[Yeah, it's obvious - but Steve doesn't know the details, what it was really like when Bucky showed up here. What he was thinking - what he was feeling. (That's also something he beats himself up about, any time he thinks about Bucky lying there at the bottom of that ravine, and no one - no Allies come to look for him. But he can't get hung up on that now. He's not sure he'll ever be able to ask about the details of that.)
Although it's obvious Bucky showed up here before someone else found him, or they wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.
At first, he just nods - yeah, that's the answer he was expecting. If their places were reversed, it's exactly what he would ask. But the really, really fucked up thing is that Bucky's asking for something that's going to happen anyway.
Steve has this horrible sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that the Admiral wouldn't correct him, anyway. He'd just give him what he'd asked for - which wasn't giving him anything at all.
But there's always the chance that the Admiral might have a heart, and that he'd change things so that fall never happened, or so that Bucky gets back to the Allies, or... a hundred other things. And that would change everything, and for a second, it's pretty confusing. If Bucky had been alive... would Steve have been so adamant about taking that plane down?
The answer might still be yes. But it's something that he's not sure should change, anyway.] I - yeah. That would be... no. I don't want that.
[That, at least, is the truth.] I guess it was a lot simpler, before I showed up, [he says; his voice is wry, quiet, but the look on his face and the tone of his voice should also say he's not sorry he's here.]
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Although it's obvious Bucky showed up here before someone else found him, or they wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.
At first, he just nods - yeah, that's the answer he was expecting. If their places were reversed, it's exactly what he would ask. But the really, really fucked up thing is that Bucky's asking for something that's going to happen anyway.
Steve has this horrible sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that the Admiral wouldn't correct him, anyway. He'd just give him what he'd asked for - which wasn't giving him anything at all.
But there's always the chance that the Admiral might have a heart, and that he'd change things so that fall never happened, or so that Bucky gets back to the Allies, or... a hundred other things. And that would change everything, and for a second, it's pretty confusing. If Bucky had been alive... would Steve have been so adamant about taking that plane down?
The answer might still be yes. But it's something that he's not sure should change, anyway.] I - yeah. That would be... no. I don't want that.
[That, at least, is the truth.] I guess it was a lot simpler, before I showed up, [he says; his voice is wry, quiet, but the look on his face and the tone of his voice should also say he's not sorry he's here.]