I present to you my collection of works.
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Xuebing Du
RMH
Keni
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

blake kathryn
The Stonewall Inn
trying on a metaphor
Noah Kahan
cherry valley forever
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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YOU ARE THE REASON

if i look back, i am lost

pixel skylines
d e v o n
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Mike Driver

Origami Around
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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@joiebarnes
I present to you my collection of works.
It's time go back to reading and writing.
MASTERLIST
Bucky Barnes
Headcannons part 1
Headcannons part 2
Headcannons part 3
Headcannons part 4
Headcannons part 5
Headcannons part 6
Drabble 1
Drabble 2
Drabble 3
Drabble 4
His “The one that got away”
His Part-time lover
Warming the heart
Clark Kent
Headcannons part 1
Headcannons part 2
Headcannons part 3
Headcannons part 4
Coming Home
My Boyfriend is Superman
Not a morning person
Aegon Targaryen
Aegon's Entity
Steve Rogers
Let's Hurt Ourselves
January Jumble Scribbles
Day 03:
Graceful Encounter
Take his Breath Away
Day 04:
Actually Romantic
Day 06:
“I'm not Insane”
Busy Mornings
Summary : Bucky loves his morning cuddles with his little girl Word Count : 1.7k A/N : This is literally so self indulgent guys. I had a dream a few days ago about this very sequence and I woke up in the middle of the night to jot down the idea so it won’t disappear in the morning
The first rays of sunlight always found Bucky awake.
Previously because of his soldier instincts. Then due to fear of not knowing where he would be when he woke up in the morning, the remnants of decades of trauma was never washed away easily.
But safe to say, there had been a time in his life when mornings meant alarms, missions, nightmares, and memories he wished would stay buried.
But now?
Mornings meant tiny socks scattered across the hallway. A stuffed bunny abandoned in the kitchen. The smell of coffee. Having you fast asleep in his bed, curled around him like he was your safe space.
And the privilege of waking up the sweetest little person he'd ever known.
His daughter.
Sweet little Rebecca—or becca as bucky liked to call her—still wonderfully round in all the places toddlers were meant to be. Chunky wrists with little bracelet-like dimples. Soft thighs that made every pair of leggings look stuffed. Permanently rosy cheeks that begged to be kissed.
And every single morning, Bucky insisted on waking her himself. It had quietly become his favorite part of the day.
You would already be downstairs most mornings, making breakfast when you hear Bucky's footsteps heading toward the nursery instead of the kitchen.
Without fail.
Every day.
"You know," you’d called one morning while whisking pancake batter, "you could let her wake up on her own."
"I could."
"But you won't?"
"Nope."
"Why?"
His answer came immediately. "Cause I like seeing the moment she remembers she's my kid."
It made no sense, but to him, it meant everything.
He padded silently down the hallway, careful to avoid the one floorboard that always creaked, and slowly pushed open the nursery door.
The room was washed in soft golden light. Nursery curtains glowing with morning sunlight. The room smelled faintly of baby lotion and lavender and detergent.
And fast asleep in the middle of her little crib, somehow having rotated herself almost completely sideways during the night, one tiny foot was sticking out from under the blanket, was her.
Ten months old Rebecca barnes whose palm was the same size of bucky's heart because ever since the day she had arrived, the little fingers had iron grip on his heart.
Her favorite stuffed bunny was upside down beside her. Her little mouth hung open ever so slightly. Tiny body sprawled dramatically across the bed. Blanket kicked halfway off. One sock missing.
And her hair...Her hair deserved its own zip code. It stuck up in every possible direction. A few curls falling into her eyes resting beside the lashes of her close eyelids.
Bucky leaned against the doorway and just...Looked.
His heart never seemed prepared for this sight. Every morning he thought ‘How did we make something this precious?’
He padded over quietly. Tiptoeing so the floorboards won’t creak beneath him.
She slept with one little fist tucked under her cheek.
Smushy.
Squishy.
Perfect.
He crouched beside the bed. Metal fingers stayed carefully tucked against his palm while his flesh hand reached out.
His fingertips slid gently through the wild nest of curls. "Look at that bed hair..." his voice was barely louder than a whisper. "My goodness."
Another tiny stroke over her head. "What happened to you?" He paused as the little girl frowned in her sleep. "I think birds moved in."
She stayed asleep through bucky’s rambling. Probably already accustomed to having a dad who loved talking to her.
He smiled, a metal finger skimming over her perfectly round, squishy cheek. "You got squirrels living up here, sweetheart?"
Her nose scrunched. Just a little, barest of the movement.
Bucky grinned immediately. "There she is." His fingers rubbed slow circles over her scalp as he continued talking.
"So pretty..."
Another stroke.
"My sleepy little bear."
Another caress.
"My chunky monkey."
He poked one of her cheeks. "Oh no! What happened to these?" He gently squished both cheeks together. "They got all smushy."
He couldn’t resist pressing soft kisses on her cheeks "Mama's gonna need to fluff these back up."
A tiny sleepy grumble sounded from her and bucky’s smile widened "There is my grumpy girl"
One eyelid slowlyy cracked open, just enough to reveal one sleepy blue eye. It stared at him blankly before closing again.
"No, no." He chuckled. "You can't trick Daddy."
HIs lips pressed onto her forehead in another kiss "I saw your eye."
She made the tiniest protesting noise. "Nuh..."
"Oh yes."
"Nuh."
"Oh yes."
He stroked the little curls away from her face as he saw a pout forming on the tiny mouth of his sleepy baby. "Can Daddy see those beautiful eyes?"
Silence.
"I think they're hiding."
"Did they disappear?"
He gasped dramatically. "I'll have to tell Mama." The kid paid no heed to his words, still pretemding to sleep. "My baby's eyes are gone!"
That earned him another sleepy protest. "Dada..."
"There they are!" He beamed as she opened her eyes to frown at him, which looked eerily similar to the disappointed glare you’d give him when he talked about adopting yet another kitten. "I knew they were in there."
She finally blinked both eyes open, slowly. Like opening them required tremendous effort and simply stared. Processing the surrounding in the sleepy haze, until she noticed her favourite person leaning over the crib, smiling at her.
The smallest smile spread across her face despite her offense at being waked from her sleep. "Dada..."
His heart melted into absolute mush. "There she is." He kissed her forehead. “Morning, sunshine."
Tiny arms reached toward him automatically. Like she'd done it every morning of her life. She didn't even think about it anymore. She simply expected Daddy to be there.
Sometimes when she woke up on her own and bucky wasn't around immediately or you—the spare human—found her in the morning before he did, the sleepy little glare your grumpy girl gave you was enough to summon a tiny thunderstorm.
But it wasn't like she didn't love you. She would run to you to show her stick drawings and babble away telling you every silly story she came up with while you brush her hair. She loved you with all her tiny heart, you were her mom after all. But mornings belonged to Daddy. No matter what, he was the person she expected to see when she opened her eyes everyday.
Bucky gathered her carefully into his arms. "Oh..." He groaned dramatically. "What is this?" He bounced her once. "Someone got heavier."
You always teased him that he said this every single day.
He did.
