"I don't know. I don't. You gave the shield to Sam. I don't know what you did after that." A part of him, a big part of him, hadn't been surprised. The rest of him had been devastated. And not a single part of him had been able to properly face a Steve who hadn't wanted him, so he'd just let him go.

And now that he's maybe started to make some peace with that, Steve is suddenly back, young again, with a story that he'd never-- he'd never tried to leave? He runs his hands down his face, swallowing back the stupid urge to cry. "We all figured you'd gone back to Carter. Started some new timeline with her, only came back here in time to hand off the shield." Though nobody was really sure where the thing came from, exactly, if it was the same shield or another shield or what.

They're gonna have to talk to Sam. Maybe Sam found out what happened to the older Steve, and they can-- find out what the hell happened here.