"Steve," he says, the name beating inside his head like a drum, or the pulse of his own heart. "They got Steve."
Bucky turns, his fists still clenched tight. The metal one is steady and strong as every but the right, the right hand is trembling with emotion, blood running over his fingers to drip to the ground. "I need to go back and get him."
It's a betrayal of Steve's wishes. It's something the Soldier would never have considered but Bucky Barnes needs to do because he can't leave Steve behind, Steve promised him... he promised him they'd be together till the end of the line. Bucky knew what that meant and he knew, intrinsically, that when the end of the line came it was meant to be both of them together. He's fucked up with that so many times, he can't again.
They can't kill him, they won't. it'd be an avoxing or maybe worse but Steve is popular, he can't be executed.
"I'm going back to get him."
It's not just a back alleyway in the Capitol, it's the streets of Brooklyn, it's a HYDRA factory in war-torn Europe with a pit of fire between them. That didn't stop them then, this can't stop him now.
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Bucky turns, his fists still clenched tight. The metal one is steady and strong as every but the right, the right hand is trembling with emotion, blood running over his fingers to drip to the ground. "I need to go back and get him."
It's a betrayal of Steve's wishes. It's something the Soldier would never have considered but Bucky Barnes needs to do because he can't leave Steve behind, Steve promised him... he promised him they'd be together till the end of the line. Bucky knew what that meant and he knew, intrinsically, that when the end of the line came it was meant to be both of them together. He's fucked up with that so many times, he can't again.
They can't kill him, they won't. it'd be an avoxing or maybe worse but Steve is popular, he can't be executed.
"I'm going back to get him."
It's not just a back alleyway in the Capitol, it's the streets of Brooklyn, it's a HYDRA factory in war-torn Europe with a pit of fire between them. That didn't stop them then, this can't stop him now.