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    Steve doesn’t like bullies, on principle. It's less about justice, or decency, or righteous indignation; more about the look in the eyes of the people getting stepped on, the people getting trampled, the people getting lost.

    So it cuts all the deeper, when Steve recognizes strength, precision, endurance, capacity: sees the pieces of himself not born but made, reflected in this body, this person, this weapon: the Winter Soldier.

    It slices through Steve’s soul when he returns the Soldier's gaze, and reads the only thing that lives in the deadness that pervades behind those irises in the night.

    It’s not You can’t beat me.

    It’s more You can’t stop them.

     

    For the prompt: The AU where Steve Rogers sees the best in everyone, and it is that quality that brings him back the person he loves most in the world; where Steve reaches out to help the Winter Soldier on principle, but when the muzzle-mask comes off, he finds Bucky Barnes.

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    Tony had been trying to propose for months, but it turned out that post-battle on Christmas Eve was the best time to pop the question.

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    "You could, though," Steve said. "If you were willing to hurt me."

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    Steve looks perplexed for a minute then asks, "What makes torture nice?"

    It's a fair enough question. It's not the orgasms; Bucky had plenty of them with HYDRA and there's definitely a difference.

    He shrugs. "You doing it."

    Bucky craves the complete submission he experienced as the Asset. With Steve as his handler, and knowing he'll come back safely afterwards, what could possibly go wrong?

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    Bucky sighed, bowing his head. “What’s the alternative? We hide out here for the rest of our lives?”

    Steve shrugged. “Would that really be so bad?”

    “It wouldn’t be fair to you.”

    “And literally anything that has happened to you was?”

    “You don’t need to throw away your life for me.”

    Steve laughed, rubbing his hands down his face. “I’d throw away anything and everything for you, Buck. That’s what you don’t get. Until the end of the line, remember?”

    That seemed to hit something in Bucky, his eyes watering as he looked away. “You don’t even know me anymore, Steve.”

     

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    What if Bucky had showed up at Peggy's funeral?

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