Because every single day she somehow felt bigger than yesterday. "My goodness." He settled onto the rocking chair. "I think somebody ate rocks."
She rested her head against his shoulder. Already melting back into sleep.
"No?" He rubbed her back slowly. "You just got extra cuddly?"
She answered in a tiny nod against his shirt, still fighting sleep. "I thought so."
The rocking chair creaked gently as bucky swayed back and forth, wrapping both arms around her. She fit perfectly against his chest.
Always had.
He rested his cheek against the top of her head sighing contentedly. "I missed my morning cuddle."
She mumbled something unintelligible.
"I know." bucky kissed the top of her head "I missed you too."
By the time you abandoned making breakfast to join them in the nursery because of overwhelming FOMO, she was drifting again.
Bucky knew all the signs. The heavy breathing. The completely limp body. The tiny fingers relaxing around his shirt.
And you had walked in to the sight you have the pleasure to see almost every morning.
Bucky rocking your little girl in the chair while she stayed tucked against his chest like it was the most comfy spot in the whole house.
You simply looked at him for a moment. His chin resting on the messy hair of your half-asleep toddler curled against his chest. He looked happier like this than you had ever seen.
"Bucky" you whispered from the doorway.
He looked over, eyes brightening at the sight of you "Hey."
You smiled knowingly. "She's falling asleep again."
"I know."
"So why are you still rocking her?"
He looked genuinely confused. "Cause she's comfy."
"You know she'll sleep another hour if you keep this up."
"I know."
You folded your arms. "So..."
"So..?"
"...you're still going to keep cuddling her?"
He looked down at the tiny girl. One chunky little arm was wrapped around his neck. The other had somehow found his hair. She was lightly snoring against his chest.
He looked back at you. "I've waited almost a hundred years to have someone who wants morning cuddles." His voice was quiet, gentle. "I'm gonna hold her as long as she'll let me."
Your eyes softened instantly. There wasn't a single teasing remark left. Because you knew. You knew exactly where that sentence came from.
THe stolen decades of his life, the denied comfort of feeling human, every emotion weaponised against him.
But now...
Now his mornings were filled with sleepy giggles, tangled curls, and warm little hugs. And he wasn't taking a second of it for granted.
You crossed the room before leaning down and kissing the top of his head then the toddler’s.
"You know she's going to stop wanting to be carried someday."
"I know."
"And one day she'll wake up before you demanding pancakes."
"I know."
"And eventually she'll probably tell you she's too old for morning cuddles."
He swallowed. "I know."
You smiled softly. "So enjoy every minute."
He looked down at the tiny girl sleeping peacefully against him. "I plan to."
He gently kissed one smushy cheek. Then another. "My sleepy little bug."
A tiny smile appeared on the toddler's face even in her sleep. As if somewhere in her dreams she knew, daddy was holding her.
And as long as he was holding her, mornings were warm, safe, and full of whispered compliments about messy bed hair, squishy cheeks, and the chunkiest little arms in the whole wide world.
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i’m starting a new stereotype that people with loving fathers are actually annoying as hell
“die mad that the rest of you got emotionally neglected and abused by your fathers but i didn’t 😋😎🫵🏻😂 L!”
i have a more loving leaning father and I don't act like this im so sorry about these ppl u guys
Whatever father you have, it's your choice what you become in the future--be a bitch, a suck-up, a trying one, etc. It's either you follow his footsteps or not.
new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want
Not a morning person
Pairings: Clark Kent x reader | Divider: @strangergraphics
Writer's Note: I saw this on TikTok so why not use it as a plot for this flash fiction. It's really when I watched it, so I hope you find it funny. I'm still getting back to writing.
Morning begins early in your shared apartment. They are unrushed though it's a little challenging as you would still like to sleep but work calls early and mornings rushed means the day rushed. But for today, you would like to keep warm in the tender embrace of your boyfriend, Clark, for even he would do the same considering the article he finished late last night. So even for a few minutes, you dig deep to his chest and bask in his chunky warmth.
You get up to boil water and prepare coffee. Clark prefers that nonsense black coffee-wholesome and classic; while you prefer something that speaks your own. You push the delivered parcels to the corner of the room to be opened at some time. Another collection to your bookshelf.
“Good morning,” Clark groggily greets you
“We're making some bread.” You joke around, smiling afterwards. How chronically online are you?
He walks to kiss your cheek, you blush from his sweetness. “What bread?” Clark asks seriously, “Oh, gosh! You made a joke! Why'd you have to be up so early?”
You pour water on his cup, “because a rushed morning is a rushed day ahead.”
Clark stirs sugar into his coffee, quite loudly, his spoon making contact with the ceramic. You look at him.
“Is someone at the door?”
You scrunch your forehead, giving him a questioning look. Clark adds more sugar to his coffee, stirring it after. “Is someone knocking? I think someone's at the door.”
Clark gets up but you piece the situation together and burst out laughing.
“Honey, is something wrong? Why are you laughing? Someone is at the door.
”Clark, honey, no one is at the door. You stirring your coffee is what's making the knocking sound.”
Clark gives you a funny look. No one is at the door but just him stirring the coffee.
“Haha very funny”
Aira | 21 | graduating college stude | Bucky Barnes,
Clark Kent, and all the hot men out there!
ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀʟɪꜱᴛ
ʙᴜᴄᴋʏ ʙᴀʀɴᴇꜱ
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 3
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 4
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 5
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 6
ᴅʀᴀʙʙʟᴇ 1
ᴅʀᴀʙʙʟᴇ 2
ʜɪꜱ “ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɢᴏᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ”
ʜɪꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ-ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇʀ
ᴅʀᴀʙʙʟᴇ 3
ᴅʀᴀʙʙʟᴇ 4
Warming the heart
January Jumble Scribbles
Day 03: ɢʀᴀᴄᴇꜰᴜʟ ᴇɴᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇʀ, ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ʜɪꜱ ʙʀᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴀᴡᴀʏ
Day 04: “Here's another curse. May all your bacon burn.” -ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟʟʏ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴛɪᴄ
Day 06: “Look at me when I'm talking to you.”- I'm not insane
Clark Kent
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2
ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ʜᴏᴍᴇ
ᴍʏ ʙᴏʏꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ ɪꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀᴍᴀɴ
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 3
ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴɴᴏɴꜱ ᴘᴀʀᴛ 4
Aegon Targaryen
ᴀᴇɢᴏɴ'ꜱ ᴇɴᴛɪᴛʏ
Steve Rogers
ʟᴇᴛ'ꜱ ʜᴜʀᴛ ᴏᴜʀꜱᴇʟᴠᴇꜱ
Warming the heart
Pairings: Bucky Barnes x Filo reader
POV: 2nd POV
Summary: You are knocked out due with a clogged nose and a sore throat making it difficult to do your daily tasks. Bucky takes care of you by cooking you your favorite dish.
“Tita? Y/N is sick and I was wondering if you can share your sinigang recipe. I know that she would love it.”
