"Oh, no - " Steve reached out automatically, gripping Bucky's wrist and pulling it away as soon as he started to draw blood. "Bucky, that's not the way to do it." Not that he had a real answer, admittedly, but he was pretty sure that wasn't it.
He couldn't scar - not really, not anymore. His advanced healing generally fixed him up good as new, with no marks to let anyone know how much punishment he'd really taken. But he had a perfect memory, and he remembered where every little mark should be, whether they were there or not. He wasn't sure if that was better or worse, but it at least meant he sort of knew how Bucky felt. Even though his scars - mental scars, really - had all been gotten in battle.
"Bucky, maybe you can't live like this, but hurting yourself isn't going to make it better. It's going to land you somewhere you don't want to be." Like a hospital. Or a mental ward. And how was he supposed to recover in there? "You want to hurt someone, you hurt me," he decided. After all, he'd heal, wouldn't he? There'd be no trace, and no one could say a thing. "But don't hurt yourself."
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Date: 2014-07-02 11:55 pm (UTC)He couldn't scar - not really, not anymore. His advanced healing generally fixed him up good as new, with no marks to let anyone know how much punishment he'd really taken. But he had a perfect memory, and he remembered where every little mark should be, whether they were there or not. He wasn't sure if that was better or worse, but it at least meant he sort of knew how Bucky felt. Even though his scars - mental scars, really - had all been gotten in battle.
"Bucky, maybe you can't live like this, but hurting yourself isn't going to make it better. It's going to land you somewhere you don't want to be." Like a hospital. Or a mental ward. And how was he supposed to recover in there? "You want to hurt someone, you hurt me," he decided. After all, he'd heal, wouldn't he? There'd be no trace, and no one could say a thing. "But don't hurt yourself."