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"Thank you all for coming today. It is with a heavy heart that I can confirm that the videos that were leaked on Youtube are one hundred percent authentic..."
Honey breathed in, taking solace in the fact her family where safe in the Compound...
"When I was four years old," She began, looking out at the nation's press, "I lived with my aunt. She was my biological mother's sister and...it was not a good place to live. My aunt had been jealous of my mother for years and not even death could stop that it seemed."
"I asked how my parents died only once - her husband's sister told me that they were unemployed drunks who died in a car crash and left me to be a burden on my hard working relatives."
A sharp intake of breath rippled over the crowd.
"When my dad adopted me - he said that that was one thing we had in common." Honey broke off to chuckle sadly, "Two orphans brought together thanks to faulty mechanics...So when we found out that they'd been murdered - it was a shock."
The press remained silent - no one wanting to break the suspenseful air.
"I was only eight when we found this out but I can still remember the complete sense of betrayal of being lied to about such a thing - that I had believed such a horrible thing about my own parents - and I couldn't even remember them! I didn't have a wealth of memories to make myself feel worthy of feeling the grief and betrayal!"
Honey stopped to catch her breath, to try to stop the memory of her parents ("Lily it's him! Take Sushrutha and go!") laying down their lives for her from forcing their way to the front of her mind.
"But, in all honestly, having felt that gives me some understanding of how my dad must have felt upon seeing the first video. To be shown something so personal in such a way - to find out that a man that you worked beside, who you gave so much of you time, energy and personal funds to would lie about such a thing - even when the person who physically committed the crimes to standing right there!" Here she stopped, her anger was too much - she risked losing the press.
("Please, my wife help my wife...Sargent Barnes?")
"The fact that my grandparents murder was covered up as Howard Stark drunk driving means that there has been an obstruction of justice. Research into old SHIELD files show that Nick Fury and Margaret Carter decided that covering up a double murder was the most sensible course of action...Margaret Carter is dead, the Winter Soldier is being protected by the former Avengers and 'Captain' America. Nick Fury may be at large, but I am confident that he will be held accountable for his actions." Honey looked them all in the eye.
"And I will not accept anything less."