[Bucky doesn't see how he's the one being stubborn when he can feel Sam getting closer. His heart clamors into his throat as he pounds down the stairs and thrusts himself out into the crowd. Walking one way strengthens the connection, so he turns on his heel to go the other, but there's so many beings it's almost like being caught in the ocean. It takes moving diagonal to get moving in the correct direction, stretching their connection thin.]
(I'm not.)
[Punishing himself, that is. Or at least in his mind he's not. Keeping away makes sense to him and agrees enough with the programming to keep it at a tolerable level.]
sam is now the big bad wolf
( I'm not. )
[Punishing himself, that is. Or at least in his mind he's not. Keeping away makes sense to him and agrees enough with the programming to keep it at a tolerable level.]