[Mako has built herself a new life on a foundation of lives thousands of times before, but none had tasted as bitter as the one she'd fed Raleigh Becket when she had acted as if she had never seen The Winter Soldier before. (Not all a lie, she'd just never seen him outside of the Redroom; HYDRA always put him back on ice between one training and the other, still in the beginning phases of their brainwashing.) She hadn't thought the identity of her training officer would ever come back to haunt her until she'd been put on the same team as Captain America, his younger brother.
She's smart enough to know that if she up and tells Becket that she knew who Yancy was and where he was this whole time, it'll do a hell lot worse than damage the way they work so well as a team, so she doesn't. He takes Chuck and they're on their way to search for Yancy in the aftermath of HYDRA's downfall, but Mako takes to the hunt on her own. It's easier. She knows how Yancy's mind works. (She knows how Yancy's killer instincts work, and she would not just wait for him to stop punching her.)
It takes her under a month, which is disgraceful for her usual records, but there is the part where she's meant to be marked by Director Pentecost's death, isn't there? HYDRA and SHIELD have eyes everywhere, and she knows that when you're on the run you walk, you don't rush. So she walks, and she finds him.
In a hotel room. (They've been in a hotel room before, during her initiation, when she'd been charged with the assasination of one government official - bad, good, you don't ask, Mori, because it doesn't fucking matter - and the bed had been slightly larger than this. She remembers that part, because she'd ended up spread on the mattress and Yancy -
Yancy probably doesn't remember that.)
So disabling his traps is easy, because she knows where he'd put them. And choosing to settle down against the wall is easy, because it reduces the chance of being shot in an armchair so there is also that. She waits.
And waiting, as in every good hunt, yields results.]
this is gonna hurt i guess a lot
She's smart enough to know that if she up and tells Becket that she knew who Yancy was and where he was this whole time, it'll do a hell lot worse than damage the way they work so well as a team, so she doesn't. He takes Chuck and they're on their way to search for Yancy in the aftermath of HYDRA's downfall, but Mako takes to the hunt on her own. It's easier. She knows how Yancy's mind works. (She knows how Yancy's killer instincts work, and she would not just wait for him to stop punching her.)
It takes her under a month, which is disgraceful for her usual records, but there is the part where she's meant to be marked by Director Pentecost's death, isn't there? HYDRA and SHIELD have eyes everywhere, and she knows that when you're on the run you walk, you don't rush. So she walks, and she finds him.
In a hotel room. (They've been in a hotel room before, during her initiation, when she'd been charged with the assasination of one government official - bad, good, you don't ask, Mori, because it doesn't fucking matter - and the bed had been slightly larger than this. She remembers that part, because she'd ended up spread on the mattress and Yancy -
Yancy probably doesn't remember that.)
So disabling his traps is easy, because she knows where he'd put them. And choosing to settle down against the wall is easy, because it reduces the chance of being shot in an armchair so there is also that. She waits.
And waiting, as in every good hunt, yields results.]
How was the Smithsonian?