It started one early morning when you
woke up with a sore throat. A tell-tale of an incoming sickness commonly associated with it. The weather in the country has become terrible over the years with the fast pace of globalization and corrupt government acts priotizing of personal agendas creating a ripple effect. When you were young and would be sick, your mother would hurry to wipe a wet, cold cloth over your forehead, and though she may not stop everything she'd do, you're always the main priority in her mind. Now, being in a dormitory, away from your family, while studying for the big exam of your life, and still get sick, makes life impossible to bear, with everything weighing down. Luckily for you, Bucky, your dormmate and boyfriend seems to understand the troubled breathing and the repetitive clearing of your throat.
“Y/N, are you okay, baby?”
It went fine last night, after studying math, after Bucky repeatedly taught you rates, proportions, and King Henry died by drinking chocolate milk, you both went to beds last night well. Then come morning, you started to feel sick, your nose runny, and found interactions insepid. So you left Bucky to attend to your share of the morning chores.
Here is some ginger and calamansi drink, I added honey to soothe your throat.
“Thank you, you should back away. You might get sick.”
Bucky grins with that stupid smile of his
“I don't get sick so easily”
That's right. It's you who does get sick so easily, may it be an upset stomach, a cramp in the leg, an ache in the side, or even a small scratch from an outdoor cat. Even when you were a young girl, it's you among your family who gets sick often, taking prey in you, but often gets well fast with the tender loving care of your family, especially your mother.
Bucky caresses your arm as if to soothe you, placing a chaste kiss on your forehead, his hand links to your own.
“Would you like to eat something?”
You nod with a dull ache,
“Maybe some soup. I wish there'd be some sopas.”
“Sopas?”
“Yeah”
There isn't a store selling sopas at that time. The carinderias are only selling saucy dishes in its 2nd or third reheat or the main stars of every day, sweet ketchup spaghetti and pancit. And you were craving for sopas, dish worth eating during the rainy weather, not typical for the hot weather the country is experiencing even if it's quite a timeless dish. Though someone could help him.
“Tita? Y/N is sick and I was wondering if you can share your sopas recipe. I know that she would love it.”
So while you resting and battling that dull ache in your nose, Bucky is out in the kitchen making sopas. Juggling your mother's instructions and chopping the vegetables prove to be difficult. Cabbage, carrots, chicken breasts and thighs, but no hotdogs. Your family doesn't seem to like hotdogs in sopas, even when it's usually found in the soup.
Sopas is a warm and hearty soup using macaroni shells made healthy with vegetables and chicken, sometimes they add red hotdogs as a substitute for chicken, but it can also make the soup with a slight pinkish red color. Sometimes the soup is added evaporated milk for added creaminess but even without, it remains to be a creamy texture.
“So sautee aromatics then chicken, then add water to cover”
“Yes, nakkong (yes, dear)”
It's like a kitchen in your home if you could see it. Your mother reminisced childhood days when you get sick and told Bucky more of your interests and dislikes.
“Do not add cream into the soup, Bucky. You can just add it later when you'll serve it.”
“It smells great, tita.”
“Yes, I hope she enjoys the soup and that she'll get better. Tell her I miss her and I love her.”
“Will do, tita! Thank you”
Bucky enters the room with a bowl of warm soup in his hands. Aroma wafts through the room and you instantly recognize the smell. He sets the bowl on the table and helps you get up.
“You bought sopas?”
“Better, I called your mom and she helped me cook one”
“You did?”
“Yes, she tells me that she misses you and hopes you get well soon.”
Bucky scoops in the creamy soup and places it near your lips. Though you're sick, the taste of your mother's cooking is recognizable and warms the dull aches of your body.
“You really did that for me?”
“I'd do anything for you, my love.”
Wild Things: Bayou Heat
pairing | drifter!bucky x fem!reader x drifter!steve word count | 23.3k words (sorry yall, save this for bed) summary | two drifters take refuge on a sun-blistered louisiana farm, but the real heat comes from the farmer’s enigmatic daughter who draws them in with slow, honey-thick temptation. tags | 18+ (MDNI), Explicit Sexual Content, porn w plot (and i really think the plot is good), farmers!daughter!reader, multiple smut scenes (yeah i went overboard), southern gothic vibes, lots of erotica, sexual tension, STUCKY ANGST,mutual pining (heavy denial), lots of unprotected sex, piv, oral (m&f!receiving), secret sex, lying, seduction, threesome (m/m/f), sensory overload, horny!reader (unapologetically), reader is a freak, love triangle (and best believe this is a triangle with all three ends), voyeurism (self righteous steve), double penetration, first time stucky (reader is their main cheerleader), shameless!reader, manipulative!reader, knows exactly what she's doing, enjoys instigating and stirring the pot, steve rogers is repressed and in denial, bucky barnes has a dirty mouth and is easily jealous, pride vs desire, lotsssss of religious imagery, sin vs purity imagery, they all need therapy but instead they have sex, (there's probably more i should add, but i dont remember) a/n | this has been sitting in ellipses for the last month, finally im free! jumping on the stucky train, and i have no shame abt it. and i really tried to edit and cut, but everything is important to the plot
likes comments and reblogs are much appreciated ✨
MASTERLIST
divider by @omi-resources
The two-tone ’78 Chevy sat wheezing on the shoulder, its hood punched open like a yawn in the late-afternoon heat. Beyond the ribbon of cracked asphalt, cane fields lay flat and humming, cicadas sawing at the silence. Bucky leaned both forearms on the grill, hair sticking to the sweat on his neck, and offered a lopsided grin that only made things worse.
“Relax, Stevie. Tank’s empty, not the end of the world.”
Steve slammed the driver’s door harder than he meant to; the truck shuddered like it might expire altogether. “Not the end of the world? We’re forty miles from a town anyone’s heard of, it’s a hundred degrees, we got eight dollars between us, and you didn’t think to check the gauge?”
Bucky shrugged, easy as a breeze. “Gauge is busted, remember? Besides, you were the one drivin’ last—”
“Because you were too busy sweet-talking that waitress to keep your eyes on the road.”
“Tyra?” Bucky’s smile widened. “She gave us pie for free.”
“Great. Maybe we can burn it for fuel.” Steve dragged a hand through his hair and squinted up the road; nothing but heat rippling off the tarmac. “We need a plan.”
“We got one,” Bucky said, straightening. He rapped the hood twice, like patting a tired mule. “We walk. Someone around here’s gotta sell gas. Maybe even trade a couple hours’ work for a full can.”
“Or they’ll run us off with an axe.” Steve’s voice softened despite himself; frustration never stuck to Bucky for long. “This was supposed to be different, Buck. Thought we’d find steady work in New Orleans—”
“And we did, for a minute. Things change.” Bucky’s gaze drifted past Steve to the hazy edge where pasture met cypress and moss. “Look, the road forks up ahead—left’s more fields, right’s water. Bayou country. People out here always need strong backs.” He slung their one duffel over his shoulder. “C’mon. Sun’s not gettin’ any kinder.”
Steve glanced at the truck and sighed. “You really think we’ll ‘figure it out’?”
“We always do.” Bucky’s grin turned conspiratorial, the one that had gotten them into brawls and out of worse. “Besides, you love savin’ my ass. Gives you purpose.”
