[And now he's decided to "correct" Rip's insults. How bloody fantastic. Rather than go down that road, however, Rip leaves it unaddressed in favor of what should be obvious.]

Are you that oblivious to everyone around you, including the people you claim to care about? [It might not surprise Rip to hear it, honestly.] Let me spell it out for you then. Peggy Carter loves Steve Rogers. And now that he's here without any of the memories of his prior stay, she's got an opportunity your world was never kind enough to provide for her.

[It had been so much of what bonded them in the first place, after all: that shared pain of love not merely lost, but tragically, unfairly ripped away.]

Which could damn well mean the end of any relationship she and I have developed over the past months.