"Oh, good," Steve laughs weakly. "So, it's just from things I say."
He feels stupid just standing there, but Bucky didn't tell him to get out so he ends up just sinking to the floor, legs crossed, back hunched, hands on his ankles for a long, quiet moment.
"I don't - want to be a bother. Or overwhelm you. Or smother you," he finally says, quietly. "I don't want to expect things of you that you might try to give me, or anyone. And I know you can manage on your own. But if you don't want to - when you don't want to. You don't have to."
He isn't sure that's the best way to put anything, but he's at least trying to heed the advice people keep giving him, regardless of whether he believes it.
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He feels stupid just standing there, but Bucky didn't tell him to get out so he ends up just sinking to the floor, legs crossed, back hunched, hands on his ankles for a long, quiet moment.
"I don't - want to be a bother. Or overwhelm you. Or smother you," he finally says, quietly. "I don't want to expect things of you that you might try to give me, or anyone. And I know you can manage on your own. But if you don't want to - when you don't want to. You don't have to."
He isn't sure that's the best way to put anything, but he's at least trying to heed the advice people keep giving him, regardless of whether he believes it.