My Shy TFATWS Works
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The point of drills and boot camps and military training was to turn combat into something reflexive and unthinking. Even Sam had said that any soldier felt that way in the middle of a fight, if the training had taken. That it was normal. Bucky struggles to draw the line between being a soldier and having been the Winter Soldier, even after his deprogramming.
Meanwhile, the line between being a super-soldier and owning a super-soldier is too blurry for what remains of Zemo’s principles. He knows how easily he could justify an atrocity to himself when James is the one offering.
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- Part 1 of My Shy TFATWS Works
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The Winter Soldier had had a thing about any weapons that he’d been given to maintain. Bucky remembers that and remembers why.
Watching Zemo strip and clean his favourite handgun brings with it the sick kind of wistfulness that Bucky hasn’t felt in decades.
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- Part 2 of My Shy TFATWS Works
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Bucky knows what it means to have had “an aptitude for sniping” noted down in his file, back in the war. He was conflicted enough doing that kind of work when Steve needed it. Being dragged back into it now, by his government, is the last thing he wants. Especially with Zemo there to witness it, and worse, to understand it.
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- Part 3 of My Shy TFATWS Works
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Once they were actually inside the safehouse Sam gently slipped Zemo off his shoulder, leaving Bucky to support the rest of his weight. “Last chance to make this a hospital problem. I’m more EMT than doctor. They could do a lot more for you there than I can here.”
“My answer hasn’t changed,” Zemo said curtly. The two of them had argued about it during the trip back. Bucky had stayed out of it. He didn’t have a lot of experience with the aftermath of violence and what the threshold was for a normal, human body. Hearing Zemo arguing about how he’d rather put himself in Sam’s hands than a stranger’s had made Bucky think about the way paranoia could wrap around so far that it became a twisted kind of trust.
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- Part 4 of My Shy TFATWS Works