"You're the White Wolf?" It's more than a little strangled. Ross scrubs his hand over his mouth, staring at Barnes. "Goddamn it. No wonder--"
He cuts himself off there and gives Barnes a sharp stare before directing a long, level look at T'Challa, who's clearly trying to drive him insane. "You sure don't make it easy, your highness."
Ross turns back to the man in front of him and sighs. "Okay, first things first. On behalf of the Joint Terrorism Task Force--"
T'Challa stirs, and Rogers comes to attention, and Ross spares a second to hope he'll get it all out before everything goes to hell in a handbasket. "-- I apologize, Sergeant Barnes, for the misidentification that led to you being charged with the crimes later attributed to Helmut Zemo. Those charges have since been dropped."
Barnes blinks in visible surprise, and Ross congratulates himself on keeping a straight face. He lets it hang there in the air between them all before he adds, "Also, thanks for not doing worse than breaking my wrist when you flattened me in the field that day. Everything else that has to do with the Winter Soldier is still a giant fucking mess that we'll have to deal with once Carter's recovered."
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Date: 2021-09-14 02:51 am (UTC)He cuts himself off there and gives Barnes a sharp stare before directing a long, level look at T'Challa, who's clearly trying to drive him insane. "You sure don't make it easy, your highness."
Ross turns back to the man in front of him and sighs. "Okay, first things first. On behalf of the Joint Terrorism Task Force--"
T'Challa stirs, and Rogers comes to attention, and Ross spares a second to hope he'll get it all out before everything goes to hell in a handbasket. "-- I apologize, Sergeant Barnes, for the misidentification that led to you being charged with the crimes later attributed to Helmut Zemo. Those charges have since been dropped."
Barnes blinks in visible surprise, and Ross congratulates himself on keeping a straight face. He lets it hang there in the air between them all before he adds, "Also, thanks for not doing worse than breaking my wrist when you flattened me in the field that day. Everything else that has to do with the Winter Soldier is still a giant fucking mess that we'll have to deal with once Carter's recovered."