Seeing Bucky this lost is hard. Peggy can only imagine what it must be like for Steve; how painful it must be to have a best friend who doesn’t recognize him. It’s heartbreaking.

“I wouldn’t count on that,” she replies gently. “When your whole unit was captured by the enemy, Steve singlehandedly jumped miles behind enemy lines and destroyed an entire Hydra base to rescue you. That’s how you and I met: you and Steve and all of the other POWs came marching up to the Allied lines, long after we’d given you all up for dead. Steve is one of the most stubborn men I’ve ever known. He doesn’t give up so easily, and he doesn’t like taking no for an answer.”