Fine the way he is? Steve tilts his head down and arches his eyebrow at Bucky as if that might be the dumbest thing he’s ever heard. He’s not fine. He’s anything but fine. He can make this work but he wants to be better. He can be better if he just works at it. “Firstly, I could have beaten you before too. No sweat. But you can stop sugar coating things for me.”

He sort of wants people to find him attractive when he’s naked, not some creepy-half skeleton. Maybe that’s too much to ask but a guy told him once that he feels weird to touch and now it’s all he can think about during times like these.

Bucky’s never had to go through anything like this. Steve talks a big talk but he’s hurting too. And there’s only so much he can toughen up. “And second, people that look the way you do can’t tell people that look the way I do to be body positive.”

He gives Bucky a little shove, which does exactly nothing to his solidly built friend.