Steve takes a breath to begin, but stops when Bucky's quiet "Steve," drops into the middle of the room. His best friend trades a look with him, searching his face, then nods for him to go ahead.
Mission report, Bucky thinks, and keeps his expression carefully neutral as he looks at Ross. "The team arrived at the facility site in Siberia as planned," he begins, and walks them through it. He keeps the telling succinct, but clear, leaving nothing out, and knows as he does so that it's evident how often he's done this before.
He doesn't try to defend himself in any way when relating the events of December 16, 1991, who the targets were, and why they were targeted. He describes Project Rebirth in the same impassive tone as everything else, but slows when he reaches what had happened on that lonely road.
"The mission was to sanction and extract, leaving no witnesses," he says, quietly. "I carried out my mission. Howard and Maria Stark didn't die in an accident. Zemo had a recording from the scene. He played it for Tony Stark to see, hoping to use it to turn Tony and Steve against each other and to destroy the Avengers entirely."
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Mission report, Bucky thinks, and keeps his expression carefully neutral as he looks at Ross. "The team arrived at the facility site in Siberia as planned," he begins, and walks them through it. He keeps the telling succinct, but clear, leaving nothing out, and knows as he does so that it's evident how often he's done this before.
He doesn't try to defend himself in any way when relating the events of December 16, 1991, who the targets were, and why they were targeted. He describes Project Rebirth in the same impassive tone as everything else, but slows when he reaches what had happened on that lonely road.
"The mission was to sanction and extract, leaving no witnesses," he says, quietly. "I carried out my mission. Howard and Maria Stark didn't die in an accident. Zemo had a recording from the scene. He played it for Tony Stark to see, hoping to use it to turn Tony and Steve against each other and to destroy the Avengers entirely."