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the gentleness that comes not from the absence of violence (but despite the abundance of it) by voxofthevoid
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types
17 Sep 2020
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Steve has a way of swallowing the space around him, sucking in the air and light. Bucky can sympathize, all too familiar with the overwhelming heat of that body, stripping him to his bare essentials and laying it all in Steve’s greedy hands. There are worse ways to live and worse ways to die, and Bucky’s doing a little of both, each and every day.
But Steve looks as young as the day Bucky met him, while Bucky—who lost a whole five years of his life, five years that Steve lived—has laugh lines around his mouth and a grey hair or ten. He’s nowhere near death, but even with the lost years, he’s closer to forty than thirty, and he has the feeling that in maybe three more decades, Steve will look like his son and not his lover.
Bucky almost speaks, voices it out loud. But he doesn’t, holding his tongue so he doesn’t pour poison over this soft, idyllic evening where Steve’s drenched in sunlight and Bucky’s lost the tension in his bones and they’re a family of two men and a cat.
When that day comes, when Bucky’s hair is grey and his bones are creaking and Steve’s still golden and young, they’ll talk about it. But that’s not today.
“I love you,” he says.
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A soft epilogue.Series
- Part 6 of the hero's shoulders
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