[ he's not really taking peter anywhere specific. it's more the route sam takes when he starts to get restless but doesn't want to leave the castle - down the halls, around near the great hall, through a few corridors. it's to keep them moving, walking, and he'll point out important spots along the way if the moment calls for it. ]
Well, I mean, that depends on where you think you're supposed to be at all, but he's useful here. There's a lot of magic in this place- that Ambrose guy's a wizard, and there are a bunch of others here too. Doesn't hurt to have someone who knows a bit about that stuff on our side.
[ peter's half-brought up thoughts make some sense, and while sam's not usually one to surround himself with the fast-talking geniuses of the world, he's been in enough conversations with tony stark to at least follow along.
which, you know, brings him immediately to the topic at hand. and exactly where peter brings himself to. part of sam had been watching when he gave the news, if only because he can imagine - especially if peter is from when sam thinks he's from - how good that feels. a good lot of them had taken a beating, in that first battle. and the rest had just stopped existing at all. knowing that it all clears up, that in the end they win - it has to feel good.
he needs to watch out for this kid, though. because he's asking all the questions that sam had kind of hoped to avoid. he's not going to lie to him, that was a decision he made when he first started this conversation, but that doesn't make it easy. so sam ends up taking a moment, one of his hands coming to rub at the back of his neck. ]
No, by the end, everyone wasn't okay. We lost some good people. [ sam thinks of natasha's unmarked grave, of stark's funeral, of watching steve disappear into the machine, and the wrinkled face he saw minutes later. sam exhales, slowly, as the memories hit him again - it's been months, but being no stranger to loss or to war, he knows it's still relatively fresh. ] That's what happens in war, especially when the fight is on that scale. But we knew what we were getting into, and- [ because another thought settles, then, and it's sam's turn for his eyes to go a little wide. he's been thinking about the actual end of the war, here, but the fight with strange and stark and everyone on that planet, with thanos, that was before the blip. ]
You're okay, though. Really. I'm pretty sure when you're all on that planet- anyway, Thanos did the whole snap thing, and half the universe stopped existing, me included. [ there's an odd kind of tension, when sam mentions that, but it also feels so long ago. so much has happened, since then. ] But they get us all back, and we have a last big fight with Thanos and his army, and we win.
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Well, I mean, that depends on where you think you're supposed to be at all, but he's useful here. There's a lot of magic in this place- that Ambrose guy's a wizard, and there are a bunch of others here too. Doesn't hurt to have someone who knows a bit about that stuff on our side.
[ peter's half-brought up thoughts make some sense, and while sam's not usually one to surround himself with the fast-talking geniuses of the world, he's been in enough conversations with tony stark to at least follow along.
which, you know, brings him immediately to the topic at hand. and exactly where peter brings himself to. part of sam had been watching when he gave the news, if only because he can imagine - especially if peter is from when sam thinks he's from - how good that feels. a good lot of them had taken a beating, in that first battle. and the rest had just stopped existing at all. knowing that it all clears up, that in the end they win - it has to feel good.
he needs to watch out for this kid, though. because he's asking all the questions that sam had kind of hoped to avoid. he's not going to lie to him, that was a decision he made when he first started this conversation, but that doesn't make it easy. so sam ends up taking a moment, one of his hands coming to rub at the back of his neck. ]
No, by the end, everyone wasn't okay. We lost some good people. [ sam thinks of natasha's unmarked grave, of stark's funeral, of watching steve disappear into the machine, and the wrinkled face he saw minutes later. sam exhales, slowly, as the memories hit him again - it's been months, but being no stranger to loss or to war, he knows it's still relatively fresh. ] That's what happens in war, especially when the fight is on that scale. But we knew what we were getting into, and- [ because another thought settles, then, and it's sam's turn for his eyes to go a little wide. he's been thinking about the actual end of the war, here, but the fight with strange and stark and everyone on that planet, with thanos, that was before the blip. ]
You're okay, though. Really. I'm pretty sure when you're all on that planet- anyway, Thanos did the whole snap thing, and half the universe stopped existing, me included. [ there's an odd kind of tension, when sam mentions that, but it also feels so long ago. so much has happened, since then. ] But they get us all back, and we have a last big fight with Thanos and his army, and we win.
Sorry - probably could've started there.