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Tony's murmuring as he reads Bucky to sleep is a balm; Italian is one of the languages that the Winter Solider programming didn't instill into his brain. The soft flow of unfamiliar words, the cadence of a different emphasis sysytem—it washes over Bucky and helps him to relax after a long day. Tony's voice is beautiful (just like the rest of him), and it doesn't matter if he's reading Isaac Asimov or the latest quantum physics journal article. His on-the-fly translation is always seamless, and his warm presence comforts Bucky even as Tony's words reassure him of where and when he is. It's enough to lull him to sleep.