[ Interjected and immediate, with the traces of annoyance: Let's not beat around the bush here, Star-Lord. Because he's right, she'll bristle at everything — she'll bristle at this. ]
[ Peter's second question is met with silence. She wonders for a moment what he really thinks their relationship was, after all this time. They'd barely gotten to a point where they were friends or sisters, it makes her snort out a laugh. ]
Are we what? My sister and I were only partners in battle in name only, as Daughters of Thanos. Then, when she was free of him she had the Guardians.
[ The Guardians which Nebula was not a part of. In that timeline, likely would never have been a part of. She would have rather died than let Gamora save her from Thanos for the Soul Stone. A thousand times more, now, knowing exactly what transpired in the time that passed. She's protective of her, friends and sisters in their own way, but they're not so attached in that way. ]
Our relationship isn't some happy family playing house.
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[ Interjected and immediate, with the traces of annoyance: Let's not beat around the bush here, Star-Lord. Because he's right, she'll bristle at everything — she'll bristle at this. ]
[ Peter's second question is met with silence. She wonders for a moment what he really thinks their relationship was, after all this time. They'd barely gotten to a point where they were friends or sisters, it makes her snort out a laugh. ]
Are we what? My sister and I were only partners in battle in name only, as Daughters of Thanos. Then, when she was free of him she had the Guardians.
[ The Guardians which Nebula was not a part of. In that timeline, likely would never have been a part of. She would have rather died than let Gamora save her from Thanos for the Soul Stone. A thousand times more, now, knowing exactly what transpired in the time that passed. She's protective of her, friends and sisters in their own way, but they're not so attached in that way. ]
Our relationship isn't some happy family playing house.
[ Pointed. They'd never got the chance to be. ]