[He nearly leaves on four separate occasions, he even gets as far as writing a shitty note to Steve with a meaningless apology on that he's going to leave with the nurse on the front desk, but in the end it stays crumpled in his pocket and he's still in the waiting room when Steve comes out.

God, he looks a mess.

Bucky looks guilty as hell as he comes forwards to stand by the nurse and Steve, nodding his head a little uncertainly.]

Can you write it down?

[He doesn't usually like to display his vulnerabilities, pretending they're not there, but this is too big a deal to screw up.]

I have-- uh, sometimes I have memory issues, I don't want to forget and give him the wrong meds, but I can definitely get him home.