nerves_of_ice: (winter soldier (cw): ready to comply)
James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes ([personal profile] nerves_of_ice) wrote 2022-02-28 01:12 am (UTC)

He's aware of Tony moving out slightly, covering space between himself and Steve as Steve tries to engage with Zemo. Bucky keeps a sharp awareness out for other threats as he reaches the base of Sharon's cryo chamber.

A quick glance across the console and readouts tells him that she's stable, and he has to fight the surge of relief that threatens to weaken his knees. Although everything in him screams for him to unlock the chamber, he holds off for now, bitterly aware that this isn't anywhere near over.

Zemo does something, and Bucky jerks his weapon toward a screen nearby as it flickers to life. "An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again," the man tells them, as Bucky stares in sick realization at the date stamp on the screen.

16 Декабрь 1991.

"But one which crumbles from within? That's dead. Forever."

Tony was right, Bucky realizes, numbly. All of this was to set them against each other, to set Steve and Tony against each other, using him as the weapon to shatter them apart.

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