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“I..I dunno how much. I..I remember..you, your face anyways, and..fighting in the war..with you, and I remember..us. Just. A little. I guess. I think I’m–I think I’m just scratching the surface, really.” He took a deep breath and rubbed at his face. He was exhausted, both mentally and physically. Really, he wasn’t even aware of how much time had passed between the events on the helicarriers and now. It was almost surreal, if he was being honest, especially this.

There was a slight pause at Bucky’s offer, and he chewed on his bottom lip. Bucky was offering to help him..offering to take him back to his home. It made his heart clench in the strangest of ways, and he let out a long breath before nodding.

“Y..yeah. I’d like that.”

Well, Bucky didn’t hate him. That was always a plus. “..Where do you live?” he asked after a beat of silence, slowly making his way over to him. His heart was racing, and he didn’t like it. Paranoia was creeping into his mind, but he shook it off, well, tried to. This was Bucky. He wouldn’t hurt him. Not from what he could remember.

Bucky could practically feel his heart swell up at the fact Steve remembered THEM, even if it was just a little bit. If he could bring himself to, he would be SMILING, but as good of a sign as it was…it still hurt. It hurt to know that Steve had been forced to forget everything; their childhood, their friendship-turned forbidden-romance, all the times that Steve had taken care of him when he had gotten sick. He had been forced to forget and it made Bucky so upset. He wanted to make Hydra pay for what they had done– he shouldn’t have had to go through that. Yet he did. And he needed Bucky now more than ever.

So now, it was Bucky’s turn to take care of Steve.

He didn’t pull his hands out of his pockets, afraid that if he moved them too fast, he might, just possibly cause some sort of negative reaction within Steve. His head tilted a bit to the back, as if gesturing behind them.

“It’s about a five minute walk from here, actually. Are you hungry..? I could make something for you. And if you need to, you can use my bathroom to wash up while you wait.”

❝ This world will try to bend you, break you. Scare you, shake you. Make you question all the things that make you. It will hurt, it won't be easy. Sometimes it's barely worth believing. But hope is light and fear is heavy. ❞ Ⓒ

Ind. & Selective BUCKY BARNES as told by Rae.
Post-Civil War, slightly canon divergent. NSFW+

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