If you don't know why it's happened, you can't claim to know it's not because of me.
[There's another swell of panic - if he's not assigned to a warden, does that somehow make it easier to make him disappear? He has no grounds for even the pale conviction - four months of knowing a man who has been kind to him does little against two decades of knowing people who would not care about hurting him or letting others hurt him - but he's certain that if he were still Bucky's responsibility when he disappears, Bucky would fight it. Wouldn't he? He'd fought the No- the Vanquish, to his own death. He'd arrived at the same time as Ben himself, his loyalty can't be that...
Bucky is still talking and Ben visibly shakes himself out of the haze trying to take hold of him, stepping - surprisingly - forward slightly, though there is nothing threatening about him for the moment.]
Were you too kind? Did they expect you to be harsher? That happens sometimes. Sometimes the commanders are too soft. They never last.
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[There's another swell of panic - if he's not assigned to a warden, does that somehow make it easier to make him disappear? He has no grounds for even the pale conviction - four months of knowing a man who has been kind to him does little against two decades of knowing people who would not care about hurting him or letting others hurt him - but he's certain that if he were still Bucky's responsibility when he disappears, Bucky would fight it. Wouldn't he? He'd fought the No- the Vanquish, to his own death. He'd arrived at the same time as Ben himself, his loyalty can't be that...
Bucky is still talking and Ben visibly shakes himself out of the haze trying to take hold of him, stepping - surprisingly - forward slightly, though there is nothing threatening about him for the moment.]
Were you too kind? Did they expect you to be harsher? That happens sometimes. Sometimes the commanders are too soft. They never last.