"Please," he echoes, and just for a moment, the acknowledgement brightens his eyes, and it takes an effort to moderate the eagerness, before it grew into hunger. "I wasn't sure if you wouldn't like to... differentiate."

His look turns slightly distant, and he shrugs. "I'm not sure what I prefer exactly. I remember the past both ways, and both ways fit in their places, but they don't fit together at all, so it seems neither is right. I'm just certain of one thing that I want." Attention turns back to Steve. "To set things right again, somehow. The downside to this plan being the definition of normal."

And yes, now that corner of his mouth is definitely turned up. Not an easy smile, no, but much of Bucky's self-deprecation definitely there.