[ Steve's unconscious mind is most affected by the flashes of violence in Bucky's memory. During the day he can banish them, or take them in and transfigure them into something less threatening, like now. During the night his mind is vulnerable, though he can't always remember the faces.
Horrible as they are, he'll take those nightmares over the ones where he wakes up to find Sam curled over a body -
The gardens are humid, which means he's already sweating again. He matches pace with Bucky now, caught between trying to come up with something to say and coming up empty. After a minute he opts to keep the silence, the only sound that comes from him are even breaths, nothing like the rasping sound he used to make when they were kids. Even months later Steve still experiences a kind of high when he's exercising like this, the sensation bubbling in his bloodstream all the way to his head - and through the link. ]
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Horrible as they are, he'll take those nightmares over the ones where he wakes up to find Sam curled over a body -
The gardens are humid, which means he's already sweating again. He matches pace with Bucky now, caught between trying to come up with something to say and coming up empty. After a minute he opts to keep the silence, the only sound that comes from him are even breaths, nothing like the rasping sound he used to make when they were kids. Even months later Steve still experiences a kind of high when he's exercising like this, the sensation bubbling in his bloodstream all the way to his head - and through the link. ]