i. The team calls him Barnes and they skitter around him with weary smiles and tense shoulders. The team calls him Barnes and it feels just as unfamiliar and impersonal and harsh as Soldier - a gruff bark buried somewhere in the mess of his memories, an accented greeting of good morning and a steady reply
Good morning, soldier
Ready to comply
Soldier
Soldier
Most of the time, Soldier feels more comfortable than Barnes, but he doesn't want to say so - that would just disappoint Steve, and Steve tries so hard. He reads newspapers with him and calls him Bucky and tries to remind him of their childhood but it all washes over him, like a dream he can't remember upon waking.
Wanda, though. The girl. The pale shadow in the corner.
She looks at him and she knows.
She looks at him and sees right through him, and he wonders how that could be when he doesn't even know who he is.