Natasha's hand runs down his arm until it finds his, curling their fingers together and looking deep into his eyes. "You are ready, Steve. You have been for a while." He's been holding himself back for ages, something that had steadily been breaking her heart every time she went to see him. Now that he's here -- in New York. In the real world. And Tony is setting a path for him back to who he once was? There's no limit to the things he could do. "I'll be right here next to you." Which is going to get complicated when Bruce eventually comes back, he always does. But she'll deal with that when she has to.
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