Remedy

BUCKY BARNES considered himself a monster. Sure, he didn't have the fangs or claws or blood-red eyes that made up the cruel beings in the fairy tales, but he had committed so many crimes and killed so many innocents that he couldn't clean the blood off of his hands anymore; they were permanently stained, an invisible reminder of the pain he had caused others.

AVALON KINGSTON saw something more in him. Where he saw a monster, she saw a sad man who couldn't break the bonds of HYDRA that were crushing the Bucky Barnes she believed in, a good man who had been in the wrong place at the wrong time and thus paid for his sins with eternal regret. She had known good, and she had known bad, and she had known Bucky, who wouldn't accept that he belonged in one over the other.He didn't know how much he needs her.She didn't realise how happy his progress made her feel.They never realised they were each other's remedy