[The basics, just like she says. Pepper nods, glad that Natasha already knows about Steve.]

I went to see him, but by the time I got there, his mind was already gone. [Her eyes are on the path ahead of them, and Pepper wraps her arms around her front, holding herself as she gives the bare bones of what happened to her.]

He was being contained, but he got out. Bucky warned me to run, but I just...I froze. And then Steve saw me, and he came after me. Bucky had to shoot him.

[Had to kill him.]

I was too close. There were--fragments. Bone. They cut my arms, and I got infected.