no but at what point during their walk from Kreischberg to Azzano do you think Bucky was finally lucid enough to start asking questions. like. actually, what the fuck is Steve doing here? and now that he's looking around, how come the only people he sees amongst the refugees are the same faces he's seen a hundred times while he was held prisoner? where is the team that rescued them? the fuck do you mean, Steve showed up alone?
and Steve has to let it slip that um.
so he's kinda in the army but also kinda like. I mean technically he didn't even finish his basic training? if you care about that sort of thing? and he got the serum and he's um, he's a captain now, but like a fake captain, you know? it's like, it's kind of like a gig. in a way. actually uh. he's, well the thing is, he's the star of this show, um. they even had him make a few reels, he thinks they're selling some comics about that stuff, too, but let's not, let's not get into that right now. oh, and he's supposed to be on tour here, like with the show and. alright, so he's got backup dancers and they sing a little song about him and his shield is a prop he swiped on his way out and technically it doesn't even belong to him, so what, sue him.
oh. and, um. he kind of. he kind of uhhhh, went against direct orders to stay put and mind his own fucking business? and snuck out to get to Bucky as soon as he heard about the attack? so who knows how that's gonna go down with good old sport Phillips when they get back lmao. hey, what exactly does it take for a guy to get court-martialed?
and he's just steamrolling through this very confusing speech, trying to omit some key bits of information that he knows Bucky would not be pleased to hear (like signing up to be experimented on without knowing jackshit about the actual experiment) (or getting himself airdropped straight onto an enemy prison camp)
meanwhile Bucky's eyes are getting wider and wider by the minute as he tries to absorb all of this, while also tamping down the urge to grab Steve by the ear like their moms used to do - because honestly, if the nazis haven't managed to land a bullet in Steve's ass yet, Bucky just might be willing to do it for them.
