Title: These Things Whispered
Disclaimer: Me no own, You no sue
Warning: None
There are just some things that people can't resist talking about.
They say that Captain America stormed the Hydra base looking for one man and ended up rescuing hundreds. But no one says anything about how those hundreds rescued would've been left to rot if it meant saving the Captain's one.
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There are just some things that people can't resist whispering about.
They whisper that Bucky Barnes was dead and gone – lost to a frozen wilderness – and that Rogers had locked himself away from the world. But no one even thinks about how many bottles have been ghosted to his tent only to be found smashed and dry mere minutes later.
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There are just some things that people can't resist crying about.
It's howled to the heavens that the Captain has sacrificed himself, that he's crashed himself into the frozen seas. But no one gives voice to the fear that the Captain is now forever gone, lost even to the great Howard Stark.
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