[ There's a resigned echo of Bucky's sad acknowledgement. A lot of the time, it wasn't so different when Sam served. Too many times soldiers were considered expendable to one degree or another.
Sam's spent his whole life trying to be the exception. First in pararescue, then at the VA, then with the Avengers - that others may live, no man left behind, fighting enemy combatants that wanted to take their lives and the demons and ghosts that lived in their minds and their own government that forgot about them so easily. He ain't gonna change that now.
His thumb brushes over the back of Bucky's knuckles, and he finds he's leaned in closer, trying to occupy more of Bucky's personal space. ]
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Sam's spent his whole life trying to be the exception. First in pararescue, then at the VA, then with the Avengers - that others may live, no man left behind, fighting enemy combatants that wanted to take their lives and the demons and ghosts that lived in their minds and their own government that forgot about them so easily. He ain't gonna change that now.
His thumb brushes over the back of Bucky's knuckles, and he finds he's leaned in closer, trying to occupy more of Bucky's personal space. ]
No mission is ever gonna be worth losing you.