His tears soak her shirt at the shoulder, hot and furious, as she holds him, as he shakes against her in wild grief.

Sweet Bucky Barnes, who held Steve in the highest possible esteem for so many decades, who believed in Steve when he believed in nothing else, who wrestled with his own self-loathing and hatred, who never thinks he deserves anything good, certainly didn't deserve this. A camera full of memories that probably feel like lies, because how could they exist in the same world as a Steve who would leave him behind? "Baby," she murmurs, tears of anger and sympathy spiking her own eyes.

"It's not fair. You didn't deserve this. He shouldn't have done it."