[He's dealt with assholes before, people who've done both worse and lesser hurts against him and the people he cares about and never said a single word of apology for it. People like Sherlock who act like manners are for other people, people like John who passive aggressively resented him for being the wrong Dave after he saved his life, and Jack Noir who killed everyone on his team at least once and three of their guardians without any concept of regret to his mind. He has this mess with Brian here, a guy who seemed to think him hurting Jade's feelings was ground for a creepy, near threatening message.]
[Bucky, by contrast, is a relief. He wouldn't say he likes him and he'd rather not be around him in person again until the guy learns how to chill, but the thing is Bucky knows what he is. Not everyone can come back from mistakes as big as he's made, accept and put them out there when called on it, when others have lied to cover him. Who the fuck carries around someone they've gravely injured on purpose to try and make up for it? It's huge. It tells him Bucky's trying, trying at something very hard, and he doesn't see any reason to be a dick about it.]
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[Bucky, by contrast, is a relief. He wouldn't say he likes him and he'd rather not be around him in person again until the guy learns how to chill, but the thing is Bucky knows what he is. Not everyone can come back from mistakes as big as he's made, accept and put them out there when called on it, when others have lied to cover him. Who the fuck carries around someone they've gravely injured on purpose to try and make up for it? It's huge. It tells him Bucky's trying, trying at something very hard, and he doesn't see any reason to be a dick about it.]
[He's not going to get rid of Davesprite easily.]
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[It's why he says that, too.]