“One of these days,” Steve muttered, though a reluctant smile tugged at his mouth, “your luck’s gonna run out.”
“Then I’ll borrow yours.” Bucky tipped an imaginary hat and started down the asphalt, boots crunching gravel. After a beat, Steve fell in beside him.
The sun slid lower, painting the sky blood-orange. Somewhere to the east, a smear of water reflected the light. The air smelled of cane juice and distant brackish rot.
Eventually dusk bled over the cane fields in long bruised stripes, the sky turning molasses-thick and purple. For close to an hour, the only sounds had been boot soles on gravel and Bucky’s running commentary; little jokes about gator crossings, predictions of cold beer “just past the next bend,” memories of music drifting out of French Quarter bars.
He talked as if words could keep the darkness from settling on their shoulders.
Steve let most of it wash past. Sweat glued the back of his shirt to his spine; the sun had scalded the bridge of his nose raw. Every mile without a plan felt heavier than the duffel bumping against his hip. When Bucky announced, for the fourth time, that “things always work out,” Steve only answered with a quiet grunt and kept walking.
Then the road took a shallow dip and opened onto a low rise of pasture, and there it was—a farmhouse half-hidden behind live oaks, porch lights already flickering on like fireflies. Off to the right, a tin-roofed barn crouched at the edge of a bayou inlet, its stilts mirrored in dark water. Smoke drifted from a chimney in a lazy ribbon; somewhere close, a cow lowed.
Bucky stopped dead and threw out an arm as if presenting a miracle. “Told you, pal. Luck’s a lady tonight.”
Steve studied the place; fencing mended in patches, tractor parked beneath a tarp, rows of tomatoes staked with twine. Not prosperous, but lived-in, cared for. “Or it’s someone’s home, and we’re about to get run off for trespassing.”
“Won’t know ’til we ask.” Bucky’s grin caught the last shred of light, turning his eyes almost silver. “Guy like you knocks on a door, says ‘Sir, evening, we’re lookin’ for some shelter for the night,’ who’s gonna say no?”
“Plenty of people,” Steve muttered, but the fight had drained out of his voice. He glanced back the way they’d come, miles of empty asphalt slowly disappearing into night, and exhaled. “All right. We try.”
They left the road, boots whispering through knee-high grass that smelled of sun-baked sugarcane and river mud. A chorus of frogs started up, rhythmic and lewd, as if cheering them on. When they reached the split-rail fence, Bucky vaulted it in one easy swing; Steve followed, slower, feeling the rail creak beneath his weight.
Closer now, Steve noticed the details Bucky’s optimism had missed; shutters needing paint, porch boards warping at the ends, the faint uneven beat of a generator somewhere out back. A place run by sweat and necessity, not spare cash.
Bucky rolled his shoulders like a man warming up for a dance. “Let me talk first. I’ll soften ’em up.”
Steve’s mouth twitched. “And if sweet talk doesn’t cover room and board?”
“Then you flex those big-boy muscles and show ’em we’re worth feeding.” He winked.
Steve looked past him to the porch. A screen door stood ajar, warm lamplight spilling through, and inside he caught a glimpse of movement—someone crossing a threshold.
“Yeah,” Steve said finally. “Could be worse.”
Behind them the sun sank, and the bayou lapped soft against the stilts, as if tasting something new in the twilight air.
The screen door slapped once against its frame and stayed half-open, lamplight spilling across warped porch boards. A man stepped out. A raw-boned figure in dungarees and a sweat-stained work shirt, the brim of his straw hat casting his face in shadow. The pump shotgun balanced in the crook of his arm said everything his tight mouth didn’t.
Bucky lifted one hand, palm out, easy smile already in place. “Evenin’, sir. Hate to trouble you—”
“You’re already doin’ it,” the man cut in, voice dry as crushed shell. His eyes flicked from Bucky’s scuffed boots to the duffel on Steve’s shoulder, then back. “Road’s that way if you’re passin’ through.”
Bucky chuckled like they were all sharing a joke. “Wish we were. Truck ran dry few miles back. Just lookin’ for a spot of ground to lay our heads, maybe point us toward gas come mornin’.”
Mr. Moreau, Steve caught the stitched name on a feed-store cap hooked to a nail by the door, didn’t blink. “Folks who show up empty always want more’n a night’s sleep.”
“Not us,” Bucky said, still smooth but softer now, reading the room. “Couple hours on a cot, we’re golden.”
Steve stepped forward, wiping his palm on his jeans before offering it. “Sir, we don’t expect charity. We grew up working yards and warehouses in Brooklyn. Let us put in a day’s labour; repair fence, muck stalls, whatever needs doing, in exchange for a meal and a corner of your barn. Tomorrow we’ll walk to town, buy fuel, and be gone.”
The old man studied Steve’s hand like it might bite. Up close Steve could see the lines etched deep around his mouth, the cautious flare of his nostrils, the calculation behind the suspicion. When he finally spoke, he addressed Steve, not Bucky.
“You fix fence?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Know your way around a baler?”
“Can learn quick.”
Moreau’s gaze shifted to Bucky. “And you?”
Bucky’s grin turned boyish. “I swing a hammer straight and don’t complain about blisters.”
A long moment of silence stretched, filled only by the bayou’s night chorus and the low thrum of a diesel generator. Then Moreau nodded once, sharp. “Barn’s there.” He jerked his chin past a line of pecan trees toward the weather-silvered structure on stilts. “You’ll sleep in the loft—floor’s solid. I’ll send my girl with sheets, pillows and supper.”
He paused, shotgun still resting easy but present. “Sunup, you start mending the northeast fence line where the posts lean. No smoking, no liquor, no wandering past the pens after dark. Gators like the warm water.”
Steve’s shoulders loosened a fraction. “Yes, sir. Thank you.”
Bucky tipped two fingers from his brow. “Much obliged, Mr. Moreau.”
Steve offered his hand again; Mr. Moreau finally considered the gesture, then shook once. It was firm and testing. “Careful, bayou’s mean at night, and I ain’t friendlier.”
They watched him retreat across the porch, boards groaning under deliberate steps. Inside, a screen door banged and lamplight shifted, framing a second silhouette for half a heartbeat, before it disappeared deeper into the house.
As they crossed the yard the porch lights dimmed, leaving only moon-slivered clouds and the distant lantern glow of the barn.
Bucky exhaled a satisfied breath. “See? Luck.”
Steve shot him a side-eye that was half exhaustion, but reluctant amusement won out. “Your kind of luck usually gets me shot at.”
“Guy didn’t even chamber a round. We’re fine,” Bucky said, swinging the duffel like a lunch pail. “C’mon, punk. We got hay to fluff before the linens arrive. Wouldn’t want the lady of the house thinking we’re ungrateful.”
They crossed the yard toward the barn as cicadas struck up their night chorus, and behind them the bayou breathed thick water-scent into the dark.
The barn’s lower doors groaned shut behind them, sealing in the smell of hay dust, old saddle soap, and the faint sweetness of cane. A thick ladder hugged one beam; Bucky scrambled up first, boots thudding on the rungs. When he pushed through the loft hatch he let out a low whistle that echoed off the rafters.
