[That means Steve is just over a year ahead of him. A lot can happen in a year, a lot evidently has if he's no longer Captain America. What could stop that? He wants to know very badly, a part of him that never quite got erased fully, the part that pulled him from the Potomac, wants to help protect Steve if he's in trouble.
But the rest of him doesn't want to know, and that step towards him is the itchy finger that sets off the trigger of motion. He takes a single step back to counter that one forwards, expression shuttering into blankness, and then all of a sudden he's running away.]
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But the rest of him doesn't want to know, and that step towards him is the itchy finger that sets off the trigger of motion. He takes a single step back to counter that one forwards, expression shuttering into blankness, and then all of a sudden he's running away.]