Dream A Little Dream Of Me (слэш)

Steve turns, wiping his hands on the ragged dish towel he holds, and Bucky can’t even smile—
Because here’s a truth: when Bucky was strapped to that table in Italy, and when Bucky was crouched in muddy trenches while bullets whistled overhead, and when Bucky was dying in a hospital bed, thrashing with a fever, he resolved to tell Steve if he made it out alive, because he couldn’t bear the idea of leaving this earth behind without Steve ever having known that Bucky loves him.
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After the war, Bucky comes home.