[Bucky has said the same thing, for the most part. Steve can even admit it's what he would say. He still feels like it isn't enough - can't ever be enough. But here and now isn't the time to dwell on it. If Bucky clamming up about it and moving on forcibly was ever good for anything, it was the fact that Steve had something else to focus on than just his guilt. At least, until he had a minute to himself.

Still, the touch might not be the shove he'd expect from Bucky, but it feels the same, essentially, and it means the same, too.

So does that smile of hers a minute later, making him laugh.] I never said you were a monster. Though I can't imagine any of those dates went any better without you - him - to steal all the attention. [He doesn't sound like he minds - because he doesn't, really. It's just the way things were.

And it sounds like the way things were with Bucky... well, they're close enough to the way things were with Becky.] You two really are the same person. I mean - you know. Underneath. [Obviously not on the surface. Obviously.] Which means you really do have a lot of dirty laundry on me... and half the stuff I have on you probably doesn't count. Now I feel outgunned.