winter rose

"Howard."

Perry poked a piece of broccoli.

"Let me tell you, although Christine is good-looking, you can't hold back your temper."

"I think the important thing is to try—" Howard Stark paused, and took the red wine from the waiter's hand. "—But the model lady Alice is more suitable for me. You and Christine are together like this, I think it is more suitable."

"I'm actually a bit honored to put me in the same category as that big blonde beauty?"

Perry clinked his glass. "Sure enough, everyone loves pretty girls."

Howard nodded and added a sentence.

"Everybody loves Stark, too."

A sip of red wine choked in his throat.

After coughing for a while, Perry laughed again.

It was the day after the war was won, and the day after Paige backhanded Howard into the Thames.

The weather was fine that day, and it was rare that it didn't rain in London. Howard treated her to a meal as he had promised when Perry fished him out of the river.

Perry couldn't remember exactly what he ate that day.But the only thing she clearly remembered was that day Howard suddenly fainted from a food allergy, and she was so frightened that she thought it was some kind of raid after the war, or a secret assassination against the arms dealer and great scientist.

At that time, she thought, if Howard died, he couldn't die beside her.As the first witness when he was killed and the participant of the last meal after his death, no matter how he looked at it, he would have to be interrogated by the CIA for three days and three nights.I didn't eat or drink at that time, it was too miserable, too miserable.

That was her first reaction.

The second reaction, Perry was a little sad.

Howard is dead, so sad.

In the first half of my long life, and perhaps in the second half of my life, there are not many people who cherish themselves.

Two Margarets, one Bucky, and one Howard.

Two Margarets are sisters, and one Bucky is a boyfriend.

But I have already lost a Margaret and a Bucky, and now Howard, a good friend like a woman's friend, will also be gone?

Perry had no friends, Howard was the first and maybe the only one in the future.

Although Howard's motives were a bit impure at first.

But he died suddenly.

The fork in Perry's hand also suddenly fell on the table.

She ran to the restaurant's landline and made an emergency call, then began CPR on Howard, who was still alive and dead.

She was a doctor, but at that moment she forgot all the ways she knew to save lives.Perry didn't care whether the CIA would arrest him for interrogation for three days and three nights.Anyway, Howard, don't die!

She'd seen enough ghostly ghosts dying on the battlefield and wanting to go home.Now is the age of peace, so there should be no more.

She was resuscitated while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

Tears crackled and fell on Howard's plaid tie, and a large area was stained.

Later, medical staff sent Howard to the hospital, and blood tests showed that he was in shock caused by a food allergy.After the timely injection of emetic injections and messy rescue, Howard Stark was the lively friend of women, playboy and rich man again.

So when he saw Perry crying with makeup and hiccupping, that surprised...

"You are so sad that I had an accident! Perry, are you so moved by me..."

"I'll knock your uncle Howard! If you die, I'll be taken away by the CIA for investigation for three days and three nights!"

Howard: ...

Perry is an awkward person, she doesn't want to express her concern and love for others.It was like the first time she treated Sergeant Barnes' wound in the medical tent, she already liked the soldier she had just met for the second time.

Then she forcibly carried it until the other party confessed to herself implicitly before attacking boldly.

It was a decision that had to be made with the help of Howard, a friend of women.

So thank you, Mr. Stark.

This is what Perry thought of when he flipped through the movie resources in his mobile phone and saw a movie that Howard invested in in 1951.

She thought that when she came back from LWL again, she would see Howard, a playboy with only white hair.

Then they continued to have fun with each other, and took the opportunity to blackmail him and let him treat him to dinner.

But Howard died.

This time he is really dead, he won't wake up.

"Then watch this."

Perry broke away from the long past, rubbed his sore eyes, and put the phone in front of the home projector.

The Winter Soldier glanced at Perry, who didn't seem to be looking very well, and wanted to say something, but he didn't.

Perry even forgot how he obtained the precious film resources of the last century.

It seems that I found some fat house wizard in LWL who loves these old movies.

Or did he have no money to pay the rent to pay off the debt?

The movie is in black and white, but it's sharp.The content... It's a bit to Howard's taste. The heroine is a weak blonde with big boobs, with a waist and a butt and a good figure.All in all, it’s a story about a hero who saves the heroine from the bad guys. Except for the exquisite and costly luxury sets and props that make her seem to have returned to that era, Perry saw this as a comedy throughout.

But the silly fufu Winter Soldier looked very serious, and a little fascinated...

So he didn't understand why Perry was staggering with laughter.

