Sick Zemo ficlet
Spoilers: around episodes 1x03 and 1x04.
Bucky finds Zemo lying on the couch on his side with his coat covering him and boots on - a strange occurrence, since the guy seems to be quite respectful to the furniture.
He decides Zemo peacefully sleeping while Walker and the Flag-Smashers are tearing the world apart is just too much and decides to wake him up out of spite.
"Wake up, we've got things to-" Bucky starts while coming closer to the couch to grab the closest arm available to drag the man up from his slumber. He pauses midway when he notices the splotches of red on Zemo's cheeks.
"Zemo?"Bucky is not so sure on how to proceed, so he tentatively rest the back of his fingers on the man's forehead, feeling the heat radiating from his skin.
Zemo murmurs something, and to Bucky it sounds like a woman's name embraced by Sokovian words - it dawns on him Zemo probably thinks it's his late wife tending to him. The tenderness with which he speaks in his almost unconscious state saddens Bucky.
He decides they can spare a couple more hours on their quest, and if Sam ever asks who took his blanket now covering Zemo on the couch, Bucky will never answer.
