Bucky doesn't actually take a damn drink, and Steve's about to push him
about it, but then...
Oh.
Oh, heck.
"That's... horribly cruel," Steve says at last, feeling incredibly
inadequate. It's beyond cruel. The way Bucky's been manipulated. Used. He's
drinking Bucky in with his eyes, half of him assessing Bucky as a potential
threat (not to be killed, to be taken down if necessary and cared for) and
half of him with the biggest, soppiest heart eyes he's had in decades.
Steve laughs a short pained choked kind of laugh, and nods. "Both, I'm
afraid. I... I guess you didn't take all the stupid with you, when I
thought you died. I went down. Got frozen. Got thawed."
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Bucky doesn't actually take a damn drink, and Steve's about to push him about it, but then...
Oh.
Oh, heck.
"That's... horribly cruel," Steve says at last, feeling incredibly inadequate. It's beyond cruel. The way Bucky's been manipulated. Used. He's drinking Bucky in with his eyes, half of him assessing Bucky as a potential threat (not to be killed, to be taken down if necessary and cared for) and half of him with the biggest, soppiest heart eyes he's had in decades.
Steve laughs a short pained choked kind of laugh, and nods. "Both, I'm afraid. I... I guess you didn't take all the stupid with you, when I thought you died. I went down. Got frozen. Got thawed."