[And what he'll get when he touches the orb is determination, mixed with the fierce desire to protect, hell if he lets Steve go down like this, without trying to help, and for a moment, the HYDRA soldiers fall down as he fires at them, the shield a comforting weight on his arm, and then--
confusion, pain, panic, trying to hold on to whatever he can, the wind howling in his ears and the cold biting through even with his clothes prepared for the weather--
trust, telling himself to reach, just reach out, dammit, before there's a crack and a mix of emotions you can't separate, panicfearanger and the final, brutal relief that it wasn't the one who was left on the train--