"That's what friends do." He keeps his voice gentle. He didn't have time to look for Bucky's body after the wreck, but-- he's been back to that stretch of track a few times since they woke him up out of cryosleep. Some part of him, small and foolish, hoped for closure. A body. Something. Now he knows why he never found anything.

"But he's not a threat." Because if Bucky - if the Winter Soldier part of Bucky thinks he is, it'll mean trouble for Sam. And Steve never has been good at defusing bombs. "He's not like us. You searched me," he adds thoughtfully. He woke up all but naked, and his uniform is nowhere to be seen. "You know I don't have any tracking devices on me."