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1) Put Rogers' head on a spike
2) Take over Hell
3) Unbreak Bucky's dick
4) Buy milk

Hate SHIELD that much, hunh?

[Rumlow asks, tone amused, but intention serious. Sure, Romanova had been loyal to Fury, the way he knew her, and he understood the man to have questionable morals (recruiting a former Soviet agent, agreeing to INSIGHT), but it surprises him to hear her speak ill of the organization. Did she not believe in the mission? Or is it something she's hiding from him that he's yet unaware of?]

I would've thought you liked getting out of Russia. You seemed happy, at least, back when we were all a team.

[He sips passively at his drink, as if the question is totally innocent curiosity rather than trying to suss out her loyalties. His tail flicks, then he shrugs and leans back.]

But I guess none of that shit really makes a difference now. Brimstone's the new Big Brother, even have an expeditionary force with the reapers, though I guess their missions are pretty singular in purpose.

It's not hate. There have been people I hated. With SHIELD-- [She sighs, takes a sip from her glass. Maybe it's a little bit of 20/20 hindsight, her inability to ignore the fact that the signs had been there if she'd bothered looking.] We were always about morally questionable things done to bring peace to the world.

[He does get a curl of her lips into a smile as he mentions when they were all a team, her being happy. And, the truth is, that he's not wrong. She had enjoyed it. The missions, working with people that she'd trusted. There had been times she'd missed it, even knowing it had been lies.]

Yeah, it was good. We worked well together and there were some fun times.

[She's never said that outloud, at least not since the Triskellion, not since realizing just what STRIKE had been. Having to wonder what it said about her that it had been so comfortable for her, that people like Rumlow and Rollins had been people she'd found it easy to get along with. Questions she was probably better off without the answers to.]

Pretty much everything that happened before is as good as ashes here. Rogers and Stark will hold onto it because they've never been good with change. But as far as I'm concerned, the only thing that matters is what we can make this world into.

[When she smiles this time, it's knife-sharp before she tempers it into something a little less devious. It's as close as he's going to get from her in regard to cards-on-the-table.]

[Morally questionable is one way of putting it. Rumlow knows HYDRA's beliefs, as well as his own, were hardly conventional when it came to what they did to push their agenda. It was entirely utilitarian, and he'd held firm to it. Once. Now? He knows it's everyone for themselves.

He shrugs to the comment though. There's nothing to disagree with. Even within SHIELD, whether it had been driven by HYDRA or not, he knows she's not just saying it. Nothing surprising, really, for an intelligence agency. Ethics are striven for, but compromises have to be made. It doesn't really keep him up at night.]

Yeah. No reason some of those can't continue though, right? [At the mention of Stark, Rumlow makes note.] If they ain't gonna play, then I guess we oughta step to the plate.

[He doesn't mind sharing this part of his agenda. After all, it isn't as if Romanova has any attachment to Hell or Brimstone. They're on a level playing field, so inviting her to share in this endeavor is harmless. Even if she tells Rogers or Stark, it won't matter. Hell, it might even entice Rogers -- not that Rumlow's got any interest in teaming up with him until after he's satisfied he's had his revenge. And maybe not even then.]

[The thing that got to her about it, was not knowing where SHIELD ended and Hydra began. For the years that she'd worked for SHIELD, she had no idea how much of it had just been working for Hydra. Still working for Hydra, if they're being completely honest about what Leviathan was.

It doesn't keep her up at night as often as it should. Because the worst things she's done weren't in service to SHIELD. And she'd known, known Hydra was a ghost in the dark, even if she hadn't know they were inside SHIELD, she'd known they were out there. And in the end it's too perfect and it makes too much sense. The fact that James had tried to kill her had almost been a comfort, a reassurance that they hadn't kept her under their thumb.]

Mm, I suppose. If you ever need someone for a mission... [She trails off, but the smile that curls her lips is offer enough. She assumed he knew about Stark already; Tony was an Avenger and he isn't subtle. But she's hoping they don't talk much, that Rumlow's on Tony's punch in the face list too. Because given what he knows about her and his likely desire to throw her under a bus, he could unravel what she told Rumlow.]

The two of us? Sounds interesting. You have a plan or just grand intentions?

[It sharpens her smile, puts a glint in her eyes. She is sure that this is what the Road to Hell looks like. But thankfully, she's already in Hell. She bothered lying to him in the first place because he's capable, competent, and this is exactly the sort of thing that could make it worth it, depending on the precise sort of groundwork this works out to. She takes a slow sip of her drink, more cursory than anything, putting on the show of it. He's sharp enough she's not inclined to risk even the little bit alcohol affects her without a reason.]

I've picked up a few jobs, but I'm still working on getting pieces in play, so to speak.

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