[Bucky definitely knows what that's like. They'd never really had to go through something like that - thank God - but Bucky's always been willing to go down with or for Steve if that's what had to happen. And that's pretty much what did happen, so he gets it.
Still, the fact that it hadn't been some world war or whatever - just completely unexpected, mostly unwanted terrifying bullshit - makes it pretty damn impressive.]
He's lucky he's got someone like you.
[To do that kind of thing, or to just be on his side when he needs someone to talk to, or just to be there.
Which actually kind of makes the stuff Stiles got in exchange feel sort of worse.]
Did you- You don't remember the fall, do you? [It's probably opening the door for other discussion too, stuff that he really doesn't think he wants to talk about, but. He kind of feels like he needs to ask this, at least.]
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Still, the fact that it hadn't been some world war or whatever - just completely unexpected, mostly unwanted terrifying bullshit - makes it pretty damn impressive.]
He's lucky he's got someone like you.
[To do that kind of thing, or to just be on his side when he needs someone to talk to, or just to be there.
Which actually kind of makes the stuff Stiles got in exchange feel sort of worse.]
Did you- You don't remember the fall, do you? [It's probably opening the door for other discussion too, stuff that he really doesn't think he wants to talk about, but. He kind of feels like he needs to ask this, at least.]