[Oh, he likes the hesitation, because of course he notices it, but then Steve is right back to being annoyingly confident and not getting angry.

Oh, well, Schmidt could still keep being a smug bastard, because he had so many knives he could twist.] You are being very untrusting and unkind, captain, considering your previous change of heart. Or did your absence make you forget how you apologized to everyone for judging me too quickly?

Because I helped when we were taken from Somarium, just as you would have. [He doesn't entirely enjoy making the comparison, but it so. worth. it if it gets to Steve even a little. Because it's all part of the plan.] And Peggy helped me, before her demise. [Nope, not gonna stop with the lie.]