[ Sam looks at Bucky, brows drawing together immediately. He's honestly not surprised that Bucky's angry and poorly coping - he's been on the receiving end of that himself - but he's admittedly surprised to hear that Bucky would lash out at Steve, too.
Everything's damn fucked here, if you ask Sam, because it's just unfair. Beyond just getting dunked into this overall situation, the fact that they're all from such vastly different moments in time is painful, unfair and impossible to navigate without someone's feelings getting crushed underfoot, to say the least. It's a series of losses, too - Bucky and him lost Steve, but this Steve doesn't remember having forced that loss on them, and grief, resentment and gladness for a friend's happy ending are a heady cocktail to deal with, one that feels impossible to share with a man who can't be blamed for it no matter how you want to shake him and demand 'why did you do this to me?'. Sam lost Natasha, and frankly she's a source of painful whiplash between grief and relief, a freefall he has no control over. And Bucky... yeah. Bucky doesn't know what kind of loss he is to Sam, just has an inkling of the idea, and Sam has to remind himself to leave it at that.
Impossible. Just a line of grief and hurt feelings and confusion.
How do you rank 'acid rain' as a complication when measured against this crap?
It still baffles Sam that any scenario in which Bucky would lose it on Steve. The hell could Rogers even say or do to provoke that? And granted, Sam could ask, but that's hardly the most important question he could ask here.
The priority, as it so often is of late, instead becomes: ]
You okay?
[ It does answer the question as to Bucky seeking him out, at least - whether things with Steve are smoothed over or not, it's a good sign Bucky's reaching out after a situation like that. ]
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Everything's damn fucked here, if you ask Sam, because it's just unfair. Beyond just getting dunked into this overall situation, the fact that they're all from such vastly different moments in time is painful, unfair and impossible to navigate without someone's feelings getting crushed underfoot, to say the least. It's a series of losses, too - Bucky and him lost Steve, but this Steve doesn't remember having forced that loss on them, and grief, resentment and gladness for a friend's happy ending are a heady cocktail to deal with, one that feels impossible to share with a man who can't be blamed for it no matter how you want to shake him and demand 'why did you do this to me?'. Sam lost Natasha, and frankly she's a source of painful whiplash between grief and relief, a freefall he has no control over. And Bucky... yeah. Bucky doesn't know what kind of loss he is to Sam, just has an inkling of the idea, and Sam has to remind himself to leave it at that.
Impossible. Just a line of grief and hurt feelings and confusion.
How do you rank 'acid rain' as a complication when measured against this crap?
It still baffles Sam that any scenario in which Bucky would lose it on Steve. The hell could Rogers even say or do to provoke that? And granted, Sam could ask, but that's hardly the most important question he could ask here.
The priority, as it so often is of late, instead becomes: ]
You okay?
[ It does answer the question as to Bucky seeking him out, at least - whether things with Steve are smoothed over or not, it's a good sign Bucky's reaching out after a situation like that. ]