Marvel x Harry Potter reacts (On Hold)

Catws - 5

back at SHIELD, Steve is brought to Pierce who is talking to Agent 13.

Alexander Pierce: For whatever it's worth, you did your best

"Clearly she didn't" 

Sharon Carter: Thank you, sir. [as she turns to leave she sees Steve] Captain Rogers. 

Steve Rogers: Neighbor.

Alexander Pierce: Ah, Captain. I'm Alexander Pierce.

Steve Rogers: Sir, it's an honor. [they shake hands]

"Is it though?" 

"No it isn't"

Alexander Pierce: The honor is mine, Captain. My father served in the 101st. Come on in. [they enter Pierce's office where he shows Steve an old photo of Fury with Pierce] That photo was taken five years after Nick and I met. When I was at State Department in Bogota. ELN rebels took the embassy, and security got me out, but the rebels took hostages. Nick was deputy chief for the SHIELD station there. And he comes to me with a plan. He wants to storm the building through the sewers. I said, "No, we'll negotiate." Turned out the ELN didn't negotiate, so they put out a kill order. They stormed the basement, and what did they find? They find it empty. Nick had ignored my direct order and carried out an unauthorized military operation on foreign soil. He saved the lives of a dozen political officers, including my daughter.

"I didn't pay attention to anything he just said. Do you think it's important???" 

"Oh Ronald"

Steve Rogers: So you gave him a promotion.

Alexander Pierce: I've never had any cause to regret it. Captain, why was Nick in your apartment last night?

Steve Rogers: I don't know.

Alexander Pierce: You know it was bugged?

Steve Rogers: I did, because Nick told me.

Alexander Pierce: Did he tell you he was the one who bugged it? I want you to see something. [he brings up footage of Batroc being interrogated]

SHIELD Agent: Who hired you, Batroc?

Steve Rogers: Is that live?

Alexander Pierce: Yeah, they picked him up last night in a not-so-safe house in Algiers.

Steve Rogers: Are you saying he's a suspect? Assassination isn't Batroc's line.

"Your still questioning stuff??" 

Alexander Pierce: No, it's more complicated than that. Batroc was hired anonymously to attack the Lemurian Star and he was contacted by e-mail and paid by wire transfer. And then the money was run through seventeen fictitious accounts, the last one going to a holding company that was registered to a Jacob Veech.

Steve Rogers: Am I supposed to know who that is? [he hands Steve the file]

Alexander Pierce: Not likely. Veech died six years ago. His last address was 14-35 Elmhurst Drive. When I first met Nick his mother lived at 14-37.

Steve Rogers: Are you saying Fury hired the pirates? Why?

"Please tell me you didn't believe him" 

Alexander Pierce: The prevailing theory was that the hijacking was a cover for the acquisition and sale of classified intelligence. The sale went sour and that led to Nick's death.

Steve Rogers: If you really knew Nick Fury you'd know that's not true.

Alexander Pierce: Why do you think we're talking? See, I took a seat on the Council not because I wanted to but because Nick asked me to, because we were both realists. We knew that despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, that to build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down. And that makes enemies. Those people that call you dirty because you got the guts to stick your hands in the mud and try to build something better. And the idea that those people could be happy today, makes me really, really angry. [he hesitates a moment] Captain, you were the last one to see Nick alive. I don't think that's an accident, and I don't think you do either. So I'm gonna ask again, why was he there?