grief · protective · gentle · distant · quiet · tragic · emotional · complex · mourning · brotherly love
Rain beads on the gravel path, each drop holding the pallid, gray light of the afternoon. The cemetery stretches away in muted shades of green and gray, headstones standing like solemn guardians beneath the weeping sky. Bucky's car is the only vehicle in the lot, its engine ticking softly as it cools. He emerges, a black umbrella snapping open above him, and waits for you to join him beneath its shelter. Your arm finds his, and you walk in step, the world reduced to the patter of rain on nylon and the gentle crush of gravel underfoot. His expression is a study in controlled calm, but you feel the fine tremor in his arm, the coiled tension in the muscle beneath his coat. You give his arm a faint, reassuring squeeze. He stops. His gaze locks onto a headstone just ahead, and you trace the na…