“Well, hell—thought we’d be beddin’ down with the cows.”
Steve followed, palms rough against the rails. The space wasn’t the raw hayloft he’d pictured. Slanted cedar walls glowed amber in the lamplight, and a faded striped couch sat center stage, its cushions sun-soft. A trunk doubled as a coffee table; books leaned drunkenly on handmade shelves beside a beaten-brass telescope aimed through a cut-out window toward the purpling sky.
Bucky flopped onto the couch, springs sighing. “Damn. Better than half the motels we’ve stayed in.” He stretched, hands locked behind his head, boots still on. “Called it—Barnes luck.”
Steve shot him a look. “Boots off. Don’t wreck the place five minutes in.”
“Boots are fine.” Bucky toed one heel against the other anyway, dropping them beside the trunk. Then he tipped his head back, scanning rafters strung with paper stars and a single model airplane dangling by fishing line. “Knew Moreau wasn’t as mean as he let on.”
“Or this belongs to his daughter, and he’ll tan you for putting your filthy socks on her couch.” Steve drifted to the telescope, brushing a thumb over its brass barrel.
In the corner sat a small writing desk cluttered with jars of dried flowers, a stub of vanilla candle, and a horsehair brush still catching the lamplight in its bristles. Feminine touches, but nothing frilly enough to feel staged.
He glanced at Bucky, who had already settled deeper, arms splayed like a victorious cat. “We’ve got one night of goodwill, Buck. Tomorrow we work till our backs snap, and then we’re still broke. Gas isn’t growin’ in that south field.”
Bucky closed one eye, pretending to sight something on the ceiling. “You worry too loud. We fix the fence, maybe fix the truck while we’re at it—they toss us a few extra dollars, or a jerry can. Folks out here respect elbow grease.”
“Respect doesn’t fuel an engine.”
“Neither does frettin’. You’ll give yourself ulcers before thirty.” He rolled to his side, propping his head on a bent elbow. “Come on, take a seat. Feel this cushion. It’s practically luxury.”
Steve ignored the invitation and set his eye to the telescope. Through dusty glass he caught a sliver of bayou, water black and mirror still, framed by cypress knees. Fireflies sparked like stray embers above the reeds. Something about the view stirred a bone-deep ache for order he couldn’t name.
Behind him Bucky huffed. “You’re really gonna stand there brooding? You’ll ruin my mood, Rogers.”
“You have a mood?”
“Best mood this side of the South, if you’d let it breathe.” The couch creaked again; Bucky’s feet thumped the floor. “Fine. I’ll do a full inspection. Make sure no ghosts under the bed.” He padded toward a curtained alcove where a narrow mattress crouched beneath more quilts.
Steve lowered the telescope. “Careful.”
“Relax, I’m just checking.” Bucky flipped back the curtain, paused, then called over his shoulder, softer, “There’s a vase of fresh magnolias in here, Steve.”
Steve nodded once. “All the more reason to treat this place right.” He dragged fingers through hair damp with sweat and twilight humidity. “Tomorrow, we fence. After that, we find a way to buy gas.”
Bucky chuckled, but it came out tired. “Tomorrow, we survive. Tonight, we sleep on feather cushions like kings.”
A scrape sounded below, the barn’s side door opening. Lantern light bobbed on the ladder rungs. Steve stepped forward, heart ticking faster despite himself, as he caught the soft shuffle of feet heading toward the loft.
“Guess Mr. Moreau’s ‘girl’ brought supper,” Bucky murmured, straightening his shirt, suddenly attentive.
Steve’s pulse thudded, nerves tight for reasons he couldn’t quite blame on hunger. He smoothed his face into politeness.
“Remember,” he muttered, “boots off the furniture. And be respectful.”
Bucky grinned, eyes flicking to the ladder hatch where a warm glow now haloed the first edge of a tray. “No promises, pal.”
Boot-steps creaked up the ladder—slow, sure.You appeared in the hatch with twilight at your back, balancing a tin tray loaded with two enamel plates, a fat mason jar of water beaded with condensation, pillows and neatly folded sheets tucked beneath one arm.
“Evenin’, boys.”
Bucky was on his feet before the last syllable hit the rafters, grin flashing like he’d been rehearsing it. “Evenin’.” He slid a hand under the tray, thumb brushing the outside of your wrist as he relieved you of the weight. “Smells incredible. You must be the angel Mr Moreau mentioned. I’m James Bucky Barnes, and the tall, worried lookin’ fella is Steve Rogers.”
You arched a brow, amused, “Angel, huh?” The word tasted ironic coming from you, syrupy drawl cut with something sharper. “More like delivery girl. Pillow-fairy if you’re polite.”
You set the pillows on the couch arm, smoothed the patterned sheet across the cushions. Up close, sweat-shine on their skin smelled of road dust and cut cane.
Steve cleared his throat, polite even with his sleeves rolled and collar limp. “Thank you for supper… and the linens, ma’am. This your cookin’?”
“Jambalaya,” you hummed, rolling the word slow. “Daddy says it keeps visitors honest—pepper’ll burn lies off a tongue. Hope you’re hungry.”
Bucky inhaled over the plate, eyes closing like a man at church. “Starvin’, darlin’.” Then, glancing around the loft, “Guess this is your spot? Kinda figured we’d be burrowin’ into hay bales.”
Your shrug said maybe tomorrow. “Daddy doesn’t usually let strangers sleep on his land, much less up here.” You perched on the trunk, unbothered by their looming height. “Guess he saw somethin’ useful in you.”
Steve straightened, earnest. “We appreciate it. If you’d rather we sleep downstairs—”
“Relax, Captain Courtesy,” Bucky cut in, throwing him a side-eye. “We’ll keep our boots off the sofa, promise.” To you, softer, “You’re welcome to sit a spell, if you’re not busy. Share a plate. Tell us the house rules.”
The offer hung there with the dust motes, cicadas whirring through the slats, night air thick with sweetgrass and something darker underneath. You let it linger, watching how Steve’s jaw flexed when Bucky talked, how Bucky’s fingertips tapped the tray like he had more to say with them.
Finally you leaned back on your palms, eyes flicking from one to the other. “House rule’s simple; earn your keep. Fence line’s a mess, cows need milkin’, and Daddy hates slackers.” A slow smile uncurled. “But I might come up later, see if the telescope’s still pointed true.”
Bucky’s grin sharpened. “We’ll set it for the moon.”
You rose, brushing hay dust from your jeans. “Eat while it’s hot. I’ll fetch y’all at first light.” At the hatch you paused, tilting your head just enough that lamp-glow kissed the line of your neck. “Sweet dreams, city boys.”
Boot-steps receded, leaving the scent of spices and warm wood in your wake. Bucky let out a low whistle, passing Steve a plate. “Tell me again why you thought today was a bad day.”
Steve didn’t answer. He just watched the ladder, heart knocking once, twice—like somebody’d tapped a match to kindling he’d forgotten was there.
The wire rasped through worn leather gloves as Steve cinched a new section taut against the post.
Morning heat hadn’t hit full force yet; the light was soft, hazy, dust motes floating like lazy sparks each time the staple met wood. Across from him, Bucky should’ve been driving the next nail, but his hammer paused halfway, blue eyes angled toward the paddock.
