"Yeah." Bucky smiles over at him. "Some nights I didn't think we'd make it out alive. Never thought 'launched into the future' was in the cards for either of us."

But he's glad all the same. Steve is familiar and Bucky has been missing any tie to the man he was before he fell into that Rift.

"Feels like we tripped into one of those science fiction books I used to read to you when you got sick."