There's a doubt because Bucky's my friend, I gave him my word, and I just spent last night being made to believe I should murder half the people I care about most by the Admin or left to that by her. Including Bucky. He was here and I fucking bit him because I couldn't do anything else to hurt him!

[His voice is more than a little strained by the end of that. Okay, so maybe suppressing everything to do with this isn't working out as well as he'd hoped.]

Mm... Just a moment. Sorry. Just a moment.

[The line goes dead for about a minute as John gathers himself once more. This is the problem with voice over text. He continues in a more level voice after that.]

I'll try to convince Stein to do it himself. He's the one who asked me to test out the procedure on him, anyway. I told him no until we had more information.