"I did not," Sharon reports, and Shuri looks a little disappointed in a way that makes her laugh.

"He wasn't working for HYDRA! He seemed legit to me. So I put the gun down."

She still thinks about that, sometimes, whatever instinct it was that told her it was safe to put her weapon away and just talk to him. "And once I convinced him I wasn't coming after him for the Task Force, I offered to help take out the Franche-Comté facility."

She puts an elbow on the table and her chin in her hand and tips her head enough to look over at him, her eyes bright and warm and amused and a little...something else. "So we did. It was great."

Sitting back, she spreads her hands: end of story. "The beginning of a beautiful friendship."