"Hate to break it to you, Buck, but we don't look the way we used to either. It's something you learn to adapt to after a while."
The body dysphoria never really goes away, but Steve's learned to cope with this too-large frame if it means he can do what he's needed to. He's always wanted to serve. Help people. Wanted to enlist so bad he signed his life away to a secret project just for a chance to do his duty. And if he hadn't?
Well, Hydra would still have their Winter Soldier, and Steve would be long dead and gone.
There's no point in worrying about the what ifs and could have beens. They're both here now. It's taken so long for them both to be here. So long. For the first time, Steve isn't thinking ahead to the next mission. The next duty. The next fight. He's listening to Bucky's steady breathing like he always used to when he was fighting to control his own spasming lungs.
"Brooklyn's still home. Could get a nice place there once the fallout from the accords is settled. No sense in being on the run forever. You know I've never really traveled just to do it though. S'always been for work. Or looking for you. Should maybe do some of that, too."
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Date: 2018-05-13 05:52 pm (UTC)The body dysphoria never really goes away, but Steve's learned to cope with this too-large frame if it means he can do what he's needed to. He's always wanted to serve. Help people. Wanted to enlist so bad he signed his life away to a secret project just for a chance to do his duty. And if he hadn't?
Well, Hydra would still have their Winter Soldier, and Steve would be long dead and gone.
There's no point in worrying about the what ifs and could have beens. They're both here now. It's taken so long for them both to be here. So long. For the first time, Steve isn't thinking ahead to the next mission. The next duty. The next fight. He's listening to Bucky's steady breathing like he always used to when he was fighting to control his own spasming lungs.
"Brooklyn's still home. Could get a nice place there once the fallout from the accords is settled. No sense in being on the run forever. You know I've never really traveled just to do it though. S'always been for work. Or looking for you. Should maybe do some of that, too."