conditioned to do Gods know what, I don't want to think about it. He didn't ask for that. He didn't get to say yes. It was just done."

[abrightboy]

"Who by?" Malcolm asks curiously.

[bossyboiler]

"You mean Winter? I don't know. Not really." The name HYDRA has never been spoken aloud by either Yelena or Winter.

[henchgal]

"So what am I supposed to do, Malcolm?" It's more exasperated than actually pissed off at this point.