To distract himself, Buchanan ends up going out, dancing and flirting. Tony, who deeply regrets having told the two, informs Cap, who after a moment's hesitation follows his sweetheart. When he arrives at the bar at Central Parc, Steve watches a stranger approach Bucks. He gets jealous and separates the two: “Hey Casanova, find someone else!” Bucky grins: “Oh, so you do miss me?!” The man growls: “What's this about, is he with you?” Steve fends the guy off: “Yes he is! He's my brother and he doesn't need someone like you!” The dude looks baffled, but Bucks has his mouth fall open. Fuming, he rushes past his buddy.
Steve follows and complains: “What was that for, Bucky? Do you think it's gonna make things better, if you just throw yourself at loose men?” Bucks counters: “What, are you worried I'll ruin the family's reputation? What do you care if your brother is a slut, huh!?” Steve shoves him angry: “Stop talking like that, damn it!” His friend continues to provoke him: “Or what? You send me to bed without dinner, and don't let me play with your toys anymore?? We may be related, but you're not my father! Even though I'd love to call you Daddy!”
Steve yells at him: “Stop talking like that, stop it, God damn it, stop!”, punches him, and they fight. But they hardly hit each other, struggling and shoving each other for a long time, backing away from the busy street, into the park. Eventually they end up on top of each other behind a thorn bush. Steve sits on Bucky's chest, and though his friend doesn't fight back anymore, he keeps beating him, screaming out his frustration: “Do you have any idea what this is doing to me? How ashamed I feel before you? Before of our friends?? How I loathe myself when I think of what we've done? How disgusted I am with myself? And do you think I don't care about you anymore?”
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He suddenly realizes how much the scene resembles that on the helicarrier, and the one in Siberia with Tony. Then he stops abruptly, puts his fists on the grass and howls: “I miss you so much! I'm crying into my pillow, because I can't sleep without you in my arms! I get dressed in the hallway, because there is noone fooling around with me in the bathroom. I'm scared of getting too close to you, and someone realizing what we are. It hurts so much...” Bucky takes him in his arms and fondles his hair. Steve continues to sob: “I love you so much! I wanted to marry you, damn it! I wanted us to be together forever, to always have you by my side, and now everything is ruined!”
Bucky asks in a serious tone: “Stevie, honestly... if you listen to your heart... do you want us to break up? Do you want to part with me?” He looks at him nervously and Steve looks back in pain, but finally shakes his head. Bucks then asks: “Why actually is the possibility that we might have the same parents such a bad thing to you?” Steve pauses to consider it. They come close to each other once more, but when Bucky tries to kiss him, Steve turns away, sighing: “I can't. I can't do this anymore. It's just wrong.”