Patchwork Road
By Rey
Chapter summary: Steve Rogers was a soldier in a war, more than half a century ago. And now he is reminding the world that the arm-wieldin skills he got from that time have not frozen off of him in the intervening years.
24. Cannon
"Erm, Cap? That's quite a big launcher you've got there. I don't think we've got a good enough training hall in the tower for that," Clint ventures out, eyes wide, fixed on the humongous thing perched on Steve's shoulder.
A thin, mirthless smile answers the flabbergasted inquiry, but Steve is otherwise silent, as he has been ever since he found out about his best friend – his brother in everything except by blood – being weaponised in all senses of the word and, later, about HYDRA's involvement in SHIELD.
He needn't explain himself, all the same. The next person or team who tries to take Bucky away from him now knows what he is prepared to do.
