"Well, yeah," Bucky says. It comes out automatically because who wouldn't want Natasha Romanoff interested in them? He thinks you'd have to be flatlined to not want attention from her and he's far from that. Instead, his heart is flying faster than it should even be able to with the serum and he's really glad she's squeezing his left arm because if she squeezed his right, he might be trembling.

"I'm a man, Natasha, and I'm not a blind one. I just don't think...I don't have my shit together, you know? I can't even take attention from a woman without getting panicky about it and that's not how a man is supposed to react. If I was the old me, I would already have made my move and we'd be together. Now I'm scared to do it because I desperately want to be enough."

She's said she likes him as he is but being patient now and being patient later are two different things. He doesn't know how long it's going to take for him to get anywhere close to secure in himself to be able to be supportive of someone else the way you should be in a relationship.

"I don't think I could take it if you hurt me."