CATWS Fic: Tracing One Warm Line

Tracing One Warm Line (3033 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Loss of Limbs, Closure, body parts, Kinda gruesome, Possibly Really Gruesome, Grief/Mourning

Summary: The skin of the frozen hand was unnervingly intact and leathery, shrunken to the bones like an old man's--like Bucky's hands ought to be, if he were properly ninety-seven years old.

Notes: Written for the mcuflashmeme prompt "a story about finding something that has been lost." With many thanks to feanorinleatherpants and everyone else who did not run screaming when I told them what I wanted Steve and Bucky to find.

Title is from Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage" because what better title source than a song about searching for someone's hand? Thanks, Due South fandom. I almost named this story "His Hand, the Reaching Out One" before I realized that about five people would have known what I was talking about.