I loved this scene. Dude just shot Steve THREE times and it means absolute shit to Steve in terms of his feelings for Bucky. He hears Bucky scream and looks down, finds him trapped.
Steve is bleeding like fuck, exhausted, in pain, and the goddamn helicarrier is plummeting out of the sky, ON FIRE, and probably about to fucking explode.
But Steve didn’t plan on getting off anyway. He told Maria to fire.
He’s completed his mission. Saved millions. He’s done.
At this point, Steve is ready to die. But not before saving his friend.#i hadn’t actually thought of this#that he is actually committing suicide#that he asked maria to be done#and then he commanded her to let him go#and then he tried to spend his last moments with his best friend#fuck#fucking fuck#that’s heartstoppingly sad#god fucking dammit#k#sometimes i hate you for bringing me into this fucking#ship of feels#not that any part of the#marvel verse#isn’t#angsty as fuck#but jfc#cap#darling#/weeps
Yep. Steve’s been out of the ice for two years. In two years, he’s seen an alien invasion, tried to go back to being a soldier but failed, and then watched the organization he died to stop come back from the dead, with his best friend as their pet killer.
Right now, Steve’s a soldier who’s just fucking exhausted. He’s had it. He’s done. And he’s with Bucky, which is all that matters. So he’ll go down there one last time, and he’ll free Bucky from that beam, and they’ll die together — two relics from a time when the world wasn’t quite so insane.
There’s also the fact that death would be a release for Bucky. If Steve can’t save Bucky, which is what he’s been trying so hard to do, then at least he can free him by letting him die.
Til the end of the line. And this is it. We die, we die together.