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xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx · 1 month ago
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Not sure if youve done this yet but itd be so interesting seeing Lazlo's room in your style !
oh lord I know his room would be a biohazard like mercutio's lmao
in all honesty though it could be pretty sick. i feel like lazlo would have much funkier furniture in his room than the other ones I've done
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8g-soymilk · 2 years ago
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Day 4 of @quezify's eggtober! Was thinking about the black scratch-off to reveal a rainbow sheets while sketching this and thought it'd be fun to try to replicate the effect. Timelapse and black and white version below the cut!
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Ids in alt text <3!
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dualecholity · 2 months ago
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people are really scary actually next time i go to school ill probably just start crying .the thought of being in a room with people brings me looming dread
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qiaowanmian · 1 year ago
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happy lunar new year from lotus tower! in honour of me losing miserably all morning at the hands of my family members only to win back a few rounds in the evening:
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starberry-cupcake · 2 years ago
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in the past 3 days we had a small tornado and a huge flood with a power outage of about 20+ hours combined, if the world doesn't collapse tomorrow I'll bake a cookie house for christmas eve because I gotta hang on to something
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rowanhoney · 2 years ago
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actually today I’m very overwhelmed with love
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amrv-5 · 2 years ago
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Insane stress dreams but imagerywise they do rule every time
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i-might-haveaproblem · 5 months ago
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If you ever get the opportunity, DO IT!
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northwestofinsanity · 3 months ago
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Love when I’ve just had a short study break and I’m all relaxed, focused and ready to get back into studying, and less than two minutes after sitting back down and being ready to get back into my notes, I hear a low buzz over my head, and out of nowhere, I have a hornet flying around my house, and it takes the better part of half an hour to chase it outside because it *will not die* (and I run a really high fever when I get stung, so I can’t risk that happening, either).
Suffice to say, I did not manage to get back into my notes before that all unfolded, and I am no longer focused and ready to dive back deep into it all! Hopefully, with the final exam just half an hour more than 36 hours away, that’s going to be my pre-final “go-figure” event!
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iliketohavesexwithrobots · 4 months ago
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The soul does not need to exist, because it is made redundant by the structure of the brain, which does everything necessary to animate a body. Ergo, when the brain changes, the person changes. The old one dies.
This isn't a problem. This is normal. People die constantly. They get older, they aren't the same, they die.
A traumatic brain injury is the same, but different. It's a sudden change to the brain instead of a gradual one, and often caused by an accident. It's a violent death instead of a peaceful one.
I am not the same person I was before the concussion. I can't do the same things I used to be able to, and there are new things that I can do that she couldn't, so, for the intents and purposes of being a member of society, I am a different person. A similar, yet significantly worse one, but the person who died was a shining star, so I suppose that makes me normal now.
It's a little bit nice. She died doing what she loved, letting herself get hurt in exchange for adoration. Everyone was looking at her when she died, she finally got what she wanted.
I keep wanting to go back to the place where the concussion happened. I'd bring lilies, to mourn, and peonies, to congratulate her on a performance well done.
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lgbtlunaverse · 3 months ago
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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.
Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.
It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.
But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.
It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.
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mooningningg · 1 month ago
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 notes, i was actually chuckling at myself. ty anon for requesting
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★ Roommate!Sukuna when someone hits on you with him.
You were just comparing the backs of two cereal boxes.
Really. That’s all.
You and Sukuna had run out of coffee creamer and got distracted in the cereal aisle. You were bickering about marshmallow-to-grain ratios like civilized adults when Sukuna walked off to grab eggs and left you behind.
Now here you were, alone, mid-comparison, when a guy sidled up beside you.
Not aggressively. Just… with a little too much confidence for someone in a Walmart.
He gestured to the cereal in your hand and said, “You know that one has more sugar than the one you’re holding?”
You blinked.
“…Yeah, that’s why I picked it.”
He laughed. The kind of laugh that people do when they’re trying too hard. “You’re funny. That your favorite?”
You didn’t answer right away. There wasn’t anything threatening about him — just annoying. Vaguely frat-boy energy in board shorts and a fake chain. He leaned in a little.
“You know,” he said, flashing a grin, “I was actually gonna say something earlier when you passed the produce section. Couldn’t help noticing your smile.”
Jesus Christ.
You gave a polite, tight smile. “Thanks.”
“Got a name, pretty girl?”
You were about to lie and say “Tax Fraud” when—
“The fuck’s goin’ on here?”
A voice cut in. Low, scratchy, and pissed.
You didn’t have to turn around to know who it was.
Sukuna was back.
And he was standing behind you with a carton of eggs in one hand, a frozen bag of fries in the other, and a look on his face like he was ready to use either as a weapon.
The guy glanced up, eyebrows raised. “Uh—hey, man. Just talkin’ to her—”
“Yeah?” Sukuna cocked his head. “Looks more like you’re talkin’ at her.”
You tried to step in, raise a hand. “It’s fine—”
Sukuna didn’t look at you. Didn’t blink. He took a step forward, close enough that the guy had to instinctively lean back.
“She look interested to you?”
“Woah, okay—” the guy laughed awkwardly, taking a visible step away. “Didn’t mean to disrespect—”
Sukuna gave a humorless snort. “Disrespect?” he echoed, loud enough to make an old lady from aisle six poke her head around. His tone was slow, like he was tasting the word and hating every syllable. “Nah. See, disrespect is when you bump someone in line and don’t say ‘scuse me.’”
He stepped closer. The eggs in his hand were tilted sideways now, as if he had no problem letting them crash to the floor if things went south. “What you just did?” His grin spread, but it didn’t touch his eyes. “That’s some ‘I wanna die in aisle seven’ type shit.”
The guy laughed nervously, eyes darting toward you. “I didn’t know she was with anyone—”
“You don’t need to know,” Sukuna said, voice low, like a fuse being lit. “You see someone standing alone, you keep walkin’. You don’t roll up with your Dollar Tree smile and ask her what cereal she likes.”
You winced. Ouch.
“Bro, it’s not that serious—”
“Don’t ‘bro’ me,” Sukuna snapped, finally breaking eye contact with the man long enough to glance at you. His voice dipped. “You good?”
You blinked. “I—yeah. I was just looking at cereal—”
His eyes flicked back to the guy. “Yeah? She was looking at cereal. Not you.”
The dude threw his hands up. “Alright man, alright. My bad. Enjoy your, uh… whatever this is.”
He turned, practically sprinted out of the aisle, knocking into a soup display on his way out. A can rolled across the tile floor like a dramatic punctuation mark.
Silence.
You blinked at Sukuna. He still looked vaguely pissed. He glanced down at the eggs in his hand like he was debating whether or not to chase the guy and throw them.
Instead, he tossed them into the basket and finally turned toward you.
“You’re unbelievable,” you muttered.
He raised an eyebrow. “What?”
“You can’t threaten people in public just because they talk to me.”
“He flirted with you.”
“I can handle myself.”
“You shouldn’t have to.”
The words came out too fast. Too serious. Even he looked surprised he said them.
You paused, one eyebrow raised. “We’re just roommates, you know.”
He exhaled slowly, dragging a hand down his face. “Yeah, yeah. You tell everyone that.”
“I am everyone.”
He scoffed, reaching for a box of cereal and dropping it in your cart without looking. “Shut up.”
You glanced at the box.
It was the one you wanted.
You smiled to yourself and didn’t say a word.
But damn, you were never grocery shopping without him again.
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Taglist, @humeysaga.
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brunchable · 9 months ago
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𝙄 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 [ 2 ]
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Pairings: Bucky Barnes x f!Reader Themes: Friends to Lovers. SMUT: Touch Hungry Bucky, Kiss Hungry Bucky, Bucky just not getting enough of you, fingering, cunnilingus, Oral [M&F], unprotected piv, creampie. Just PURE making love, no kinks. Summary: It's only been a few hours since you've become official and Bucky want to show you just how much you mean to him. A/N: 2 of 2. And I must say. . . JAYSUS. BON APETITIDDIES.
Part One
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You were stiff. You were sore. Your arm was asleep. And you felt fucking fantastic.
Maybe in the movies people woke up entwined in each other's arms after a night of spirited lovemaking, but for you, reality was much more awkward. Your head had somehow become wedged behind Bucky’s shoulder, and both his legs were about to slide off the couch altogether. You untangled yourself as best you could, looking down at him as you moved his limbs out of the way.
Bucky was sleeping peacefully, his dark lashes lying flat against the skin beneath his eyes. They fluttered slightly as you pulled free of him, and he stirred.
"Five more minutes," he mumbled, and turned over so he was facing the back of the couch, still caught in mid-slide towards the floor.
You tried not to laugh. God, he was adorable.
You sat up, arching your back to stretch out the sore muscles. Then your breath caught. What time was it? Holy hell, I’m going to be late.
You stood up quickly, and was seized by an ache between your legs so unfamiliar that you nearly sat back down again. Holy crap. It had been way too long. You almost felt like a virgin again. You rose again shakily, noticing that your whole groin felt sore, and so did your hips—probably from throwing your legs up around his waist. God, what a wanton hussy you were, you thought happily.
You went quietly towards the bathroom, checking the clock on the stove as you walked by. It was nearly eight-thirty. Crap. You were supposed to be at work by nine, or nine-thirty at the latest. you'd  have to make the shower a quick one.
You stood under the hot water, letting it pour over your sore muscles. You washed out your hair, lathered up your body and massaged your sore hips as random images from last night invaded your thoughts. Even now you weren't entirely convinced it hadn't all been a dream. Has it really happened? The soreness was real enough. And so were the images flashing through your mind.
Bucky’s body on yours, looming over you, holding your wrists, kissing you with abandon. Taking each breast in his mouth, teasing you with his fingers. Sliding into you, tilting your back and thrusting deeper, faster, harder.
Suddenly a blurry figure appeared on the other side of the glass door. The door slid open and he stood there, looking disheveled from sleep but adorably sexy. And naked, too.
"Hi," he said, a seductive smile curving his lips. His eyes traveled down your naked body, pausing at your breasts and then sliding down to the between your legs where rivulets of water coursed and ran together.
You flushed at the frank inspection but willed yourself not to try to hide from him. You shifted your weight, jutting your hip out provocatively and smiled.
His eyes returned to yours, desire glinting in them. "May I join you?"
You pushed the door back and invited him in. Bucky stepped in and crowded you, not unpleasantly, until your back was up against the tiles. He braced his hands on the wall behind you, and let the water flow over him as he leaned down and kissed you.
You opened to him and kissed him back, winding your hands around his waist and sliding them down his ass, squeezing appreciatively. He smiled into the kiss, enjoying your wandering hands, then pushed forward so your bodies were pressed together, the water slick and warm between you.
"So," he murmured in your ear, his voice barely a whisper above the sound of the water. "So much for that idea."
"What idea was that?" you whispered back, kissing his ear.
"The idea that we could ever be just friends," he said, catching your jaw with his lips as you turned your head. He covered your neck with slow, lingering kisses, trailing his mouth down your and cupping your breast with his hand.
"Oh, I don't know, I think it's a great idea so far," you said coquettishly. "Besides," you joked. "I do this with all my male friends."
He mocked a scowl at you, and gave you  that smile that had always melted you. "Well, that's going to have to stop. You're mine now."
He kissed you slowly, his tongue tangling with yours as he teased and tasted, enjoying your mouth.
You kissed him back, licking and tasting and enjoying him until you felt rather than heard a hum of desire, of pure carnal lust, vibrating through him. He was growing hard against your belly, his cock pressing against you urgently.
He lowered his head further and took your  nipple into his mouth, licking the soft nub until it grew hard beneath his tongue. Pleasure shot through you, and he turned to lavish the same attention on your other breast. You writhed against the cold tiles at your back, arching into him and sinking your fingers into his hair to hold him to you. He smiled as you moaned with pleasure, and laughed softly when he took your nipple between his teeth and made you suck in a sharp breath.
His cock was as hard as it had been a few hours ago, and it surged in your hand as he took your breasts. You gathered some suds into your palm and grasped him again, feeling the iron-hardness of him beneath the silky skin. You began to stroke, gliding fast and smooth, and he groaned from the pleasure of it, collapsing against you and kissing you between his soft, low sounds of pleasure and need.
You kept stroking and teasing, gliding over him in a steady rhythm, and felt yourself growing warm and slick at how hard he was beneath your fingers. You loved that you were doing that to him, making him want you so much. He groaned, his breath jagged and shallow. He tried to kiss you through his mounting pleasure but he had to break off to breathe, to lose himself in the sensation.
"God, baby," he groaned, squeezing his eyes shut. "So good."
You tried not to focus on him calling you baby, knowing it was only his arousal talking. You focused instead on the intense pleasure that was making him say it. You continued stroking him, changing your hand position so that you pulled up with each stroke, teasingly pulling his skin up over the head each time and sinking down to the base, pleasuring every inch of him. Your other hand cupped his balls and caressed him, gently rolling him around in your fingers as he tensed and surged and seemed to fight against you, against the unbearable pleasure you were causing him.
After a few torturous moments he stopped your hand, his breathing so fast and ragged that he could hardly speak. 
“You—don't want—this to end too soon, do you?” he warned, kissing you in between breaths. “Because, my God, you could make me come in seconds if you wanted to.”
“That might be fun,” you said, kissing the edges of his mouth, licking at his lips and his tongue when he opened his mouth to you again.
“For me, yes,” he breathed, breaking away from you. “But I'm not nearly finished with you yet.”
He slipped his hand into your hair and held your head, kissing you with such raw passion, such naked need that you felt a surge of warmth flood between your legs in spite of the cooling effects of the water. He had wrung a soul-shattering orgasm out of you just a few hours ago and yet here you were again, eager for him again. Wanton hussy indeed.
"Do you remember that night, two years ago?" he asked, his voice low and deep. "At the party, when I played that song on the guitar for you, and you asked whether it hurt my fingers to play the steel strings?"
He was watching his own fingers trail over your breasts, over your tightened nipple, down past your navel, as the water trickled over you both.
"Mmm hmmm," you murmured, your eyes closed, lost in the sensation of the water coursing down your body and his hand moving over you.
“And you touched my fingertips…”
Of course you remembered; you'd run your  fingers over the roughened pads of his fingertips, and had watched in delight as he'd twitched a little, and then trembled, just a little, at your touch. You'd kept your touch feather-light and soft, drifting over his fingertips and down his fingers a little, feeling the shiver of heightened awareness in your  own hands.
Maybe you'd been a little too suggestive, a little too lingering, whispering-touching those parts of him that were supposedly hardened against such sensations—but you'd been unable to stop yourself. His hands had been warm and strong and eminently male, and when he'd stiffened and held his breath, as if willing himself not to react to your seductive touch, you'd felt that shiver of awareness deepen into an intense desire.
Such a seemingly innocent touch, just a friend examining the time-worn calluses of a guitar player's fingertips. . .and yet in that moment, even amongst their friends, even with the music playing loud and the laughter soaring above it, you'd felt like it had been just the two of you in that room, touching each other intentionally for the very first time, your hand tentatively reaching out for his, and his reaching to meet your half way.
“You drove me wild.” he said, leaning to kiss your neck. “I got so hard, I was afraid to move. And after that, I kept thinking of all the things I wanted to do to you with these fingers.” He slipped his hand between your  legs and caressed your folds, parting them gently and sliding inside you. “Like this, for instance.”
You moaned and leaned your head against his shoulder, letting him touch you wherever he wanted. His fingers explored you, caressed you, possessed you, expertly as though they, too, knew you were his.
“I just had to touch you,” you breathed against him. “And believe me, this is what I was thinking about too.”
“You stopped me last night,” he murmured, dragging his mouth along your neck. “I wanted to feel you come for me. To finish what you started that night.”
You groaned at the sound of his voice, so low and sexual, so heated with his own desire.
“Let me feel you come for me, baby,” he whispered into your ear, licking your  earlobe. “Please.”
He gripped your hip and lifted you up against the wall slightly, positioning you so he could slide his fingers deep inside you. He held you firmly around the waist, bracing you against the wall, and thrust into you gently, with first one finger, then two, sliding deeper and deeper each time, stretching you, mimicking the size and power of his cock. His thumb played over your clit, sending shocks of pleasure through you as he pressed his forehead to yours and gazed down into your  eyes. You gasped and cried out from the overwhelming pleasure of it even as you squirmed beneath his fingers and ached for more.
He braced you against his thigh and pressed against you while his arm steadied you from behind, holding you completely in his grasp. Bucky had such a way of holding you, letting you know that you were going nowhere, making sure you had no desire to be anywhere but in his arms. You felt safe, and secure, and above all, worshiped.
Bucky bent down and kissed you, sliding his fingers into your with a wild, sensuous rhythm that matched the increasing speed of his thumb as it stroked and rubbed and swirled around your aching clit. His hand was so strong, his fingers curving inside you to caress you, to find that super-sensitive inner spot even as he plunged and drove and took. With his thumb circling your clit in a relentless rhythm and his fingers deep inside you, stretching you, claiming you, you felt completely owned by him, by the hand that possessed every inch of you.
His tongue slipped into your mouth, matching the rhythm of his fingers, swirling, tasting, mutely revealing that he had had another  fantasy, too. The thought of his mouth on you, his tongue tasting you, torturing you, swirling over your clit as you writhed beneath it made you go weak in the knees.
