"Except what I'd been turned into wasn't just erased," Bucky says, Steve's anger only fueling his own. It had taken him a long while to not just view the life Steve had returned to him as a burden, and about as long to not simply wish himself dead rather than be forced to reconcile his own beliefs with his actions as the Winter Solder. His memories of being a Soviet operative are fragmented, splintered, but they're still there, just under the surface, haunting his nightmares like his own personal ghost.

"I still did those things, Steve."