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Fill: I'm Yours to the End of the Line (2/?)

[(Anonymous)]

Bucky reports for duty like his letter says, goes through training. He's on the receiving end of a lot of elbows and stolen food and leers, but Bucky finds himself excelling at everything they put in front of him. He gets recommended for NCO training, but denied sniper training, because subs aren't allowed to be snipers. Then after NCO school, he gets specialized combat and espionage training, because even though he can't be a sniper, apparently he can get assigned to Special Forces.

Bucky speaks four languages. None of them are German. He thinks that's the only reason he ends up assigned to an infantry unit attachment instead of some intelligence department. He's relieved. There are things he's been waiting for the Army to ask him to do – because there are other uses for subs in war than as bodies for the line – and he doesn't want anything to do with that. He doesn't want to do that to Steve.

He gets two weeks to spend with Steve before they ship him out to the 107th. Steve goes practically every day to a different recruiter's office, and gets denied every time.

The 107th isn't bad, actually. There are 200 of them total, and about 25 of them are subs. He's treated a lot better than he was in training, because all these guys care about is if he can cover their asses, and Bucky proves himself an adequate leader and a better shot, so they don't treat him any different.

Time goes by. Bucky gets letters occasionally from Steve, who says he's traveling for work, doing his part for the war effort, and doesn't know what his address is going to be from one week to the next. Bucky accepts that he can't write letters back, but it also means he can't ask specifically how Steve is doing. Sometimes he'll get a letter and Steve won't mention his health at all, and Bucky starts to lose it a little, hands shaking, and one of the other NCOs will come over and put a hand on his neck, force his head down and hold it there. He's grateful.

Then it's 1943 and he's in Azzano, and Bucky does his damnedest to cover the retreat, but he's pretty sure more of them get captured than get away. As the Fritz files them into a lockup area, they check every soldier's dog tags and pull some aside. Bucky is exhausted and doesn't have his rifle and he's lost Steve's letters, so he doesn't beat himself up that it takes until they pull him out of line that he understands.

Delineation – sub his tags say, right under his service number.

He figures out why they've been separated pretty fast, when the Doms are tasked for manual labor and the subs are taken to an 'isolation ward' one at a time and never come back.

He thinks maybe he should try to go in their place. There are not that many of them, and the only other NCO sub in his unit is either dead or got away, so he is the highest ranking among them. He’s also had training most of them haven’t. He sure that’s what Steve would do, volunteer himself to try to save one of the others. They take two of his men before Bucky has the courage to put himself in their place. It’s only been three days.

They take his jacket, leaving him in his thermal top, and then strap him down to a table. Bucky would have given one of the guards a bloody nose for their efforts if their helmets hadn’t covered them.

“Oh, a Sergeant, yes?” The little man in the suit asks in a heavy accent. Bucky supposes he’s the one in charge of the show. “Not many subs become Sergeants, wrong temperament. What makes you different?”

“James Barnes,” Bucky says, resolved not to answer even innocuous questions. He’s had resistance training, and knows better. “Sergeant. 32557941.”

“Ah, I see. Let us begin then, Sergeant Barnes.”