She remembers the way Bucky had looked when her Gauss rifle annihilated its target. That was not the kind of face you get from just fighting, or even seeing something dreadful at close range. That was much too personal a look.
"I don't know how- how much of that was him not wanting to leave a friend, and how much of that was because he was the kind of man who finished what he started. I- I don't know that he would have been the same man you knew if he were the kind of man who could just walk away from the fight before it was done."
The rat arrives with Ellen's glass; she hands it several bottlecaps. After a moment she adds a few more and says, "Come back with an apple. Or- or two."
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She remembers the way Bucky had looked when her Gauss rifle annihilated its target. That was not the kind of face you get from just fighting, or even seeing something dreadful at close range. That was much too personal a look.
"I don't know how- how much of that was him not wanting to leave a friend, and how much of that was because he was the kind of man who finished what he started. I- I don't know that he would have been the same man you knew if he were the kind of man who could just walk away from the fight before it was done."
The rat arrives with Ellen's glass; she hands it several bottlecaps. After a moment she adds a few more and says, "Come back with an apple. Or- or two."