Author's Note- Based off the first Avengers movie, when Tony and Steve were fixing the engine and when Steve almost fell off the helicarrier. Will also be posted on A03 and my tumblr
The helicarrier was falling from the sky and Steve Rogers was hanging on by a cable.
It would be easy to let go, to fall just like Bucky.
To attempt once again what the Valkyrie had not managed to do.
It wasn't just life without Bucky now; it was life without everything he had once known. Everything and everyone gone and disappearing like a snowflake upon a warm hand.
It would be so easy to let the cable slip in his hand; he is but seconds away from falling into the open sky.
But Steve grips the cable tightly and catches it in his other hand too.
Stark's kid needs him. The other Avengers need him. The agents, the techs, all of the people on the helicarrier need him. He cannot give up now. He cannot give in to the temptation to let go and follow his all-but-in-blood brother into the blue abyss.
Steve stands and fights.