Her choice to go after Bucky hadn’t been a hard one, or a surprising one. It was only natural for her to go after the man that had such a key and integral part through most of her life, to find a way to help him since she refused to believe her friend was totally and completely lost, he had left her alive for a reason after all. But she had looked for him for months and still the only glimpse that she still had with her was his retracting back after he pulled her out of the Potomac, she was always too late when she thought she was catching up with him and it was clear he didn’t wanted to be found, maybe it was another sign.
Since clearly all the things that had happened to her since she found herself in this century, from her confusion and adaptation to it, the incident in New York in which she got a quite painful realization that there were more sources of danger for all them, then the re-emergence of Hydra, finding out her best friend was alive, the fact that she had been lied and used and finally culminating with the dissolution of SHIELD were probably signs that made her think it would have been better to remain in the ice they had found her.
Maybe that was why she hadn’t fought when Sam had suggested them to stop, after ending empty handed again, and to go back, it had hurt but she had agreed and ruefully gave up since there was nothing she could do if Bucky didn’t wanted to be found. And so she had returned to DC and decided to stay with Sam for the time being, her apartment had been wrecked after all and to be honest she hadn’t felt like being alone, and tried to ease into normalcy, gone back to visit Peggy (even if it hurt as hell to be fully reminded that the two people she loved the most, didn’t even remembered her) and waited for time to just pass.
And then Bucky had appeared again and she clearly couldn’t ignore it, could she? Not when it was done like that and the irony of the location. And now here she was, having broken into the Smithsonian with Sam’s help and then ordering him and whoever else might have been in the building to leave, wearing the new uniform Coulson had so proudly presented to her once and her shield strapped to her back, waiting for him and see what he did before going straight into attack mode against him.
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Since clearly all the things that had happened to her since she found herself in this century, from her confusion and adaptation to it, the incident in New York in which she got a quite painful realization that there were more sources of danger for all them, then the re-emergence of Hydra, finding out her best friend was alive, the fact that she had been lied and used and finally culminating with the dissolution of SHIELD were probably signs that made her think it would have been better to remain in the ice they had found her.
Maybe that was why she hadn’t fought when Sam had suggested them to stop, after ending empty handed again, and to go back, it had hurt but she had agreed and ruefully gave up since there was nothing she could do if Bucky didn’t wanted to be found. And so she had returned to DC and decided to stay with Sam for the time being, her apartment had been wrecked after all and to be honest she hadn’t felt like being alone, and tried to ease into normalcy, gone back to visit Peggy (even if it hurt as hell to be fully reminded that the two people she loved the most, didn’t even remembered her) and waited for time to just pass.
And then Bucky had appeared again and she clearly couldn’t ignore it, could she? Not when it was done like that and the irony of the location. And now here she was, having broken into the Smithsonian with Sam’s help and then ordering him and whoever else might have been in the building to leave, wearing the new uniform Coulson had so proudly presented to her once and her shield strapped to her back, waiting for him and see what he did before going straight into attack mode against him.