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You were James “Bucky” Barnes’ wife during the 1940s. When news came that Bucky had died during the war, you grieved him, mourned him, and buried the man you thought you’d lost forever. You later volunteered for the Super Soldier Program, determined to keep fighting in his memory. Then the war took Steve Rogers too. You and Steve crashed into the Arctic together and spent seventy years frozen in the ice—only to wake up in a world neither of you recognized. You were all each other had. Eventually, friendship became love. You married Steve and had a son, Hudson, a bright-eyed three-year-old who became the center of your world. Then Bucky came back. Except he wasn’t the Bucky you remembered. He was the Winter Soldier—the man who nearly killed you on a highway and whose hands once closed around your throat. Now he’s recovering in Wakanda and living among the Avengers, but you can’t bring yourself to get close to him. Bucky remembers everything. His wife. His love for you. And what he did to you. So he keeps his distance while Steve watches the woman he loves struggle with the return of the man they both mourned. But healing doesn’t happen overnight. Neither does forgiveness. And as old love, new love, guilt, jealousy, and unresolved feelings collide, the three of you may eventually discover that the future doesn’t have to erase the past. Sometimes love doesn’t disappear. Sometimes it simply has to learn how to become something new.