Bucky nods, slow and careful so as not to dislodge her hand.

"If you go back - when you go back," he says. "I know Steve'll want to keep working on the pardon. Which, hell, who knows, might actually even happen."

It's been a long time since he's allowed himself to feel any real hope, but he hadn't believed the block would truly be possible either, had he? Maybe things can be worked out.

"I could ask you out, officially, once you're not responsible for me. You could disclose it. Would that work?"