Bucky broke away from the kiss and began trailing kisses down your neck, your breasts, lowering himself to his knees in front of you  while bracing your hips against the tiles with his strong hands.
"Did I mention what it did to me the first time your tongue touched mine?" he whispered devilishly.
He looked up at you so intently, his beautiful blue eyes blazing as the water streamed over his shoulder and down the contours of his chest. You gazed down at him, and for the second time this morning questioned whether  all this could actually be happening. This gorgeous, virile man gripping you, kneeling before you, gazing at you like you were the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. It couldn't be real, could it?
Then he lowered his lips to your and you knew it was.
Sensation tore through your touch, so delicately gentle at first, and you arched against the wall with a startled cry. You reached down and gripped his shoulder, steadying yourself on one foot as he brought you to your leg up slowly, gently and eased it over his shoulder. The sight of it alone nearly made you come. He moved so languidly, so sensuously, positioning you better so he could enjoy your all the more.
He closed his mouth over your clit and kissed it luxuriously, his lips moving as though he were kissing your mouth. His tongue swirled over you in large, sensuous circles and he groaned against you, tightening his grip on your hip as you moaned against the sudden overwhelming pleasure of it. The tip of his tongue darted out to flick against your  rapidly as he looked up at you again, watching your pleasure, his eyes smiling at you as if he knew precisely how good he was making you feel. Then he fell on you again, his tongue roaming over you, tasting you, luxuriating in your folds and dipping to lap at your entrance.
“Oh my, g-god. Bucky—”
You bucked against him and cried out as his tongue slipped into your and pulsed there, gently, savouring you. Your hand sank into his wet hair and as you gripped his head, you were rewarded with a muted chuckle and a more intense forward surge of his tongue inside you. He liked the moans he wrought from you. He liked being able to make your  cry out and seize him, your head thrown back in agonizing pleasure.
And fuck did you like it, too.
"Oh God," you breathed, your heart thundering in your chest. "My God, that feels so good..."
He withdrew from your and slid his tongue up to torture your aching clit, and just when you began to miss the feel of him inside your he gently pushed his fingers into your again and began to thrust.
Pleasure soared through you and you cried out even louder, and the leg draped over his shoulder began to tremble. His tongue circled your clit again, deliciously slowly, as his fingers slid into you over and over again, a sensual, primitive rhythm that made you  want to grind your hips against the pleasure.
“I'm coming,” you whispered urgently. “You're going to make me come…”
His fingers thrust deeper and faster and he began to lick you so quickly, with such a throaty groan of pleasure that you felt your  orgasm rise, terrifyingly fast and sharp, making you cry out in increasing, panting breaths until you shattered, coming violently around his fingers and that sensuous, irresistible tongue. You shuddered with an aching cry and trembled from the spasms he sent rippling through you. Your body curled forward as you gripped him tighter, your  fingers pulling on his hair from the pressure.
He removed your leg from his shoulder gently as you continued to shudder, feeling aftershocks of pleasure shiver through you. He got to his feet and helped you stand, pressing himself against your  and nuzzling your neck.
“Holy shit,” you whispered, your voice shaking. your  whole body shaking. “That was incredible.”
“That...was just the prelude,” he whispered, kissing you. “I haven't even started pleasuring you yet.”
God, he was going to kill you. Death by orgasm, you thought happily. What a way to go.
He leaned to turn off the water, but he stilled his hand. He looked back at you with a questioning expression, and then understood. You pulled him back towards yourself and he went willingly, stepping back under the stream of water, kissing you deeply, his hands roaming greedily over your  body.
You weren't done with him. He had made you feel like a goddess, worshiped, cherished, adored.
You broke off the kiss and began trailing your  lips down his neck, his collarbone and chest, enjoying the warmth of the water trickling past your mouth. His chest muscles tensed as you kissed them, and as you moved your  lips slowly down his abdomen you felt his whole body go rigid with anticipation. You sank to your knees in the tub and brushed kisses along his navel, his hip bones, and he put his hands on your shoulders to steady himself. Water coursed over both of you, and you delighted in it, closing your eyes against the spray.
“Baby,” Bucky said softly, barely audible above the water.
You opened your eyes and looked up at him. He was about to say something but you smiled and glanced away, focusing instead on the head of his cock, hard and urgent in front of you. He was thick and beautiful, and still as hard, maybe even harder, than he had been when you'd teased him with your  hands.
“I want to taste you,” you said playfully. “All of you.”
You leaned forward and gently licked the swollen tip of his cock. He inhaled sharply, his whole body tensing, and you smiled up at him, letting him know this was for your  pleasure as much as for his. You swirl your  tongue around the head, taking it into your  mouth and suckling gently, teasing it. The skin was soft and smooth, stretched deliciously tight from the hardness of his erection.
You let your tongue play over it, dipping into the opening, making him moan. You drifted your tongue along the ridge, and down to the sensitive skin just beneath the head, licking and tasting, nipping and kissing.
You looked up at him, and his dark eyes were wild with desire. You smiled, and ran your  tongue up and down the length of him, ending at the head and flicking at it delicately, teasingly. He moaned softly, his breathing starting to grow rapid. You rose up slightly to take the whole length of him into your mouth and sucked him, long and hard.
He let out a gasp and braced himself against the wall with one hand, his other  hand gripping your  shoulder.
“Oh fuck—Baby...”
You slid your mouth over his shaft, deeper, deeper, and slid back up the length of him. Your hands came around and gripped his ass, pulling him towards you. He staggered forward slightly as you took him into your  mouth again, luxuriously taking in his entire length, sucking, licking, tasting as you went. The sensation of him in your mouth was almost as overwhelming as his first entrance into your body had been, so unfamiliar but so right at the same time.
You caressed his balls with one hand as you played your tongue over his cock. He groaned, his breathing jagged now, his cock harder than ever. His hand moved from your  shoulder to sink into your wet hair, and he gripped your head with barely restrained urgency. Gently he guided your head closer to him as you sucked. You lowered yourself onto him and slowly sucked your way back up, your mouth gripping him, your cheeks hollowing, as your tongue slid over him with each pass.
His hips began to move as he started to match your rhythm, thrusting into you, meeting your mouth. Bucky gripped your head more firmly and held your head still, driving into you gently.
You let your hand fall and you sat back on your haunches, enjoying the feeling of him sliding in and out of your mouth, controlling his own pleasure, taking what he wanted, and what you were so willing to give. Yet you could tell he was holding back, wanting to thrust harder and faster but restraining himself and settling for a smoother, slower pace.
For you. Bucky was holding back for your sake. This passionate, soulful, virile man was holding back his own pleasure because he wanted to be gentle with you.
The very thought of it excited you, and you increased your own rhythm, encouraging him, moaning with pleasure as he drove into you. You sucked harder, faster, turning your  gaze up to him with an urgent plea in your  eyes. Faster. Deeper. Now, my love.
And he understood.
Bucky groaned, and stepped forward. His hand clenched in your hair and he began to move, faster and harder, plunging deeper, holding your head as he thrust into your  mouth with urgent, rhythmic strokes. He slid in and out of your mouth as if through warm honey, and you felt and heard his pleasure mounting with every ratcheted breath and every desperate moan that escaped his lips.
His eyes watched your with rapt adoration and abject lust, and you could tell that the sight of your taking him fully into your mouth, of your sucking him with pure, greedy abandon and complete acceptance, was pushing him closer to the edge as much as the intense pleasure of your tongue on his cock was. Or more.
He tensed as his rhythm grew faster, his breathing harder, until you felt him tighten and strain so much that you felt certain he was going to spill himself into your mouth. But at the last moment he cried out and pulled back, his cock slipping out of your  mouth quickly. He stood still, breathless, his eyes closed as if willing his orgasm to retreat. Water sliced down his neck and chest, and finally he let out a slow, jagged moan of a breath and opened his eyes. He looked down at you wildly, and reached for you,helping you to your feet.
“Jesus,” he said breathlessly, staring at you as he tried to catch his breath. “I can't...I can't believe how goddamn good that felt. You brought me so close, so fast, I almost couldn't stop it.”
“Why did you?” you asked, running your  finger along his jaw. “I wanted to feel you come for me.”
He groaned against you, his hands roaming over your  body. “I told you, I'm not nearly done with you yet.”
He kissed you hungrily, his cock surging against your violently as your bodies met. you could feel him moving against you, his cock rubbing against you,and you knew how badly he wanted to be inside you again.
As badly as you wanted him inside you again.
He stepped back, his breath still ragged, and pressed his forehead to yours as he closed his eyes and tried to breathe.
“You're not done yet, huh?” you teased gently, letting your fingers sink into his wet hair as you kissed his neck.
“Not nearly.”
“But I have to go to work. Maybe if I'm lucky you'll be here when I get home?”
“I'm not going anywhere.”
He reached to turn off the water and stepped out of the shower, turning to help your step over the wall of the tub. You threw your robe on and cinched the belt as he dried off and wrapped the towel around his waist. You caught him grinning at you, and it was so clear what he was thinking that it made your  laugh.
“What?” you demanded, squeezing the excess water out of your hair with a hand towel. “What are you smiling at?”
Bucky wetted his lips with his tongue, “Fuck it. You're just going to have to be late for work. Come here…”
“Hey!” your eyes widened playfully, jumping away from him. “Are you trying to kill me? Stop!”
Bucky untied your robe and you yelped, trying to slap his hands away. He just kept advancing on you, grinning devilishly. You turned and scampered away from him with a squeal of delight.
He followed behind, still grasping for the robe. You shrieked and laughed and ran towards the bedroom, and he followed, catching up to you and pushing you onto the bed with a resounding crack of the bed frame.
You laughed as he tumbled on top of you, but he silenced you with his mouth, kissing you hungrily as he impatiently pushed your robe aside. His breath was ragged as he nudged your legs apart with his knee, his need too great for the slow, sensual lovemaking of last night. He held his cock against your entrance and smoothly thrusts into you and moaned against your mouth, and you wrapped your legs around him to draw him deeper.
He plunged into you, covering your body and your mouth with the same hungry possession. You were still so warm and wet, so exquisitely ready for him that he filled you easily, driving you relentlessly as he tasted your tongue, your lips, your neck, and groaned from the pleasure your body was giving him.
You tensed around him and he moaned breathlessly, a throaty, male sound of pure ecstasy. He pounded into you, falling into a steady rhythm born of raw, primitive need. Your body tightened around him with every thrust, and waves of pleasure rippled through you, building in intensity up to an almost unbearable pressure, a delicious heat that made you moan into his mouth as he kissed you.
He rose up, his arms braced beside you, to look down as he stroked and withdrew and breathed out his pleasure while his eyes glowed pure heat. He grabbed your rear, tilting one hip up towards him, entering you  on such an angle that a new kaleidoscope of pleasure bloomed throughout you. He gripped you possessively, driving you deeper and faster and harder. His eyes burned, glowing like obsidian, hot and wild and almost frenzied with desire.
“Baby,” he groaned, his eyes pinning you, claiming you, as though he were branding you with your heat.
You're mine...
You're mine...
Your first time together had only been hours ago, but it was as if you had been lovers for years...every fluid flexing of his hips against you hit just the right spot, every deep, powerful thrust of his cock stretched your pussy with a familiar, almost expected surge of pleasure.
“Yes—oh god yes, Bucky—fuck me,” you breathed.
Two simple words and suddenly he was on the edge...buried so deep inside you, thrusting, plunging, your breasts pressed against his chest, the pleasure roaring through his body.
Suddenly he wanted to take you, hard. He wanted to fuck you with abandon, the eyes-closed, head-back, moaning-out-loud kind of sexual abandon that he had so rarely experienced in his life, but which was crashing through his body and mind right now.
He wanted this woman...he wanted to own you, to take you, to claim your body as his....he wanted to fuck you until he'd emptied his balls into you, feeling your pussy clenching and spasming in orgasm around his cock as he came, as you came, as you came together.
He withdrew from you quickly, barely able to catch his breath, and, as if you could read his thoughts, you turned onto your stomach just as his trembling hands guided your hips over. Your hair spilled over your bare back and your ass curved out so seductively it was all he could do not to cum right there, all over your smooth skin. But his cock knew what it wanted, and he pulled you forward to slide into the heaven of your pussy, so wet and tight and swollen for him.
He cried out when he took your again, his cock parting your folds and filling you so completely. The feel of him stretching you, the crest of his head pressing against your  from this new angle...you felt a tremor of pleasure ripple through you and knew you were close, as close as he was. When he leaned over you and began to kiss your  shoulders you shuddered, and when he began to thrust you buried your face in the pillow and moaned.
Your moans of pleasure filled the room and he squeezed his eyes shut, willing himself to last, begging his aching cock not to explode just yet. . .this pace, these quick short strokes as his hips slapped against your ass, your body moving with his every thrust. . .It was almost too much to bear. Bucky buried his faced in your sweet-smelling hair and let his cock plunge as it would, faster and faster, making him shake, making him breathless, making him feel like nothing but a desperate cock as he fucked you.
And fucked you. And fucked you, as you had begged him to...
You could only whimper now, lost to the pleasure of his man taking you like this, fucking you so wildly, almost savagely. The pleasure he was taking from your body, his moans and groans and the growls of pleasure you could feel against your back and in the warm breath at your ear. . . it was pure, primal lust.
You felt worshiped beneath him, as if every thrust of his hungry cock was a tribute to you, every growl and sharp breath an oath. He was fucking you, mindlessly, and yet every part of him was attuned to you, touching you, adoring you.
As his pace grew even faster, his thrusts shallower, you could sense he was about to come, and you felt your muscles tighten around him to heighten his pleasure and hers. His thrusts were so powerful that you felt the orgasm rising in you and you closed your eyes, lifting your head back so he could slide his hand into your hair, gently holding your neck and kissing your jaw with breathy, open-mouthed kisses.
“Oh, God Bucky...I'm coming,” you moaned. “I'm coming.”
“Yes...cum for me baby....cum on my cock.”
“Cum with me....please....I want you to cum inside me, please....please....”
And he could withstand it no more.
Pleasure detonated through him as his orgasm spasmed throughout his body, wracking him with wave after wave of euphoric release. He cried out your name as he thrust and bucked against your flesh, driving his cock deeper and deeper as he came and came and came. It felt like he would never stop cumming, and when he felt your orgasm tear through your pussy and clench his cock in waves, he thought he might black out from the sheer ecstasy of it.
You slammed back against him as the first spurts of cum began to fill you, and felt your  ravaged pussy begin to spasm again and again, milking his cock, pulling his cum deeper into you, flooding you with ripples of pleasure. You moaned and writhed, riding the crest of one orgasm only to feel a second one begin to climb and then crash over you. Breathless, almost sobbing from the pleasure, you let him hold you as he continued to pound into you, draining his balls into you at his will, lost in the utter bliss of a man taking a woman in the most primal way.
When he could bear it no longer, when his exquisitely sensitive cock throbbed within you and the pleasure bordered on pain, he stilled, finally, and shuddered. Sharp spasms of pleasure shot through him as his cock surged one last time within you, his aching balls emptying every last ounce of come. Bucky was almost lightheaded, his chest heaving, sweat glazing his skin as he withdrew his hand from your hair and ran it down the center of your back, needing to touch you, needing to feel your heated skin. You were breathless too, your back moving beneath his hand as you lay your head down and tried to catch your breath.
You felt him withdraw from you, and your  pussy rebelled, clenching to keep him there, as if pleading with him not to go. Bucky groaned softly against your ear as he pulled out and fell on the bed beside you, his arms surrounding you and pulling your back against him. You fit perfectly together, and every muscle in your body relaxed as you snuggled into him and breathed out a contented sigh. You felt his lips on the shell of your ear, kissing softly, felt his slowing breath against your skin as his soft sounds of contentment and pleasure hummed in his throat.
This is heaven, you thought. Pure heaven. your pussy twitched and tingled as you felt his warm come beginning to slip down your  inner thighs. His strong arms surrounded you, his soft lips murmured and whispered and kissed, his spent cock nestled against the curve of your ass.
“There was something I wanted to tell you, remember?” he murmurs, his words brushing warmly against your skin as he kisses a path down to your shoulder. “Last night… something I wanted to say to you. Something I wanted you to know.”
You shift slightly, turning to look at him, your heart pounding as you search his eyes, barely able to breathe. 
“Tell me,” you whisper, your voice almost a plea.
His gaze softens, an unmistakable warmth filling his expression as he tucks a strand of hair behind your ear, his fingers lingering on your cheek. 
“I love you.”
The words settle between you, simple but perfect, like they were always meant to be there. Your heart feels like it’s soaring, every nerve in your body alive with the thrill of it, of finally hearing what you’d been aching to hear.
You break into a smile, biting your lip, feeling giddy and light, and without a second thought, you lean forward, kissing him softly, your hand finding his as you whisper back, “I love you too.”
And as he pulls you closer, his arms wrapping around you with a tenderness that feels like home, you realize that, for the first time, everything feels right.
