Quicksand's Got No Sense of Humor (слэш)

“It’ll be okay,” Bucky promises.

He’s always done that. For their whole lives, Steve’s always been the one less in touch with his emotions but more easily paralyzed by them, and Bucky’s always known how to put on a brave face even when he’s struggling and promise, at times through clenched teeth, that everything will be alright.

 And Steve will be okay, because he doesn’t have any other option. It’s only a million tiny cuts all over his body, his heart, his soul, slowly bleeding him dry. How could be not be okay, when Bucky’s been through so much worse.
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A brief expansion of the cryostasis scene from Civil War.