Shadows and Vapor

It’s only once Bucky has lost track of the years that he begins to realize something’s wrong. He looks at Natasha and sees the changes of age: lines where she used to be smooth, a spray of gray hair where it used to be vibrant red, lips thinned with time. He looks in the mirror and sees the same face he has always seen: wavy brown hair, full lips, the smooth skin of a twenty-five-year-old.