BUCKY NO
BUCKY YES
me going into 2017 like
[matt murdock voice] i do a backflip every single day of my life, foggy
BUCKY NO
BUCKY YES
me going into 2017 like
Bucky Barnes aka Winter Soldier/Captain America | as drawn by some of my favorite artists (names in captions)
Baby Groot (◠‿◠✿)
Steve Rogers & Cars
I just realized… there’s a bit of green in the blue of your eyes. How nice to find a flaw.
And I’m lost, behind
Words I’ll never find
And I’m left behind
As seasons roll on by
That rhyme. What’s it mean? What did you say? Huh? The thing you say right before you pull the trigger. What do you… You heard that? Yeah, I heard it. What the… I gotta say, sometimes… sometimes I think you really just might be the devil. Sometimes I think I might be, too. It’s a… ‘One Batch, Two Batch, Penny and Dime’, you know? It was her favorite book. You know, you… you gotta cross the ocean and go fight. You see, the whole time you’re thinking you’re gonna be scared, right? But then you’re not. See, that part of it was always easy for me. Killing. Even watching my buddies die… It just… It didn’t mean nothing. The first time I got scared was on a plane on the way home. I kept thinking God was gonna pull out the rug from under us, you know? Shit, that’s His kind of funny, you know? But the plane landed safe, and we were home. Driving through traffic, yeah, you pass fast food and doughnut shops and all that… that greasy shit. It’s the shit you fought to protect. And then the car stops. We were outside her school. I get to her classroom, right? She’s in there, but she’s got no idea. She’s got no idea that Daddy’s home. I walk in, these kids aren’t even studying, they’re doing some kind of yoga, yeah. You know? She’s there doing her poses, you know? She’s bending and, you know, she’s moving. She looks like a flower. Yeah. And, you know, you can’t even understand it, you know? How does something like that… how does something that beautiful… how does that… does that come from me? You know? And she looks up, and she sees me. I see her. By God, that’s real. That’s real, Red. In an instant, she’s across that classroom floor, she’s in my arms. She’s squeezing me so tight, I swear I was gonna bust a rib, you know? We just stayed like that… We’re holding each other. Teacher, she’s filming the whole thing on her phone, she’s gonna put it on YouTube or some shit. She can’t hold the thing steady because, you know, she’s bawling so hard. And the kids are all wailing, you know, they’re screaming, and me, shit, I’m the worst of all. I’m a… I’m a rubber-faced clown, you know? I cried so hard. But not my baby. Not my girl. You know, she’s my girl. She’s… she’s not crying, she’s holding me up. My girl, she’s keeping me on my feet. She says, “I knew it, Daddy. I knew it.” And then we go home. Wife, the boy. Place is the exact same, it’s like it was just holding its breath waiting for me to get back, you know? And then it hit me. All of it, you know? The first time I felt how tired I was, you know? I was just… tired… you know? You… you ever been tired, Red? Yeah. So you know. It’s just… I couldn’t do nothing, you know? All the things… I couldn’t take my wife to bed, ball with the boy, shit, I was too tired I couldn’t even drink a goddamn beer, you know? But not her. My girl was up. See, she wanted me to, uh… she wanted me to tuck her in. She outgrew it, she knew it, but she didn’t care, she wanted it. She had that book… Her favorite book was out on the pillows. ‘One Batch, Two Batch, Penny and Dime’. Yeah. I read her that book every night before this shit. I read it every single night. But see, that was over now, because Daddy’s home now. She looked at me and she begged me, Red. She begged. She begged. …I said, “No. Daddy’s too tired, see. But I’ll… I’ll read it to you tomorrow night. I promise.” Yeah. Never think that for her, there wasn’t gonna be any tomorrow, see. The last time I’d see her I’d be holding her lifeless body in my arms. Meat was spilling out of her, Red. The place where her face used to be. Yeah… I think I’m done, Red. I think I’m done.