he who hesitates is toast

She sends Steve to look outside, figuring that if Bucky catches sight of him and runs, Steve's a lot more likely to catch him than she is. And, besides, Steve won't know if anything in the house is different from how she'd left it.

A few things are. Here and there, she finds small evidences of someone being here: a towel in the bathroom, a quilt in the guest room that wasn't folded back quite the same way.

(She can't resist leaning down to breathe in the scent of the pillow, even though it only makes her heartache worse.)

He seems to have taken over the guest room, so she sets to searching, looking for anything he might have brought with him.