[ Bucky looks at her for a small second, but he can't hold her gaze. He wishes he could reach for her hand, but doesn't. ]
I tried. When— [ He doesn't like to say the name. ] After we stopped Novotkov, we tried… I tried, to make you remember me. [ It had been in between long debriefings, in the halogen light of the hospital ward, and he'd looked and looked but there'd never been any flash of recognition in her face. ]
SHIELD wanted to try something with machines, telepaths, but… [ He stops. ] But I realized I couldn't make you remember me. I could never make you do anything.
[ And he smiles, sad and crooked, like a boy who can't quite hit the bullseye at the state fair. He'd never wanted to hurt her, but he had: love was vulnerable, open as a wound. He could never make her do anything. ]
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I tried. When— [ He doesn't like to say the name. ] After we stopped Novotkov, we tried… I tried, to make you remember me. [ It had been in between long debriefings, in the halogen light of the hospital ward, and he'd looked and looked but there'd never been any flash of recognition in her face. ]
SHIELD wanted to try something with machines, telepaths, but… [ He stops. ] But I realized I couldn't make you remember me. I could never make you do anything.
[ And he smiles, sad and crooked, like a boy who can't quite hit the bullseye at the state fair. He'd never wanted to hurt her, but he had: love was vulnerable, open as a wound. He could never make her do anything. ]