She didn't answer immediately, jaw tightened. What he said wasn't a lie, of course. Fury had dropped similar missions on her in the past. Giving someone too much time to think on it ... it was the difference between getting something done and having an agent run off when their brains stopped long enough to process what they were doing. Had their positions been flipped, she wouldn't have even bothered with the note.

It left a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"You didn't plan on coming back." It wasn't a question, and she finally looked at him, a mask of indifference placed carefully across her face.