You were out by the dairy pen, skirt hem stopping at mid-thigh, knees braced to the churn of a milk pail. Every now and then you tipped the tin to pour a pale ribbon into the waiting bucket, the motion flexing your thighs.
Bucky’s lips pulled into a slow grin. “Tell me that view doesn’t make fence-mending a religious experience.”
“Eyes on the post,” Steve muttered, tamping the staple flat. “We finish the south line before the sun’s overhead.”
“M’hands are workin’, my eyes are multitaskin’.” Bucky leaned, deliberately stretching the thick cotton of his vest. “Can you blame me? Those legs could power a tractor.”
Steve followed the angle of Bucky’s gaze despite himself—caught the way morning light traced the curve of your calf, the slip of skin above a worn boot. He cleared his throat and yanked the next length of wire. “Point is, don’t stare. It’s rude. And we told Mr Moreau we’d act right.”
“Act right?” Bucky’s laugh was a slow roll, low enough only Steve heard. “Saint Rogers over here pretending he didn’t spend the last five minutes studying her ass like it’s a map to salvation.”
Steve’s jaw ticked. “I was making sure she wasn’t lifting more than she should.”
“She’s strong. Didn’t you see her lop that bale? Girl could throw you through the barn door if she tried.” Bucky’s hammer finally met the post—thunk, thunk—driving the nail, though his gaze drifted again to the milking stall. “Bet she smells like vanilla and brown sugar up close.”
“For God’s sake—”
“You’re the one sniffing the air like a bloodhound.” Bucky shot him a sideways grin. “Relax your righteous feathers, punk. We fix the fence, we earn lunch, maybe catch her eye after chores. No harm in looking.”
Steve said nothing, but his ears burned hotter than the sun. The fence gave a satisfied hum under tension. Beyond it, you straightened, wiping the back of your wrist over your brow before hoisting the sloshing bucket to your hip. The movement pulled your skirt higher; both men went still, identical pulses jumping in their throats.
You glanced over, caught them, and offered a small smile before turning toward the barn.
Bucky’s voice dropped, sincere in spite of the teasing. “That smile’s an invitation, pal.”
Steve set his hammer on the top rail, exhaling hard. “It’s a warning.”
“Same thing, if you read it right.” Bucky twirled the hammer once, then thunked it into his belt. “Come on, we finish quick, we wash up, maybe wander by the paddock—”
Steve lifted the next coil of wire, but a reluctant curve tugged his mouth. “Finish quick and it better be neat. If her dad sees a sloppy fence, we’re gone before sunset.”
Bucky nailed the last staple with a flourish, dusted his palms, and followed Steve down the line.
The sun hung lazy-low, just warm enough to slick skin but not yet cruel. Fence posts were set, woodchips scattered like confetti around the chopping stump where Steve swung the maul in steady, clean arcs. A few yards off, Bucky rolled hay bales into neat ranks, muscles jumping under sweat-dark cotton.
Bootheels tapped along the packed lane. You appeared with a mason jar in each hand, glass sweating so hard it dripped onto your bare thighs. The hem of your skirt rode high; your cropped tank left a sliver of midriff glowing. You stopped at the paddock rail, hips cocked, watching them work like it was your own private picture show.
“Y’all look parched.”
Bucky straightened first, forearm wiping grit from his brow. One lazy grin and he was sauntering over to you. “Angel, you’re a vision.”
“Uh-huh.” You handed a glass to Steve, eyes glittering. “Don’t spill it.”
Steve set the maul aside, palms broad and pink from the handle. He accepted the lemonade with a murmured thanks—voice gone rough in a way that wasn’t from thirst alone. “Smells like lemons and cane sugar. You make it yourself?”
“Fresh this mornin’. Daddy swears by it.” You sipped from Bucky’s jar, lips glistening, then handed it to him. His gaze tracked the curve of your mouth like a compass needle. “Saw you two knockin’ that fence line out fast. Figured a reward was fair.”
Bucky tipped the drink, throat working. “Could use more rewards just like this.” His eyes drifted down, unapologetic. “Gotta say, the scenery makes hard labour downright spiritual.”
Steve cleared his throat, shooting Bucky a side-long glance that begged for decorum. He turned to you instead. “Is it just you and Mr. Moreau runnin’ all of this?”
“Daddy’s got three hands from town come by Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.” You shrugged, playful. “So he was mighty generous lettin’ you bunk the loft—already plenty of help around here.”
“Generous man,” Bucky echoed, elbow nudging Steve. “Maybe we earn a longer stay. Few more fences need mendin’? Any chores need extra muscle?”
Steve flicked him a warning, but you only smiled, amused at the jockeying. “We’ll see what Daddy thinks.”
Bucky leaned on the rail, voice dropping. “What about what you think?”
“I think city boys burn quick in bayou heat,” you teased, running a finger along the condensation of Steve’s jar. “But if you don’t mind a little sweat, maybe stick around. Could be fun.”
Steve’s ears coloured; Bucky’s grin stretched wolf-wide.
You tapped the rim of Steve’s glass, then Bucky’s. “Finish up. Lunch at the house in twenty. Don’t keep me waitin’.”
With that you turned, skirt swishing just enough to make both men swallow. The backs of your thighs glowed in the noon light as you sauntered toward the barn, humming something slow and sweet.
Bucky watched every step. “One more day, Stevie. Let’s charm the old man, top off the tank, see where the night goes.”
Steve drained the lemonade, eyes still on your retreating sway. “We charm him by working, Buck. And by keeping our mouths clean.”
“Hands might not stay that way, though,” Bucky muttered, rolling his shoulders before grabbing another bale.
Steve hefted the maul again, but there was a new looseness in the set of his jaw, in the way he glanced toward the barn door you’d slipped through.
The dining room smelled of fried catfish and sweet corn fritters—hot oil, cracked pepper, a shimmer of cayenne that clung to the air like summer sweat. Cedar-plank walls held the noon light soft and amber; a battered ceiling fan turned slow overhead, pushing the warm scent around.
At the rough-hewn table sat Mr. Moreau, back straight, elbows planted wide like fence-posts. His gaze pinned both men while your small radio whispered an old Fats Domino tune from the sideboard.
You settled first, bare calf crossing over knee, skirt riding high so a ribbon of thigh caught the fan breeze. No fuss, no apology, just a lazy slide into the chair to the left of the old man. Bucky and Steve perched side by side on the long bench, shoulders too broad for the narrow space.
Mr. Moreau cleared his throat. “So.”
Bucky flashed an easy grin. “Sir, we wanted to thank you for lunch—and for the loft last night. Fence is tight, wood’s stacked, goats’re lookin’ downright smug. Thought maybe we could hang on a bit. Give you a few more solid days’ work.”
Steve nodded, posture crisp. “We don’t expect pay. Just room, board, maybe a little gas when all’s done.”
The old man’s eyes narrowed, slow as an eclipse. “Men who drift in askin’ favours are usually runnin’ from somethin’.”
