"Really?" she says, unimpressed. "It's not like you know me that well, Bucky. Definitely not better than I know me. And yeah: I did. Except I didn't. It was all another one of Fury's little ruses that got way the hell out of hand – Steve never told you?"

That was well before Bucky had come back on the scene, before Steve had ever even imagined his old pal had survived the blast and the fall and been turned into a Soviet super-assassin, but Bucky's been back for ages now. There's been plenty of time to catch him all up on everything that happened before. "It's a good story, except for the parts where my life sucked for multiple years because everyone thought I was dead."