Sam'd follow Steve to hell and back, but yeah, there's definitely some things more important. Of course, if it comes down to going up against 13 to prevent them from trying to use Bucky, Sam's pretty sure Steve'll be on board.
He's quiet for a moment, as he tries to decide what he'd wanted to say after that. This isn't something he's told a lot of people, not in this many words - After that I couldn't find a good enough reason to be over there, after that I retired, after that I hung up the wings - he's implied it, but he rarely says it. Saying it makes it real, and he always feels like he wants to qualify it, to explain, to add in all the other circumstances and shit that'd contributed to what happened.
"But my best friend died and I couldn't handle it," he admits quietly. "And sometimes I'm scared as hell that I won't be strong enough to come back if it happens again."
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He's quiet for a moment, as he tries to decide what he'd wanted to say after that. This isn't something he's told a lot of people, not in this many words - After that I couldn't find a good enough reason to be over there, after that I retired, after that I hung up the wings - he's implied it, but he rarely says it. Saying it makes it real, and he always feels like he wants to qualify it, to explain, to add in all the other circumstances and shit that'd contributed to what happened.
"But my best friend died and I couldn't handle it," he admits quietly. "And sometimes I'm scared as hell that I won't be strong enough to come back if it happens again."