Bucky's face does this... really weird twist, because, "I crashed in the arctic. I got fucking thawed out because you - "
He feels like the breath's been punched out of him for a minute. He's never really just... sat down and spelled this all out for anybody. Least of all a dead guy.
He pulls in another breath, tries again. "It's 2014. Which I know sounds stupid, but - maybe not as stupid as you'd think," he says, given what Steve just told him. "You died in 1945. In the Alps. We looked for your body, Steve." Hell yes he'd made sure they had, and not just because losing access to the one working sample of Erskine's formula, even frozen, had been unacceptable to the Army. That had just been a convenient way to muster more resources. Even if it had all been in vain. "We never found fucking anything." Everyone had concluded he'd crashed into the icy river, been carried away. Bucky hadn't liked it, but he'd believed it.
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Date: 2019-01-31 09:32 pm (UTC)He feels like the breath's been punched out of him for a minute. He's never really just... sat down and spelled this all out for anybody. Least of all a dead guy.
He pulls in another breath, tries again. "It's 2014. Which I know sounds stupid, but - maybe not as stupid as you'd think," he says, given what Steve just told him. "You died in 1945. In the Alps. We looked for your body, Steve." Hell yes he'd made sure they had, and not just because losing access to the one working sample of Erskine's formula, even frozen, had been unacceptable to the Army. That had just been a convenient way to muster more resources. Even if it had all been in vain. "We never found fucking anything." Everyone had concluded he'd crashed into the icy river, been carried away. Bucky hadn't liked it, but he'd believed it.
"So... I got promoted to Captain."
With the capital C. As in, Captain America.
Hence the shield. The suit.
This doesn't make any sense at all.