It's not. [Bucky manages something that might be a teasing, slightly self depreciating grin at his next admission, because he's not an idiot, but he's definitely not someone who studies this sort of thing for a living, and even they probably wouldn't be able to help you.] And I'd be the wrong guy to try and give you one.
[The apology's brushed off with a shrug - he remembers it happened, but the whole thing is like some badly remembered dream, with certain parts a lot brighter and clearer than others. It kind of helps make it easier to deal with, in a weird way.] It happens.
[And he figures now is probably not the time to announce that he's already dead anyway, so who cares, really?]
Look, I'm kind of a pain in the ass [meaning "used to"] when it comes to this whole sitting by someone's hospital bed routine, so- [The grin he flashes her way is friendly and almost normal, like they're not sitting here because he'd been too late to stop her clone from strangling her.] If you wanna sit and talk, or play cards or something, lemme know.
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[The apology's brushed off with a shrug - he remembers it happened, but the whole thing is like some badly remembered dream, with certain parts a lot brighter and clearer than others. It kind of helps make it easier to deal with, in a weird way.] It happens.
[And he figures now is probably not the time to announce that he's already dead anyway, so who cares, really?]
Look, I'm kind of a pain in the ass [meaning "used to"] when it comes to this whole sitting by someone's hospital bed routine, so- [The grin he flashes her way is friendly and almost normal, like they're not sitting here because he'd been too late to stop her clone from strangling her.] If you wanna sit and talk, or play cards or something, lemme know.