Nightmares aren’t always loud. Bucky doesn’t scream his throat raw like he used to. It’s a quiet anguish. Gasping breath, tense shoulders, gnashing teeth. When he wakes in bleary distress, sheets clutched in fists, Steve reaches to touch his shoulder. (Not the most logical approach, but Steve’s never been smart enough to keep away.) This time doesn’t end in a bloody nose, in panic. It ends in the breath of Steve’s name. Bucky pulls him in by the bicep; chest to chest— safe. Every heartbeat echos like ‘I survived, I survived, we survived.’ An arm slips around Bucky’s waist, holds tight. Steve presses kisses to the top of his head until the tremors subside. “I gotcha, doll. You’re okay.”
Bucky doesn’t apologize for this—Steve has kissed the tears from his face enough times for him to know he doesn’t need to. Instead, he says, “I love you” against Steve’s shoulder. Steve swears it back.
Steve Rogers did, in fact, realize that something was off when he saw the outline of the woman’s odd bra (a push-up bra, he would later learn), but being an officer and a gentleman, he said that it was the game that gave the future away.
Just when I thought I couldn't be surprised anymore I read this:
What the... okay, breathe in, breathe out.
You know who's to blame for the Snap? The guy who did it. You know who's NOT to blame for it? The ones trying to stop him.
Sacrificing Vision would have changed nothing because by the time Thanos arrives in Wakanda he has 5 out of the 6 stones, and the Time Stone is one of them. It's not that Steve didn't want to sacrifice Vision, it's that he values his teammates lives' and they had a pretty good chance of getting the Stone off his damn head at the time. So between killing him and extracting the stone of course Steve was going to choose the latter.
But more importantly, why is this only Steve's fault? Is he the only one in the team? No he is not. Where's the responsibility and the accountability of everyone else around him?
Steve didn't choose one life over the others. Thanos did. He's the one obsessed with genocide, he's the one doing this because he wants to, nobody is forcing him to do anything. How can you blame one hero for the shit the villain is doing? Would she be saying the same thing about the NYC invasion? That the attack is the heroes' fault?