Oh, yeah. We grew up together. He was always exactly like that, just got beat up more for it.
[ Not that Bucky didn't jump right into the fray when he could. A guy's got to have his friend's back and even if Steve had started some of those fights himself, Bucky hadn't been about to let the other guys finish it. ]
[ He blinks, like that'll bring the picture into focus, It's still hard for him to see it. Not— Steve, being stubborn, or even Steve being skinny. But having a friend like that, growing up. ]
[ Meanwhile, Bucky can't imagine his life without Steve. He's family. Bucky can't imagine even a fraction of his life without that, save for when he'd been too young to form particularly coherent memories. ]
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Did you really know him before they hit him with serum?
[ Because he did not, and he's always been curious. ]
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[ Not that Bucky didn't jump right into the fray when he could. A guy's got to have his friend's back and even if Steve had started some of those fights himself, Bucky hadn't been about to let the other guys finish it. ]
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[ He blinks, like that'll bring the picture into focus, It's still hard for him to see it. Not— Steve, being stubborn, or even Steve being skinny. But having a friend like that, growing up. ]
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Best guy I've ever known.