bluandorange:

#I find it heartbreaking that this gifset seems to accurately show the recognition and horror in his expression when Steve’s words sink in#like he goes from blind rage to curiosity to recognition and horror when he realizes that it’s recognition#when he realizes that his mind is piecing things back together#but it might already be too late (via skinnvsteve)

There’s such cruelty in this moment. Steve is ready to die to try and save Bucky, but in saving him, Steve utterly destroys him. He shatters Bucky into pieces in the hopes that there will be something to salvage, and there’s very little kindness in that at all. It’s more savage than any of their physical fights, more brutal than Steve headbutting him or dislocating his arm or choking him out, which is why I think Steve saves it for the very last thing he says before he expects to die at Bucky’s hands. He doesn’t have the heart to say it before then.