"She said she was in touch with you," he mutters. "It figures. SHIELD's legacy is never not going to be a pain in my ass, is it? Not to mention--"
Ross blows out a long breath and glares at Steve. "Listen, Captain. I don't have anything against you personally, by which I mean as a person, okay? But you and the rest of the Avengers - including goddamn Tony Stark, by the way - have made my life hell for literal years now. That's what I don't like. I don't like having to deploy my people to deal with increased threat levels among those left in the wreckage after one of your battles, while the Avengers soar off to the next mission instead of working with me. But I'm not stupid enough to pretend that you haven't made the world safer in a lot of ways, either. So if we can work together for once to get my agent out of trouble in fucking Madripoor, then maybe we'll have something to talk about after. Got it?"
He gives T'Challa a half-furious, half-exasperated look. "You set me up for this, didn't you?"
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Ross blows out a long breath and glares at Steve. "Listen, Captain. I don't have anything against you personally, by which I mean as a person, okay? But you and the rest of the Avengers - including goddamn Tony Stark, by the way - have made my life hell for literal years now. That's what I don't like. I don't like having to deploy my people to deal with increased threat levels among those left in the wreckage after one of your battles, while the Avengers soar off to the next mission instead of working with me. But I'm not stupid enough to pretend that you haven't made the world safer in a lot of ways, either. So if we can work together for once to get my agent out of trouble in fucking Madripoor, then maybe we'll have something to talk about after. Got it?"
He gives T'Challa a half-furious, half-exasperated look. "You set me up for this, didn't you?"