He definitely hadn't been expecting argument on the point, much less an argument that sounded like it had some thought behind it. Billy surprised him, mostly in the fact that he seemed to care.

Then again, he'd created a world where they kept people safe, hadn't he?

When he answered, his voice was quiet. "What if you've had all of that, but the way you had it, the people who provided it, took away everything that was you?" Billy hadn't meant to do so, but HYDRA had.