[HYDRA had strong beliefs about their soldiers on the front lines, especially those who had combat skills that would be actively creating the kind of change that could change a man or woman's mental health with continual exposure to the bad shit of the world. As he had come to understand, those particular recruits had to be broken and built from the ground up first so any breaking would have them leaning back on all that shit put in their heads in the first place.

He smirked back on her, like this was all old times, just another mission for SHIELD. Don't mind the knives they were likely to pull on each other in a moments notice.] Heard she was a terrifying bitch. They like to scare you with her when you were just a wee thing?

[This might actually be one of the first conversations where they had talked about something that wasn't a mission or he needled her for the in-house latest gossip.]

You callin' me fat, Romanoff? I'm offended!