This is what Bucky had been afraid of, and he's sure it's what Steve would have been afraid of as well before this day. People are such assholes, doesn't it ever occur to them not to talk about someone who can hear them as if he's a piece of meat? Like he doesn't deserve basic respect? People have been pulling this shit on Steve for as long as Bucky can remember, something about the scrawny body makes people think they can talk over him.

He moves over to where the jerks are that are muttering about an eating disorder and leans down between them. He doesn't make any threatening moves, because he doesn't want to be thrown out of the classroom, but his voice is a low and deadly murmur that leaves both of them looking ever so slightly pale and clamping their lips shut.

Bucky straightens and gives Steve an exaggerated wink, that somehow terrifies everyone else in the class after seeing how pale the other two went, and everyone goes dead silent after that in a very uncomfortable way. Not even Amy feels like she can keep talking about werewolves, she doesn't want to draw Steve's friend's attention.