[ In any case, he doesn't mind being called on it. He used to sweep the floor at poker and he thinks his poker face is probably better now than it used to be.
Spinning a web of lies isn't exactly his thing, even if he's not as bad at it as Steve is. He's a lot better reading a man in a fight than a conversation, so he's going to try to make sure they don't talk too much about Bucky. He doesn't want Brock finding all the holes in his story, so he'll let Brock think he's older and more experienced than Bucky is, just like he'll let Brock thing he served in a very different army than the one he did.
There's something weird about having to pretend he's so much younger than he is, because he knows how young he looks and he's not sure how much of that is what Zola did to him and how much is that he'd been intermittently frozen. Steve looks even younger and he wonders if they can't pass for 30 to strangers, even if he knows they both feel old. Sometimes he feels like he's 80, even if he knows that adding up all the years he's been awake can't amount to a number higher than 45 and that's giving credit to years where he wasn't cognizant or in control. Hell, he doesn't even remember all of it.
He leans his elbows on the table and the corner of his lip twitches. ]
If you're so good, you shouldn't have a problem, anyway.
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[ In any case, he doesn't mind being called on it. He used to sweep the floor at poker and he thinks his poker face is probably better now than it used to be.
Spinning a web of lies isn't exactly his thing, even if he's not as bad at it as Steve is. He's a lot better reading a man in a fight than a conversation, so he's going to try to make sure they don't talk too much about Bucky. He doesn't want Brock finding all the holes in his story, so he'll let Brock think he's older and more experienced than Bucky is, just like he'll let Brock thing he served in a very different army than the one he did.
There's something weird about having to pretend he's so much younger than he is, because he knows how young he looks and he's not sure how much of that is what Zola did to him and how much is that he'd been intermittently frozen. Steve looks even younger and he wonders if they can't pass for 30 to strangers, even if he knows they both feel old. Sometimes he feels like he's 80, even if he knows that adding up all the years he's been awake can't amount to a number higher than 45 and that's giving credit to years where he wasn't cognizant or in control. Hell, he doesn't even remember all of it.
He leans his elbows on the table and the corner of his lip twitches. ]
If you're so good, you shouldn't have a problem, anyway.