The Soldier had nothing to say. He wanted to talk to her, but wasn't sure what to say. His mind was racing. He takes the pillow and blanket and spreads it out on the couch. Compared to some of his sleeping arrangements in the past, this was much warmer and cozier and he wasn't surrounded by metal and concrete. He starts to close his eyes to sleep, but finds it difficult because every time he does, it triggers his fear of being frozen again. He gets up and starts to pace, muttering something in what she thought was Russian. She was curious about her new guest, but just in case she locked her bedroom door and crawled back in bed and drift away to sleep.
The next couple of days goes about the same. Some times he accompanied her to work in the morning and other days he didn't. While at the Triskelion, she would never see him until she returned home. She would fix something to eat and he would say nothing, so dinner time chat was pointless. He would stare at her, which she found unnerving, but curious at the same time. She tried to read his mind, but it was so clouded, she couldn't.
She would always tease him or talk to him, but he didn't say much at all. Aurora finally shrugged after the third day of poor company. She goes and takes a shower and then tells him it was his turn. All of his items were neatly rolled/pressed and in perfect order. She knew that it was military in nature. She finished brushing her teeth, took off her robe with her black negligee under it. She found him laying on the couch. "Hey I'm going to bed, if you need anything just let me know." she tells him and turns around to head back to her room. She hears, "Goodnight, Aurora." She turned and smiled at him, and said, "Good night to you too. Sleep well." as she closed the door behind her. With curiosity getting the best of her, she cracked her door open and watched her guest. He never said anything, why now? she wondered.
He gets up to walk around the condo and starts to pace and he stops to look around. She reads his thoughts and finds that he is feeling frustrated because he can't remember anything and he didn't know how to tell her. She also sees a vision of a couple of metal arms encircling his head, a mouthpiece, and people in lab coats around him. Her concentration is broken as she sees him bend down and grab his head, grit his teeth and fall to his knees, groaning in pain.
She runs over to him, thinking, "What the fuck happened to him?" She feels sorry for him. "Hey, what's the matter?" He gives her this sad look, and says, "I don't know." She gently helps him up and brings him to her room and has him lie down on the bed and starts to soothe him, like a helpless child. He looks at her, wide eyed and frightened. She moves his hair out of his face, and strokes his cheek. "It's okay, I'm here." He looks at her still frightened, "What is the matter with me?" She strokes his face gently, and soothes him. "Hey there soldier, don't worry. I'm here, I won't leave you, I promise." She crawls in the bed by him and he lays his head in her lap, and she caresses his hair. She was in awe that such a beautiful man could be so vulnerable for some reason; all the more reason to find out why. She continued to soothe the shaking man for over an hour.
Finally, the Soldier started to calm down and he looked at up her, to see her smiling at him, just like a mother doting on her baby. "You can stay in here in the bed…." before she could finish her thought, he reaches for her arm and asks, "Will you stay by me? I don't want to be alone tonight." She kissed his head and said yes, as they crawled into bed with her small arms around him, cuddling him like a teddy bear. He touched her hair and brushed her shoulder. She looked and him and smiled. For the first time in a long time, the Winter Soldier closed his eyes and fell asleep with a smile on his face.