They meet
Another year later, Steve came to Wakanda to pick him up, with a couple of familiar faces, Natasha Romanov, and that bastard Sam Wilson. They’re not really that important now, Steve is here, finally, after years of Skype, he finally sees him for real.
It’s good to be back, it’s good to have Steve’s back again. This time he’ll never leave his side.
Takes everything in him to not run and leap, then hugged him tightly. Steve has a growing beard in his face that oddly compliments him. Blond hair slicked back like a dream, dark gear pressed fittingly to his body. But most importantly, the way Steve smiles when he sees him, Bucky lives for that. Eyes still that calmly kind blue, now held more electricity in it. Bucky knew those eyes, the eyes that have seen the bad that this world could get.
Steve is here for a mission, and to ask him for help, of course Bucky will follow him. Bucky will follow that rickety sick kid till the end of the line. Inside those hard eyes, the armor, and that enhanced body, he knew that boy is still there, the little ball of justice.
There’s a war coming, but Steve still spare a smile to Bucky, and he mirrors the joyful smile, feeling his face hurts.
“How you doing Buck?” Steve’s voice… like music to his ear, calling his name, making him smile ear to ear.
“Not bad, for the end of the world.”
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