Though I depart You shall remain til we meet again

“What did it cost?”

- steve is constantly sacrificing his friendships and the lives of innocent people for bucky and obviously only really cares about him

- steve is constantly shoving the fact that what he went through wasnt his fault. while that is true, hes simultaneously pushing buckys feelings of trauma and pain away and not allowing him to heal

- steve is toxically attached to his past and is projecting that on bucky and trying to force him to be the same man that he was by doing what i said previously

- to add to that, steve is pushing his past relationship/friendship with bucky onto him. he addresses him as buck and other nicknames or petnames while bucky barely remembers who he is. he doesn’t allow bucky the space he needs to have to heal and start putting his life back together, he expects everything to be back to the way it was like the last 70 years of torture and pain that bucky went through didn’t happen

every ironstrange fic is super cute n fluffy and i’m here for that