[WWII AU] you and your baby went to town

[from_the_outside]

Waiting for Bucky's day off has been as difficult as waiting for Christmas used to be when she was a kid. And it doesn't help that they just don't seem to be able to manage time alone together after the mission – not enough of it, anyway. A few stolen kisses here and there are all she gets, even as she feels like she's burning up from pure want.

When he finally tells her, grinning, that he's gotten another R&R day, she spends the next few days in a haze of relieved anticipation. Not just at the thought of finally being able to touch him, but just because she loves spending the time with him. She knows it's a bad idea, knows it's only going to hurt so much worse down the line, but she can't stop herself, and she doesn't want to.

She doesn't ride with him into town this time. Instead, he'd told her to meet him at the little chapel he'd shown her earlier. Wilkins is happy to give her a lift, after she spends extra time and care on her hair and makeup and clothes – the civilian outfit he likes so much and which Lorraine had tried to ruin. 

She's right on time as she walks into the little chapel and looks around for him. "Bucky?"

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[nerves_of_ice]

“Not likely, but—“

He raises his head from kissing her shoulder and gives her a sweet smile.

“Come inside with me?”

[from_the_outside]

She smiles back at him, feeling her heart flip in her chest, and leans to give him a gentle kiss. "Okay," she murmurs. "Let's go inside."

[nerves_of_ice]

He shifts to the side, setting her gently back on the blanket, then rolls to his feet and leans down to help her up.

Bucky kisses her again, then twines his fingers with hers and leads her to the door of the cottage, then pushes it open.

Wildflowers dot the space inside, scattered here and there in miniature bunches tied with string and hung from anything he was able to hang them from. On the far side of the room, Bucky’s made a bed with many thick layers of hay covered by a clean sheet over another makeshift burlap blanket.

[from_the_outside]

She can't help the look of surprise or the way her breath catches as she moves slowly through the door, her gaze tracking over the hanging flowers and the neat bed in the corner. "I can't believe you went to all this trouble," she says, looking up and around. She has no idea if the daisy in her hair survived his fingers being in it, too, but she could pick another dozen in here, easily.

Sharon turns to him, her fingers tightening in his, and smiles. "It turns out you're a romantic, Sergeant Barnes."

[nerves_of_ice]

He closes the door and locks it behind them so there’s no chance of them being disturbed even if someone wandered by, then turns back and smiles down at her. The light from the vine-covered windows is soft against the gold of her hair.

“I told you,” he murmurs. “I wanted to give you more.”

[from_the_outside]

"You have," she promises. And, truth be told, she'd rather be in this little cottage with him, somewhere in France, on a bed of clean hay surrounded by wildflowers than in the ritziest hotel room in the world with anyone else. With him, that homemade wine tastes like the finest champagne.

She smiles and lifts their linked hands to press a kiss to his fingers. "Kiss me, sweetheart," she murmurs, and lets go of his hands to put her arms around his neck.

[nerves_of_ice]

He puts his arms around her and pulls her flush against him as he dips his head and takes her mouth as she’s asked, once and then again, and again. These kisses are still sweet and lingering, but deeper than before, more wanting.

He could kiss her while the sky turned around them, day falling to night, and never stopping.

[from_the_outside]

He kisses her until she's trembling in his arms, her own secure around his neck, each deep, sweet kiss stealing her breath away.

They aren't under the stars, but she feels like the world is wheeling beneath them, anyway. "Bucky," she murmurs, and kisses him again. "Just so you know, I haven't changed my mind."

[nerves_of_ice]

“If you do,” he promises, “at any time, you only have to say.”

He kisses her again, then pulls back so that he can trail his fingers along her throat, slowly, deliberately, bringing them to rest at the side of her neck, his thumb making small circles over her collarbone as he watches her.

“May I?” he murmurs, with a tug at her shirt collar.

[from_the_outside]

"I know."

She's relaxed in his arms, aside from thrumming with desire, and her eyes are dark and trusting. Trust isn't something she finds often, in her line of work, but she doesn't even question giving it to him. She really could stop him with a word, if she wanted to.

She doesn't want to, so she nods, watching him back as he watches her. "Yes."

