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WHAT 10/10 would post again
WHERE Everywhere
WHEN Day 144

[Today there are little bubbles popping up whenever you're near someone. They seem like . . . testimonials or reviews? Like "X is a great person, excellent listener. Only four and a half stars because they sing too loudly in the shower." If you've only just met, it's just your first impression. Or maybe you can check out the bubbles that are now attached to that person, so you can decide if you're interested.]

[whenever you jump someone in the post, include your character's, uh, honest mental review of them, at the top of the comment. also free to assume you can see other peoples' unless otherwise stated]

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[he nods, giving her shoulder a squeeze]

At least you know he can't do that to anyone else. But what happened to you...someone should have stopped that.

We did everything we could. He wasn't working alone, he had the backing of an international group and deep reach within American government and law enforcement.

Did you have anyone you could go to? Anyone who could help expose them?

Sure. We were FBI agents, and we used every official channel we had access to, and plenty more unofficial ones. And it didn't matter. Evidence disappeared from under our noses, our work was discredited—and of course, given the subject matter, when I say "our work" I mean my life.

[shakes his head]

I'm sorry. I wish I could have been there. To do something, to help you.

A few years back I found out the organization I'd worked for ever since I came out of the ice had been infiltrated at its highest levels by the same guys who captured Bucky and brainwashed her. We were lucky, we managed to put an end to them, but I know that kind of thing isn't easy.

You're an incredible woman, Dana. That you kept fighting, that you tried to do what was right even when everything was against you. You don't deserve any of the things that these people did to you.

...anyway. I dumped most of that on Bucky while completely freaking out, so—

[he nods a little]

It's a lot to take in.

[huffs a laugh]

I'm kind of jealous you managed to take down the whole organization. That's amazing.

Well, most of it was thanks to a friend of mine. She was the one who got into their files and put all of their information out to the public. I was there for the muscle.

She sounds like someone I'd want to meet.

Yeah, I think you'd get along great. Her name's Natasha, she was a double agent before she turned and joined up with the good guys.

Sounds like she really committed.

She did, yeah. She had conviction, she really wanted to take the chance to use what she knew to do right in the world.

I can see why you were friends.

It took me a little while to warm up to her, but yeah. We're good friends.

There were so many times I thought we'd be able to do something like that. Just expose them, just get the truth out into the open. And every time our evidence was destroyed. Our very memories, sometimes.

[he sobers slightly, listening]

That must have been hard. To keep going when you're up against odds like that takes a lot.

I tried to quit, but it didn't stick.

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