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pairing | civil!war!bucky x widow!reader
word count | 10.4k words
summary | when you, a former red room widow crosses paths with the man who once trained you—now a ghost of the monster you remember—your collision reignites memories neither of you can outrun. in a world that only ever taught you two to survive, you find something you were never trained for: each other.
tags | (18+) MDNI, smut, unprotected sex, intimate sex, enemies to companions to lovers, angst, slow burn, emotional hurt/comfort, winter soldier triggers, protective!reader, protective!bucky, mutual obsession, feral love, soft intimacy, violence, reader only speaks russian, bucky speaks english, emotionally devastated bucky barnes, shit translated russian (probably), reader does not play about her man
a/n | IMPORTANT TO NOTE: the events of black widow happen before ca:cw in this. Based on this request. (I'm posting this from work lol)
likes comments and reblogs are much appreciated ✨✨
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Москва, 2003 — Красная комната
Moscow, 2003 — The Red Room
The walls were too white.
Sterile. Silent. Watching.
That was the first thing you noticed—that kind of white that felt wrong. Like it had been bleached so many times, even the ghosts had nowhere left to hide. Even the steel doors looked polished, like they were proud of what happened here.
You sat shoulder to shoulder with the others—seven girls, fifteen on average. Not children. Not soldiers. Not yet.
The floor was colder than ice, and it bled through your thin uniform. But none of you shivered. That had been trained out early—along with tears, questions, and the word нет.[no.]
The air reeked of antiseptic and metal. Underneath it, sweat clung to the walls like memory. Like shame.
Footsteps echoed.
Three sets.
Two sharp. One heavy.
No one turned to look. That was lesson one. Looking got you noticed. Being noticed got you hurt.
But you felt him before you saw him.
The shift in the atmosphere—immediate and suffocating. Like gravity got heavier. Like breath didn’t work the same anymore.
Он пришёл. [He’s here.]
You didn’t flinch, but your muscles locked up. Your knuckles pressed into your knees until they went white.
Then: silence.
Not peace.
The kind of silence that held a knife behind its back.
“Смотри вперёд,” Madam B’s voice cut cleanly through the air. [Eyes forward.]
You obeyed. All of you did. Like clockwork. Chins lifted. Spines straight.
He stood beside her. Taller than you remembered from the rumors. Broader. Real.
Зимний солдат.
The Winter Soldier
His face was half-shadow under the fluorescents, but his eyes—those eyes—were unmistakable. Dead, pale things. A shade too light. Like they’d been bleached, too.
He didn’t look at you. Or at anyone. His stare drifted somewhere behind the wall, like even he didn’t want to be in his body anymore.
That metal arm glinted under the lights. Thick at the shoulder. Seamless. Inhuman.
Madam B clasped her hands in front of her. Her posture was perfect. Her smile was poisonous.
“Ваши инструкторы научили вас дисциплине, послушанию, терпению боли,” she said. [Your instructors have taught you discipline, obedience, pain tolerance.]
“Точность.” [Precision.]
She nodded toward him.
“Теперь вы узнаете страх.” [Now… you will learn fear.]
He moved without signal. No countdown. No command.
Just violence.
One second, stillness.
The next—he was on Yulia.
The smallest one. The quietest. The one who tried to hum to herself when the lights went out.
Her back hit the wall with a sickening crack. His left arm—that arm—pressed into her throat. Just enough to choke. Not enough to kill.
Her boots scraped the tile. A soft panic-sound left her lips—then cut off as her training kicked in.
She stopped fighting. That was lesson two.
You didn't move. Not even your eyes.
Yulia turned her head slowly. Her gaze found you. Desperate. Wild. The kind of fear none of you were allowed to show.
You didn’t blink.
“Вы будете тренироваться с ним,” Madam B continued, like this was nothing. [You will train with him.]
“Вы выучите его методы. Его инстинкты.”
[You will learn his methods. His instincts.]
Yulia let out a breath that sounded like breaking glass.
And the Soldier?
He still didn’t look at her. Or at you. Or at anyone.
Because you weren’t people. Not to him.
Just shapes to break. Dolls to test.
Madam B’s smile never wavered.
“Если вы выживете.” [If you survive.]
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Красная комната — Тренировка, 2003
The Red Room — Training, 2003
The floor wasn’t white.
It was concrete—cracked, stained, pitted with impact. The kind of surface that remembered every body that ever hit it.
The air in the training room was humid with breath and blood. The walls sweated under the heat of fluorescent lights, buzzing like flies in your ears.
You stood alone at the center.
The others were pressed against the wall—backs straight, eyes forward, silent as statues.
Your breathing was even. Measured.
Your fists curled tight, knuckles aching with pressure.
You didn’t shake. You never shook.
You’d already lost blood on this floor. Skin. Teeth. You’d learned how to fall without sound.
But this was different.
He stepped into the ring.
Black tactical gear. Combat boots. Gloves pulled tight. His metal arm caught the light—chrome and shadow. It wasn’t a limb. It was a threat.
He didn’t speak. He never did.
Not even a command.
Madam B stood off to the side, clipboard cradled in one arm, her pen already moving.
She didn’t call a start. She didn’t have to.
The moment his weight shifted—you moved.
You struck first.
Open palm to the throat. Hook to the ribs. Low kick toward the knee.
They were survival strikes. Precise. Fast. Smart.
He swatted them away like you were nothing.
Effortless. Mechanical. Indifferent.
Then he hit back.
His fist caught the edge of your jaw—crack—and your skull snapped sideways. Your vision pulsed white for half a second, but you stayed upright.
You had to stay upright.
Then came the sweep. His left leg scythed yours out from under you, and before you even hit the floor, the metal arm slammed across your chest.
You went down hard.
Concrete kissed your back. The air tore from your lungs.
And then—pressure.
He was on top of you. One knee against your ribs, hand to your throat.
That arm. Cold. Absolute.
He wasn’t holding you down.
He was claiming the ground beneath you.
You didn’t fight it. Not yet.
You stared up into his face, and for the first time—saw him. Not as the ghost of a myth. Not as the whispered fear behind training drills.
But as a man.
A machine.
Both.
His expression was blank. But that blankness said everything.
This wasn’t a lesson.
This was a warning.
You don’t win.
You survive.
So you reached for his sidearm.
His hand snapped around your wrist. That sound—metal joints locking down on bone.
It should have crushed you. But it didn’t.
You kneed him in the stomach—your knee landing against Kevlar with a jolt. You twisted, shoved your shoulder down, and used his own momentum to roll you both.
It wasn’t elegant.
It was smart.
Calculated. Ruthless.
You weren’t bigger. Or stronger.
But you were sharp.
You learned.
He came at you again, and this time you didn’t flinch.
You dropped beneath the punch, spun inside his reach, and used his arm like a fulcrum—flipped over his shoulder.
You landed wrong.
Your elbow scraped open.
But you were standing.
There was no applause. No approval. Only the scratch of Madam B’s pen.
The Soldier didn’t react.
He reset.
No emotion. No hesitation. Just reset. Like you hadn’t earned a single thing.
But you saw it.
The twitch of his fingers. The micro-adjustment in how his feet planted. The pause—barely a pause—as his eyes followed your stance like he was filing it away.
He wouldn’t remember your name.
You didn’t have one here.
But that day? He noticed you.
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Красная комната — через шесть месяцев
Red Room — Six Months Later
The mat was stained with old sweat and old blood.
You stood barefoot at the center. Bruised. Breathing steady.
Fifteen years old. One of the last still standing.
You didn’t know what day it was. Didn’t need to. You measured time in bruises, in blood dried under fingernails, in how long it took for your ribs to stop aching.
This was your fourth session with the Soldat in six days.
They were testing something.
Durability, maybe. Threshold. Obedience.
Or maybe they just wanted to see if you’d finally break.
Above, behind the black glass, Madam B watched. Her voice came cold over the intercom.
“Начали.” [Begin.]
You moved instantly.
A blur across the mat. Feint left, then up—elbow aimed for the hinge of his jaw.
His metal hand caught your arm mid-strike. Effortless. Inevitable.
He twisted. Spun you. Drove a knee into your side.
You blocked—barely. The pain reverberated through your ribcage like splintering glass.
But you didn’t grunt.
Didn’t cry out.
You never made a sound.
Pain didn’t mean stop.
Pain meant continue.
The room rang with impact. Bare feet sliding. Fists connecting. Breath coming sharp between attacks.
He was bigger. Stronger. His reach eclipsed yours, his strikes heavier, colder.
But you were faster. You had studied him. Memorized every tick, every tell. He never led with his right. The metal arm always came second—the trap after the bait.
You slid low under a hook, came up behind him, and kicked the back of his knee.
He faltered.
A grunt left his mouth—barely audible, but real.
You didn’t pause.
You spun, forearm tucked in, and drove it up under his ribs. You connected.
His breath hitched.
Your chest rose once—sharp.
You’d drawn breath from the Soldat.
His hand snapped out—metal fingers closing around your throat.
You slammed into the wall with a thud that rattled through your spine.
His grip tightened.
But you didn’t fight it. You didn’t blink.
Your stare locked with his—blank to blank.
Two weapons mid-calibration.
He leaned in. Not far. Just enough to study you.
His eyes weren’t flat. Not fully.
Something behind them… ticked.
Then—he spoke.
Low. Controlled.
Almost quiet enough not to register.
“Хватит.” [Enough.]
Your body stilled.
Muscles stopped firing. Breath locked. Every cell in you responded like a command had been entered in your bones.
That word—from him—meant stop.
Session over.
He released you.
You dropped—not from failure, not from injury, but from the vacuum left by adrenaline. Your knees hit the mat. Your hand splayed out to catch balance.
Your chest heaved. Hot. Controlled. Like a furnace behind your ribs.
He watched you.
Still silent. Still unreadable.
But his fists were clenched.
And this time… he didn’t walk away immediately.
He looked at you.
Really looked.
Not like an opponent. Not like an assignment.
Like something had clicked. Like a new file was being written in his mind.
Not fear. Not even memory.
Interest.
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After Hydra took back the Soldat, the others gave you a nickname.
Сетка.
[The Web.]
You weren’t the strongest.
You weren’t the fastest.
But you were the only one—aside from the one they called Romanova—to hold your ground against the Soldat.
You weren’t known for brute force.
You were known for calculated strikes.
For how you waited. For how you wrapped your opponents in silence and then struck.
You didn’t earn it through survival.
You earned it through stillness.
Through how, when the Winter Soldat looked at you—he paused.
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Румыния, Бухарест, 2016
Romania, Bucharest, 2016
The world was too big.
You hadn’t realized that until you were freed.
Not with fanfare. Not with chains breaking on a concrete floor. Just… the chemicals gone. The fog lifted. Like smoke peeling away after the fire’s already eaten everything it wanted.
You were free.
And you didn’t know what to do with it.
No one gave you instructions. No handler. No target. No voice in your ear.
So you drifted.
Trains. Buses. The back of a truck once, when it didn’t matter where you ended up. Countries blurred. Time warped. Faces forgotten before they were registered.
You didn’t speak.
Not because you couldn’t.
Because your voice didn’t sound like yours yet. It sounded like property. Like training. Like the echo of someone else’s weaponized breath.
When you did speak, it was only in Russian. A comfort. A shield.
If they couldn’t understand you, they couldn’t own you.
Now—
Bucharest.
A city wrapped in damp air and dull concrete. A sky so overcast it looked like someone had smudged out the sun.
You didn’t pick it.
It just happened.
Like most things now.
No mission brought you here. No ghost pulled you.
Just the weight of motion finally running out of road.
You sat at the corner table of a café so small the world didn’t seem to notice it existed. A chipped white mug sat between your hands. Coffee, cooled and untouched. You hadn’t tasted anything in days, but the smell was something. Bitter. Familiar.
Across the street, a man adjusted a bike chain. His hands were black with grease. Someone shouted upstairs in Romanian. A dog barked. The faint crack of an egg hitting a pan cut through the air.
It should have felt normal.
And maybe that’s what made it unbearable.
You weren’t made for peace.
Peace had no rules. No orders.
Peace expected you to feel.
But you didn’t feel human.
You didn’t feel anything at all.
Just a hum in your chest where panic used to live. Just silence where purpose used to be.
Your fingertips curled against the ceramic like you were checking to see if you were still real.
Maybe you were. Maybe not.
You watched the sky for signs of rain.
And thought: Maybe tomorrow, you’ll leave.
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Несколько дней спустя
A Few Days Later
It started with the color of his eyes.
You didn’t recognize the rest of him at first—he moved differently now. Civilian clothes. Hair tied back. Slower, softer posture. Almost… human.
But then he turned toward the sun.
And you saw them.
That shade. That steel blue.
Unnatural. Icy.
Dead things wearing a face.
And suddenly, the world tilted sideways.
Your fingers twitched at your sides.
Солдат. [Soldat.]
The market noise dulled to a hum in your ears. Just smells and motion. Heat and light. Someone was selling tomatoes. Someone else bartered for lamb. Shoes scuffed pavement.
You didn’t blink.
Your feet were already moving.
He spotted you seconds later. His brows knit in confusion—not fear. Recognition hovered behind his expression, but distant. Faded. Like trying to remember the lyrics to a song he only half-heard.
Then—your eyes met.
His mouth opened, confused.
You lunged.
He moved just in time—sidestepped, arm up, deflecting your first strike. You twisted under him, elbow jabbing into his ribs. He caught your wrist.
“Wait—who the hell are—?”
You dropped your weight, flipped him over your hip. He hit the cobblestone with a grunt, rolled, sprang to his feet.
A vendor screamed. Then another.
Crates of fruit crashed around you. Splinters of wood. Apples underfoot.
He tried to disengage—hands up, defensive, careful.
“I don’t want to fight you—!”
You weren’t listening.
Your fist slammed toward his face. He blocked. You kicked at his thigh, drove your knee up toward his gut.
He grunted, staggered. Caught your leg mid-air.
You spun inside the hold, using the capture, and flipped over his shoulders.
Your knees slammed down on his collarbones.
He stumbled.
You slammed your palm into the back of his skull, forcing him toward the ground.
He rolled, bringing you down with him. The two of you crashed through a vendor’s table, shattering it into splinters and cloth.
“Чёрт—who are you?”
[Damn it—]
You didn’t answer. You wouldn’t.
His face twisted—half in frustration, half in dawning memory. But you weren’t a memory. You were now.
He blocked a knife-hand strike. Caught your other wrist. You twisted under, slammed your head toward his jaw.
It connected. His lip split. A child screamed nearby.
He shoved you off—but not to hurt. To breathe.
“I’m not him,” he rasped. “Not anymore.”
Your heart pounded. Your knees bent. You were ready to kill.
You didn’t stop. Couldn’t.
Every second he breathed in your presence felt like failure.
You were fifteen again. You were on the mat. You were under the metal arm.
You struck low—shin to his knee. He buckled slightly, but rebounded quick, grabbing your arm and twisting. You followed it, using the torque to throw yourself up and over him, body flipping above his head. He ducked, but not fast enough.
Your heel scraped his temple.
He staggered.
You hit the ground in a crouch, surged forward, fists flying—open-palm strikes, throat jabs, knife-hand to his kidney. He blocked most. Absorbed some.
But you were faster.
You always had been.
Around you, the market dissolved. Stalls crushed. People scattered. Screams and panic thick in the air. Vendors grabbed their children and ran. Tomatoes exploded underfoot like bloodstains.
He was breathing heavier now.
You could see the calculation behind his eyes—how he wasn’t hitting back.
Because he knew. He knew the precision in your strikes. He knew where you’d learned them.
“Why are you doing this?” he ground out, catching your arm again, ducking under a punch and shoving you backward into a stack of crates. “I don’t want to hurt you!”
You snapped forward, wrapped your legs around his neck, pulled.
He fell—slammed hard on the ground with you on top. You straddled his chest, brought your elbow up, and—
He caught your wrist. Locked it. Twisted just enough to force the momentum off. Rolled.
Now you were beneath him.
His knees pinned your thighs. His hand gripped your wrist above your head. Metal arm pressed against your collarbone—not choking, just holding.
Your breathing came fast. Harsh. Chest rising and falling in panic, fury, fire.
His hair hung loose now. Lip bleeding. Chest heaving.
And his eyes—
They weren’t dead. They weren’t his. They weren’t the Soldat’s.
His voice came low. Guttural.
“I’m not him.” His hand didn’t tighten. He didn’t shake. “I don't want to hurt you.”
You wanted to fight. Your body ached to.
But your eyes locked with his. And something fractured. Because the eyes that looked back at you now—they weren’t hollow. They weren’t blank.
They were human. Still haunted. Still carrying every sin etched into his bones. But there was no order in them. No command. No programming.
Just… regret.
Your body didn’t relax. But it stopped resisting.
Just slightly. Just enough.
Your breath caught in your throat—not because you were scared, but because you didn’t know what to do with stillness.
Your body had stopped moving, but everything inside was still screaming.
His grip didn’t loosen.
He was still above you, pinning you down—not aggressively. Just… securing the chaos.
You stared up at him, and he stared back, his brow furrowed like he was searching for a word he’d forgotten in a language he hadn’t spoken in years.
And then—
sirens.
Not close yet, but coming. Sharp. Rising.
His head snapped to the side. You tensed beneath him again. His eyes flicked back to you. Jaw tight. Conflicted.
Then, in a movement that felt more instinct than decision—he pulled you up.
You didn’t resist. Not out of trust. Out of confusion.
He didn’t let go of your wrist. Didn’t shove you.
He just moved—guiding you fast into a narrow alley between buildings. The noise of the street dimmed behind you. Fabric flapped on a laundry line above. The pavement here was cracked, lined with moss and cigarette butts.
He stopped. Pulled you behind him.
Pressed your back against the wall, one hand splayed across your stomach to keep you behind his frame.
