[Steve catches the - hesitation, is the best word he can come up with, and he's not sure what caused it. Even when Bucky was having one of those horrible flashbacks, he never made that kind of motion, never gave him that look - sure, he gave him plenty of looks, but none that said he was crazy like this.
It's just... it's not adding up, and there's this bad feeling settling in the pit of his stomach, and he'd only just thought it had finally, finally gone away.
The grin, at least, is Bucky's - maybe a little off, but so is everything about him, lately, and it's just one more checkmark on Steve's mental list and God, he wishes he could just write this off. But he's tried to. And he can't.
But he takes a breath, gives Bucky as easy a grin as he can, and tilts his head in the right direction to get them headed that way.] Me? I'm fine. Glad that's over - well. Relatively. [Because it's not over, there are people here from that other Barge, and...] I don't think it's really over. It can't be. Not with the - mix-up that happened, you know? It's the eye of the storm.
Spam; Oct. 3
It's just... it's not adding up, and there's this bad feeling settling in the pit of his stomach, and he'd only just thought it had finally, finally gone away.
The grin, at least, is Bucky's - maybe a little off, but so is everything about him, lately, and it's just one more checkmark on Steve's mental list and God, he wishes he could just write this off. But he's tried to. And he can't.
But he takes a breath, gives Bucky as easy a grin as he can, and tilts his head in the right direction to get them headed that way.] Me? I'm fine. Glad that's over - well. Relatively. [Because it's not over, there are people here from that other Barge, and...] I don't think it's really over. It can't be. Not with the - mix-up that happened, you know? It's the eye of the storm.