At the End of the Battle (Stucky)
“Steve?”
That’s all he manages to get out before he gets the feeling of being weightless. He watches as his own body fades and he’s scared, he doesn’t know what’s happening. He looks up at Steve again to see the same shocked expression as his gun drops onto the dirt below him.
The blond man doesn’t even know what’s going on except his entire world fades. Quite literally.
He can’t get his body to move fast enough, he’s in shock. He has to force himself to move an inch. When he does it’s already too late, Bucky falls to the ground only to have ash land where he stood.
Steve crouches down to the pile of ash, running his fingers along the top of the pile like he can’t believe what happened before him. He really can’t, they tried so hard and got so far but in the end it didn’t really matter, did it?
It can’t be, no he refuses to believe it. He just got Bucky back after all these years. His Bucky, his love, his light, his life. It wasn’t so supposed to go this way, he didn’t even get to say goodbye or tell him that he loves him one last time. Bucky’s gone and that means:
“We lost.”