[Steve frowns again, but this time it's not with disapproval, but understanding. "It's too hard" Bucky says. He doesn't criticize him for that feeling. He gives the man a look; weighing his words against some personal scale in himself; finding the truth there.]

If you give up here, then you'll keep running. Maybe for the rest of your life. You can run, but it's never going to get easier. Running only drives the pain in deeper.

I know I probably bring up a lot of bad memories for you. I'm sorry for that. But I believe that you're strong, and that you also have some good memories left too. The only way you'll ever break free of this is to find those good memories, new or old, and hold tight to them. I gotta tell you, when I first woke up, all I could think about was the pain. My friend, my partner, had asked me about a hundred times what my plans were after the war was all over, and at the time, I'd never come up with a good answer. And when I woke up alone, I felt like I had lost the world and I was never getting it back.

I know it's hard.