2014-02-18 - Cutscene: The Death of a Dream - Captain America's Will - Lovers

The evening after the news broke over the news of Captain America's death, Katrinka is finally back at home. She has a cold rag on her black eye, thanks to the S.H.I.E.L.D. shrink that punched her, because she TOTALLY did NOT punch her first, not at all!

She left her cell phone at home, on the coffee table. Home, Katrinka wonders if it will still feel like that. All of Steve's things are about the warehouse. Pack them, move, can she even stay here? Even Catty is being nice to her and rubbing up against her legs, accidentally rather than maliciously trying to trip her as Katrinka heads to the coffee table once she hears her phone beeping. "Damn manager, horrible timing," she says in Russian.

However, when Katrinka unlocks the screen she frowns to see it is a video, from Steve's phone. She is frozen on the spot. Steve and technology didn't get along very well, but this was strange. She hits download, not sure what to expect, though her stomach feels like it is turned inside out.

The image of Steve pops up when it starts to play. He is sitting in his study on the third floor of the warehouse. Study is a loose term as he is in his chair in with his drawing board partially in view. He is smiling, and Katrinka scowls, when she really wants to grin back stupidly at a meaningless image.

"Kat, look, if you're getting this then something went south on the mission. That, or well, you know me and technology. Kat, look Kat," Steve seeming to struggle a bit with the words, "I love you. And if I'm gone, I know you are going to be mad at S.H.I.E.L.D. and saying the world's unfair. Maybe it is, I"ll grant you that. But just because I'm gone, I don't want you to stop living and caring. Please, don't go back into your shell, you are a stronger and better person than that. So flip off the world if you have to and then get back to living, laughing, and loving. Please, don't self-destruct on me. I love you. Steve out."

Then the image is gone. Katrinka drops the rag she was holding and just clutches the phone to her chest and falls to the floor. She curls up her legs and sits there, just sobbing all over again like a fresh wound was just opened again. Kitten her Black Panther rubs up against her, trying to comfort her. Even Catty makes me-OWS sounds trying to get her mistress's attention and get her to stop crying, a sound the feline has never heard before from her mistress.

It appears; the hero saved the damsel from her lonely tower, and then left her. Katrinka sobs out something derogatory about Steve, "Now how am I supposed to be happy just being the crazy cat lady?!"