You should’ve fought him again. You should’ve broken his arm. But you didn’t.
His other hand came up—not touching you, just hovering slightly, as if to say stay.
You both stayed frozen. You could feel his breath against your temple. Still steady. But his hand—
It was shaking. Not from fear. From memory.
Like his body remembered something his mind hadn’t caught up to yet.
He didn’t look back at you. But he stayed there.
And for now, so did you.
The sirens faded.
The city noise returned in slow motion—honking, voices, the far-off clatter of trams and tires. The chaos in the market had been swallowed again by the buzz of ordinary life, like the fight never happened.
Bucky shifted. Just slightly.
His hand eased away from your stomach, the other dropping to his side. He didn’t speak. Didn’t move.
But you did.
You turned your head—slowly—and shot him a look so sharp it could’ve cut through bone.
You shoved his chest with both hands. Not hard enough to hurt—just enough to get space between you. Your expression was blank, but your body radiated heat and fury.
He didn’t resist. He let you push him.
And you turned.
No words. No explanation. No retreat. Just your back as you walked away—shoulders squared, movements clipped, hair tangled from the fight. You didn’t run.
You didn’t need to.
“…Hey,” he called after you, stepping out of the alley. “Hey—wait.”
You didn’t pause.
Your boots clapped against the wet pavement, turning down another street without looking back.
“Where are you going?” No answer.
He caught up, boots scuffing beside yours. He wasn’t panting anymore, but he was confused. Disarmed in the way only survivors could disarm each other.
“You just tried to kill me,” he said. “You started that. You could’ve—”
He stopped. Regrouped. “Who the hell are you?”
You didn’t even glance at him.
Just one subtle shift in your jaw. Tension in your neck.
That was all he got.
He caught up beside you. Tried to get in front of you. You side-stepped him like he was furniture.
“You speak?” he pushed, breath hitching with disbelief. “You got a name? Or just fists?”
Still nothing.
You barely acknowledged his existence now. That alone made his pulse spike.
“Did we know each other?” he demanded, frustration creeping into his voice. “I mean—really know each other? Because something about you feels… I don’t know.”
You stopped. Just once. You turned your head slightly.
And said, flatly, with razor-edged indifference, “Он умер.” [He’s dead.]
Then kept walking.
The words froze him. Just for a second.
The Soldat.
Dead.
Killed in your eyes the second he hesitated. The second he showed mercy. The second he didn’t fight back.
He kept following. Not at a sprint. Not with force.
Just… there.
A shadow a few steps behind. Close enough to be felt. Not close enough to touch.
You turned corners like the city owed you space. Didn’t rush. Didn’t look back. But you knew he was behind you. Every step. Every breath.
And still—you didn’t stop.
You passed shopfronts. Faded yellow walls. Posters curling off the bricks. A cracked tile underfoot. The stink of wet bread and exhaust in the air.
“Why are you running from me?” he asked, not breathless—just bitter. “You came at me. Remember that?”
You didn’t respond.
He didn’t expect you to.
“I don’t remember everything, alright?” he pushed, his voice clipping at the edge. “There are gaps. Big ones. I don’t know who I hurt. Who I—”
You rolled your eyes.
The noise he made in frustration wasn’t a sound of anger.
It was need.
“Just—just tell me your name,” he said. “Please. I don’t care what you were trying to do. Just give me that.”
You stopped again.
Slow.
Turned slightly.
Your face unreadable.
Voice low. “Сетка.”
His brow furrowed.
“Setka?” he repeated. “That’s not a name.”
You tilted your head—just a fraction. And then you looked at him like he was insects. Not worth a fight.
Just an irritation buzzing too close to your ear.
You turned back. Started walking again.
He followed.
“Is that a code name? What is that? Russian? Hydra?” He caught up beside you, walking now shoulder to shoulder. “Did I know you?”
You gave him nothing.
But his eyes stayed on you.
And you?
You just kept walking.
Not because you were done with him.
Because you were done with what he used to be.
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You ducked into the café like it owed you something.
Not the same one from before—this one was smaller, grittier. Glass smudged with fingerprints. Fluorescent light overhead flickering like a dying star. But the pastries in the case were fresh, warm, and dusted with powdered sugar.
That’s all that mattered.
You didn’t look back to check if he was still following.
You knew he was.
You ordered with a short nod, pointed at what you wanted. Paid in crumpled bills. And sat by the window, legs crossed, posture casual—like this was your place and the world was just visiting.
A sweet bun sat in front of you, golden, soft, still steaming.
You tore into it with precision. First bite was deliberate—slow chew, eyes half-lidded in genuine pleasure.
And then—
He walked in.
You didn’t look up. Not at first.
You licked a smear of sugar off your thumb, eyes fixed on the glass.
He ordered something. You didn’t care what. Until he slid into the seat across from you.
Boots heavy. Posture coiled. Forearms resting on the edge of the table like he was ready to fight if the cutlery moved.
He stared at you.
That stare. Cold. Sharp. Brow low. Eyes locked in.
The kind of look that made grown men flinch. You took another bite of your pastry.
Chewed. Swallowed. Licked your lips. And looked up slowly.
Your gaze met his.Unblinking. Flat. Not intimidated. Just... annoyed.
He stared harder.
You raised an eyebrow—just one.
Bit into the pastry again with a kind of exaggerated grace. Sugar dusted your bottom lip.
He leaned forward a bit.
You leaned back, leisurely, like the air between you bored you.
The silence was so thick it should’ve collapsed the table.
Still, you said nothing. Because you didn’t need to. You’d already won.
He shifted. You didn’t. His jaw flexed. Then—
He moved.
Slowly, reluctantly, like it physically pained him to do it, Bucky brought his hand up and extended it across the table. Palm open. Fingers slightly curled. That awkward, stilted kind of offer people made when they weren’t sure they were allowed to touch the world yet.
“I’m Bucky,” he said.
The words didn’t come easy. They stuck to the back of his throat. “Bucky.” Like he was still trying the name on. Still figuring out if it fit.
You looked at his hand. Not quickly. Not dramatically.
Just… down. Like you were glancing at a smear on your table.
Then you looked back up at him. Dead stare. Cold.
“Мне всё равно,” you said softly.
[I don’t care.]
The words landed heavier than a bullet. You didn’t spit them. You didn’t hiss them. You just meant them.
His hand hovered for another second—like he thought maybe he’d misheard, misunderstood, anything. Then he slowly pulled it back. Fingers flexing once before curling into a loose fist on the table.
You went back to your pastry. He didn’t move again.
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You didn’t flinch. Didn’t blink when he stared at you across the table. Didn’t soften when he introduced himself. Didn’t care.
He’d held out his hand like it meant something—like the name Bucky still belonged to him—and you looked at it like it was rotting.
“Мне всё равно.” [I don’t care.]
That should’ve been the end of it.
He should’ve let you walk. Let you disappear like every other phantom in his half-formed memory. But—
He couldn’t.
You were like smoke in a room with no fire.
Wrong. Out of place. But present.
Cold. Controlled. Eyes like winter steel and hands trained for death.
You weren't avoiding him like he was dangerous. You acted like he was a fly. An inconvenience.
And still…
He couldn’t stop watching you.
He found out you stayed three blocks away from him, in a run-down building that looked like it had never seen heat. No lights on past midnight. You came and went like habit—not avoidance.
No weapons drawn. Just… presence.
And it started happening before he noticed it: He’d time his walks to cross your path. He’d change course just to track where you ended up. Not to hurt you. Not even to corner you.
Just to exist near you.
Because somehow, somehow—he felt more alive around you than he had in years.
Not safe. Not comfortable. Alive.
Like the weight wasn’t pressing quite as hard against his chest when you were in the room. Even if you never looked at him. Even if you never said a word.
There was something about you.
Not just the way you moved—efficient, brutal, graceful like a damn blade in water. But the way you carried herself.
Like you didn’t owe the world a thing.
You were impenetrable. And it made him feel human.
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Несколько дней спустя
Some Days Later
You were sitting on the edge of a crumbling fountain, half a pastry in one hand, your boot tapping against the stone.
Same coat. Same deadpan stare. Same indifference like it was armor stitched into your skin.
Bucky stood across the square, watching.
Again.
You didn’t look at him, but he knew you saw him.
You always did.
This time, he walked straight over.
No subtlety. No circling. No waiting for a moment that wouldn’t come.
You didn’t move. Didn’t shift.
Just kept eating, like the man you tried to murder in a marketplace last week wasn’t about to sit beside you.
He lowered himself onto the edge of the fountain—not too close. Close enough.
You still didn’t look at him.
“I’m not following you,” he said quietly.
You raised a brow but said nothing. The flake of pastry lingered on your lip. You didn’t wipe it away.
“I just need to know…” He sighed, hand curling over his knee. “Setka. What that name means. Who are you?”
No response.
A pause.
Then, at last, your voice—quiet, flat, “Ты думаешь, ты хочешь знать.”
[You think you want to know, but you dont]
You met his eyes. Still unreadable. Still so, so tired.
“I don’t want to hurt you,” he said, low.
His voice was raw now—not just tired, but unraveling.
“I just… need to know.”
A pause.
“Did I hurt you?”
Your chewing stopped.
You looked forward, eyes tracking something only you could see. Your fingers flexed once on the crumpled pastry paper. Then, softly, “да.” [Yes.]
A beat.
And then, quieter still—
“Но ты также научил меня не умирать.”
[But you also taught me not to die.*]
The words hit him like a blow to the chest.
His throat worked. His fingers twitched against his thigh. He wanted to ask what you meant—but couldn’t even form the question.
So he looked at you. Not with suspicion.
But with that kind of desperate, quiet plea in his eyes—the kind that asked without sound.
Please. I need more.
You finally sighed. A long, slow exhale through your nose. Tired. Annoyed.
Like explaining this was beneath you, but his stare was loud enough to warrant an answer.
“Красная комната,” you said flatly.
[The Red Room.]
His brows furrowed.
“Гидра отдала тебя им.”
[Hydra gave you to them.]
You finally looked at him.
Your face was unreadable. Not cruel. Not soft. Just matter-of-fact. “Ты… обучал нас.”
[You trained us.]
And there it was. The fracture in his expression. Shock, but not surprise.
Like you'd just said something he already knew, deep in his bones—but didn’t want to hear aloud.
He blinked. Swallowed.
“You were a widow,” he said, mostly to himself.
Your silence was confirmation. And for the first time since he met you, you didn’t look like a ghost.
He sat there, silent. Trying to make sense of what you'd just given him. And still—he needed more.
“How…” he said quietly, carefully, “how did you get out?”
You didn’t look at him.
You exhaled sharply through your nose. That specific kind of sigh. The one that said you’re annoying, but I’ll answer because I want you to stop talking.
Then, cool and clipped, “Наталия Романова. И Елена Белова.”
[Natalia Romanova. And Yelena Belova.]
You didn’t elaborate. You didn’t soften. You tossed the empty pastry wrapper into the bin beside the fountain and stood.
Then added, almost as an afterthought:
“Слишком поздно для большинства.”
[Too late for most of us.]
And without a glance back, you turned and walked away. Boots clicking against the stone. Shoulders squared. Back straight.
Leaving him there with a realization that the only person who might know who he was still didn’t care who he is.
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You heard his steps before you saw him.
You always did.
He didn’t walk like a civilian. Not even when he tried.
His boots were too heavy. His presence too loud. Even in silence.
You didn’t turn when he entered the courtyard, hands shoved into his jacket pockets like he didn’t mean to be there.
But you knew better.
You were sitting on a low wall, picking at the crust of a tart. Raspberry filling on your thumb. The sun was barely up.
And there he was. Again.
You didn’t sigh. Didn’t roll your eyes. This time, you just… watched. Not with annoyance. Just observation.
He sat a few feet away. Close enough to talk. Far enough not to press.
He looked tired.
More than usual.
Like he hadn’t slept. Like being in his skin had worn him raw.
And for the first time, you wondered.
Not what he wanted.
But why he kept wanting.
You let the silence hang for a moment longer, then tilted your head just slightly.
Voice soft. Even.
“Что ты хочешь от меня?”
[What do you want from me?]
He blinked.
Then smirked—dry, thin, almost embarrassed.
“Your name,” he said. “For one.”
You gave him a look. Half-bored, half-knowing.
“и…?” you prompted, arching a brow. [And…]
That’s when he faltered.
He shifted on the wall. Looked down at his hands. Flexed the metal one like he didn’t trust it.
“I don’t know,” he admitted.
Not bitter. Not confused. Just honest.
“I don’t know why I keep looking for you. I just—”
He hesitated.
“You’re the only thing that makes sense. And you don’t even like me.”
You blinked at him. Then returned your gaze forward. Back to the rising sun. And said nothing.
But for once, you didn’t get up and leave.
You stayed.
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The fountain was silent, just a hollowed-out shell of stone, stained with rust and time. You sat perched on the rim, arms resting against your knees, watching the last light of day catch in the cracks of the broken tiles. The warmth of the sun was soft on your face, but the air was already turning cold.
You felt him arrive before he spoke.
He moved like someone who didn’t want to be noticed, but was too heavy with memory not to be felt.
He sat beside you—not too close, but not far. He didn’t speak. Not yet. And you didn’t turn your head to acknowledge him. It wasn’t necessary.
You’d started sharing silence like it belonged to both of you.
Minutes passed.
You listened to the slow creak of birds returning to the rooftops, the faint echo of footsteps on distant concrete. The world had quieted around you, and he hadn’t left.
Eventually, his voice broke through, rough and low.
“I don’t think I'll ever stop waiting.”
You didn’t answer. Not right away. The words hung in the air, weightless and unfinished, and part of you wondered if he even expected a reply. Your gaze stayed fixed ahead, tracking the fractured pattern of shadows stretching across the courtyard.
And then, maybe without knowing why—you spoke.
Your name left your mouth quieter than you intended, like it had to sneak past the years of silence it had been buried under.
He turned to you. “What?”
You looked at him.
Met his eyes.
And said it again.
Clear. Certain. Yours.
The way he blinked told you he hadn’t expected it—not tonight, maybe not ever. He repeated it under his breath, carefully, like the syllables might dissolve if he held them too tightly. He said it like he was tasting something real for the first time in years.
Then he gave a small nod, the corners of his mouth twitching into something soft.
“Nice to meet you,” he murmured.
You raised an eyebrow, unimpressed, giving him the same look you’d used on a hundred fools who thought they’d earned something for no reason.
His smile grew—not smug, but amused. Quiet. Unforced.
For a moment, you didn’t mind that he was there.
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You always took the same seat—back corner, right by the window, where the sunlight slanted across the table in late morning like gold dust.
Your coffee was always lukewarm by the time you drank it, and your pastries were always sweet. The music in your ears pulsed soft and steady, a low hum only you could hear. You never shared what you were listening to, and you never offered to.
He never asked.
But he noticed.
He noticed that when you chewed slowly, your head tilted slightly to one side—just enough to catch a particular note. He noticed that you tapped your fingers on the table sometimes, in rhythm with whatever beat lived under your skin.
It wasn’t much.
But it was yours.
And you noticed him too.
He always had the same notebook—small, black, worn at the edges, the kind that could be slipped into a coat pocket without a second thought. He never let anyone else see inside. But he wrote in it often, sometimes mid-sentence, like a thought might escape if he didn’t pin it down fast enough.
You didn’t speak for a long time.
Until one morning, when he was scribbling again inside it, you leaned slightly forward, voice low, words rolling off your tongue like it belonged there.
“Что ты там всё время пишешь?”
[What do you keep writing in there?]
He glanced up, blinking like he hadn’t realized you were watching him.
“Stuff I remember,” he answered, softly. “Names. Places. Dreams. I forget a lot, so I write it down.”
He didn’t ask what you were listening to.
But his gaze flicked toward the earbud still nestled in your ear, and you knew he was thinking it.
You didn’t offer it.
But you didn’t hide it, either.
Later that morning, you both reached for the last almond tart at the same time.
Your hand got there first.
You raised a brow. He huffed out a laugh through his nose and motioned for you to take it.
You did.
You broke it in half and pushed the other piece across the table.
He didn’t thank you. But he ate it.
That was the day you stopped sitting across from each other.
And started sitting side by side.
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The café was nearly empty, just the soft clink of ceramic and the distant hum of an old radio behind the counter. The pastry case had been picked clean, and the overhead light above your usual table flickered faintly, but neither of you moved to find another seat.
You sat beside him this time—shoulder to shoulder, one knee pulled up onto the booth seat, your arm resting lazily along the back of the bench. The hood of your coat was down, loose pieces of hair falling over your face. You didn’t bother fixing them.
You were listening to something again—earbuds in, eyes half-lidded.
He glanced at you from the corner of his eye. He didn’t speak. He didn’t want to break whatever this was. The fact that you were still here meant something.
You shifted suddenly.
Not much—just a lean, just enough that your shoulder pressed into his arm, your head tipping to the side until it rested against him. Light. Casual. Like it was accidental. Like he wasn’t even there.
His breath hitched slightly—but he didn’t move.
You didn’t look at him.
But you reached up, plucked one of the earbuds from your ear, and—without looking—held it out toward him.
An offering.
No words.
No eye contact.
Just choice.
He hesitated—then took it.
David Bowie’s voice filtered in, old and warm and ghostlike. Something about changes, about time bending and slipping through fingers. The kind of song that made the city feel like it was holding its breath.
