[ Bucky says quietly, after a few moments. If there was something he'd learned about observing Steve Rogers, it was that in between the moments of helping people and rallying them, there is a sadness that reveals itself when he thinks people -- especially Bucky himself --aren't looking.
He doesn't remember ever seeing Steve this unhappy, the sort that settles in deep into the soul and never goes away, and despite all of Bucky's trauma, it makes his heart ache.
He plucks the candle from the muffin, divides it into two the way the old Bucky Barnes always did, offering him one half. ]
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[ Bucky says quietly, after a few moments. If there was something he'd learned about observing Steve Rogers, it was that in between the moments of helping people and rallying them, there is a sadness that reveals itself when he thinks people -- especially Bucky himself --aren't looking.
He doesn't remember ever seeing Steve this unhappy, the sort that settles in deep into the soul and never goes away, and despite all of Bucky's trauma, it makes his heart ache.
He plucks the candle from the muffin, divides it into two the way the old Bucky Barnes always did, offering him one half. ]