That's... not what they expected. Soldat blinks at him for a long minute, then gives a weary little laugh that maybe sounds more like a weak sob, instead. It's sweet, though. It's more than they expected.

"Steve, you don't need two of me in your universe," they say. "And I can't go back to mine. It's been too long." And unless they could somehow go back to the moment of their death, and save their Steve, they don't want to. An Earth with no Steve in it isn't worth returning to, especially when it's entirely possible HYDRA could catch them again. "It's fine. I'm okay, I promise. I'm doing good work here. And HYDRA can't ever get me here."