Left arm shoved into his pocket and the hat so far down it practically covers his eyes, reading in detail the information page in front of him, how can a person look so much like him and yet feel like someone completely different. Who is this sergeant Barns who sacrificed himself in service of the great captain America? The man who deserved the love and attention of this Steve Rogers?
He wonders through the exhibition pondering over each new wonderful but painful information he reads. He stops mid-step and sees a screen showing an image of a tiny man no bigger than 5'4" when a memory flashed before his eyes.
"Buck, I'm fine. Seriously stop stressing, it's no big deal. I had him on the ropes!" the small Steve sat on the bed feet dangling centimetres from the ground. Blood dripping down the side of his face from a cut just above his left eye and bruises all over him from the fight that was luckily intervened just on time. Bucky dabs the cut with a damp cloth to make sure the wound is clean before patching him up.
Bucky sighs "when are you going to learn that you don't have to fight every fella who you think is doing something wrong?" Bucky reaches up and cearfully dabs the wound, Steve flinches. "you have to take more care Stevie try and lay low for a while, okay?"
Steve looks down at his hand which are clasped in his lap "okay"
Bucky raises his eye brows "promise?"
Steve doesn't answer straight away then looks up into Bucky's shiny eyes and can't resist "promise" a small smile spreads across his face.
A smile spreads across his face at the sudden memory; Steve Rogers was a friends after all and the only person who can tell him more about who James Buchanan Barns just happens to be in hospital because of him.
A week after being in the hospital Steve was finally being discharged after the take down of the insight helicarriers. Due to the serum that enhanced his body he was able to heal almost 10x quicker than the average human the only this that remained where burses and shooting pains from his lower torso from where he was shot.
Steve slowly makes his way out the front of the hospital and head towards the car park where he sees Natasha leaning agents her car, she hasn't seen steve yet, he was about to call out to her when someone tightly grabs steves right are and practically drags him round the corner out of eye sight of Natasha.
"B-Bucky?" Steve frowns as Bucky stopped under a tree round the corner of the hospital. Without another hesitation Steve flung his arms around his old friend and Bucky froze at the sudden interaction. He breaths in the scent of Steve's beautiful natural small that Bucky didn't realised he missed so much. "Bucky I'm so sorry, I missed you so much" he leans away from Bucky leaving his hands on Bucky's shoulders, he scans over bucky's face. "are you okay, hows you arm I didn't mean to hurt you I just need you to drop the chip I had to stop hydra from..." Bucky interrupted Steve on his mission to apologise for everything. "wh-who am-was I"
Steve just smiled and said "you're my friend. Your James Buchannan Barns.