You didn’t speak.
You didn’t smile.
But your head stayed against his shoulder.
And when the song ended, you didn’t take the earbud back.
You just let it stay.
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Несколько месяцев спустя
A Few Months Later
He was on the floor again.
The mattress had been too soft. The air too still. He needed edges. Needed cold.
But even here—against the hard wood, spine pressed into the earth like punishment—it wasn’t enough to keep the dreams out.
They started like they always did.
Flashes of corridors. Screams without mouths. His own hands soaked in red. Russian commands slicing through the dark like razors.
He heard bones snap. He heard a girl scream—
No, not a girl. You.
But the Soldat didn’t stop.
His own voice—flat, mechanized—spoke a language he couldn’t feel, barking orders at children.
And then—
He was drowning in snow. Arms bound. Blood freezing.
He gasped awake like something had clawed through his chest.
His breath came ragged. Sharp. Cold sweat clung to every inch of skin, and the room felt like it was collapsing.
But then—
A hand.
Soft.
Warm against his chest.
Not sudden. Not a jolt. Just there—pressed gently over his heart like it had been holding him for hours.
“Тише…” [Easy now…]
Your voice was the first thing to cut through the fog. Low, steady, threaded with sleep but utterly sure.
His eyes snapped to you.
Darkness wrapped around the room like cloth, but he could see you in the low amber spill from the window. You were curled against him, body bare and familiar, skin pressed to skin. Your thigh hooked over his, one arm wrapped around his waist, the other tracing slow, grounding circles over his chest.
You didn’t flinch at his shaking.
You just held him.
“Это не сейчас,” you whispered again, softer.
[It’s not now.]
And he breathed like he hadn’t in days.
Hands found your back—clutching, clinging, greedy in the way that had nothing to do with sex. Like you were oxygen. Like his fingers didn’t know how to stop searching for the edges of you.
You didn’t pull away. You let him take. You let him need.
His breath stayed ragged for a long time, chest heaving beneath your hand like it couldn’t find its rhythm. His fingers clutched at your back, shifting slightly to your waist, to your shoulder, back again—like he needed to make sure you were real every few seconds.
You didn’t move. Didn’t speak. Just kept your arm over his chest, anchoring him.
Eventually, his head turned slightly against your temple. His mouth brushed your hair when he spoke, the words low, scratchy, like they were being dragged out of his ribs one by one.
“I saw them again.”
You said nothing.
“I was holding one of them down. I don’t even think she was older than fifteen. She looked like you. I think—I think maybe it was you.”
You pressed your lips against his jaw.
Not a kiss. Not an answer.
Just pressure.
“I can’t always tell if it’s memory or something Hydra put here,” he muttered, voice splintering at the edges. “Sometimes I remember things I know I didn’t do. And other times—I know it was me. The worst ones… I know it was me.”
His hand moved to your stomach. Held you there like gravity.
“I hear screaming in Russian, and I can’t tell if it’s my voice or someone else’s. I keep thinking I’ll get used to it. That it’ll fade. But it’s like it’s burned into the back of my eyelids.”
You shifted, just slightly, fingers brushing the line of his jaw, guiding his face closer until your foreheads touched.
He exhaled like it hurt.
“I don’t know who I am outside of what they made me,” he said. “But when I’m with you, it’s the first time I don’t feel like a ghost in my own body.”
Your hand slipped behind his neck, fingertips resting just beneath his hairline.
“Ты не призрак.” [You’re not a ghost.]
The words didn’t feel like comfort.
They felt like truth.
And when his breath caught again—quiet, uneven, almost broken—you stayed exactly where you were.
Not fixing him. Not saving him. Just with him.
Because at some point, without meaning to, he had become the only thing in this world that mattered.
The room was still dark, the sky outside only just beginning to tint at the edges. You were still lying there, skin warm against his, your breath a steady rhythm he’d started to match. His body had gone still again—not tense, not panicked. Just quiet. Contained.
But his hand was still at your waist. His fingers drawing soft, slow shapes into your side like he didn’t even realize he was doing it.
And you let him.
Because it wasn’t urgent. It wasn’t hungry.
It was careful.
His breath brushed the space just behind your ear when he spoke again.
“You’re the only thing I feel like I don’t need to apologize for.”
You shifted slightly—chest to chest now, one leg brushing between his. Your palm moved up to his shoulder, then trailed along the line of his throat, slow and exploratory. Not a seduction.
A recognition.
The intimacy didn’t build like a fire—it simmered, low and inevitable. He leaned into you like someone who had forgotten how to reach for warmth. His hand moved to your back, spreading wide across your spine, holding you there—not hard, not desperate, but present.
And then—
He kissed you.
Not rough. Not fast.
Just his mouth against yours, slow and searching. His breath shaky, his fingers tightening just a little in your hair.
You kissed him back. Not because you were trying to fix him. Not because you owed him anything.
But because he felt real beneath your hands, and that was enough.
When he pulled back, forehead resting against yours, his voice barely more than breath:
“Please…”
You didn’t ask what he was asking for.
Because you already knew.
Bucky's forehead stayed pressed to yours, his breath warm where it spilled between your lips, ragged in the quiet. His eyes were still closed. Like he couldn't bear to look at you yet—like the weight of being seen might break him.
You moved first.
Your hand slid slowly from the nape of his neck down to his shoulder, tracing the edge of his scars with deliberate softness. His skin twitched under your touch, not from fear—from hunger.
His metal arm lay inert beside him, but his other hand came up, slow and reverent, fingertips brushing your cheek like he still wasn’t sure you were real. His thumb ghosted over your bottom lip. His mouth followed.
This kiss was different.
No panic. No desperation.
Just need, thick and quiet and sharp.
You shifted, straddling his hips, your thighs bracketing his waist, your palms splayed flat against his chest. His skin was warm under yours, heartbeat hammering as though his body was still catching up to the permission he'd finally given himself—to want.
His hands found your waist. Traced the line of your spine. One stayed there, grounding himself in the curve of you, while the other slid up your side, fingers memorizing the shape of your ribs like he was trying to draw you blind.
When your hips pressed down against him, his breath caught sharply in his throat. He met your gaze then—fully, finally.
Not as the Soldat.
Not as a ghost.
As himself.
And you saw it—that flicker of reverence buried under the heat. Like even now, even wanting you, he didn’t feel like he deserved to have you.
So you kissed him again.
Not to reassure him.
To claim him.
His mouth opened under yours, hands gripping tighter now, pulling you down, closer, deeper. You rocked together slow, controlled, your rhythm deliberate, the pace of two people not trying to lose themselves—but trying to find themselves in each other.
You whispered between kisses—soft sounds only meant for him. He didn’t understand some of the words, but he held on to the tone, the way you said his name like it didn’t belong to anyone else.
When you sank down onto him, his whole body shuddered under you. His hands gripped your thighs, not guiding—begging. His lips trailed your throat, jaw, shoulder, anything he could reach, like touch was the only language he trusted.
You moved together slowly at first—bodies adjusting, memorizing, matching breath for breath, sound for sound. Every shift brought a deeper connection, every sigh a new thread stitched between skin and soul.
By the time your pace quickened, the air around you had changed. The city had faded. The world narrowed down to this room, this moment, this need.
He moaned your name against your neck like it was a prayer.
You held him like you were anchoring a man about to fall through the floor.
When release came, it wasn’t just pleasure. It was relief. A crashing, dissolving quiet that left you tangled together, chest to chest, sweat-slicked and breathless, your pulse finally syncing to something steady.
You didn't let go.
And neither did he.
Just stayed inside you, forehead pressed to your shoulder, arms locked around you like the world outside your bodies had ceased to exist.
You didn’t speak.
You didn’t have to.
You had this.
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Следующее утро
The Next Morning
The market was quiet in the way city mornings could be. Early light filtered between rusted awnings, the smell of spices and stone settling into the cracks of the pavement. You walked beside him, not touching, but close enough to feel the heat of his arm near yours.
He was holding plums.
Inspecting them like they were treasure.
You watched him quietly, a faint, unreadable smile tugging at the corner of your mouth. It was absurd—how gentle he looked now, murmuring something about ripeness in Romanian under his breath. You didn't understand every word, but the tone was enough.
Then—
Something shifted.
A sharp prick under your skin.
Like static.
Like danger.
You didn’t know where it came from. A glance. A tension in the air. A silence that cut through background chatter too cleanly.
Your eyes tracked the source—an older man, just across the way, holding a folded newspaper in stiff fingers. He wasn’t watching the stand. He was watching him.
You followed the man’s line of sight, moving slowly, deliberately toward the stand. The vendor was distracted. You picked up a copy of the paper.
Front page.
Explosion at UN Assembly. Dozens dead. Suspect at large.
And beneath the headline—
His face.
Your stomach flipped. You turned sharply, plums forgotten. Walked straight to him.
Bucky looked up just as you shoved the newspaper into his chest.
He blinked. Then froze.
You didn’t raise your voice. You didn’t run. You just leaned in, eyes locked with his.
“Нам нужно уходить. Сейчас.”
[We need to leave. Now.]
He didn’t ask why. He didn’t argue. His fingers clenched the paper.
And together, without another word, you turned and disappeared into the crowd.
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Берлин — Безопасный объект хранения
Berlin — Secure Holding Facility
You hadn't left his side since the arrest.
When the guards cuffed him, you didn’t fight them—not yet. You walked behind him, eyes narrowed, body coiled, your presence like a blade just waiting to be unsheathed.
No one could talk to you.
The blonde one had tried—gentle voice, soft posture, his hands open like that meant anything.
You stared at him like he was furniture.
His friend had watched you carefully, tension in his jaw, waiting for you to snap.
You didn’t.
You just stood closer to Bucky.
Then there was him.
The one in black. The Panther.
The moment he tried to approach, your hand twitched toward your hip. You had no weapon. Didn’t need one. Your body was a weapon. The look in your eyes alone was enough to make one of his guards step between you.
They tried to separate you.
You didn’t let them.
You didn’t speak a word—not in English, not in Russian. You were a storm in the room, silent and immovable. And even Bucky, tired and cuffed and quiet, looked at you with something just shy of awe.
Then the elevator opened.
She stepped out.
Red hair. Calm stride. Cold eyes that knew.
You didn’t need her name.
She didn’t need yours.
Natasha Romanoff approached slowly. Not cautiously. Respectfully.
She spoke in Russian, voice smooth but even.
“Мы никогда не встречались, но я знаю, кто ты.”
[We never met, but I know who you are.]
You said nothing.
She stopped a few feet away.
“Ты Сетка.” [You’re The Web.]
Still, no answer. But your gaze softened—fractionally.
Because you knew her too.
Not from missions. Not from photos.
From whispers in hallways. From training drills where instructors used her name like a warning.
Natalia Romanova. The Black Widow.
The one who escaped.
The one who survived.
“Он этого не делал,” you said finally.
[He didn’t do it.]
Your voice was low. Flat. Carved from certainty.
Natasha studied you. Something passed behind her eyes.
“I believe you,” she answered.
Then, more carefully:
“Но тебе нужно это сказать в суде.”
[But you need to say that in court.]
You stared at her.
Eyes hard.
“You’re his only alibi,” she added. “Without you, they’ll tear him apart.”
The thought made your stomach twist.
You clenched your jaw. Glanced at the camera behind Natasha—at Bucky, sitting in a metal chair, hands cuffed, head bowed.
You gave a slow nod.
And for the first time since his arrest—your eyes left him.
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The lights died without warning.
A loud click. A sharp hum.
Then—darkness.
Shouts echoed down the corridors. Metal scraped. Radios crackled with confusion. Power was down, systems offline, backup still lagging behind.
People froze. You didn’t.
You moved.
No hesitation. No questions.
The moment the lights dropped, your body remembered.
Because this kind of darkness only ever meant one thing.
You sprinted through the corridor like blood in a vein, bypassing the agents stumbling toward emergency protocols, your feet silent, lethal. Every step was muscle memory. Every twist and turn of the hallway a reflex carved into you long before freedom ever tasted real.
The door to the security wing came into view.
Ten guards. No time.
The first went down with a strike to the throat, his flashlight bouncing twice against the wall before silence claimed him.
The second reached for his radio—he didn’t get the chance. You broke his wrist, then slammed his head against the concrete.
They didn’t scream.
You didn’t give them the chance.
Three. Four. Five.
A baton cracked across your ribs—you spun and caught the next one mid-swing, driving his weapon into his own throat. The others hesitated.
That was their mistake.
Six. Seven. Eight.
Blood sprayed against the wall, glistening in the emergency red light now blinking to life.
Nine and ten dropped nearly at once—one from your heel, the other from your elbow, the weight of him crumbling against the wall with a breathless grunt.
You didn’t stop moving.
Not for breath. Not for pain. Not for blood.
You reached the holding cell just as the red emergency lights revealed him through the glass.
Bucky.
No. Not Bucky.
The Soldat.
His expression was blank. Eyes lifeless. Shoulders squared in that familiar, bone-deep way.
Inside the glass room, a man stood calmly—his voice rhythmic, deliberate.
“…Грузовой автомобиль.. Отчет—м…”
[Freight car... Mission report—m…]
You moved. Fast. You didn’t shout. You didn’t warn.
You slammed into the door controls, cracked them open with a guard’s badge, and dove through just as the man turned.
Your fist collided with his jaw before the last word could leave his mouth. He hit the floor, unconscious, blood blooming from his temple.
And then—
Silence.
Just the sound of the red lights humming.
You turned slowly. And looked at him.
Not Bucky. Not anymore.
Those eyes—the ones you’d let kiss your neck, trace your waist, breathe your name like it was prayer—were gone.
What stared back at you now was him.
The Soldat.
Empty. Programmed. Cold.
Your chest rose and fell with sharp, silent breaths. Not from exhaustion—but from adrenaline. From the ache that started deep behind your ribs and crept outward the moment he turned and looked at you with those eyes.
Cold. Vacant. Not his.
Your fingers curled slightly, tension trembling just beneath your skin.
You took one step forward.
“Бакки,” you said softly. [Bucky]
Nothing.
Not even a blink.
Another step.
“Бакки,” you tried again. [Bucky]
Still nothing.
Your throat tightened.
You didn’t let it show.
Then—voice quieter, firmer, the way you’d been taught to never say unless you meant it—
“Солдат.” [Soldat]
His body shifted. Barely.
But his head tilted, just slightly, like the command lodged itself where language became law.
“Готов �� выполнению.”
[Ready to comply.]
You closed your eyes for half a second. Just long enough to breathe.
And then you moved toward him. Hands raised.
No fear now. Not anymore. Not after all this time. Not after all the nights he’d held you like you were the only thing in the world that stopped him from drowning.
“Это не ты,” you murmured, approaching slowly. [This isn’t you.]
He didn’t respond. Didn’t move.
You laid your palms on his chest, feeling the warmth there—his heartbeat still steady, still human. You let your fingers spread, grounding yourself in the body you knew like your own.
“Ты не он.” [You’re not him.]
Your hands slid upward—over his collarbone, along his jaw, up to the sides of his face.
His eyes didn’t change. But he didn’t pull away. Didn’t react.
“Посмотри на меня.” [Look at me.]
Your thumbs traced just beneath his eyes. Soft. Intentional.
“Вернись ко мне.” [Come back to me.]
Stillness. And then—
A flicker. Just a breath. The barest crack behind his gaze.
His lips parted slightly, brows knitting, as if a noise were caught in his throat—something unsaid, something struggling to be remembered.
Your voice stayed low. Calm.
“Ты со мной сейчас.” [You’re with me now.]
His breath was just beginning to shift. Something in his face softening, eyes twitching with confusion—recognition pulling like a thread through fog.
Then—
Footsteps.
Boots on tile. Raised voices. Weapons ready.
You didn’t need to turn to know who it was.
Steve’s voice broke through first. “Bucky—!”
And in an instant, the tension returned.
Bucky’s body went rigid beneath your hands. His spine snapped straight, jaw locked, breath shallow and clipped. The softness vanished like it had never been there.
You felt the shift. Felt the Soldat rising again.
“Нет,” you whispered, voice firm, thumb still pressed to his cheekbone. “Нет.” [No.]
His hands twitched at his sides. You didn’t flinch.
You pressed closer, chest against his, forehead nearly touching his now. Then—
Movement behind you.
A shuffle of armor. The slight drag of a weapon’s safety clicking off.
You turned your head sharply—just enough to meet them.
Steve. Sam. T’Challa, face hard with fury, muscles taut with the restraint of a man who wanted to strike.
You stepped slightly in front of Bucky, still keeping one hand on his chest like you were holding a live wire.
Your eyes burned into all of them.
Then you pointed down at the unconscious man—Zemo, still bleeding from where you struck him.
“Вот ваш подрывник,” you spat, low and lethal. [There’s your bomber.]
None of them moved. Not yet.
Steve looked between you and Bucky, guilt bleeding into his features. Sam lowered his weapon just slightly. T’Challa’s jaw worked, but his eyes flicked to the man on the floor. Realisation behind his misplaced anger.
You didn’t wait for them to speak. You turned back to Bucky. Hands on his face again.
“Ты здесь,” you whispered, not begging—commanding. [You’re here.]
His breathing slowed. Not calm. But contained.
The emergency power roared back to life.
Lights flickered overhead, harsh and unforgiving. Cameras reactivated. Screens across the control room sparked awake, broadcasting every inch of the cell.