I remember when making this movie, Howard gave her and Peggy two tickets. At that time, Peggy and Perry both refused, but Howard called this movie a hype, and vowed to guarantee his cameo How endearing is the character of Barbara...

Originally, Perry and the others agreed to watch it, but the ex-female scientist disfigured herself and retaliated against the society with zero material.It didn't even look like it.

But if he had seen it at the time, Perry could have made fun of Howard for a whole year.

But after all, it was the mainstream aesthetic at that time, and Perry also ran to Hydra as an undercover agent at that time.What didn't happen, who knows?

Halfway through the movie, Perry got up and poured a glass of milk for the Winter Soldier, and then remembered the canned fruit and snacks he bought at the convenience store, and they all fell on the bed.

The projector and mobile phone were placed on the small stool next to the bed, the curtains were drawn in the room, and the two of them sat on the bed and watched a movie.Perry tore open a packet of potato chips and handed it over.

"Butter and honey." Perry popped a slice into his mouth. "Ah, so happy."

The Winter Soldier took one look at her and popped one in his mouth too.

Crunchy and sweet.

Sweet...he thought of Perry again.

Perry hugged the pillow, put potato chips between them and picked up a can of mixed fruit.She was about to open it, but stopped.

This is the kind of can that needs to be ripped open by the tab, not glass.Every time Perry opened it, she poked the flesh under her nails, and the tin cans in the barracks were her nightmare.

She frowned, and handed the can to the Winter Soldier, who was expressionless but must be watching the movie with great interest.

"Open a can, please?"

The Winter Soldier took over and opened the can neatly.

Perry opened the plastic spoon inside, scooped up a spoonful and found that it was something purple. She moved the spoon closer to the light source.

Anyway, this is definitely not yellow peach, pineapple or nata de coco.

She puts the spoon to the Winter Soldier's mouth.

"Ah, open your mouth."

He subconsciously opened his mouth obediently.

Then Perry fed the spoonful of the purple stuff into the Winter Soldier's mouth.

He chewed subconsciously again.

"what fruit is this?"

The Winter Soldier, who had just realized he had been fed, now turned back to look at Perry.And Perry was still waiting for his answer.

His eyelashes cast a small shadow.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Perry scooped up a spoonful of that purple stuff with the spoon he had just fed to the Winter Soldier and tasted it.

Sour, sour to death.

"Plum." She frowned.

The Winter Soldier looked at her, and suddenly wanted to say the unfinished sentence——

Interrupted by Perry's sudden burst of laughter.

"Hahahahahahahahaha." She almost threw the pillow out.

"Howard is playing himself hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"

"Howard..." the Winter Soldier repeated in a low voice.

Howard... Stark?

For some reason, when the Winter Soldier pronounced the name, Perry felt uneasy.

She remembered something and subconsciously looked at the Winter Soldier.

The Winter Soldier's eyes were downcast, his hair blocking Perry's view.

Some memories came flooding back.

Perry tried to press his fingers to his temple, but the outstretched hand was trembling.

In the movie, the young Howard is speaking his lines, and the voice is so familiar.

The Winter Soldier looked up, meeting Perry's gaze.

The room fell silent for a moment, save for the human voice in the movie.

There seems to be no need for redundant validation.

But Perry pressed his trembling fingers against his temple anyway.

In an instant, his days as the Winter Soldier come to mind.

"Sergeant Barnes?"

"Save my wife..."

Punch

two punches...

There was a cry in Perry's voice——

"Who is that old man who looks terrible?"

The Winter Soldier dared not look her in the eye any more.

"Howard Stark."

The phone suddenly received a message from Jasper and automatically exited movie mode.

The room was eerily silent.

"Howard Stark..."

Perry murmured.

"Sorry," she said. "Sorry soldier...but I didn't think it would really be like this...it really is like this..."

"I'm going out to buy something."

She made up some random excuse and walked out of the apartment without her wallet or cell phone.

The Winter Soldier looked at the door that Perry had slammed shut, his blue eyes suddenly dimmed.

Or earlier, it was bleak.

Perry said that no matter what he looks like, he will like it.

But did Perry ever think about whether he had killed anyone in the past?

Even unconsciously.

But I did kill those people.

They are dead.

Perry ran in the dark alley, splashing water from puddles staining his trousers.

When I couldn't breathe from running.

Crying is also very difficult.

In the last second, I was watching the promised movie with my long-lost boyfriend.

The next second I suddenly knew that he killed my best friend.

Fate always loves to make all kinds of jokes with me.

thought Perry.

I'm just kidding.