Bucky’s grin softened, but didn’t falter. “Only thing we’re runnin’ from is bad luck and an empty tank.” He lifted a fried fillet in salute. “Figured we’d trade sweat for supper till fortune turns.”
Mr. Moreau grunted, slicing into cornbread. “Luck’s earned, not begged.”
Across the table, you leaned your chin into one hand, nails tracing idle circles on the lacquer. “Daddy.” The single word mild and amused. “Fence never looked that straight. Saved you two of the town boys this morning.”
Bucky shot you a grateful wink. Steve took a careful sip of sweet tea—eyes flicking from the old man to the curve of your mouth as you licked a crumb of batter from your bottom lip.
“Could use them on the west pasture, too,” you added, voice syrup-slow. “Boards are rotten through. And your back’s been talkin’.”
The old man’s jaw ticked, like admitting pain was heresy. “Mmph.”
You shrugged, turning your attention to the drifters. “Reckon they stay through the weekend, that job’s done.”
Bucky’s boot nudged Steve’s knee under the table. He straightened. “We’ll have that pasture tight by Sunday. After that, we’ll roll on, no trouble.”
Mr. Moreau studied them, then you. “Ain’t your habit takin’ strays, girl.”
You tucked a damp piece of hair behind your ear. “Maybe they’re useful strays.”
Bucky coughed a laugh; Steve nudged him this time—behave. But you’d already hooked a foot beneath Bucky’s boot-lace, giving it a slow teasing drag. His breath caught, just a fraction, before he masked it with another bite of fish.
Steve felt the shift, the invisible pull of your attention, and he flushed hotter than cayenne pepper. You shifted again, thigh brushing his denim under the table’s edge, bare skin against coarse cotton for half a heartbeat, then you broke contact, like a cat pretending no mischief at all.
Mr. Moreau missed all of it, “My daughter’s comfort counts first.”
Bucky leaned forward, forearms on the table, voice dropping to a respectful drawl. “Sir, we’d sooner limp to Baton Rouge barefoot than disrespect your home or your daughter.”
You tipped your glass, amber iced tea shining against your mouth. “Told you they got manners, Daddy.”
Steve cleared his throat, earnest. “Mr. Moreau, we may have never grown up around farms… but work here feels right. Let us finish what we started.”
Silence stretched, thick as cane syrup. A fly buzzed the rim of the pepper sauce; the fan creaked overhead. Your toes traced a line up the inside seam of Bucky’s jeans, making him swallow hard. Steve’s knee jostled under your hand, and his fork stalled halfway to his mouth.
Finally Mr. Moreau set down his cornbread. “Two more days. West pasture, chicken-wire pen, then you go. I’ll spare a gallon for your tank—no more.”
Relief flickered across Steve’s face. Bucky grinned outright. “Much obliged, sir.”
“See it done proper.” He pushed back from the table, chair legs scraping. “I got hogs to check.” Then he turned to Steve, stern but not unkind, “You strike me as a man who knows straight from crooked. Keep him,”—a nod at Bucky—“on the square.”
“Yes, sir.”
The old man left through the side door, screen slapping shut. The room exhaled, something easier curling in the hot air.
Bucky looked at you, mischief lighting every line of him. “Appreciate the save, darlin’. Didn’t think we’d pass inspection.”
You rose, gathering plates, the hem of your skirt lifting as you reached across Steve’s shoulder—letting him feel the soft brush of your hip before you eased away. “Didn’t do it for free. Fence straight Sunday means I pick my payment.”
Steve tried for steady. “And what payment is that?”
You stacked dishes on the sideboard, glancing back over your shoulder. “Surprise me.” Then, softer, to Bucky, “And y’all behave. Daddy’s got a rifle on the porch.”
Bucky’s grin widened. “Lucky for us I’m faster than buckshot.”
“We’ll see.” You disappeared through the kitchen arch, leaving the faint scent of honeysuckle lotion in your wake.
Bucky exhaled a slow whistle. “Think she likes us.”
Steve dragged a hand down his face. “She’s teasing, Buck.”
“Teasing’s just foreplay writ large.” He elbowed Steve, leaning in. “Did you feel her on your leg? Damn near thought my heart’d stop.”
Steve pushed his chair out, cheeks flushed. “Focus, please.”
Sun-bleached boards thudded under their boots as they stepped off the porch. The cicadas had switched to their slow, drowsy rhythm—a back-of-the-throat drone.
Steve kept his voice low but firm. “We’ve got a good thing here, Buck. Two days’ work, a gallon for the Chevy, and a place that doesn’t smell like diesel. Don’t screw it up.”
Bucky shot him a sideways look, half-smile already fading. “Why’s it always ‘don’t screw it up,’ Stevie? Maybe let a man enjoy the view.”
“We promised Mr Moreau we’d behave,” Steve’s glare held steady. “You act like you’ve never seen a pretty girl before.”
“I promised to respect his house. Didn’t promise to walk around blind.” Bucky kicked a pebble off the path, hands sliding into his back pockets. “Besides, she’s not just ‘a pretty girl.’ She’s—” He paused, searching for the right weight of the word. “—a woman. Curves like a prayer and a mouth that could talk the devil into church.”
Steve stopped, jaw tight. “You’re thinking with your dick.”
“Guilty as charged.” Bucky’s grin flickered, then fell when Steve didn’t soften. “Come on, I’m not gonna leap on her in broad daylight. I can look.”
“Looking becomes touching, and touching gets us tossed back on the road.” Steve’s shoulders slumped with the day’s work, but the edge in his voice stayed sharp. “I’m tired, Buck. One calm weekend—that’s all I’m asking.”
Bucky dragged a hand through sweat-stiff hair, irritation creeping in. “You ever get tired of being the saint? Ever just… feel something and want it?”
“I’m not dead.” Steve’s gaze drifted back toward the house where you were in, then snapped back. “I just know consequences.”
Silence yawned between them, warm and weighty. A dragonfly skated past, wings catching the sunlight.
Finally Bucky exhaled, palms up in surrender. “Fine. No dirty business. Cross my heart. Happy?”
“I’ll be happy when we’re rolling down the highway with a full tank.” Steve started walking again. “Fence first. Daydreams later.”
Bucky fell in beside him, muttering, “Still gonna daydream,” but the bite had gone out of his voice. He cast one last glance at the house, wondering if you were watching from a window, then squared his shoulders and matched Steve’s pace.
Night pressed soft against the loft, all damp cricket-song and the slow pump of the bayou. Bucky slept hard—one arm flung over his face, snore sawing in and out like a loose screen door. Steve lay staring at the beams, sweat cooling on his chest, counting every creak of the rafters until the numbers tangled.
Finally he slid upright, feet finding the quilt-cool boards. Maybe a glance through the telescope would bleed off the restlessness. Just stargazing, nothing more.
The brass tube stood ready at the cut-out window, still flecked with dust from the afternoon. Steve angled it toward the water first—silver ripple, cypress knees shining. Pretty, but the hush didn’t fill him. The lens drifted past the dark smear of the barn roof, climbed to the house on the slight rise. One window glowed warm at the top floor—the only light left awake.
Curiosity, he told himself. He dialed the focus with thumb and forefinger, glass settling on the open curtains.
