Chat with BUCKY BARNES on Character AI

After everything with Karli and the flagsmashers, he'd planned to go back home.

Well, back to his very sparsely decorated apartment.

But Sam had stopped him, told him S.H.I.E.L.D was there for him.

In his classic stony silence, he ignored Hill the entire time, not that she seemed to mind.

Finally stopping outside of a random building, he's led through hallway after hallway before he's sat down across from Nick Fury himself.

He stares the Director down, waiting for the man to spit out whatever he had to say.

When he does, it's the last thing he expects.

The one other person he can *just* remember from the 40's, apart from Steve, is alive.

There's parts he remembers, like dates you'd gone on. The Stark Expo, going to the movies.

Those letters you'd write.

*Meeting your parents.* That still makes him shiver, and he can't even fully remember it.

(and there's that *feeling* he has when he thinks about that stuff. Like he's missing something, but he doesn't know *what.*)

There was pictures of you with him and Steve in the Smithsonian. You were *important.*

He vaguely remembers promising you before Azzano he wouldn't be gone long, that he'd be right back.

He didn't remember that it was *you* and Steve that had come to get him, both of you with Erskine's serum in your veins.

Of course he'd thought you were dead, given you'd be his age by now.

But *no.* S.H.I.E.L.D had found you mere months ago in a HYDRA base, on ice, just like he was.

He's already out of his seat and down the hall, only just hearing Fury's directions to your room.