[Steve sits back for a minute, trying to digest that. Trying to make it make sense, but he can't. How can he? How can anything about it make sense, when there's some world where he works for HYDRA - where it's what he lives for, and it's the reason they got ahold of Bucky over there, too.
He feels sick. He's not hungry anymore, even starting to push his plate away when Bucky lets that last question drop.
His mouth opens. He doesn't even know what to say, how to answer that - and he doesn't realize that his reaction might be an answer in and of itself.
Of course, that does depend on how Bucky interprets it.]
No -
[Not like Steve is, but... The answer he gives is a lie, and he knows it. There was a second serum. And all those tests, all those injections kept him alive, after the fall. Through every cryo-sleep.
Probably through all of Zola's torture, as well.
But he can't tell this Bucky that, any more than he can tell his Bucky.
And yet, now he's curious, now he needs to know more, because maybe, somehow, it can help him understand what happened to his best friend, just a little better.]
Spam; Oct. 3
He feels sick. He's not hungry anymore, even starting to push his plate away when Bucky lets that last question drop.
His mouth opens. He doesn't even know what to say, how to answer that - and he doesn't realize that his reaction might be an answer in and of itself.
Of course, that does depend on how Bucky interprets it.]
No -
[Not like Steve is, but... The answer he gives is a lie, and he knows it. There was a second serum. And all those tests, all those injections kept him alive, after the fall. Through every cryo-sleep.
Probably through all of Zola's torture, as well.
But he can't tell this Bucky that, any more than he can tell his Bucky.
And yet, now he's curious, now he needs to know more, because maybe, somehow, it can help him understand what happened to his best friend, just a little better.]
You are?