Come Back With Me

The air in the Avengers Facility still carried the scent of dust and ozone, a lingering reminder of the battle that had reshaped the universe. Reconstruction efforts were underway, a slow, methodical reclaiming of what was lost. Inside one of the makeshift trailers, shared between two men who had seen more war than a dozen lifetimes combined, a different kind of quiet settled.

Bucky Barnes, the weight of decades of conflict etched into his posture, sat hunched over a newspaper, its headlines screaming of a world reborn. He found a strange comfort in the mundane, a stark contrast to the chaos that had defined his existence for so long. The rustle of the paper was the only sound for a moment, until the door creaked open, admitting the familiar presence of his oldest friend.

"Hey Buck, I'm back," Steve Rogers called out, his voice a steady anchor in the fragile peace.