Fics like sharpen your teeth (tell yourself that it’s just business)

Barnes knows what Rogers would like to hear. I remember you. He doesn’t. He has wisps of memory as insubstantial as everything else the chair took from his brain. They’re always accompanied by the taste of metal in his mouth. He stays because it’s safe, because Hydra cannot get to him here, because Rogers—still waiting for his dead friend to claw his way out of the Winter Soldier’s broken psyche—will go to the ends of the earth to find him if they do. There’s a strange security in this knowledge, but Barnes knows it won’t last. Rogers will only wait for so long, and Barnes cannot tell him that his friend died screaming in the cold. So he watches Rogers watch him, and Barnes doesn’t know what he’s looking for, but he knows he has found it the first time he sees Rogers’s eyes drop down to his lips and dart guiltily away. Barnes pretends he doesn’t notice and unlike Rogers, he can act. The Red Room made him well, and the Americans could ruin only so much. He changes his act, a few weeks in. He starts looking back. - Bucky tries to play the long game.

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