"Yeah, no offense, but I'm not looking to cement it," he said simply. He liked to have a life that was not full of the complication of having to be close to someone else, have to constantly think about them and all that nonsense. He worked better alone in the circumstances that he found himself in.

He could be useful in that hunt, but he wasn't about to actually suggest they bring him in for it. That would be a complete betrayal to HYDRA, and he liked to keep all of his options open. He could only imagine all the crap that Rogers was going through, and that was enough to assure him that he wanted as little part in it as he could. He liked to watch ol' Cap squirm after all.

After she had rolled her shoulders, he gestured for her to follow and began to make his way out of the alleyway that they stood in. "I do, but I don't keep it long. SHIELD and HYDRA have vocal recognition technology," he said as a way of explanation. "I keep clear of cameras for the facial recognition tech they have," he added as he walked down the street, changing his usual arrogant swagger to that of a shuffling tired blue-collar worker leading a woman to his home. "It will be safer at my place."