[Is it everything? Would it be everything if he told Steve to leave him alone for the rest of their lives, to just take comfort in the fact he was alive? He doesn't know and it tangles him up inside.

He moves almost as soon as the wound is stitched properly, though it tugs on his stomach and side dreadfully to do so. He just needs to put a few steps between them and this overwhelming sensation that always seems to come over him when Steve is near.]

You're the reason I'm still alive.

[He didn't mean to say it, but it comes out anyway.]

Why else would I still have fought to be free even when I didn't remember my own name?