{"id":196718,"date":"2014-08-10T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/10\/greekamazon-once-steve-gets-over-the-shock-of\/"},"modified":"2014-08-10T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T23:27:26","slug":"greekamazon-once-steve-gets-over-the-shock-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/10\/greekamazon-once-steve-gets-over-the-shock-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greekamazon.tumblr.com\/post\/92885370885\/once-steve-gets-over-the-shock-of-seeing-bucky\" target=\"_blank\">greekamazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Once Steve gets over the shock of seeing Bucky again, once he\u2019s thinking about what Zola did, all he can hear echoing through his mind is\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>I should have known<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He should have known because when he pulled Bucky out of Zola\u2019s lab, he could barely walk, but he marched back to base at Steve\u2019s side, under his own power. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He should have known because none of the injuries Bucky suffered in the field took the way they ought to have.<\/p>\n<p>He should have known because while the Howling Commandos fought their way through Europe, Bucky was always at his side, always keeping pace with him.<\/p>\n<p>He should have known because Bucky\u00a0<em>shouldn\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>have been able to keep up with him, and he always, always did. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He should have known, but he didn\u2019t &#8211; because his whole life,<em> he\u2019d<\/em> been trying to keep up with <em>Bucky<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it never once occurred to him that Bucky shouldn\u2019t be able to keep up with a super soldier. \u00a0Because\u00a0<em>Steve<\/em> was the super soldier, and of course Bucky could keep up with<em> Steve<\/em>. \u00a0Because Bucky had always been ahead of Steve, and Steve\u2019s new body just meant he could catch up.<\/p>\n<p>It just meant Steve and Bucky were finally side by side, just like they were always supposed to have been. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greekamazon: Once Steve gets over the shock of seeing Bucky again, once he\u2019s thinking about what Zola did, all he can hear echoing through his mind is\u00a0 I should have known. He should have known because when he pulled Bucky out of Zola\u2019s lab, he could barely walk, but he marched back to base at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/08\/10\/greekamazon-once-steve-gets-over-the-shock-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,6174,8,590,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}