[ Bucky just nods. He'll make sure Steve is cleaned up later, but for now, he's going to get him undressed and wrapped in the blankets. Just like old times.
His mind still feels like Swiss cheese some days, but taking care of Steve is something he very much remembers, so he gets to work helping Steve out of his clothes and boots. He's not sure how he keeps his hands so steady, because he still feels wired from worry and wrung out with relief that Steve is here, but he treats undressing Steve like an important project, impossible focus on each zipper and strap, and it's not until Steve's mostly undressed that he steps away, going to get a towel from the bathroom and running it under the faucet.
If Steve doesn't want to bath, Bucky's at least going to wipe his face down. ]
[ So much has changed in the world. So many things have happened to the both of them, separately and together (though mostly separate), and yet they still have this. They still find these moments. Something that still feels close to old times.
Before it all went awry.
If this, something as simple as getting out of clothes and into bed is a kind of thing that helps Buck? Then he's happy enough to give over. He's also probably the only person in all of creation that can get away with this and not leave him feeling impossibly exposed. Probably comes with the territory of the other guy having seen you in nothing but his skin plenty of times when he was too sick to look out for himself. ]
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His mind still feels like Swiss cheese some days, but taking care of Steve is something he very much remembers, so he gets to work helping Steve out of his clothes and boots. He's not sure how he keeps his hands so steady, because he still feels wired from worry and wrung out with relief that Steve is here, but he treats undressing Steve like an important project, impossible focus on each zipper and strap, and it's not until Steve's mostly undressed that he steps away, going to get a towel from the bathroom and running it under the faucet.
If Steve doesn't want to bath, Bucky's at least going to wipe his face down. ]
C'mere.
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Before it all went awry.
If this, something as simple as getting out of clothes and into bed is a kind of thing that helps Buck? Then he's happy enough to give over. He's also probably the only person in all of creation that can get away with this and not leave him feeling impossibly exposed. Probably comes with the territory of the other guy having seen you in nothing but his skin plenty of times when he was too sick to look out for himself. ]
You say that like I have a choice.
[ But he goes over easily enough. ]