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Karli's on the move; she'll strike soon. Bucky and Sam have been in long, tense conversations with each other and with Torres, and she herself has been keeping an obsessive eye on the tracker blip that is Batroc.
It's a lot. The air in the apartment is tense. But she still has to laugh at the sight that greets her when she walks into the living room: Bucky crouched down, his phone out as he takes a photo of Alpine, who is lounging in lazy grandeur, soaking up a puddle of sunshine.
"That'll be a good one," she approves. "Baby, I've been wondering – what happened to your nice camera? You didn't leave it in Wakanda, did you?"
It's a lot. The air in the apartment is tense. But she still has to laugh at the sight that greets her when she walks into the living room: Bucky crouched down, his phone out as he takes a photo of Alpine, who is lounging in lazy grandeur, soaking up a puddle of sunshine.
"That'll be a good one," she approves. "Baby, I've been wondering – what happened to your nice camera? You didn't leave it in Wakanda, did you?"
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Date: 2022-05-13 01:43 am (UTC)He miaows and wriggles out of her arms to leap lightly onto the back of the couch, where he settles and leans down to start grooming Bucky's hair.
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Date: 2022-05-13 01:46 am (UTC)Alpine's expression says not a cat who knows how to groom himself, no.
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Date: 2022-05-13 01:47 am (UTC)"Sure he can. He's a smart little guy, aren't you, Alpine?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the cat doesn't answer him.
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Date: 2022-05-13 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-13 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-13 02:01 am (UTC)"This is exactly how it goes."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:04 am (UTC)"Works for me."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:05 am (UTC)"Sorry," she says, though she sounds far from apologetic. "But it's hard to take you seriously when you're getting groomed by the cat."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:08 am (UTC)Bucky twists to look over his shoulder. "Sorry, buddy," he says, and scoops Sharon up in his arms as he stands up, ignoring the meow of protest from the affronted Alpine.
He kisses her again, holding her easily, and starts down the hall, leaving both camera and cat behind.
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:15 am (UTC)"I think he'll get over it," she promises, and leans down to kiss him back.
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:18 am (UTC)Bucky kicks the bedroom door shut behind them, just in case, and kisses her yet again.
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:24 am (UTC)Words fail him and he kisses her again, sliding his right hand into her hair to tilt her head back so he can start trailing kisses along her throat as he carries her to the bed.
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:29 am (UTC)"Please," she murmurs. "Bucky, please. I want you."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:33 am (UTC)Bucky braces one knee on the bed and lowers her down, kissing her over and over.
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:35 am (UTC)"You're everything to me."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:42 am (UTC)Her hands travel over his back, warm skin and firm muscle and the join of vibranium to his flesh at his shoulder, then slide back down the curve of his spine to grip his shirt and tug, coaxing him to let her take it off. "I don't ever stop falling in love with you, Bucky."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:49 am (UTC)"Tell me what you want tonight," he asks. "Let me give it to you." A quick smile. "If you don't, I'll just try to figure it out on my own, you know."
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Date: 2022-05-13 02:57 am (UTC)"I want you," she reiterates, and leans up to kiss his smile. "I want slow, until you drive me so crazy I can't take it anymore. I want every touch to prove how much I cherish you."
She runs her hands lightly down along the sweet curve of his back, then over the rise of muscle below his hips. "I want to feel you in me, as close as we can get."
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Date: 2022-05-13 03:07 am (UTC)"We have all the time we want."
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Date: 2022-05-13 03:19 am (UTC)And right now, it really does feel like they have forever, like a perfect bubble has settled over the bedroom of their apartment. No Karli, no grief, no loss, no worries. Just them, losing themselves in each other. "Love me."
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Date: 2022-05-13 04:13 am (UTC)As he does, Bucky settles both hands at her hips, running his thumbs gently back and forth over her skin at the edge of her waistband, but deliberately not moving further than that, not yet.
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Date: 2022-05-13 01:08 pm (UTC)One hand strokes through his hair, the other traces over the back of his neck and shoulder, lazy and lingering.
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