He didn't miss that hesitation, but he didn't pull on the subject. Natalie and him would have to talk eventually, but he didn't think his pushing was helping.
No one could make Black Widow do anything until she wanted.
"Technically..." He didn't finish the statement, instead closing his mouth and looking down to think how to say it. They both knew that he was a different Steve Rogers, one who had done different things in much different circumstances, where there had been other possibilities and other less desirable circumstances. And he wasn't alive. Instead James had this Steve Rogers, one who was guessing what to do with a teenager who obviously wanted him to be the father Steve wasn't sure he could be, but he was doing his damnedest. "So if we do that... take a little comfort in if we do say that, it's not exactly lying. It's just definitely not the whole truth, which is more complicated. Because I am your dad, just... not the one you came from. Doesn't change that I'm here."
He looked at James. "It will also keep you safer." He didn't need to say that James had already gone through enough just because of his genes. That was pretty easily said in his tone.