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My eyes narrowed as I looked through the gloom to see a figure that must have appeared sometime during our meeting for he hadn't been there when we had sat down. Upon hearing his accent Steve bristled next to me, he wasn't really a fan of Germans apart from the man that had given him the serum. We got up and walked over to the table but still couldn't see the mans face as he stayed in the shadows.
"Not American I take it?" he said gesturing for us to have a seat,
"Russian" I said taking a weary seat and letting the tiniest bit of my accent slip out,
"Of course, unfortunately Russia is not what it once was, but that is getting away from the point, do you know why I am here?" he asked in Russian,
"Dah" I replied, I was going to have to tell Steve everything after. The man waved his hand, urging me to explain,
"Well you knew who we were before we came into town, with any rudimentary connections you would have heard something, we aren't unfortunately easy to miss if you know the right people however we are starting to keep a low profile, you attended to meeting to see if we are as good as they say and of course we delivered you obviously are not in charge, you network is far too large for that however you are a lot higher up than your friend Santiago over there. Don't let me make you think we underestimated you, you knew we wouldn't be stupid enough to bring the codes however we also aren't stupid enough to come empty handed, in the case you will find the designs to the whip component prototype that Ivan Vankov made in order to defeat Tony Stark a.k.a the Iron Man. The man failed however the design was good, think of it as a gift in hopes of a successful futre business endeavour." I finished.
"What can I say, I am very impressed however you aren't very modest are you?" he said amused,
"I find a lot of the time modesty gets in the way of the truth, the facts are what they are and if they are positive I see no point in making them seem any less." I said trying not to sound stuck up, my response made what I assumed to be an old man chuckle,
"Good, modesty is for the weak, something you will come to realise that Hydra is not, you will have meetings over the next few days with various people and we shall see how we go, good night," finished the man and then it was our turn to leave. Steve and I both got up said our goodbyes and left.
We caught a cab back to the hotel this time and finally had some time to talk.
"Right so Fury wasn't expecting us to make contact that quickly and now that we know that it is Hydra, we need to be extra cautious Steve." I said trying to put this as delicately as I thought about the kiss in the club, it hadn't left my mind since it happened,
"I completely agree," said Steve still not quite sure where this was going,
"Which is why things like the kiss at the club can't happen, I think we need to keep things strictly professional between us. We need to keep our cover but we need to it just that a cover," I said quite bluntly trying to be as emotionless as possible. Steve just sat there for a moment in silence with an unreadable expression on his face before he looked me in the eye and nodded, "Yes Ma'am" he said and I knew immediately that I had hurt him, badly. I sat there for a moment fighting the very strong urge to give in but I held,
"We will need to maintain our cover however, including in the hotel room, I hope that that won't be an issue Captain Rodgers," I said trying to remain emotionless but I knew how Steve was perceiving it, I could see by the slight wince as I addressed him and used his title but when he looked up he had put up a mask,
"Of course not Agent Romanoff," he said with the same amount of emotion I had used. And just like that I had severed all chances I'd had at a relationship with Steve Rodgers, and possibly my only chance for love.