Security forces tensed.
Steve took a step forward—halted only by the look you shot him.
Deadly. Final. And then.
You turned back. Everyone was watching. But none of it mattered.
You pressed your hand gently to Bucky’s chest again, fingers curling against the fabric of his shirt like you were anchoring him there—in this moment, in this body.
His face twitched. Brows drew together in pain. His jaw clenched. The lines of the Soldat’s posture—so rigid, so familiar—began to shake.
You stepped closer still, voice low, Russian rolling like smoke from your lips. Words meant for him and no one else.
“Ты здесь. Это прошло. Это я. Только я.”
[You’re here. It’s over. It’s me. Only me.]
You said it like a vow. Like something you’d carve into him if you had to.
He blinked once. A flinch. Barely visible. Then his eyes met yours. Not hollow. Not gone.
Still struggling. Still fighting. But there.
His breathing hitched—once, then twice—and then with something like agony, he let out a sound low in his throat.
He bowed his head. And leaned into you.
Forehead against your shoulder, arms rising slowly—tentative at first, then tighter, until he was holding you with a force that felt like drowning. Like if he didn’t hold you, he’d disappear.
Your hands slid into his hair, your fingers cradling the back of his skull.
Not protectively. Possessively.
He wasn’t a soldier anymore. He wasn’t a ghost. He was yours.
You didn’t look up. Not at Steve. Not at T’challa. Not at the dozens of cameras now recording this moment in real time, every politician, every soldier, every damned spectator watching the Soldat become Bucky Barnes again in the arms of the only person who knew how to bring him back.
And inside, rage burned in you like wildfire.
Not at him. At them. All of them.
For letting this happen to him. For dragging him back into it. For daring to treat him like a threat when he was barely holding himself together.
You hated them. Every last one of them.
But him?
You buried your face in his neck, whispering words no one else would ever hear.
He was the only thing you loved in this broken world.
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The best way i can describe Bucky and Reader : Docile Dog and Feral Cat
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greyyson-but-wrong · 13 days ago
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tell me what happened?
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pairing: bucky barnes x reader
warnings: brief wound description, first aid, tiny angst (could not be smaller), canon typical pain/gore
summary: you think you can hide a stab wound from your husband? yeah, okay, good luck with that
author notes: cheeky little short thing hahah I wrote this out of nowhere pls enjoy its very fluffy, very sweet, bucky is very soft here lowkey kinda ooc but I feel like if he was healed completely this could be accurate anyways do enjoy
word count: 1.8K
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The door inched closed with a tentative click as the lock turned, your hand falling from the gold doorhandle. Safety. You were home, that was the important thing. Not the searing pain in your head and abdomen, part of your sleeve pressing against the wound. Fucking idiot had a knife. You didn't expect him to have a knife. It wasn't deep. Probably. Okay, it could have been way worse. You weren't going to bleed out and that was good enough for you. Whether it was enough for him was another question, but he would be asleep. You'd be able to sneak into the bathroom and patch yourself up before he ever knew you were even stabbed.
You had to pass the bedroom to make it to the bathroom. It was typical of Bucky when you went on missions like this to keep the bedroom door swung wide open for when you got back. He'd done that tonight, the darkness spilling into the corridor of your home.
Slipping past the door, you thought you had made it. Listen, you were trained spy. You could get past any situation, you could step as quietly as a mouse. You could steal things from people so that they forgot they had the item in the first place. And yet, you weren't able to make it past your own bedroom door without catching your foot on an uneven floorboard and hiss at the pain of a wrong move against your wound. You knew you were done for when the bedsheets shuffled and the 6-foot-something man sat up, eyes heavy with sleep and donning fresh bed-head.
If you hadn't just been caught, you would have smiled at how purely adorable he looked.
Because he wasn't the Winter Solider in these moments. He wasn't a spy or a super solider, or any form of weapon. He was your James. With a boyish grin and a need to have his arms around you at all times, whether you liked it or not. Though, you always did like it.
He grunted, breathing air through his nose and attempting to adjust to the light shining in from the corridor. "Doll?"
"Hi, honey." You smiled towards him, leaning against the doorframe as a way to shield and distract him from the way you were holding your side. He grinned at you when he fully came around. "I'm just gonna go wash up, then I'll come to bed."
Bucky nodded sleepily. "M'kay, sweetheart. See you inabit."
When he trailed off and dropped back against his pillow, you let out a silent sigh of relief and continued your movement in the direction of the bathroom. Light switch on, you dragged the aid kit from the cabinet below the sink and works on patching it up. Luckily the bleeding had ceased and the cut wasn't deep enough to need stitches. Antiseptic to clean the wound came first, teeth gritted together in a hiss that echoed against the white tile as the alcohol cleaned but pained you simultaneously. Then just a simple patch placed over the wound, which now looked a lot less intimidating now that it was clean and wasn't seeping blood seemingly endlessly.
While it would sting if you moved it in the wrong way, it was covered and in a much better condition to heal, so you were happy. With the light switching off, you followed your own path back towards the bedroom, entering this time and silently moving over to the dresser, pulling out one of Bucky's old t shirts that smelt like him and dragging it over your head.
The bed was warm as you slipped into it, the ends of your fingers still freezing from the November cold and shivering as you drew the covers over your body. More warmth came over you as your beloved turned in his sleepy state and pulled you towards him, flesh arm wrapping around your waist and pressing your back flush against his chest. His metal arm moved to under his pillow, leaning his head forward to press against the back of your neck and breathe in your scent. A sense of comfort, a reminder of home, because you were his home and he loved you so much.
As your eyes fluttered shut, he mumbled. "Mission go well?"
It was just his usual check in, same as always. You always told him the truth, no matter what had happened, because he deserved to know, and you knew he would react in the exact way you needed him to in that moment. "Yeah." You murmur back, nodding softly, even thought you knew his eyes were closed. "Got all the intel with no casualties."
"That's m'girl." A flush crept up onto your cheeks.
Sighing into the skin at the back of your neck, his hand wandered, needing to feel you around him, safe, home, his. From the dip of your waist, to the curve of your hip and tucking under your his shirt. He knew you would be cold, without you having to even shiver. On any other day you would welcome the warmth of his flesh hand against your bare skin, the comfort and clarity warming you up. But the further upwards his hand moved, the closer he was getting to the gauze patch just above your hip bone. He hadn't been able to feel it through the thick fabric of his shirt — there was no avoiding it this time.
Then, just as you were about to shuffle tiredly he reached it, flesh brushing over the rough fabric. His fingers paused, just hovering slightly above the wound now. To you, it hadn't been a very large patch because the wound hadn't been that big, but to him, the love of his life had gauze stretching across her abdomen — it didn't matter how big the wound was. You had frozen, eyes squeezed shut, pushing it down and praying he would ignore it. Of course, he wouldn't.
His lips parted — he pulled his metal arm from under his pillow and propped himself up on it, able to look down at you, eyes now open and furrowed at you. "Sweets?"
"Mhm?"
"Can I ask why you've got a gauze patch on your hip?" He was calm with it, being forced to be so due to the sheer tiredness painted on his face, the urge to fall asleep almost taking him over. But no, your safety was more important to him.
You turned, taking the path of acting like there was nothing wrong. Gaslighting? You suppose. "There's not a gauze patch on my hip, Buck." He raised a sassy eyebrow at you, hand dipping to the hem of his shirt and pulling it over the curve of your hip. He didn't need to say anything else for you to realise there was no getting out of this now. You hummed, grazing your finger over the wounded area. "Yeah. That's not my hips, baby, that's above my hips."
"Must think you're so funny." He mumbles, taking your hand and entwining his fingers with yours. "You're hurt, probably in a lot of pain and you're just joking around like that. Hurts me, doll."
Snorting, it was your turn to raise an eyebrow at him. "Don't act like you don't do the same."
He stayed silent at that. Got'em. Your smug thoughts were silence as Bucky moves down your body, removing your hand from the patch and instead replacing it with his lips, softly pressing against the fabric, warming the area. Slowly, he wandered your body, lips following every movement, pressing against every possible patch of skin, murmuring sweet nothings underneath each breath as he did so, warming your body and your heart. Once he reached your shoulder, he mumbled against the skin. "Tell me what happened?"
"It was just some guy, Buck." You murmured, turning to fully face him and reaching your hand up to press against his cheek and letting your thumb rub against the stubble there. "With a knife, didn't see him coming, he managed to get through my defences and lightly stabbed m—"
"Stabbed? You were stabbed!" The words had his voiced raised, eyebrows rising just as much as you realised that the man was now, wide awake.
"Lightly." You tried to croon, comfort, maybe settle some of the anger he was feeling.
But Bucky was having none of it. "Baby, no." He spoke, his voice as soft as ever, externally showing his care and worry for you over the internal battle inside his brain telling him to go and find whoever did this to you and make their life a living hell. Then again, he knew you, he trusted you and with your skill, you had probably already killed him even after being stabbed in the abdomen.
Leaning upwards just a little, so as not to strain yourself, you pressed your lips against his cheek. "I'm okay, I swear. I'll heal, I always do."
"Someone still hurt you though."
"And he's got what's coming for him." You shrugged, clearly not as put off by this whole situation as much as Bucky was. You were strong — he knew that more than anybody. That doesn't mean it didn't pain him to see the gauze patch against your skin. Skin, of which, he had an unbreakable habit of kissing at any and every possible moment. "But I'm alive and I'm not going anywhere."
Bucky grumbled, hand at your hip, thumbing over the tender skin next to the wound. He wasn't happy with just leaving it be, but the two of you needed sleep, you needed to heal and he needed to just… hold you for a bit. In his arms, under the warmth, a reminder that you were strong, and safe, and his. "M'kay, I'll drop it. On one condition."
"Go on, honey."
"Promise me you tell me next time you come home hurt?" The words crushed you just a little. You should have told him, but he'd been so tired recently, and you didn't want to bother him. He continued. "I'm your husband, doll, I'm here to protect you and help you. I can't do that if you don't tell me."
Knowing he was right, you nodded. "I promise, Bucky, I will."
He smiled, leaning down a leaving a kiss in your hairline. "Thank you. All I ever want is to know you're safe and alive. Now come on, sleep will help you heal and you're almost definitely tired from the blood loss."
You hummed, turning over and letting him press his chest against your back, curling slightly to fit better against him. With a warmth settled in your heart and the feel of his warm fingers splayed across your stomach, making sure you weren't going anywhere, the two of you drifted off together into the best sleep you'd had in a while. You knew you were safe with him, and he knew that you were warm and alive, shielded by him even in the throes of an unconscious sleep.
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ilikeevilblondes · 5 months ago
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Breaststroke
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18+ MDNI!
Summary: Joel, single dad extraordinaire, is struggling to teach his daughter how to swim. You end up teaching Sarah over the course of a few weekly swimming classes. One fortunate day, Joel accidentally stumbles upon a rather intimate situation involving you in the shower rooms after hours. He’s about to leave, but right before he can, he hears his own name spilling out in a desperate moan from your lips.
TL;DR: It’s more fun to stay in the YMCA (shower rooms) (because that’s where Joel fucks you.)
W.C: ~7.7k
Warnings: Singledad!Joel x swimmingteacher!reader, softdom!joel, accidental voyeurism, mutual masturbation, blowjobs, praise, fingering, unprotected p-in-v, shower sex, pull out and pray, implied age gap, Joel’s got that daddy humour (no outbreak!)
Note: waiter! waiter! some plot with my porn, please! sorry, you freaks, mama had to stretch the narrative before the rawdogging. and sorry for the late upload, the flu was not gucci. hope y'all enjoy as always, though! and if you got any reqs, feel free to send them my way 🤓
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According to HealthyChildren.org, most children in America begin to learn how to swim by their fourth birthday. Basic abilities like floating and treading water can be ingrained in their motor skills at that point, and by the ripe age of five or six, most children will have been able to freestyle across any urine-defiled public pool.
Joel sighed as he watched his five-year-old angel scream and hiss at the local YMCA pool, refusing even to dip a toe into the chlorinated abyss.
“Sarah, pumpkin, you’re not a cat.” He sighed, pinching his curved nose bridge.
Sarah merely shot him a dirty look, the dirtiest a toddler could muster. She crossed her arms over her chest, the bright orange inflatable armbands around her upper arms squeaking as she did so.
“I don’t wanna go in there, daddy.” Sarah humphed.
Joel shook his head, looking up at her from where he sat in the shallow area of the gym’s pool. His little treasure, bless her heart, was stubbornly standing over the ledge and peering down at him with both fear and unwavering defiance.
“Y’gotta, pumpkin.” Joel ran a hand through his wet hair.
Of all the dads in the world, Joel would not say he was among the worst percentile. He certainly tried his best to do anything and provide everything for his little girl; working as many shifts as he could to pay for her school (his kid somehow, thankfully, didn’t get his brains and was starting first grade ahead of schedule), moving into a ‘nicer’ neighbourhood, and spoiling her with all the stuffed toys and lego sets her little heart desired.
Being a single dad wasn’t easy, to put it simply. Joel would’ve thought, owing to karmic nonsense, the universe could have been a bit nicer to him for the measly crime of forgetting to teach his daughter how to swim. But there he was, staring up at a child more hydrophobic than a rabies survivor.
“Can we go home, Daddy? Please?” Sarah stomped her little foot down onto the tiled floor.
“We will, sugar, I promise. Just, not until you at least try to step down here.”
Sarah shook her head wildly.
“No.”
“No?”
“No.” She said, more decisively.
“Says who?” Joel raised a dark brow.
“Me.”
“Remind me again, pumpkin, are you the adult or the child in this relationship?”
“You’re the one in the kiddie side of the pool, Daddy.” Sarah giggled, revealing a toothy grin.
Joel sighed through a smile. God, this kid was too smart for him. She was gonna be the death of him.
Mumbling something to the effect of ‘smartass’ under his breath, Joel treaded to the end and hoisted himself up, towering over his three-foot-nothing daughter and dripping chlorine-infected water down onto the ground.
“You wanna switch places?” He crossed his arms over his broad, bare chest, nodding his head toward the pool.
“Nope!” Sarah smiled.
Joel was about to give up for the day and take his troublemaker home only to return the next weekend, when he suddenly felt a tentative finger tap his shoulder.
He whipped around to see a girl, much younger than him—and much shorter, too, dressed in the standard red lifeguard one-piece uniform. 
“Sorry to intrude,” You began, biting your lip. “I couldn’t help but overhear.”
Joel blinked, not realising he had to reply to your remark like a normal fucking human would. Instead, he opted for the less popular, uncivilised caveman method of furrowing his brows and blinking madly.
He was too distracted by the way your swimsuit clung tightly over your body. Too mesmerised by the droplets of water sliding in slow motion down your curves. Not to mention that disarmingly pretty smile of yours. 
God, he’d been too single for too long.
“Hello!” The reason for his singleness beamed up at you and waddled closer. “I’m Sarah.”
Your smile stretched wider as you bent down to meet her eye level and introduce yourself in return. Sarah repeated your name back to you delightedly, like it was the most fascinating thing in the world.
After making a comment about how ‘cool’ her floaters were, you straightened up and met Joel’s coffee-brown gaze.
“Anyway.” You absentmindedly tucked a stray piece of wet hair behind your ear. “Um, well, I overheard your situation. And, uh, just wanted to let you know that the gym hosts free introductory swimming lessons every Saturday afternoon. I teach the classes, actually, and you and your daughter are more than welcome to come, mister…?”
By some miracle, Joel was able to move his mouth and properly communicate this time.
“Miller. Joel Miller.” He managed to say without so much as a stutter, smiling politely at you and sticking out a hand.
You took his hand in yours and shook it.
“Nice to meet you, Mr Miller-Joel-Miller. That Italian?” Your laugh was a sweet sound and, at risk of being completely predictable, music to his ears.
“The only Italian in me, sweetheart, is from the canned ravioli we had for lunch today.” Joel chuckled. “And we’d be more than happy to come, wouldn’t we, Sarah?” 
To punctuate his claim, he flashed Sarah a look.
A frown cut into her soft features, but she relented. 
“Yes, we would.” Sarah sighed dejectedly.
“Great! Um. Here’s the flier.” You produced a colourful leaflet and held it out to Joel. He took it. “It has the times and details and, uh, that’s my phone number on the bottom, there.”
“Thanks, sweetheart.” Joel pocketed it. “We’ll be there.”
“I look forward to seeing you two then.” You smiled again.
Joel would’ve fallen to his knees if you had stayed longer with that damn smile of yours. But you turned around to speedwalk towards the other side of the pool, blowing your whistle and reprimanding a bunch of teenagers running across the slippery poolside.
And if he thought the front of you was stunning, he was quickly shown that your back view was just as providing.
“You’re staring,” Sarah observed, tugging at his arm.
Joel cleared his throat.
“Let’s go home, pumpkin.” He ruffled her hair, much to a fit of giggles, and led his daughter away from the outdoor pool.
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Saturday afternoon did not come quickly enough. 
After a week of late nights spent finishing drywall and early mornings making Sarah’s lunch—because there was no way in hell she was going to eat whatever junk-filled shit the American school system provided in cafeterias—Joel was tired, to say the least.
By three o’clock sharp, he had arrived at the pool with his daughter dressed to the nines in a robot-themed swimsuit and bright green goggles that suctioned so hard into her little face that she looked wide-eyed and cartoonish.
