[ Could a heart really leap out of someone's chest because Steve felt like it just might the more Bucky confessed to him. It took a his willpower to not close the distance and promise to do better and not fail him again.

The broken look on Bucky's face - he caused that.

It was all his fault.

What could he say? There were so many thought in his head and yet. ]

You - always focused a lot on me before the war and - we were all each other had. I know you better than I know myself. Always have. I never make sense but you always do. It never mattered what happened I had you and I guess I mattered more to you than --

[ Emotional exhaustion clung to him, mingling with the residual panic of losing Bucky again. ]