Rumlow has a CONNECTION with the asset. Rumlow UNDERSTANDS the asset. When Rumlow fucks the asset, it's definitely consensual, possibly even ~lovemaking.
Fast forward to Rumlow being in prison after the events of CATWS. He's got some information the good guys need, and the only way he's giving it up is if a) he gets to come along on the mission, and b) so does the Winter Soldier. I'm thinking he has a couple lurid fantasies about the asset seeing him, breaking out of whatever bullshit the Avengers have done to wreck him, and spiriting Rumlow away. Because of their love, you know.
Bucky agrees, and...
I am flexible about whatever "and then" ideas people come up with, but these are a few things I'd like to see:
+++ brave brave Bucky clearly and calmly (even if it visibly costs him) explaining to Rumlow that it was rape, and what looked like 'love' was just Rumlow's brainwashed victim knowing how to please him, and that Rumlow is nothing to him and never was
+ Rumlow arguing with this, and also insisting on calling Bucky 'Winter'
+ furious Steve trailing behind for support, barely able to keep his mouth shut
+++ somehow Rumlow separates Bucky and violently rapes him, because if you reject his love you're gonna feel his wrath
+ I would pay good cash money for Steve/Bucky aftermath
Rumlow thinks he's in love
Fast forward to Rumlow being in prison after the events of CATWS. He's got some information the good guys need, and the only way he's giving it up is if a) he gets to come along on the mission, and b) so does the Winter Soldier. I'm thinking he has a couple lurid fantasies about the asset seeing him, breaking out of whatever bullshit the Avengers have done to wreck him, and spiriting Rumlow away. Because of their love, you know.
Bucky agrees, and...
I am flexible about whatever "and then" ideas people come up with, but these are a few things I'd like to see:
+++ brave brave Bucky clearly and calmly (even if it visibly costs him) explaining to Rumlow that it was rape, and what looked like 'love' was just Rumlow's brainwashed victim knowing how to please him, and that Rumlow is nothing to him and never was
+ Rumlow arguing with this, and also insisting on calling Bucky 'Winter'
+ furious Steve trailing behind for support, barely able to keep his mouth shut
+++ somehow Rumlow separates Bucky and violently rapes him, because if you reject his love you're gonna feel his wrath
+ I would pay good cash money for Steve/Bucky aftermath