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Steve "I'LL KICK MY OWN ASS" Rogers ([personal profile] usavatar) wrote 2011-08-31 06:07 am (UTC)

Steve shrugs. "I'm used to paperwork."

Technically he's used to Colonel Phillips doing the paperwork while he and the Commandos go out and smash things. "I'd like to go back, but I don't know if I'd want to alone."

Not true, either. He could easily go back alone. He would happily go back alone, and he has. Bucky's death is still fresh and still painful, and walking the old playground and dormitories is something like a one-man funeral procession. He looks down at his hands, his smile fading into something like nostalgia. "The first time we met, he had two guys at his back and was beating the tar out of me. After a while he got tired of me getting up again, and one of the other boys tried to take a swing. Bucky floored him. He said if anyone was going to punch the runt, it would be him. He dusted me off, and..."

Steve shrugs and drags a hand through his hair, not quite looking at Bruce. He's not sure where that came from. Peggy is probably the only one who's heard that story before now, and it feels a little funny telling someone who, despite the months in the mansion, is still a near stranger.

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