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[vintageset]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, DIRECTOR_AC. FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION, USE 012.03.438.52 FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 014.02.665.57 *** Director_AC has joined 012.03.438.52 <DIRECTOR_AC> This is Phil. <DIRECTOR_AC> Leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

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[vintageset]

Yes. [Phil said with little thought. He didn’t know him in person, ever, but if Steve Rogers was friends, best friends with the man? How could he have been anything but a good person? Though from what he knows about history? The answer was still yes.]

And as a person, no longer anyones weapon? I believe you still are or can be a good person.

[cryogenics]

[Was that the answer he'd been hoping for? Or the one he'd been dreading? He didn't know how to be a good person, and he didn't remember ever being one before. He knew how to follow orders, how to kill and hurt, but he didn't know how to be anything else.

And here, someone he didn't even know believed he could be good. Did the others have expectations and beliefs like that, too? It was overwhelming.

He couldn't do this. He could do this right now. He turned away from Coulson, a little shaky still as he started to walk away. The house with Skye and the others...the castle he'd stayed at with Reira, he couldn't go to either of those places. He needed somewhere to be alone.]

[vintageset]

[He isn't sure if that was the right answer to tell him, but it was the truth anyhow. And as the man started to pull away and walk off he figured they were done for now. Nothing else required at this time. And look, Phil was still breathing. So he didn’t follow, but after a moment called out to him, being sure to use his name.]

James! [He paused, just to make sure that maybe, maybe he was listening.] If you ever need anything else. You know how to get hold of me. I’m willing to help, if you need it.

[he’d leave it at that unless the other had more to add or not.]

[cryogenics]

[He paused for a moment, obediently, even though he didn't have to, and he listened. Even though he'd just said Coulson could call him James, it was strange to hear it. He inclined his head to acknowledge that he understood, even if asking for help was hard, and he'd only done it once when it was for someone else, and then kept walking.]