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Ten years after Steve returns from war, a man he thought dead arrives on his doorstep.
-Five years of training himself to live with the constant buzzing underneath his skin, the emptiness, the nightmares. The memory of a man he hasn’t spoken the name of in just as long.
He can hardly bring himself to even think the name now. Instead he thinks around it. Conceptualizes every letter with a memory. A smile for an E. A gasped breath for a D. The blur of tears obscuring his view of the ocean battering the side of the ship for every letter after.
He even tries to force himself into doing the thing. Say the name. Just say it, he orders himself.
He opens his mouth. Nothing comes out.
Steve smokes the cigarette down to nothing.