[ And so he does. When Steve had used the Cube, he'd made Bucky remember everything. The color of Miss Simmons jacket on the first day of second grade and the way Senator Henry's body bobbed up twice in the pool before he drowned. It was too much memory for his mind to make sense of, and he spent the better part of a week just stitching himself together. The memories had lost their florescent clarity as the months went by, the way a piece of glass gets smudged when you touch it, the way it can cut when it shatters.
So he gets it.
Bucky tries to keep the regret out of his voice, but some of the seams show through. ]
And if you need anything else. [ Answers, maybe. Punching does not occur to him, but he'd probably be into that too. ] Just ask.
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[ And so he does. When Steve had used the Cube, he'd made Bucky remember everything. The color of Miss Simmons jacket on the first day of second grade and the way Senator Henry's body bobbed up twice in the pool before he drowned. It was too much memory for his mind to make sense of, and he spent the better part of a week just stitching himself together. The memories had lost their florescent clarity as the months went by, the way a piece of glass gets smudged when you touch it, the way it can cut when it shatters.
So he gets it.
Bucky tries to keep the regret out of his voice, but some of the seams show through. ]
And if you need anything else. [ Answers, maybe. Punching does not occur to him, but he'd probably be into that too. ] Just ask.