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Steve felt the glass give in under his body. He stilled, watching Bucky’s angry eyes stare at him. His friend still hadn’t noticed the predicament Steve was, and Steve wasn’t about to tell him. The words were at the tip of his tongue and they escaped him as he started falling.
“I love you, Buck.”
Exhilaration ran through his veins. Mixed with the adrenaline from the fight, Steve was on cloud nine where everything felt so far away. His eyes stayed stuck on Bucky, who was still on the helicarrier. He didn’t try to move in a last attempt to soften the blow from the water. He could have dived and entered the water with ease. And maybe he could have survived.
Steve smiled softly.
The fall seemed to last forever. An eternity of peace. Time and space stretched as he lived his last moment. He wasn’t stressed about it at all. He had thought he’d die from the Valkyrie crash and he had lived on the edge during the war. There was no one more at peace with the mere thought of dying than Steve.
It was it. The end of Captain America and Steve Rogers. It didn’t leave a bitter aftertaste in his mouth.
As his body hit the surface of the water, he heard Bucky’s voice from before the war. When Steve was a skinny, sickly boy with had a big mouth and ideas bigger than him.
“Let me help you Stevie. You don’t have to do it alone.”
The last thing he heard was Bucky’s laugh.
He inhaled the water and drifted away.
Fin