Joe knew that she'd ask where the question came from and while he wasn't wholly comfortable talking about the story, he needed to start someday. That's what the SHIELD shrink said.
He took a deep breath and paused, recalling something that was obviously difficult for him.
"Her name is--her name was Melissa. Melissa Landon. I was in my second year at the Academy when I met her. The guys wanted to go out to a bar and usually, I said no that sort of thing. Drinking wasn't a big thing for me at the time but I went because a couple of the guys liked to get carried away and I figured they needed a designated driver." he said, smiling a little bit as he remembered those times.
Lake, Washington and Donovan were his best friends at the Academy, united in serving their country. Those days made Joe proud to be an American, even more proud than being the son of an American hero.
"Anyway, we get there and I decide to hang out for a bit. After about an hour, maybe two, Washington tells me that this girl in the corner has been watching me for awhile. I brushed it off because I thought he was kidding. I've never seen myself as the guy that a girl watches from across the room, you know? Anyway, finally, she gets up and comes over to our table." he said
"She starts talking to me, she tells me her name and it was nice. She was the first person I'd met that wanted to know me before she knew who my old man was. We hit it off pretty quickly. I don't dance and she got me to dance a few songs before the end of the night. We made a date for the weekend and things went really well from there.
Once she found out my dad was Captain America, she didn't look at me differently. I fell in love with her, Roxanne. She was my first in a lot of ways. I guess that's why I fell apart after she died. I didn't know you could really love someone like that. We were together for a year before everything went south."
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He took a deep breath and paused, recalling something that was obviously difficult for him.
"Her name is--her name was Melissa. Melissa Landon. I was in my second year at the Academy when I met her. The guys wanted to go out to a bar and usually, I said no that sort of thing. Drinking wasn't a big thing for me at the time but I went because a couple of the guys liked to get carried away and I figured they needed a designated driver." he said, smiling a little bit as he remembered those times.
Lake, Washington and Donovan were his best friends at the Academy, united in serving their country. Those days made Joe proud to be an American, even more proud than being the son of an American hero.
"Anyway, we get there and I decide to hang out for a bit. After about an hour, maybe two, Washington tells me that this girl in the corner has been watching me for awhile. I brushed it off because I thought he was kidding. I've never seen myself as the guy that a girl watches from across the room, you know? Anyway, finally, she gets up and comes over to our table." he said
"She starts talking to me, she tells me her name and it was nice. She was the first person I'd met that wanted to know me before she knew who my old man was. We hit it off pretty quickly. I don't dance and she got me to dance a few songs before the end of the night. We made a date for the weekend and things went really well from there.
Once she found out my dad was Captain America, she didn't look at me differently. I fell in love with her, Roxanne. She was my first in a lot of ways. I guess that's why I fell apart after she died. I didn't know you could really love someone like that. We were together for a year before everything went south."