When he was a kid, he honestly didn't expect to live to be an adult. All the doctors always used to tut over his body and shake their heads sadly, and only sheer stubbornness pulled him through. And then he expected to just keep fighting as Captain America, always with Bucky at his shoulder. And then-- then he never expected to survive, put that plane in the ocean fully intending to die.
What would his Ma say if she could have seen him now? Stuck in the future, in a body fit for a true soldier, with the world gone to hell. It hurt a bit, a deep lonely ache in his chest. But it helped to talk, and he was gratified that Tony was at all interested given how he seemed to think that Bucky was irredeemable now.
"Smart, and kind. He was that one kid that all the mothers wished was their own, 'cause he could be real polite when he wanted to be. He used to give me half his lunch at school and say he was too full to eat it, even though I could hear his stomach grumbling. He split his knuckles on the butcher's kid for calling me puny. He learned to do all the latest hairstyles for his sisters, even though the other fellas teased him, and he always called my Mom 'ma'am'."
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When he was a kid, he honestly didn't expect to live to be an adult. All the doctors always used to tut over his body and shake their heads sadly, and only sheer stubbornness pulled him through. And then he expected to just keep fighting as Captain America, always with Bucky at his shoulder. And then-- then he never expected to survive, put that plane in the ocean fully intending to die.
What would his Ma say if she could have seen him now? Stuck in the future, in a body fit for a true soldier, with the world gone to hell. It hurt a bit, a deep lonely ache in his chest. But it helped to talk, and he was gratified that Tony was at all interested given how he seemed to think that Bucky was irredeemable now.
"Smart, and kind. He was that one kid that all the mothers wished was their own, 'cause he could be real polite when he wanted to be. He used to give me half his lunch at school and say he was too full to eat it, even though I could hear his stomach grumbling. He split his knuckles on the butcher's kid for calling me puny. He learned to do all the latest hairstyles for his sisters, even though the other fellas teased him, and he always called my Mom 'ma'am'."