"I don't think he's perfect, but I think he tries to be better. In doing so, he makes himself a better man and that's what I was holding myself up to," she admits, still trying to rid this ridiculous idea that somehow she's better than Steve and could deserve more than him. While she knows there are men every bit as good as Steve (Jason and Daniel having proven her that), it's also difficult to presume that she could somehow be settling for Steve Rogers.

"I noticed him before the rest of the world did," she snaps, because she knows that Barnes can associate with this, understands. "I liked him before he became Captain America, I liked skinny Steve Rogers with all the courage and heart and determination to be his very best." It's why Erskine had picked him, it's why Peggy had such fondness for him.

"He only kept trying to do the right thing and I got left to pick up my own broken pieces," she says, feeling like she has more to say, but she can't bear to think about this much more, so she quiets and closes her eyes tightly before she resolutely takes the next step to keep walking.