@loteriias:  ❛ you don’t have to tell me . ❜ -- shuri @ bucky
the words are met with a curt nod, eyes sliding to the floor. he isn’t sure he has the heart to tell her, anyway. she may be in charge of his deprogramming, the reason why he might be able to have a second chance in this world—and it’s a debt he doesn’t know how he can even begin to pay back to the wakandans—but no sixteen year-old girl should have to bear witness to all of the atrocities written into his past. this is not a soft history [...] it’s smeared with so much blood that it’s impossible to scrub them clean from the lines of his hands, paints his mouth black. committing the acts were one thing; but the act of remembering was its own kind of pain. “thank you for doing all of this, shuri. really.” he doesn’t know how he’ll be able to thank all of them enough.
