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“Marge takin’ good care of you, Buck?” he finally asks, lips barely moving. “Yeah she really is, John. She looks out for me.” John nods a little, stops when Gale tuts and rests a hand under his chin, featherlight restraint. “She said you asked her if I’m takin’ good care of her too.” “Yeah. Gotta make sure, you know?” Gale hums, a sort of breathy ‘uh-huh’ through barely-parted lips as he carefully cleans the rewetted blood, swipes so gentle they don’t hurt even when he’s working right up next to John’s throbbing nose. “You need someone to take care of you too, Bucky.” “No point really,” John argues, definitely slurring now as everything catches up to him at once, adrenaline draining away to leave him nothing more than drunk and exhausted. “Not much here to care about. ‘S all back there.” “That ain’t true.” --//-- John Egan has survived hell and returned to America after the war to find some promises have been kept, but most have been hollow. The one bright spot in his disappointing return to 'normal life' is his next door neighbor Gale Cleven and Gale's wife Marge, both of whom somehow still find John to be worth knowing, even after everything.

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