winter rose

"Perry."

A female colleague in the same office suddenly started gossip.

"I heard that you are with Ian from the Electronic Information Department."

"...how many years has he been out in the open."

"Then you still live with him!"

Perry explained helplessly, "We are renting together!"

perry carter

Working on S.H.I.E.L.D. hidden behind Project Insight.

Level [-] agent, senior clerk, low salary, currently renting a house.

And it's still rented.

The person who shared the apartment with Perry was Ian from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Electronic Information Division.

"Ian? Have you seen Shameless?"

"I've seen it! Cameron is so cute~"

In the same way, this Ian is the same gender as the one above and loves men, which is why Perry chose to share the room with him.

Ian is a little red-haired man with beautiful gray-blue eyes, tall and thin, fair and clean, a bit like Cameron who played Ian in "Shameless", and even the same as Ian on TV The hobby is male.

Ian is a good young man who is polite, knowledgeable and law-abiding. He joined the Electronic Information Department of S.H.I.E.L.D. because he has great ambitions and is determined to learn from Captain America and serve the motherland.Thinking back when Captain America of the Insight Project gave a speech in the main control room, he was the first person from the Electronic Information Department to stand up to support Captain America. Not only was his courage commendable, but his justice was outrageous.

Living with such a person, Perry often felt that his already fragmented conscience was pulled out and flogged hundreds of times.

No, I also took the position of Captain America when I opposed the Insight Project back then... It's just for personal reasons.

One is the Winter Soldier, and the other is that Lancaster is all targeted by Hydra...

Why is it weird that Hydra wants to kill Lancaster?

Wait, isn't Jasper working for Hydra?

For a moment, a seemingly reasonable conjecture appeared in Perry's mind.

She thought that Jasper just wanted her to die alone, but he didn't expect that even the people who were on his side, anyway, as long as the surname was really Lancaster, he wanted them to die.

The algorithm of "Green Skull" is very accurate, but the final decision must be made by their group of high-level leaders...

Yo, people's hearts.

Perry laughed mockingly.

On the afternoon of the weekend, it happened that Perry and Ian were on vacation in the Data Management Office and the Electronic Information Department respectively, so they actually slept in the apartment on the same night.

No way not, how busy S.H.I.E.L.D. is.

"That...Ian, why don't you rent a house with your boyfriend."

On the weekend night, Perry sat in front of the sofa and looked at Ian who was drying his hair, and subconsciously asked this question.

Ian froze for a moment, and slowly dropped his hand wiping his hair.

"He... has been busy getting married recently."

"Oh, congratulations—"

Perry seemed to realize that something was wrong.

"Not with you."

"...His parents are homophobic, and he himself doesn't want to admit it. A while ago, someone introduced him to a girl who worked in Stark Industries. He thought it was pretty good..."

Ian smiled and sat down on the sofa.

"So from a certain point of view, I don't have a boyfriend. Because we have broken up tacitly."

"..." Perry silently handed over an unopened can of fruit.

"Condolences."

Ian smiled and opened the can, then handed it back.

"???this is for you."

"Ah, thank you." Ian scooped out a large spoonful of purple stuff and stuffed it into his mouth.He hissed sourly.

Perry took a look.

"That's a plum."

Ian nodded and took another spoonful. "It's really sour."

Ten minutes later, Ian threw the finished can in the trash.

“The nata de coco in this brand of assorted cans is great.”

"I think the plums in it are pretty good," Perry added.

"Plums can cure bad brain."

"..." Ian chewed the fruit in his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Perry looked at the way his cheeks bulged as he chewed, and he naturally remembered the first time he ate this brand of canned fruit.That time she encountered a spoonful of purple fruit she didn't recognize, and subconsciously stuffed it into Bucky's mouth.

Ian felt uncomfortable being stared at by her, so he expressed his doubts with his eyes.

Perry smiled, looked away, and looked down at the phone on his lap.

The phone wallpaper was secretly taken by me in the top-secret files. It was an old photo, and it was a photo of Bucky in military uniform left over from World War II.

He wore his hat on one side, smiling happily out of the camera, as if all the sunshine in the world shrouded him.

Sergeant Barnes in the photo is from Brooklyn, he's funny, and he's the girl's favorite.Although it was a little unpleasant when they first met, he was the only one who didn't hold a grudge after accepting Dr. Carter's brutal bandaging techniques.

Sergeant Barnes, who was also the only one who invited Dr. Carter to dance.The only one who promised to plant a rose garden for her.

They also agreed to go to a movie after the war. Maybe this agreement was kept, but the night of watching the movie seemed a bit bad.

So, she remembered the spoonful of plums she had eaten.

It tastes sour.

Now, the nose and eyes too.

In a small town in Romania, the Winter Soldier opened a can of fruit.

The purplish red flesh of the plums floats on top, and a single scoop can fill a large spoonful.

He took a sip, and it still had the familiar sour taste.

