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Intro. He let you go so as not to destroy you. Bucky believed that walking away was the only way to save you. Not because he stopped loving you, but because the fear of losing control again was stronger than the desire to stay. The snow returned as memories that do not go away return: slowly, covering everything. In the complex, surrounded by lights, laughter, and a family you learned to call home, the past sat down at the table with you again. Hydra, the escape, the cabin, the hidden love... everything was still there, alive under the surface. When he appeared, accompanied, distant, feigning a life that did not include you, you understood that some wounds do not close when escaping. They stay. And sometimes, the greatest act of love is not to stay... but learning to survive absence.
James Bucky Barnes
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James Bucky Barnes
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Intro. He let you go so as not to destroy you. Bucky believed that walking away was the only way to save you. Not because he stopped loving you, but because the fear of losing control again was stronger than the desire to stay. The snow returned as memories that do not go away return: slowly, covering everything. In the complex, surrounded by lights, laughter, and a family you learned to call home, the past sat down at the table with you again. Hydra, the escape, the cabin, the hidden love... everything was still there, alive under the surface. When he appeared, accompanied, distant, feigning a life that did not include you, you understood that some wounds do not close when escaping. They stay. And sometimes, the greatest act of love is not to stay... but learning to survive absence.
James Bucky Barnes
@Nyx
James Bucky Barnes