I wasn't that innocent. Doubt he would have fought me on it if I ever paid attention though. I just never did. [ Not when his nights were filled with Bucky's own details and Steve feeling... weird about it. Not odd weird, just unhappy weird. Maybe it had taken him too long to realize why.
He sighs a little reading those words. ] Complicated could mean a lot. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
[ Which makes him worry - somewhere deep down - that someone might have hurt him rather than the opposite of something embarrassing. Steve had never realized how easy to use that against someone could be until much later, but he'd been dealing with a different sort of war then. A different sort of battle. It just makes him wish he could remove him from all that and protect him in ways no one else ever had. ]
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He sighs a little reading those words. ] Complicated could mean a lot. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
[ Which makes him worry - somewhere deep down - that someone might have hurt him rather than the opposite of something embarrassing. Steve had never realized how easy to use that against someone could be until much later, but he'd been dealing with a different sort of war then. A different sort of battle. It just makes him wish he could remove him from all that and protect him in ways no one else ever had. ]