p style="text-align: center;"strong style="text-align: center;"Angels/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" Bucky thought he was going to die that night, lying bound to the cot. He might as well be dead. It didn't matter./p
p class="MsoNormal" It wasn't a surprise when Steve came, only looking healthier than he ever had before. Taller. Bucky's only thought was emso you did go before I did, after all/em. They were dead. They were both dead. That was the only explanation. Steve had come to take him away, to a place of rest, strong and safe as the rock that protects the harbor, to be at peace at last, like the angel in the Bible./p
p class="MsoNormal" He only realized how distressed Steve had looked afterwards./p
p class="MsoNormal" He didn't really fight it when Steve took him away. Any place had to be better than this one, right?/p
p class="MsoNormal" It wasn't until later that Bucky realized the truth. Angels come in many forms, sometimes through the hand of a friend. And angels don't always come to take you away./p
p class="MsoNormal" Sometimes, they come to rescue you from the dungeons you've created in your own mind, to pull you from the darkness./p
p class="MsoNormal" Sometimes, angels come to pull you up./p
p class="MsoNormal" Bucky thought he was going to die that night, lying bound to the cot. He might as well be dead. It didn't matter./p
p class="MsoNormal" It wasn't a surprise when Steve came, only looking healthier than he ever had before. Taller. Bucky's only thought was emso you did go before I did, after all/em. They were dead. They were both dead. That was the only explanation. Steve had come to take him away, to a place of rest, strong and safe as the rock that protects the harbor, to be at peace at last, like the angel in the Bible./p
p class="MsoNormal" He only realized how distressed Steve had looked afterwards./p
p class="MsoNormal" He didn't really fight it when Steve took him away. Any place had to be better than this one, right?/p
p class="MsoNormal" It wasn't until later that Bucky realized the truth. Angels come in many forms, sometimes through the hand of a friend. And angels don't always come to take you away./p
p class="MsoNormal" Sometimes, they come to rescue you from the dungeons you've created in your own mind, to pull you from the darkness./p
p class="MsoNormal" Sometimes, angels come to pull you up./p