<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Bucky trailed behind Peter, letting the boy's rambling enthusiasm wash over him -- taking with it a large portion of Bucky's constant vigilance.  Peter really did remind him of young Steve, and that probably had something to do with how easy it was to relax around him.  Then too, he'd had ample example that the boy could overpower him, and there was comfort in being around people he didn't think he could physically harm, even if he had a Winter Soldier episode.  (He hadn't had one in some time, and both doctors and psychologists were fairly confident that he wouldn't again, but Bucky preferred to plan for the worst.)<br/>
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He was mildly intrigued to hear the lad call Tony by a nickname that Bucky had only ever heard Colonel Rhodes use.  That was... interesting.  Not something immediately useful, but he filed it away to consider at a later time.  "A water balloon," Bucky repeated, thinking.  "You know, I've used mercury switches in explosives -- those things that only create a current if the balance is tilted?  Something like that might work for your trigger mechanism... if we could find a way for you not to blow it up swinging around the city."</span></span>