“Thanks for getting her out Clint, and not killing her. Steve told me about that — she always wanted out,” he assured Clint because it felt like Clint never got enough thanks for the shit he did and Bucky knew what it was like to feel like the accessory to someone else’s story.

“You did better then me — when we tried to escape from together we got caught and drug back in. I got put on ice, end of story. One of the only times the Soldier failed” of course he didn’t mention that he had a chance to get away still but they’d gotten caught cause Nat got shot and couldn’t move well and he refused to leave her behind.