And it was now seeing this reaction to that sudden memory that she realized how difficult the road was going to be for them, which brought her back to her plan of being careful about what she said and try to ease this as much as she could for him, but then he had apparently remembered certain things when she had been away and maybe there was nothing she could really do to stop the inflow and the best she could do was trying to be here to steady him through it, just like she was doing now and like she had kind of done during those brief moments in the past where his mind wandered and she knew he was recalling what had happened to him in that facility she saved him from.

She stood still and gave him the time he needed to compose himself, she didn’t reacted when his hands came to rest against her hips, it was an action she was used to and had even missed, but she couldn’t let her mind wander right now. A small sad laugh escaped her lips and she couldn’t help but close the distance between them, her forehead pressing against his. “You called me a stupid idiot for doing something so reckless saying that you could be easily replaced but I wasn’t.” She just looked at him and smiled sadly. “The problem was that wasn’t true because you were and still are irreplaceable to me, Bucky.”