![]() And even this is easy, comparatively, because both Steve and Sam can look anyone in the eye and say truthfully they have no regrets.Īnd then Maddow asks, “I have to ask, Captain-when you and Romanov were on the run, being hunted by the organization you once trusted-what made you decide to turn to Airman Wilson here?” Steve and Sam talk about as much as they can, gracefully leaving out Barnes from the narrative, acknowledging the political fallout of what they discovered, what they’ve done. That’s the cue for Maddow to go into more questions about what happened in the battle against HYDRA. ![]() I was working for the VA down in DC and I invited him to stop by sometime. “Anyway, we got to talking, ended up hitting it off. “I could barely breathe,” Sam retorts, but without heat. “Oh, come on, you were barely winded,” Steve protests. “As I’m lying under a tree trying to recover, wondering if I’m about to have a heart attack, he finally decides to stop by and introduce himself properly.” Steve grins back at her, still snickering a little, and Sam rolls her eyes affectionately as she finishes up. Or the third, or the fifth-”īy the time Sam gets to retelling the part where she was snapping at him, “Don’t you say it, don’t you say it-” Steve’s dissolved into helpless laughter, shoulders shaking, and Sam’s grinning at him even as she continues, “And so there I go trying to outrace Captain America, which is definitely up there on the list of dumbest decisions I’ve ever made.” “Think I’m starting to,” Maddow says, smiling, a gleam in her eye as she watches them unfold the story for her and the audience, Steve running loops around Sam at the Mall, Sam’s growing irritation at every utterance of on your left-”Like I hadn’t heard him the first time. Sam cuts the side-eye to Maddow as she tips her head in Steve’s direction. I just think the way she tells this story is funny.” Here they’re interrupted by a quiet snort from Steve, who’s ducking his head as he obviously fights back laughter. ![]() “They don’t say anything about Captain America being a little punk in real life.” So this is what the history books never tell you,” she tells Maddow, with a roll of her eyes, playing up to the cameras a little. Sam and Steve glance at each other, and then Sam laughs. Since part of the reason you’re here is to help set the record straight, how did you two actually end up meeting?” Maddow starts out with a softball question, saying, “Now, originally the story was that the two of you had met in the VA, but it’s my understanding that’s not quite true. The actual interview ends up being a breeze. Steve smiles and just says, "Yeah, you'll do." Once they're all set, Sam looks herself over one last time, the lipstick and mascara, the crisp white button-down underneath the dark blazer, and turns to Steve with a smile. ![]() She keeps up a light and easy patter with Steve while they’re getting the makeup on, until the makeup artists have stopped staring at them wide-eyed and started looking amused instead. Steve’s perfectly aware of this and doesn’t see it as something he has to fix Sam’s inclined to agree with him, except that she’d also like to leave tonight with fewer headaches than she started out with. The problem with Steve and the media, though, is that if they start asking the hard questions, Steve’s going to give them the truth-and give it in a way that might cause trouble. ![]() CAPTAIN COMMANDO MARDIA HOW TOHe knows how to use the charm, and his legend is such that nearly everyone is a bit wary of disrespecting Captain America, at least at first. It’s not that Steve’s bad with the media, far from it. Truthfully, Sam’s a little surprised she’s been asked to tag along, but the head publicist of the firm Tony’s hired to handle the press has insisted on it, and once Sam’s actually there she understands why-she’s Steve’s wingman. It’s the smart move to make, now that they’re settled in New York, working with Stark and the rest of the Avengers, to take some of the media burden off Tony and Stark Industries, to finally set some of the record straight. The press doesn’t actually start in on Sam and Steve’s friendship until after they go on Rachel Maddow’s show. ![]()
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