[IC] Pre-intro

[stupidcupid]

[ you're being watched ]

Comments

[stupidcupid]

Uh-huh.

What did the Tessaract show you?

[trickor]

A world made free.

[stupidcupid]

Of what? Of who?

I think you're looking for a world free of people like you.

[trickor]

I was told that, here, there are always men like me.

[stupidcupid]

That's right.

[trickor]

Do you plan to exterminate them all?

[stupidcupid]

That's not how it works, otherwise we would have killed you from the start.

[trickor]

I'm terribly curious: why didn't you kill me?

[trickor]

Well, not you, clearly. But your people. Your organization.

[stupidcupid]

It's not my call to make, it was Fury's. You're better off asking him than me.

[trickor]

I shall, upon his arrival.

[stupidcupid]

Killing's easy. Leaving people around to suffer? That's what really gets you.

[trickor]

I'm aware.

[stupidcupid]

Then why ask?

[trickor]

Because your organization did not cause me pain, did not use torture as a means to get the information they wanted.

[stupidcupid]

Man, you have a bizarre view of SHIELD.

[trickor]

Oh?

[stupidcupid]

I told you everything there is to know and that's what you'd thought they'd do? Nat must have played you like a fiddle.

[trickor]

Ah, the Widow.

[smiles, soft and fond]

She is fascinating--very skilled at what she does.

[stupidcupid]

Tell me something I don't know.

[trickor]

[chuckles]

I expected it from Fury, though.

[stupidcupid]

You don't know Fury that well.

[trickor]

We've spoken but a scant handful of times. I know his type, though. That which is required simply of holding sway over a group of powerful and dangerous people.

[stupidcupid]

...

Possibly.

[trickor]

I was raised a prince of Asgard, Clinton Barton, and I watched far more carefully than Thor ever did. I saw how Odin Allfather ruled, and I learned.