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A Coal Yet Burning by CapGirlCanuck
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
25 Aug 2019
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Summary
The ones he loved have vanished, and the ashes settle around him.
The fire dies, and his world is left cold and dark.
But somehow, against all odds, Steve Rogers finds the courage to keep breathing.
(He can hear Bucky's voice telling him to.)Scenes from the five years between Snap and Un-Snap.
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Sometimes people still get mad at him. They ask him why he couldn’t stop Thanos. They ask why he couldn’t save them. Once, back around the first Christmas after the Snap, a girl spat at him. She’d had tears running down her face.
No tears here. The taller boy is thin, brown hair, a mass of freckles across his tanned face. The other boy has close-cropped black hair, smile bright against his dark skin. Both wear t-shirts and jeans.
“Did you fight Thanos?” the thin boy blurts out. Instantly he blushes, and his friend shoots him a glare.
It takes Steve a moment to find the energy for an answer. “Yes.”
“Were you afraid?”
Steve looks into the embarrassed, but curious eyes. “Deep down, I always am.”
“Why?” The black boy’s voice is quiet.
The words come out. “Because of what I can lose.”
There is a moment’s quiet, filled in by the song of the violin, softer now. A breeze stirs the leaves.
The brown-haired boy speaks hesitantly. “Did you get beat up bad? What did he do?”
Steve looks up at them. The taller boy has green eyes.
“He took everything.”
Silence. Even the birds hush.
“Not everything,” the black boy says. His hand goes up across his friend’s back to grip the other boy’s opposite shoulder. “Not everything.”
The taller one nods slowly. “Yeah.” His cheeks are still flushed and he’s talking through his shyness. “We lost a lot.”
“My dad,” the other boy puts in.
“My mom. But not everything. We still got each other.” The other boy punches him in the ribs. “We’re still here.”
Steve looks at them, sees himself. Himself and Buck, a little bruised, a little battered, a little sobered. But ready to take on the world.
“We’re still here.”
He doesn’t realize he repeats it out loud, until the shorter boy nods.
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Bookmark Notes:
This fic is SO GOOD.