[ He knows he gets wound up too easily - knows that it's different with Rumlow and he ought to swallow it down, but he can't quite make himself do it, no matter how hard he tries. Rumlow pushes his buttons and Steve reacts, every goddamn time. The fact that there's enough sexual tension to choke both of them isn't helping matters - Steve's half caught up in wanting to argue, and wanting to stifle Rumlow's mouth with something else, which - no, no, he's not going to do that. ]

You know, well as I do that it doesn't matter what I want. [ Not with this, not with the bond. Sure, he and Bucky had something, but it's not the same, it's not like this. This is something in their heads and god knows he'd scratch it out if he could, he'd get in a fucking chair like that and let them burn it out, but it's not that easy. ]

I already asked. About how to burn the connection out, how to erase it. There isn't a way. We both know that if you do that, I follow you a few years later. That's not really best interests, is it.