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     So, I've seen how these sorts of questions go over around here. I know I'm opening myself up to a lot of troll answers, and angry defensiveness, and cagey suspicion, and this is me saying I'm okay with whatever comes my way. Bring it on. Because at least one of you is going to give me a straight answer, and I guess...

     [Slevin is sitting in his room talking to the communicator, toying with something in his hands. It flashes gold just at the edge of the view screen when he hesitates to look down at it, takes a breath, continues anyway:]

     I guess that's what I need. Just one. So: what was the worst thing you ever lost?

     And how did you decide to handle it?

     [ Private : Chris D'Amico ]

     You were right. I'm an asshole, but I can at least admit when I made a mistake.

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[Well, Steve is a shitty liar. He's never been good at it. The only way he can generally get away with it is by lying by omission - which, yeah, he's been trying to do here.

But he can't outright deny it if he gets caught.]

Yeah. I am. But it's something I can't talk about here. [To anyone. It might get back to Bucky. He can't let that happen.] Nothing I've said has been exactly untrue. I'm here to fix my mistakes. It really is as simple as that, even if the situation's not.