[ Bucky stops a few feet away and wipes red dust and rainwater from his face with his right hand.
He doesn't understand the question, gets it a little wrong because the storm isn't all he's known here. ]
A few weeks.
[ But he'd been with Steve before that, the memory still sharp in his mind after all the time he'd spent isolating himself and running paranoid. He wouldn't wish for anyone to get stuck here, but at the same time there's a selfish part of him that's happy to see Steve again.
Part of him is also nervous, though. They've barely seen each other since before HYDRA took him. After DC, Bucky hadn't stopped running until he'd been caught. Then they'd had an emergency to contend with. Now, here they are and Bucky's remembering all the reasons he'd run in the first place. Steve doesn't need the muddied mess that Bucky's become clogging up his life. He doesn't seem to have changed even a little, but Bucky can barely recognize himself some days. There's a nagging feeling that he's going to let Steve down somehow now that Steve might have time to really see him. ]
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He doesn't understand the question, gets it a little wrong because the storm isn't all he's known here. ]
A few weeks.
[ But he'd been with Steve before that, the memory still sharp in his mind after all the time he'd spent isolating himself and running paranoid. He wouldn't wish for anyone to get stuck here, but at the same time there's a selfish part of him that's happy to see Steve again.
Part of him is also nervous, though. They've barely seen each other since before HYDRA took him. After DC, Bucky hadn't stopped running until he'd been caught. Then they'd had an emergency to contend with. Now, here they are and Bucky's remembering all the reasons he'd run in the first place. Steve doesn't need the muddied mess that Bucky's become clogging up his life. He doesn't seem to have changed even a little, but Bucky can barely recognize himself some days. There's a nagging feeling that he's going to let Steve down somehow now that Steve might have time to really see him. ]