On the table was a large jar of sugar for a hypoglycemic patient.

It's only less than March, but the shadow of Perry Carter can be seen everywhere in the life of the Winter Soldier.

Once Perry told himself that eating plums could cure hair loss and poor brain function.

At that time, the Winter Soldier felt that she seemed to be scolding him, but seeing her serious expression, he knew it——

This doctor just can't communicate normally with people.

However, I don't seem to understand how to communicate with people normally.

In fact, the most sour part of plums is the outer layer of skin. As for the apricot-yellow flesh inside, it is sweet and sour, which is delicious.

He looked at a looming red line on his right wrist, and suddenly remembered Perry who had lost a lot of blood that day but still had to cut a blood vessel.

Perry's eyes were extreme and urgent that day. She apologized to herself and babbled a lot of things he couldn't understand.

The Winter Soldier scooped up another spoonful, this time with strawberries.

Soaked in canned juice for too long, the edges are a bit whitish, and the strawberry has lost its original taste, and it tastes more sour than plums.

How can strawberries taste like this.

He frowned and threw the can back on the table.

Strawberries should be sweet, and the first bite will be a little bit tongue-tingling, which is just the right amount of sourness.It is precisely because of this sourness that the sweetness will be so good...

Like Perry.

Like Perry, thought the Winter Soldier.

When looking for movies before, Perry said that the Winter Soldier needs to develop three views, so he must watch positive and healthy ones. "The Values ​​of the Addams Family" Although Perry likes it very much and wants to revisit it very much, but it can't be now.

Could that night's tirade in the woods be positive?healthy?

The Winter Soldier couldn't figure out what Perry was thinking.

He also couldn't figure out what Perry meant.

He simply thought Perry was wrong.

Every sentence is wrong.

Whether it's "It's good to be a person without a conscience" or "I don't have a conscience".

But perhaps, Perry was right about something.

I don't know her well, not at all.

She never told him what Jasper Lancaster said about the past.

Maybe, he didn't want to be known, just like the past as the Winter Soldier that he hated.

The first time I met her as the Winter Soldier was on the viaduct. At that time, she was standing not far from Steve, staring at her eyes not in shock, but in despair.

Why is she desperate?The Winter Soldier doesn't know.

The second time she's seen is near the landing gear of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter, she bursts out of a corner to stop herself.To be honest, maybe her skills can barely be considered good for normal agents, but for the Winter Soldier, she is really rubbish.

But that day she dragged the Winter Soldier by herself for 10 minutes.

That day, she was like a candy that couldn't be shaken off. He kicked her hard on the stomach and shot her near the shoulder.

There was no extreme, urgent, or despair in her eyes that day.

But what she was thinking, the Winter Soldier still didn't know.

He never knew her.

never.

The law and order in this neighborhood is very bad, but this is also the reason why the Winter Soldier chose this place.

A large number of black households and vagrants, as well as all kinds of social dregs.

The apartment was small, with newspapers plastered across the glass, facing the shade.When the light comes in, according to Perry's words, it is "you can find a few ghosts to act in a ghost movie."

But now, the afternoon sun shines into the room and sprinkles impartially on the vase on the balcony.There is a large bouquet of flowers in the vase. There is not much water in the vase, but the flowers are still blooming very well.

The red rose petals look like fine silk, and even the angle of the flower arrangement is elegant.

【"I want roses, red ones."】

In the square with pigeons flying in the early morning, Perry squatted in front of the bucket full of flowers, his eyes were shining.She turned to look at him, and smiled sweetly.

The Winter Soldier subconsciously touched the flower.

On the benches in the square, the sun breaks through the clouds.

【"If you don't want to go back to the days when you worked for Hydra, then don't go back. If you want to know the answer and find the truth, then I will steal the stone and return all the memories to you. That's fine, that's okay...then it will always be like this, as long as you want."]

The Winter Soldier didn't know when he picked up the can again, biting the skin of the plum with his teeth, and his mouth was sour.

【"You don't have to be anyone, because no matter who you are, I like you."】

in case……

If Perry babbled a lot in the woods, it was only the meaning of the sentence on the bench in the square that morning.

He seemed to understand something.

Therefore, the Winter Soldier is not actually what he thinks, so you don't know Perry.

【"You don't have to be anyone, because no matter who you are, I like you."】

The bitter green eyes flashed again in her mind, not so much a dark green, but when she said those words, it was more appropriate to say black.

Because he saw himself in Perry's eyes.

What was Perry's past...Parcelope Lancaster's past?

The Winter Soldier was curious, but Perry was Perry, as she said—

"You don't have to be anyone."

The spoon dropped back into the empty can with a crisp clang.

"Because no matter who you are, I like you."

The Winter Soldier slightly curved his mouth.

The author has something to say:

In the last chapter, I said that I hope a little fairy can help clarify the plot line

As a result, only one spoke bravely and the others were silent.

I'm kind of... at a loss for words right now.

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