New Fic: The Mountain Next to the Beach”
My celebration of WinterIron Day.
Read at Ao3
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“I saw you,” Tony rasped. “Nightmare, I saw you, but it wasn’t the Winter Soldier, it was you.”
Bucky closed his eyes and pressed his head to Tony’s. “Oh, baby, that’s…”
“It was so real,” tears clouded Tony’s voice. “I thought I was over this, I thought I was better. I haven’t had a nightmare about Afghanistan in months and not about this in over a year. I was fixed.”
“You know that’s not how this works,” Bucky whispered.
“Why not?” Tony’s voice was petulant, but he knew Bucky was right.
“Because trauma rewires your brain, baby. It takes our motherboard and scrambles it. You’re just at the front of the mountain again today and, honestly, I’m not surprised.”
“Why’s that?”
“Today’s 25 years, baby,” Bucky whispered and Tony let out a wail and burrowed deeper into Bucky’s embrace.
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