"I don't either," Steve says, steadily. It's been hard on all of them these last weeks, Nat thinks, but hardest of all on him and Tony. "But there's got to be something we can do. I can't believe they'd be willing to offer him protection just to lock him away from the rest of the world. King T'Challa didn't strike me as someone who would do that."

She hopes he's right, because if he turns out to be wrong about this, he'll never forgive himself. Never.