And when four o’clock had rolled around, Joel was happy to report that his daughter had finally worked up the nerve to get in the pool. With your help (and some floppy-haired assistant coach), Sarah had also managed to do some basic swimming manoeuvres without clinging to the side for dear life and frothing at the mouth.
“Hi, sweetheart.” Joel approached you after the session had officially ended, and Sarah was dried off and warm. “Just wanted to thank you. And, uh, Coach Bryan for, you know…”
“No thanks necessary, Mr Miller.” You winked, then bent down to Sarah, who stood beside her father. “You did great, Sarah. Really.”
Sarah smiled sheepishly. Joel chuckled at her bashful demeanour and ruffled her hair affectionately.
“Same time next week, Coach?” He asked.
“Yes, sir.” You saluted him and walked off toward the shower rooms, a towel around your shoulders and a spring to your step.
Joel shook his head, smiling, and took Sarah home in a better mood than he had been that morning.
—-
Joel quickly learned that the swimming lessons were beneficial to both him and his daughter. Sarah was speedily conquering her fear of water, and Joel was… well, Joel spent a lot of time talking to you when you weren’t in the pool. And afterwards, too, when the rest of the kids had already left and there were no other parents to chat your ear off.
“You’re taking a gap year?” Joel mused after one particularly smooth sailing session, taking off his sunglasses and hanging them on the hem of his shirt.
“Yep. Just taking a break after college so I can figure out what I wanna do in life.” You shrugged. “Is being a contractor any fun?”
“Well, sweetheart, I doubt you’d like it very much.” Joel smiled, glueing his eyes to yours with steely resolve. 
He was not going to look down at your body this time. He was not going to ogle the tight fit of your one-piece. He was better than the average man.
Besides, you were definitely too young for him. Possibly even young enough to be his daughter. You’d likely recoil in disgust and horror and, possibly, contact the local authorities to capture him, the creepy older man, if he were to ever make a move.
“Eh. I was open to the idea.” You laughed, shaking your head. “But I guess it’s dominated by big, strong hunks like you, huh?”
“I mean, I—” Joel began, but cut himself off upon realising what you had just said.
He blinked. Did you just flirt with him?
As if sensing that Joel was getting somewhere other than friendly banter with her swimming teacher, Sarah jogged up to the two of you.
“Daddy, I’m hungry. Let’s go home!” She pulled at his wrist.
Joel cleared his throat, offered you a quick goodbye, and led his daughter outside back to their car.
—-
“I promise it’s funny.” Bryan nudged your shoulder, giving you a very indiscreet once-over.
Joel was shamelessly eavesdropping on your post-lesson conversation as he towelled Sarah’s unruly hair nearby. Not to be nosy, of course, just to find out whether he was your boyfriend or not. Out of pure curiosity, really. No ulterior motive whatsoever…
“I somehow doubt that.” You hummed, no amusement evident in your unimpressed tone.
“Okay, so, there’s this ginger, a brunette, and a blonde—”
“I’ll stop you right there, Bryan, is the punchline, by any chance, ‘breaststroke’?”
“Well, shit.” Bryan sighed.
Joel chuckled to himself, giving Sarah one last tousle with the towel before settling it over her shoulders. 
He concluded you either hated your boyfriend, or he wasn’t your boyfriend at all. 
Joel preferred the second option.
—-
“I’m just getting some water. You okay with the kids?” You pulled yourself out of the pool, glancing at Bryan.
“Yep. All good here,” He called back.
With a nod, you draped your towel over your shoulders and made your way towards the deck chair that held your things.
It seemed that the heavens were smiling on you that day, too, because none other than Mr Miller himself occupied the chair beside yours.
And what a sight he was.
Sun-bathing, his sunglasses resting over closed eyes, and his broad, bare, tanned chest exposed to all. 
“Having fun there, Mr Miller?” You smiled, taking a seat on your chair, bringing your water bottle to your lips.
Joel lowered his sunglasses and very discreetly let his gaze travel down your body. 
You bit back a grin. He always thought he was so subtle.
“Absolutely, coach. Need to set a timer, though, or I’ll end up medium well-done.” Joel sat up, facing you.
You snorted at his dad-humour.
“Tan looks great.” You commented, wiping your brow with your towel.
“You think?” Joel smiled, reaching for the can of soda on his side table and taking a sip. “Thank you very much, sweetheart.”
“No problem at all, Mr Miller.” You licked your lips, your gaze momentarily caught on his … form-fitting trunks. “Well, I better get back to it.”
“Yeah. Wouldn’t want to keep your boyfriend waiting.” He pushed his sunglasses back up his aquiline nose.
“My—oh! Oh. Bryan? No. Ew,” You held back a gag. “No. No. God, no.”
Joel chuckled.
“I think you may need one more ‘no’ to prove your point there, darlin’.”
“No.” You played along. “Him and I are strictly friends. Besides, he isn’t my type.”
“He isn’t?” 
“I like my men like I like my cheese.” You shrugged, standing up.
“Don’t say smelly.” Joel laughed.
You opened your mouth but decided to leave your preferences shrouded in mystery as you began walking off.
Well, until you threw him a look over your shoulder, catching him in the act of staring at your ass, but pretending not to notice.
“Aged.”
Joel choked on nothing while you innocently walked away like you hadn’t just made a heavily suggestive remark.
—-
“Daddy? Can I go talk to Amanda for a second?” Sarah asked, her gaze flickering over to a plait-wearing blonde girl nearby.
“Yeah, okay, sugar. Be quick, though. Tommy’s coming over soon.” Joel squeezed her shoulder before letting her run off, her wet flip-flops squeaking against the tiled poolside as she approached her friend.
Joel shook his head and smiled. He was so proud of his girl for overcoming her phobia. Maybe he needed to treat her to ice-cream one of these days–
“Hi, Mr Miller.”
After craning his head, Joel found you standing behind him. Bright-eyed and wearing that same, impossibly tight, lifeguard swimsuit. Thank God for nylon.
“Hey, coach.” Joel offered you a lopsided grin. 
“I just wanted to say, I’ve been really impressed with your daughter over these past few weeks.”
“She’s a fast learner.” Joel moved beside you, still facing Sarah and her little friend but keeping his eyes trained on you. “Unlike me.”
“Does she get it from your wife, then…?”
Joel couldn’t shake his head faster. “No wife.”
And there went his eyes, dragging down your slightly wet body. Christ, it was like you jumped straight out of a Baywatch episode—keep it together, Miller!
“Oh.” You coughed. “So that’s why all the moms flock around you.”
Joel let out a short laugh. “I think you’re exaggerating, sweetheart.”
You took a quick glimpse at the hoard of middle-aged women unabashedly staring at the wide-shouldered man next to you before returning your sights to the wide-shouldered man himself.
“I don’t think I am.” Your lips pulled upward in a small smile. “Well, anyway. Just wanted to catch you before our final lesson next week.”
“Our final lesson’s next week?” Joel sputtered out, sounding way less calm and collected than he had intended.
“Yeah. Unless you want to learn how to swim, too.”
“I think I’m all covered in that department, darlin’.” Joel smiled. “But thank you. For everything. I know this whole shindig is free, but I just wish there was some way I could repay you.”
You clicked your tongue and, if Joel caught that correctly, lowered your voice.
“I’m sure we can find some way for you to pay me back, Mr Miller.” You said innocently, but your half-lidded eyes told another story.
Before he could so much as utter out the first syllable of a reply, Sarah came darting back.
“Okay, Daddy, let’s go!” She took her father by the hand and spared you a glance. “Bye, coach!”
Joel tried to hide both his shock from your very obvious innuendo as well as his disappointment from his daughter’s very poor timing.
He rubbed a hand down the lower half of his face and nodded at his daughter. “Let’s go then, pumpkin.” He gripped her hand and turned to you with a slightly dazed smile. “I’ll see you next week, sweetheart.”
“That you will, Mr Miller.” With a quick wink, you spun around on your heel and made your way toward the shower rooms.
—-
As fate would have it, barely half an hour later, Joel found himself sighing unhappily and looking down at his daughter as he attempted to contain his frustrations.
“We just got home—what do you mean, you left your goggles at the pool?” Joel said through a deep exhale.
“Sorry, Daddy, I didn’t mean to forget them.” Sarah shuffled her feet, her eyes locked on the floor in front of her and her fingers twisting the bottom of her t-shirt.
Tommy stuck his head out from the kitchen, one hand clutching a can of Bud Light and the other braced on the doorframe.
“Yeah, Joel, she didn’t mean to.” He piped in, unhelpfully.
“Shut up, Tommy,” Joel grumbled, shooting him a quick glare.
His brother just smirked and took a sip of his beer.
Joel sighed and turned back to Sarah, pinching his nose bridge. “Look, pumpkin, it’s fine. I’ll just drive back to the pool and get ‘em for you, okay?”
Sarah frowned. “Will you be back in time for dinner?”
“Yeah, Joel, you better be. You’re the one making it.” Tommy let out a dramatic huff.
Joel ignored him.
“Won’t take but a hot minute.” Joel ruffled Sarah’s unruly curls and pressed a quick kiss to the top of her head before turning away toward the front door.
“Say ‘hi’ to sweetheart for me, if you see her!” Sarah smiled up at him.
Joel paused mid-step, his shoes halfway on.
“Hi to who, now?” Tommy leaned closer.
“That ain’t her name, pumpkin.” Joel chose not to look directly at Tommy as he huffed out another sigh and yanked his shoes fully on.
“Ain’t that what you call her, though?”
“Now, who are you callin’ ‘sweetheart’, Joel Miller?” Tommy wore a shit-eating grin on his face.
Joel decidedly ignored him, believing it to be the best course of action.
“Watch my kid, Tommy!” He called as he stepped out of the house.
—--
The pool area was mostly deserted by the time Joel returned to it, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows over the lengthy stretch of lane-roped waters.
Joel walked a slow lap around the perimeter of the pool, scanning the tiles and lounge chairs and the lone lifeguard tower for any sign of Sarah’s goggles.
Nothing.
Turning around, Joel’s eyes landed on the entrance to the womens’ locker rooms. He huffed out a heavy sigh, running his hand through his grey-flecked hair. He would have preferred to not snoop in there in fear of startling any lingering guests, but he decided that there wouldn’t be anyone this close to closing time on a Sunday and, moreover, didn’t want to come home empty-handed and disappoint his daughter.
So, on he went.
The locker rooms were quiet when he tentatively stepped inside, the scent of chlorine and cheap soap clinging to the air. 
Fortunately, it seemed that he was the only one in its vicinity.
And, even more fortunately, Joel immediately spotted Sarah’s bright green goggles lying by its lonesome on a bench near the showers.
Gotcha.
He was ready to make a beeline for them and head quickly home, but upon taking a few steps forward, Joel’s ears caught the distant sound of a shower running.
Turning his head toward the source of the splashing sounds, Joel’s eyes immediately noticed a swimsuit hanging precariously off the shower curtain rod.
But not just any swimsuit. It was a red one-piece with what appeared to be ‘lifeguard’ in bold, along the front.
It was your swimsuit. 
You were in the shower.
Joel pursed his lips. Just his fucking luck. Of course, the inappropriately young girl he tried not fantasising about for weeks was the only other person there.
Mentally chastising himself for even entering the locker rooms in the first place, Joel pivoted sharply and began making his way toward the exit.
He didn’t get very far, though, because, after two intentionally light steps, he heard his own name drifting from the steaming shower.
“Joel…”
He stiffened. Evidently, he was caught. He’d have to apologise profusely and somehow testify that he was not, in fact, a perverted Peeping Tom—
“Joel,” You sighed, followed by … shit, was that a moan?
And at that moment, Joel realised that, alongside the splashing of water echoing from the stall, there was the unmistakable clap and squelch of—
“Joel! Oh… fuck,” Your breathy moan carried easily down the short hall.
You were fucking yourself to the thought of him.
Shit, shit, shit.
If Joel were a better man, he would already be in his car, driving home. He would have forgotten this encounter had ever occurred, tucked it deep into the depths of his mind, granted you a curt farewell for the final lesson the coming week, and proceeded to never see you again.
But Joel wasn’t a better man.
Judging by how quickly his dick came to life to rest, half-hard, against his thigh in his swim trunks, Joel was an awful person.
Well, he couldn’t come home nursing a semi, now could he?
Yeah. Reaching down to pull his throbbing cock out of his waistband was the right thing to do.
At least, that’s what he told himself as he leaned against a corner and slowly slid his fist down his stiffening length.
“Joel! Fuck, your cock feels so good!” Your pitchy whine floated down the room, amplified by the generosity of the tile acoustics.
Joel’s dick twitched in his hand. 
Out of habit, he tightened his grip around his base and fucked up into his fist, squeezing his eyes shut and pretending it was your tight cunt he was jutting in and out of.
And it wasn’t hard to pretend, either. What with the sinful noises you were making a few stalls away, and the desperate pleas of ‘that’s it, Joel, fuck me harder!’
With pearls of precum dribbling down his tip and smearing along his hand with each thrust, Joel felt himself near his release. Judging by the increasingly airy quality of your whines, you were facing the same predicament.
Joel continued to fuck his fist, picturing you in various filthy scenarios. 
You, slowly wrapping your dainty hand around his hard-on and eagerly taking over.
You, on your knees, choking on his cock. 
You, tits smushed against tile as Joel fucked you with reckless abandon under the hot torrents of the showerhead.
Ramming brutally into your greedy fucking pussy, watching as his come-soaked dick disappeared in and out of your tight channel—
“Fuck!” Joel cursed aloud after a particularly enthusiastic thrust.
Suddenly, the water stopped. So did your noises.
Joel stilled. Oh, shit.
“Hello?” Came your voice, meekly. “Is … Is someone there?”
As silently as he could, Joel released his hold on his cock and carefully tucked himself back in his trunks.
Shit. What was he going to do?
Almost immediately after he regained his decency, the shower curtain slid halfway open with a faint metallic rattle, and you cautiously peered out, hiding most of your body behind the vinyl barrier.
“...Mr Miller?” You said, uncertainly, as if half-convinced he was some kind of dreamlike apparition.
Joel cleared his throat and took an instinctive step back.
“Uh—yeah. Just, uh… goggles. Sarah’s goggles.” He stuttered, holding them up weakly. “Her goggles. She left them here. The goggles.”
“Well, thank god you clarified that.” You smacked your lips, a sarcastic bite to your tone. The snarkiness soon faded from your expression once you added, with knitted brows, “you’re in the womens’ showers.”
“Yeah, I—” Joel winced. “I know.”
Silence.
After a moment or two, you opened your mouth to say something else, but the words died in your throat as your eyes fell on Joel’s trunks.
More specifically, the raging bulge making itself known in his lap.
“You’re hard.” You stated, your cheeks flushing a pretty shade of pink.
Joel’s eyes shot wide open. He glanced down, too, and sure enough, he was hard. It was almost as if he was fucking his hand to the thought of you only moments before. Oh, wait, that’s because he was!
To preserve the last shred of dignity in Joel’s inexecusably shameful body, he threw his hands over his groin and attempted to stammer out a valid excuse.
“Sorry, sweetheart—” No, he wasn’t. “—I, um… well, you see, I…”
Your eyes found the faint traces of precum on his right hand.
“Were you … jerking off to me in the shower?”
Yes, yes, he was.
“Frankly, darlin’, I think the better question here is, were you jerking off to me in the shower?” Joel coughed.
Your eyes trailed over his body, lingering again on where he covered his hard-on.
“I was.” Your stare found his. “Your turn, Mr Miller.”
Joel sucked in a breath through his teeth. There was definitely no backing out now.
He nodded slowly. Reprehensibly. 
Shame churned within him as he desperately wished for the ground to open up at his feet and swallow him whole, possibly even spitting him back out into the fiery pits of hell where he so clearly belonged after what he had done. Unfortunately for him, the earth, indifferent to his suffering, remained stubbornly solid beneath him, leaving him stranded in his own mortification.
“Look, sweetheart, I can’t express how sorry I—lord almighty.”
Instead of letting him scramble to finish whatever bullshit he was cooking up, you decided to pull the shower curtain all the way back.
Joel gulped, taking in your newly-exposed bare body, from the soft curve of your breasts to the thickness of your thighs to the seam of your … fuck, to the seam of the same pussy you were probably fingering just moments before; glazed in glistening beads of water under the cool fluorescent lights. 
You were fucking gorgeous. 
So gorgeous, in fact, that Joel felt his cock fully spring to life at the sight of you, standing naked and dripping-wet from the rain of showerhead.
“Let me… let me help you out.” You bit your lower lip, your eyes hazy.
“H-Help me out?” Joel breathed, staggering backward, his hands still persevering to conserve his modesty.
You slowly approached him, stopping when any semblance of personal space was lost, and dropped down to your knees.
Jesus Fucking Christ. 
Joel heard himself swallow.
“Don’t you want this, Mr Miller?” You looked up at him, your eyes pleading and almost doll-like from that angle.
While waiting for his response, your hands softly wrapped themselves around his, guiding them away from his lap to meet his tenting swim trunks head-on.
Joel, meanwhile, was busy trying to convince himself this wet dream of a situation was really happening whilst simultaneously refraining from spending his load in his trunks, because the vision of you, bare and waiting patiently on your knees, looked downright sinful.
