Fics like american stories burning before me

Mid-December, a man tries to kill Steve and fails. When it’s over, there’s a hole in Steve’s lungs and blood on his bed and a masked man with blank blue eyes pinned under his bulk. There’s a mind that breaks open for him and a throat that arches in silent submission, and there’s blood that tastes like nothing that’s ever touched Steve’s tongue, spring and winter in bursts of red. It’s been a long time since Steve wanted to keep a human—centuries since the nights spent stalking Sam through the shadows of dark alleys and decades since the day Peggy realized what he was and drew a gun on him. Steve runs his knuckles down his killer’s stubbled face, flushed with borrowed life as his flesh knits back together. He’s a sweet boy. There are holes in his mind, and they mold themselves swiftly, almost willingly in the shape of Steve. Someone was there before him, that much is clear, but it’s not the foggy haze of a vampire’s thrall. There’s an elegance to that, some subtlety, but this is like someone took an iron rod and tore large, messy grooves through the man’s brain. - Some meetings are inevitable.

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