"Steve, anyone who needed you to be bold to take notice was a blind moron, and never deserved you anyway."

It's not that he has Steve on a pedestal, he knows full well that his friend has a lot of flaws, it's that he knows that the good things about him more than balance those flaws out. He's the sort of guy who only comes along once in a hundred years, a true hero in the heart of him, regardless of what his body might have said.

Bucky's always known it, it's why he's always followed him and why he always will.

"Now, c'mon, before I get arrested for kidnapping a new wolf royal or something."