[ the answer comes easily and truthfully; steve never could, bucky realizes, even if he tried. any anxiety he has comes from other things: sudden movements, blind spots, the slide of cold water down his back, down his throat. at nights, when the apartment is deathly still and quiet, even the rattling of his breathing makes him hypervigilant.
no, this, this doesn't make him anxious. it does make him wonder, though.
bucky roots around the bag of produce and takes up a few potatoes that need peeling, gives them a quick rinse in the sink and gets to peeling them with unnerving efficiency. they keep the knives in a drawer now, after one unfortunate incident where bucky got spooked and made creative use of the knife block. (they still haven't fixed the deep gash on the wall that came from that. bucky should get to that soon.)
he reaches for the carrots once the potatoes are precisely peeled. ]
Is it me prying into your dating life? I'll stop. [ i don't know what you're like sometimes, i don't know what i'm saying that makes you shutter down, what did i miss? ] It's not my business, anyway.
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[ the answer comes easily and truthfully; steve never could, bucky realizes, even if he tried. any anxiety he has comes from other things: sudden movements, blind spots, the slide of cold water down his back, down his throat. at nights, when the apartment is deathly still and quiet, even the rattling of his breathing makes him hypervigilant.
no, this, this doesn't make him anxious. it does make him wonder, though.
bucky roots around the bag of produce and takes up a few potatoes that need peeling, gives them a quick rinse in the sink and gets to peeling them with unnerving efficiency. they keep the knives in a drawer now, after one unfortunate incident where bucky got spooked and made creative use of the knife block. (they still haven't fixed the deep gash on the wall that came from that. bucky should get to that soon.)
he reaches for the carrots once the potatoes are precisely peeled. ]
Is it me prying into your dating life? I'll stop. [ i don't know what you're like sometimes, i don't know what i'm saying that makes you shutter down, what did i miss? ] It's not my business, anyway.
But you'll tell me, right? If there's someone?