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[ the problem is that he does believe in the team, despite the fact that he's pretty sure none of the team believes in him anymore. steve might have left them to him, but it's hard not to remember the accusing faces on the raft, hard to imagine that he'll ever be able to feel like an acceptable leader to what's left.

hard not to regret everything that's not. ]

well?

Loki is here.

A Loki, more accurately, though the validity of that claim is still nebulous at best.

ok i've read that five times now and still got nothing.

He's changed his appearance, and he claims to have no memory of New York, to have never heard of the Chitauri, and to have come from a parallel universe.

and we would ever believe that because...

Because I talked to him, and I'm telling you that I do.

[ It seemed like an unnecessary point to drudge up that it was Loki's reaction to Phil's murder that sealed her tentative belief, particularly when they'd already mired themselves in so much grief. ]

It's not the first time I've interrogated Loki, but this was different. He was different.
Still. I think it'd be a good idea to watch our backs and keep an eye on him.

seems to go without saying.

I'm sorry, am I wasting your time?

[ gonna smack his ass back into self-pity land and call it quits tbh ]

[ her straightforward way of calling him out is pretty much exactly what he needs, to be honest, or he'll just keep being snitty about everything. and this is an important issue - although he's not sure what to make of it. it's not that he doesn't trust nat's appraisal, but he doesn't really trust any appraisal that's not his own. ]

is that all he said?