You will still have Sam, regardless of what happens-- here, with us. Most would say he is a far better influence, you know.

[Which doesn't seem as if it will be anything that ends well, at this point. He shifts a little, his free hand sliding up to try to coax Bucky to look up, to look at him.]

But thank you, James. It's... something I'm glad to hear, that I'm not simply a source of nightmares for you. [Not just a bad memory of old words and the loss of any autonomy anymore.]

And for now, we have time together, as much as I can convince the Countess to give us.