“Doesn’t matter if I do.” Joel shook his head slowly, not registering the fact that his grip on the goggles loosened to a point where they fell to the floor in a dull clatter. “This… this is wrong.”
“The way I see it,” You hummed, your hands finding gentle purchase on his hips. “I’m naked. And already wet. And you’re…”
Your eyes flickered down to his bulge and wet your lips. Upon seeing this, Joel’s breath hitched in his throat.
“Ain’t there some—some rule against, I don’t know, a coach fraternising with a parent in this way?” Joel furrowed his brows, distractedly taking your chin in his hands and tilting your head upwards.
“No.” You eagerly let him direct you, moving at his will. 
“You sure?” 
“Positive.” The corners of your mouth pulled up in a small smile.
“What if someone comes—yeah, fuck it, I ain’t gonna keep pretending like I don’t want this.” Joel shook his head, his eyes dragging over you unabashedly.
“Oh yeah?” Your smile only widened.
“Go on then, darlin’.” Joel purred, his voice a low and rough timbre, his eyes overtaken with want. “What was it you said a while ago…? Help me out.”
With his less-than-reluctant approval, you tossed him another heart-stuttering wink, slipped your fingers past his waistband, and pulled him out.
And, fuck, you were not disappointed.
Joel was big, to say the least; in both length and girth, and you may have felt your cunt quivering at the mere thought of the possibility of taking him inside you later, but you were quickly overtaken by need upon seeing the drops of precum spilling from of his head.
With a hand wrapped around his base, you stuck your tongue out to lick a stripe up his length, tasting the salt of his skin and his arousal.
At your actions, Joel inhaled a sharp breath.
“You gonna finish what you started now?” Joel mused from above you, closing a fist around your grip on his cock and bringing it closer to your parted lips. He gently tapped your cheek with his free hand. “Open up for me, sweetheart.”
And you gladly did so, taking his tip into your mouth and swirling your tongue around his head like a fucking lolipop.
“Fuck,” Joel gritted his teeth, tossing his head back against the wall.
Taking his expletive as a sign to continue, you proceeded to hollow your cheeks and take his length deeper, as deep as physically possible without making you choke. 
“That all you can take?” Joel tutted, caressing your cheek.
Much to your determined efforts, you only managed to fit a little more than half of him in your mouth. Because, fuck, was he big.
You whined around his cock in response.
“Shh,” Joel murmured. “‘S okay. ‘S okay, sweetheart.”
His deep brown gaze met yours, and for a second, you could have mistaken the emotion swimming in his eyes as affection. 
“Nice and slow, hm?” Joel said through a satisfied exhale, his brows furrowed at the sensation of being enveloped by the warmth of your mouth. 
His fingers threaded through your hair, coming to grasp at your roots, but remained stationary, waiting for you to make the first move.
You looked up at him through your eyelashes and held that eye contact as you began moving your head back and forth. Seeing his eyes briefly flutter in pleasure, you flattened your tongue against the underside of his cock, feeling it twitch as you continued your movements.
“Fuck, sweetheart. That’s it.” His grip in your hair tightened.
You started to bob your head up and down at a quicker pace as you sucked him greedily, your hand moving in deft strokes along the stretch of his length your mouth couldn’t entertain.
Joel cursed under his breath and guided you on and off his cock in a steady rhythm as he fisted your hair.
And, fuck, he let himself thrust into your mouth once or twice, but upon hearing you gag, resolved to let you take charge of the speed entirely.
“Sorry sweetheart,” Joel breathed. “Sounded pretty chokin’ on my cock, but I guess I went too far, hm?” He sighed, caressing your cheek again.
You moaned with his cock heavy on your tongue, signalling your eagerness to die of asphyxiation from a fucking blowjob, and begun to take him even further into your mouth, feeling his head touch the back of your throat.
“Shit, darlin’.” Joel groaned. “That’s a good girl. Taking it so well.”
A strangled sound escaped from your otherwise occupied throat as you continued to deepthroat a man old enough to be your father.
Truly realising the situation you found yourself in, you felt a needy sensation thrum from in between your legs. Whilst continuing to bob your head around his cock, your hand went to trail down your front and relieve some of that tension you ached to be rid of, rubbing your clit furiously.
“Oh, my poor girl.” Joel cooed, seeing this. “Come on, now. Up you get,” He gently pulled you off his cock (wincing at the loss of your mouth) and up to stand in front of him.
“Not good?” You breathed, resting a hand on his chest while his hands settled on either side of your waist.
“No, sweetheart, it was very good.” Joel dipped his head down so his mouth was less than an inch away from yours, every word releasing as a warm breath against your lips. 
And then he leaned down to capture your mouth in a desperate, hungry, horribly sloppy kiss, licking into you and no doubt tasting his own arousal on your tongue.
You didn’t even register he was walking you backward until your back hit the shower wall.
“Just wanna fuck you now,” Joel mumbled, his half-lidded stare drifted down your bare form before flickering back up to meet your eyes.
“Well, since you asked so nicely.” You smirked, pulling him back into another frenzied kiss.
Joel smiled against your lips.
“So mouthy,” He tutted in that authoritative, paternal voice you’ve heard him use before, in between eager kisses. “I’d like to teach you a lesson, sweetheart, but I’m afraid I’m too fuckin’ impatient myself right now.”
At the sound of that, you clenched your thighs together.
The slant of his mouth trailed down your jaw to your neck, sucking and biting at your wet skin, humming in pleasure as he did so. Simultaneously, his big, calloused hand made their way from your waist down to your lower abdomen, and lower, still, until you felt his fingers ghost over your slick entrance.
You gasped.
“Mr Miller–”
“‘Joel’, darlin’. It’s ‘Joel.’” He mumbled against your neck, his stubble scraping lightly against your skin. “Heard you moanin’ it in here a while ago, I’m fairly certain you know how to pronounce it.”
“Joel,” You obliged, biting your lower lip as you felt Joel’s fingers meander nearer to your core.
“Yes, sweetheart?” 
“You don’t have to… you know,” You glanced down in between both your bodies.
Joel followed your gaze and saw his own fingers hovering close to your aching mound.
“Think I do.” He clicked his tongue. “Need to get ya ready. Wouldn’t wanna hurt that pretty pussy of yours when I… well, to put it bluntly, darlin’, I don’t wanna hurt your pretty pussy when I’m fuckin’ you in a little bit.”
“Oh,” You breathed.
“Yeah,” Joel hummed, nudging your cheek with his nose. “That sound good to you, sweetheart?”
You nodded almost too avidly.
“Good,” Joel sighed, his fingers skimming over your aching cunt and just barely dipping inside your folds. “Just relax, darlin’. I gotcha.”
That was the last of the preamble before you felt one of his fingers slip inside, dragging up and down against your walls.
Normally, if left to your own devices, you were barely satisfied with a singular digit of your own. But here you were, gasping and clenching around just his middle finger.
Content with your reaction, Joel kissed your neck and slipped another finger to crook alongside the first in an even rhythm that began to spark a familiar warmth in your gut.
“There we go.” He mumbled against your skin.
“Fuck,” You whispered as you felt his thumb settle on your clit.
You felt Joel smile against your pulse point. And then, with his other big hand, he gently held your face and titled it to the side to pepper kisses along your jaw.
“You can take another, can’t you? Yeah, you can.” Joel hummed, and before you could respond, you felt a third finger slip inside, stretching you wider. 
Your eyes squeezed shut as Joel’s fingers curled inside you at a faster rhythm while his thumb graciously swiped at your clit.
Blood pounded in your ears. Your breathing shallowed. You were so, so close.
“Joel, please…” 
“Please what? C’mon, baby, use your words like a big girl.”
His fingers only sped up, dragging against your walls so deliciously and filling you better than your own hand could have ever done.
You inhaled.
“Please don’t s-stop.” Your breath hitched in your throat. “I’m so close.”
“You wanna come for me? ‘S that it?” Joel cooed, his breath warm against your skin and right beside your ear.
“Please,”
“Come for me then, sweetheart. Let me hear you,”
With a scream of his name, your orgasm washed over you like a tidal wave, sending you into a light-headed bliss as you clutched his big upper arms.
His fingers only began to slow once your cunt stopped pulsing rapidly around him, and when you caught your breath again, he tenderly slipped them out.
“Made a mess of my fingers, huh?” He mumbled, staring down at how his hand glistened with your arousal.
You felt your cheeks redden.
“I’m sorry–”
“Don’t fucking be,”
And you watched as Joel stuck a finger in his mouth and sucked your slick off it like it was a world-class dessert.
“That was hot,” Was your breathless response.
Intelligent.
“Oh yeah?” The corner of his lips tugged upward as his eyes danced from your own to your parted lips. 
“Yeah,”
A soft, low laugh rumbled in his throat.
“Come here,” Joel sighed, placing a hand on the small of your back and another on the side of your face, leaning down to devour your lips in another messy kiss.
His tongue slid inside your mouth as if starved, licking against your tongue and letting you taste your own pleasure. All while the hand on your face brought you closer and gently stroked the curve of your cheek.
After a few moments, Joel broke the kiss almost regretfully.
He barely pulled away, his lips closely within reach of yours, and his breath mingling with your own as he spoke in a deep, gruff rasp.
“You still want this, sweetheart?”
“Abso-fucking-lutely.”
Joel smirked. “A simple ‘yes’ would’ve sufficed.”
Before you could form a response to his slightly snarky remark, your breath was stolen from you at the sight of Joel tugging down his trunks fully and stepping out of them.
Glancing down, you found that he was still incredibly hard. Almost painfully, by the look of how his cock practically bounced up to his navel. Clearly, your recent oral assistance did nothing to tame the lust in his body.
Joel crowded you up against the wall once more, his tall frame easily looming over yours. One of his big hands went to caress your jawline, angling your head up toward him, and the other went to your thigh, wrapping your leg around his waist.
“Been a while for me.” He sighed, a hint of embarrassment peeking through his tone. “You tell me if I get … carried away, yeah?”
Instinctively, you hung your arms around his wide shoulders, bringing him even closer.
“Yes, sir.” Your lips quirked upward.
“Good girl,” He hummed, his thumb absently running along your bottom lip.
Then, the hand cupping your face went to guide his aching dick to notch against your entrance, sliding against your wet mound.
And, with a shaky inhale slipping past his lips, he sheathed himself inside you. 
“Fuck, you feel good,” Joel muttered lowly.
You let out a whine at the feeling. 
Despite being barely halfway in, Joel was already proving to be more than sufficient, especially from the way your velvety walls were already pulsing wildly around his length.
“I know, I know, I know,” Joel sighed, his thumb caressing where he held a grip on your thigh. “‘S okay, sweetheart. Shh, you can take it.”
In response, you nodded.
And Joel drove himself the entire way, balls-deep, his greying pubic hair tickling the inside of your upper thighs. He gasped in your ear at the feeling of the first full thrust and at the sensation of your channel clamping desperately around him.
He filled you up so fucking well.
“You doin’ okay? Hm?” He mumbled, leaving lazy, aimless kisses along your neck.
“Need more.” 
“Oh? She wants more, huh?” He smirked against your skin. “That what you were imaginin’ in the shower?”
“Y-Yeah,” You whispered.
“Flirtin’ with me for weeks now, and here you are bein’ all shy.” Joel tsked. “Don’t worry, you’ll get more, darlin’.”
Joel began sawing in and out of you at a relaxed pace, letting out low groans of satisfaction. 
With every sloppy thrust, you heard the distant wet thud of your back against the shower tiles, sounding in a steady rhythm. But, despite each measured roll of his hips sending white-hot shivers throughout your throbbing cunt, you found yourself dangerously craving even more.
“Harder.”
“Harder?” Joel hummed coyly.
“Joel,” You whined.
“Careful what you wish for, sweetheart,” Joel mumbled against the corner of your mouth.
You only realised you were moaning obscenely loud when the echo had bounced around the room, and Joel was muttering something encouragingly into your skin.
“That’s it. Y’sound real fuckin’ pretty.”
Joel’s thrusts had picked up the pace. The only sound competing with the volume of your moans were the crude wet slaps of his body against yours.
Slap, slap, slap.
You thanked your lucky stars the shower rooms were deserted after the swimming lessons, because you were sure even if someone happened to walk in on you two fucking like wild rabbits, you wouldn’t let him stop.
And some part of you knew that he wouldn’t want to, either. Not with the way he was breathing airy curses beside your ear and mumbling about how ‘fuckin’ tight’ you were and other such filthy ramblings.
After a particularly harsh thrust, you felt his pace falter and his dick twitch against your walls.
“Fuck,” He whispered sharply.
Out of the blue, Joel pulled out, leaving your slick mound vacant for a heartbeat or two before he spun you around roughly, forcing you to brace yourself against the wall.
And, not long after, he fed you the entirety of his cock again in one deep thrust.
“Joel!” You gasped. 
Your hands, stretched out in front of you and anchored against the wall, scrambled to find a grip on the smooth, slippery surface.
“Sorry, sweetheart.” He said from somewhere behind you, beginning to ram into you at a brutal pace as he held you in place with an iron grip on your hips. “Needed—fuck… Needed this.”
With your tits pressed against the tiles and his length kissing your cervix after every drag against your pulsing walls, your vision began to blur and your lower gut began to flutter. 
You were very fucking close.
As if reading your mind, one of Joel’s hands trailed from your hip to your front, sliding down until he brushed your clit. And then he began rubbing the sensitive nub in sloppy semi-circle motions, tutting sweet words as you whined nonsensical syllables.
“That’s it, sweetheart. Let me hear you,” He cooed soothingly.
You let out a pitchy whine, “feels so good.” 
“That right?” Joel mumbled distractedly, using a rough hand on your neck to turn your head toward him despite the awkward angle, and claimed your lips hungrily, licking desperately into your mouth as if it was the last thing he’d ever do, and letting out hoarse noises of appreciation as he did so.
His hips continued to jut into you, setting an erratic, jerky pace.
Slap. Slap-slap. Slap. Slap-slap-slap.
You arched back against him and unintentionally broke the kiss when the overflowing pleasure spiked incredibly high.
“J-Joel,” You breathed.
The man, who was single-mindedly pistoning in and out of your splayed legs, hummed a sound of acknowledgment in response, his warm breath ghosting over your cheek.
“Joel, I’m close,” You whispered, the heat of both your bodies meeting where your back leaned against his front. 
“Are you?” He replied almost casually.
His fingers only sped in their motions, swiping at your clit almost feverishly as he continued to rut animalistically into you; each thrust stretching your aching cunt impossibly wide and oh so easily finding your cervix—
“Fuck!” Your chest tightened.
“Ask for it.” Joel’s gentle yet commanding tone nearly made your knees buckle. 
That, and the manic force at which he was fucking into you.
Slap–slap-slap-slap—
“Go on, baby. Ask.” His nose nudged at the side of your face, breathing in your scent as he tutted lowly, “hate to see you all worked up like this.”
“Shit—please! Can I come, please?” You acquiesced.
You felt the muscles of his rugged face pull up in a small smile against your cheek and his dick twitch inside your tight walls, sending shivers down your spine.
“Be a good girl and come for me then, sweetheart,” Joel said in between strained breaths. “Come all over my cock, I gotcha.”
Your climax came rippling over your whole body, a prolonged resonance that sent you into the territory of overstimulation—much more powerful than your first orgasm—as neither his fingers nor his cock slowed down in their frenzied pursuits. 
So, there you were, chanting his name like a prayer and clenching tightly around his relentless length.
When the fluttering of your cunt subsided, Joel hurriedly pulled out and wrapped a hand around his throbbing cock, fucking up into his fist frantically and cursing under his breath. You all but folded against the wall as you felt his loss, sticking your ass out and waiting for the inevitable.
Soon, his breath caught in his throat, and you felt hot ropes of his come spill over your back.
“Shit.” Joel sighed, gently rubbing along your sides. 
He pressed a soft kiss to your shoulder once he recollected himself a few moments after, still softly trailing his hands up and down as both of your breaths evened.
“You okay over there, sweetheart?”
You nodded weakly, unable to voice your satisfaction with your brains all fucked out.
Joel huffed a short laugh. “C’mon, I’ll clean you up.”
Somewhere behind you, the shower handle groaned with a faint squeak. A dull clunk followed, and then, with a sudden rush, water erupted from the showerhead, dousing the two of you in a sputtering cascade.
Gently, Joel tugged you away from the wall to stand directly under the jet of water, softly helping you wash away any reminders of your reckless impropriety.
He pressed reverent kisses along your jaw, down your neck, and around your collarbone as you got cleaned up.
There was no hidden, lustful agenda to this, as far as you could tell. You assumed it was either a result of his years of fatherhood or some testament to his overall caring nature, but either way, you weren’t complaining. You happily let your eyes fall closed as sheets of warm water streamed down your body, all while Joel’s lips tentatively found yours, then your neck, and his strong hands moved along your body.
“Um…” Joel began after he had turned off the shower, looking at you with his big, soft eyes. “I know this is the completely wrong order of things, but would you like to–”
“Yes.”
A faint smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. “You didn’t even know what I was gonna say.”
“Were you gonna ask me out on a date?”
“Yeah,” Joel laughed bashfully. "Is that... is that okay?"
You stepped closer, wrapping your arms around his neck, and rising on your tiptoes to meet his lips in a lazy kiss.
“The answer’s yes.” You mumbled without breaking away for too long.
You felt Joel smile against your lips.
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