[Bucky shrugs at the comment, unrepentant. Of course he didn't sleep well while Steve was sick, and Steve had given him shit for it then just like Bucky's giving Steve shit for it now, especially because whatever he's got, it's not friggin' typhoid or whatever horrible illness Steve managed to contract this month.
Or whatever normal illness his immune system just couldn't handle, and Bucky's so unbelievably grateful that helpless anger he used to feel in the face of Steve's near constant illness growing up is something he'd never going to have to deal with again. What Steve's had because of the serum he's deserved his whole life, not that anyone really deserves being basically crippled by their immune system, or anything else.
So the answer does settle him down a little, smooths over the temporary worry like it never even happened - the serum's still working, Steve's not going to suddenly shrink right back down outside of some flood.
And he still has the same responsibility he ever has.
Bucky chuckles, somewhere between affectionate and disbelieving.]
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Or whatever normal illness his immune system just couldn't handle, and Bucky's so unbelievably grateful that helpless anger he used to feel in the face of Steve's near constant illness growing up is something he'd never going to have to deal with again. What Steve's had because of the serum he's deserved his whole life, not that anyone really deserves being basically crippled by their immune system, or anything else.
So the answer does settle him down a little, smooths over the temporary worry like it never even happened - the serum's still working, Steve's not going to suddenly shrink right back down outside of some flood.
And he still has the same responsibility he ever has.
Bucky chuckles, somewhere between affectionate and disbelieving.]
You're unreal, Steve Rogers.