[ She stays where she is, but her smile grows fonder at the words out of his mouth. Of course this was his reaction. She could almost pin the reaction from each of them, how they would take this news. What they would try and do about it. ]

Maybe. But at that moment? There wasn't. And... I'm okay having made that choice, Steve. If someone needed to make it... [ She pauses, looks down at her hands again. ] I promised Clint we'd get his family back. I couldn't let it be him. They need him. He needs them. [ She glances up again, meeting his gaze. There's still sadness lingering in her eyes, but there's also a quiet resolution. ] I made a promise. Whatever it takes. If the cost to bring everyone back is one life, one soul?

[ She lets those words hang there, because she knows what he'd have done in her place. What he's done before. Maybe she wouldn't have done that back before she met him, but she'd changed too much, being on this team. Being part of this family. So much of that is because of him. ]