Bucky was well enough aware that hearing those words shouldn't feel like a physical blow. They were simple enough. I love you. Even I love you both wasn't something that he didn't know.
And, yet.
God, he was such a mess, and he was bringing the other two down, and they wouldn't let him just leave, and - and he knew that, even if he tried, they'd seek him, no less hard than he and Peggy had searched for Steve. And he wasn't sure that - were he to leave - the people who'd brought him back wouldn't nab him away, again. This time for good. And, hard as this was, he didn't want to go back to them.
"You're not standing in the way of anyone." His voice was hoarse, and the words were almost automatic, but he had to. Had to give Steve whatever reassurance he could. If it even mattered. "I. Can we just go try to eat or something? I'm not sure if keeping on talkin' right now will leave us fit to show ourselves anywhere."
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And, yet.
God, he was such a mess, and he was bringing the other two down, and they wouldn't let him just leave, and - and he knew that, even if he tried, they'd seek him, no less hard than he and Peggy had searched for Steve. And he wasn't sure that - were he to leave - the people who'd brought him back wouldn't nab him away, again. This time for good. And, hard as this was, he didn't want to go back to them.
"You're not standing in the way of anyone." His voice was hoarse, and the words were almost automatic, but he had to. Had to give Steve whatever reassurance he could. If it even mattered. "I. Can we just go try to eat or something? I'm not sure if keeping on talkin' right now will leave us fit to show ourselves anywhere."