[nerves_of_ice]

His smile is sweet as he leans in to kiss her again, his fingers working at the buttons of her shirt, one after the other.

Slowly, deliberately, he drops kisses along her jaw, then her throat, then traces the rise of her collarbone with his mouth as he unfastens her shirt and eases it from her shoulders.

[from_the_outside]

She shivers as he bares her skin to the air and tips her head to give him space. The light fabric of her shirt slips over her arms and she lets go of his neck so it can slip over her hands and drop away.

[nerves_of_ice]

He makes a low, rough sound at the sight of her. Bucky kisses his way back along her shoulder to the sensitive spot at her neck. As he does, he runs his hands over her back to her waist, then up to cradle her curves in his fingers.

“Remember what I told you before?” he murmurs, circling her nipples with his thumbs over the thin layer of her underthings.

[from_the_outside]

"Yes." Her voice is low and a little breathless. "Because I've thought about it every night since then."

She runs her hands down the front of his jacket to where it's buttoned, and flits a teasing glance at him up through her lashes as she echoes his question. "May I?"

[nerves_of_ice]

He groans at the thought of her thinking of his touch while lying in her bed, and reaches to unfasten her bra as he pleads, “God, baby, yes, please.”

[from_the_outside]

She leans up to press a breathless kiss to his mouth as she unbuttons the jacket and slips it off his shoulders. There's no chair to hang it over and she doesn't want his uniform to get crumpled, but she's also not willing to let him go enough to carefully fold it. She lets go for long enough for him to remove her bra, then pushes his jacket off and lowers it gently to the floor before she starts working at the buttons of his uniform shirt.

[nerves_of_ice]

He kisses her again and again as she undoes his shirt, cupping her breasts and teasing her with his fingers, paying attention to how she reacts.

The metal of his tags jingles against her hand as his shirt comes loose and jostles the chain. He doesn’t notice.

[from_the_outside]

She moans against his mouth as he caresses her, her nipples hardening beneath his warm fingers. "Off," she says, breathless, pushing at his shirt once the buttons are undone, and laughing a little helplessly at the undershirt he's wearing beneath it.

"Oh my god, why are you wearing so many layers?"

[nerves_of_ice]

“Uniform,” he mutters. “Here, hang on—“

He strokes her breasts again, teasing and playful, then stops for just long enough to strip his undershirt over his head and discard it to the side. Bucky scoops her up in his arms and carries her to the bed, laying her gently down on it, then kneels beside her and lowers his head to take her breast in his mouth, drawing hard and fluttering his tongue against her.

[from_the_outside]

"Oh," she gasps and arches her back as a shock of sensation ricochets through her, helpless in her need to get closer to him. Her fingers slip, trembling, into his hair as her other hand runs over his bare arm up to his shoulder, trying to touch every inch of him that she can. "Bucky, god – "

[nerves_of_ice]

He hums against her and keeps tasting her as he uses his fingers to tease her other nipple to a bud, rolling it back and forth and caressing over the sensitive skin at the peak.

[from_the_outside]

She moans as he teases her, drawing her tender skin into his warm mouth, stroking her nipple as it stiffens at the brush of his fingers. "Come here," she manages, pulling at his shoulder. "Lie down with me."

He'd called her darling before and it burns like a tiny sun in her chest where her heart usually beats. "Let me touch you. Please."

[nerves_of_ice]

“Yes,” he promises, and leans up to kiss her mouth. “Yes, baby. Just let me —“

He pulls back slowly, after one more long, lingering kiss, and slides his hands down her body to her waistband. “Let me,” he asks. “I want to see all of you. To feel all of you.”

[from_the_outside]

"Yes," she tells him, without hesitation. Her hands are relaxed and warm on his shoulders. "You can. I want you to."

[nerves_of_ice]

He kisses her again, then unfastens her slacks and eases them over her hips along with her underthings, his hands skimming along the long, lovely length of her legs as he undresses her and lays the rest of her clothing to the side.

Bucky lets himself look at her, lying there, and the blow of desire that smashes into him nearly knocks him flat. He groans aloud. “God, angel, you’re so beautiful."