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Steve slits their throats, lets the blood spray his face – then doesn’t wash it off.
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The media says that it’s because of the Winter Soldier, that he’s the one who has spoiled and corrupted Captain America.
The first chance he gets, he looks into a camera and says, “I’ve been like this for a long, long time. It’s not my fault you all have buried your heads in the sand. It’s not my fault you’ve forgotten about the trail of corpses that I’ve left behind me in Bucky’s name ever since I dragged him from that first HYDRA facility.”
(Later, much later, they’ll say that he’s right.)
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Steve slits their throats, lets the blood spray his face – let’s Bucky lean in close and lick it all away.
“You’re so good to me,” Bucky says, his eyes flashing that vampire-red.
“I love you,” Steve says, pressing his nose into Bucky’s neck.
“Forever and always?” Bucky asks, his fangs dropping.
“Forever and always,” Steve echoes.
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End.