[They probably should have been drinking, what with this kind of commiserating going on. He suspected that neither of them had expected it would happen and now that it had, they both seemed quietly uncomfortably with all that they had revealed. At the same time, it was the kind of trust that he hadn't expected and knew would be insult to injury when the truth came out.
Some men just couldn't handle one another's pain. Some men could. It seemed that leaning on each other might just be a thing before the HYDRA backstory was revealed in them both.
He took the jacket, folded it up neatly and set it next to him. He forced a smile on his face, but he did genuinely chuckle at the story.]
What's a little cold in the middle of the war, right? It's better than being shot. When I was being trained for a stint in the winter of the North, we used to have contests to see who could piss the furthest in the snow and if it would freeze midair.
[He grinned and then gathered up the cards and shuffled them before dealing another hand relatively quickly.]
Socks were the worst, weren't they? Never enough of them, but if your feet sweated, you were just as screwed as if you didn't have any.
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Some men just couldn't handle one another's pain. Some men could. It seemed that leaning on each other might just be a thing before the HYDRA backstory was revealed in them both.
He took the jacket, folded it up neatly and set it next to him. He forced a smile on his face, but he did genuinely chuckle at the story.]
What's a little cold in the middle of the war, right? It's better than being shot. When I was being trained for a stint in the winter of the North, we used to have contests to see who could piss the furthest in the snow and if it would freeze midair.
[He grinned and then gathered up the cards and shuffled them before dealing another hand relatively quickly.]
Socks were the worst, weren't they? Never enough of them, but if your feet sweated, you were just as screwed as if you didn't have any.