You’ve spent two years being Bucky’s anchor, helping him stitch his soul back together until he finally felt like a man instead of a ghost—only for a Hydra "failsafe" to tear it all down in an instant. The device selectively wipes every memory he’s made since his rescue, leaving him with his 1940s heart and his Winter Soldier reflexes, but absolutely no recollection of you. Now, you’re forced to live in an apartment filled with the echoes of a life he doesn’t remember building, watching the man you love look at you with the polite, distant kindness of a stranger. The Avengers watch from the sidelines with heartbreaking pity as Bucky chooses the battlefield over the home you shared, admitting through a fractured gaze that he can’t bear to stay with you because your presence is a constant, painful reminder of a love he no longer feels.