Everybody's loss is the reader's gain. Also, thank you very much – I'm really glad you've liked it so much.

I originally went with Sam as Bucky's partner because he's a lot more emotionally adroit than Steve (or Bucky) and yet this is something for which nobody could be prepared, so how would that go? And then I got really attached to my vision of their life together and felt even worse for shattering it.