Oh, let Steve fuck it all now for you, James. As if he hadn’t been doing so since he woke up. Rogers immediately turned towards his old friend and shook his head.

“We’re not quite at the end of the line here, pal,” Steve said, so sharply that even Tony jumped before going right back to whatever it was he was doing. Steve couldn’t even hazard a guess. It was too complicated over there, colored lights swirling all around. “I’m not going somewhere without you. That’s what keeps getting us in all of this mess.”

He scowled like the person he used to be, the art student before the war. Bucky left him to join the army and go to war. They were better together.

Their lives proved that.

“You can’t go back to them.”