deathinmydebts:

 

     { Of course. the only plan
       that she’s had that could
       work, not even her partner
       could pull through with —
       the only thing that she
       could fathom that contained
       a slither of her hope, wouldn’t
       work. }

                “James, I can’t stay here married to this говнюк forever with what we have on the side, it’s going to drive me to insanity.”

                            “I’m going to have to run. If they’re on my tail, so be it. Alexi is aging and he’s aging fast. He will be dead in ten years tops. What will his guards be searching for? What will their prize be for finding me? The praise of a corpse.”

         "Yes. He might be dead in a few years, but that is in a few years.
                         I still have a duty to this country, to him,
        and I’ve already betrayed that in absconding with you.
           Where would we go, Natalia?
               There is nowhere we could go that the Kremlin wouldn’t find us.“

     [ he wanted to. he really did, but
     james barnes was a walking dead
     man in alexi shostakov’s eyes. he
     could run away and follow after
     her. he could risk it. james gave
     a small huff, his hand resting on
     his temple ]

                              "Fine. I’ll come.”