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James or Bucky?

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"It's nice to meet you James; I'm here to talk with you about your experience with HYDRA and how we can help you overcome the trauma."
"James Barnes is a menance and a traitor to the United States and the rest of the world; we need to lock him up and lose the key!"
"James Buchanan Barnes, please rise and take the witness stand."


That's when they use my name, when I have to talk about HYDRA or defend myself against the rest of the world.
'James' is what's on my death certificate, on my file with HYDRA.. 'James' is full of harsh interrogations and weak explanations as I try to hold myself together and not get myself in further trouble.
The name 'James' means bad things..

"Bucky?"
"I'm with you Buck, 'til the end of the line."

Steve calls me Bucky, my friends used to call me Bucky.
Hell, my own mother would call me Bucky! (When I wasn't in trouble, of course.)
Bucky, to me, means home..
Bucky ain't on my enlistment forms, not on my birth or death certificates either.
Bucky is me, my identity. That name is something that belongs to me, something I have control over.

So yes, my name is Bucky. I'm not confused, not convinced or coerced to choose that over James.
I finally regained my autonomy after almost a century, and I know what I want to be called.
This is a brief fic written up in Bucky Barnes' POV regarding which name he would like to be called.

(Reference the interrogation scene between the 'psychiatrist' (Zemo) and Bucky in the Civil War Movie) 
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