bleeding victory green

Bucky + making Buck smile

How many days did he spend in this camp, stranded miles away from his other half, knowing Bucky would hear word that he never made it back to base but with no confirmation of his survival? Their last interaction together was when Gale arranged for Bucky to get some time off because he was falling apart at the seams - how worried would he have to be now that Bucky was living with the fear and dread that his best friend might be dead? How often did he stand behind this barbed wire, looking to the horizon and expecting to see Bucky appear? How many groups of captured soldiers were taken in that Gale would scan the sea of faces for the one ☝🏽 he was hoping to find? I am unWELL

They both held on to the hope so hard that it would be the two of them standing together by the end, that against all odds, fate made them keep looking.