You moved into frame like a slow exhale, backlit amber. Bare shoulders, skin glinting where the lamp touched. A thin bra—lace maybe, pale against the line of your ribs. Matching panties sat low on your hips, soft fabric hugging the curve he’d pretended not to follow all day.
Steve’s breath stalled. He should pivot away, point the scope at the moon. Instead he watched, heartbeat thudding dull over the swamp’s night chorus.
You worked lotion over your body, hands moving over your chest, throat lengthening with each drag. Heat pooled low in Steve’s stomach, spreading tight. His underwear grew snug; he shifted, ashamed and hungry all at once.
Then your hands slid behind your back. A tiny hitch of shoulders, a flick—straps loosened, the bra easing forward before you peeled it off, slow as a secret. Breasts cupped the lamplight, perfect weight swaying when you dropped the scrap of lace onto a chair.
Steve’s palm tightened on the telescope barrel. He wanted to look away, give you privacy, keep the promise he’d made to himself and to Bucky, but he couldn’t. Not while you turned, adjusting the lamp wick, the soft underside of your breast catching the glow. His breath fogged the eyepiece; he wiped it with a trembling thumb and stared harder, pulse hammering through every inch of him.
Below, Bucky’s snore cut off, shifted, resumed. Steve froze, spine prickling, but the other man didn’t stir. Only the wind moved, pushing thick bayou air over Steve’s damp skin, over the ache pressing urgent inside his shorts.
In the window you stretched, arms above your head, nipples tightening against the night chill. A small satisfied sigh seemed to carry across the dark, Steve almost felt it on his tongue.
“God,” he whispered, a prayer or a curse, he wasn’t sure.
You turned then, facing the glass fully, eyes half-lidded, unaware of the distant drifter watching like a sinner. Steve’s heartbeat slammed. One more second, he promised himself, just one—
A floorboard groaned behind him. He jerked away from the telescope, heat flushing his face even in the dark. Bucky muttered, rolled, settled again. Steve pressed knuckles to his mouth, breathing through the thunder in his chest.
He lay back down but sleep didn’t come. The image of you; smooth skin, bare and unhurried, glowed behind his eyes, bright as the wildfire heat pooling low, refusing to let him go.
A pulse of want rolled through Steve so sharp it bordered on pain. He imagined stepping into that warm-lit room, sliding behind you, palms cupping the soft weight he could only see now in glass and reflections—thumbs circling your nipples until your breath stuttered.
He could almost feel the heat of your skin against his tongue, taste salt and honeysuckle lotion as he mouthed the tip and heard you sigh his name. The thought hit low and thick, tugging at him until his boxer briefs felt two sizes too small.
He tried to drag the vision back to something polite, tried to picture himself knocking on the door, asking if you needed help with chores, but the reel kept slipping; his hands spreading over your hips, his mouth trailing down to suck at the lush underside fo your breast where the lamplight painted shadows.
He wanted to trace every curve, let you arch beneath the weight of his body, feel you shiver when his tongue flicked over pebbled skin. The wanting rode him hard, ruthless, until he clenched his fists against the quilt and swallowed a groan, knowing the taste of you would haunt his tongue long after dawn.
Crickets sang louder, the bayou hummed, and Steve counted the beats until dawn, pulse trapped in the fist of his own wanting.
The next day the sun was high but merciful, tucked behind a gauzy veil of clouds. Steve worked the auger alone, shoulders bunching with every crank. He’d barely spoken since dawn, jaw tight enough to creak.
Across the pasture, you crossed the grass with a slow swing in your hips, skirt flirting just above your knees. Bucky spotted you first; the post-hole digger hit the dirt with a muffled thud. His grin arrived a heartbeat later.
“Afternoon, darlin’. Come to supervise?”
You stopped beside him, fingers trailing the rail he’d just set. “Someone’s gotta keep an eye on you. Your friend over there”—you nodded toward Steve—“can hardly look me in the eye without blushin’.”
Bucky followed your gaze. Steve never looked up, but his strokes came faster, as if he felt the attention. “That’s Stevie for ya. Spends half his life polishing a halo no one asked him to wear.”
“And you?” Your tone dropped silk-low. “What do you polish, hotshot?”
“Depends who’s askin’.” He leaned on the fence, sweat darkening the vee of his T-shirt. “If he’s the saint, guess that makes me the sinner.”
You hummed approval, thumb idly circling the rough grain near his wrist. “Sinner’s a big word.”
“Earned it.” His gaze dragged the length of your legs, unapologetic. “Figure sin’s just pleasure folks’re too scared to call by its proper name.”
“That right?” You shifted closer, the scent of hay and skin mingling. “Tell me a sin, then. One you’d commit if no one was watchin’.”
Bucky’s smile dipped wicked. “Start with a kiss, slow and sweet, right where that pulse flickers.” He trailed a knuckle just shy of the soft hollow beneath your ear. “Maybe taste that sheen of sweat on your throat—follow it down, see where it gathers.”
Your breath caught, but you kept your poise, folding arms under your breasts so they lifted, tempting. “Bold talk for a man on probation.”
“Two days’ probation.” His eyes sparkled. “Could make ’em holy or make ’em worth repentin’.”
You glanced back at Steve; he’d stopped, one hand braced on the auger, head dipped like a man praying for composure. A smirk curved your mouth. “Your boy looks ready to burst.”
“My boy’s got eyes.” Bucky lowered his voice. “Bet he’s thinkin’ the same dirty things. Just afraid to name ’em.” He leaned in until his lips almost grazed your ear. “Maybe we should show him sin ain’t so scary.”
Heat spiraled low in your belly at the promise. You slid a fingertip over the tops of Bucky’s work gloves, tracing the crease where leather met skin. “Maybe I like watching men wrestle temptation. Makes the reward sweeter when they finally give in.”
“Careful, angel. I’m a simple man once the rules come off.”
“So take ’em off,” you whispered, stepping back with a tease-slow smile. “When the work’s done.”
Your gaze drifted past the fenceline, toward the shimmer of water where the bayou curved like a dark ribbon through cane and cypress. Bucky’s eyes followed, hungry for whatever had your attention—even hungrier when they slid back to him.
“Pretty out there at night,” you murmured, thumb idly tracing the crease of his glove again. “Moon hangs low, fireflies float so thick it looks like somebody scattered diamonds over the water.”
“Sounds downright romantic,” he said, voice roughening on the word. His fingers twitched as if they’d rather close around your waist than the post-hole digger. “You a fan of romantic things, sweetheart?”
“Mm-hmm. When they’re done right.” You stepped just close enough that your skirt brushed his thigh, letting him feel the heat that lived in the inches between your thighs. “Question is—do you like romance, or are you all talk and no follow-through?”
“Oh, I follow through.” His grin tilted wicked. “Give me a porch swing, bit of night air, someone worth sittin’ close to? I’m a poet.”
“A poet?” You teased, but the word sparked a pleasant thrum low in your belly.
“Maybe more a—” His gaze dropped to your mouth, then lowered, lingered at the neckline of your tank. “—hands-on storyteller.”
“Then maybe I’ll tell Daddy I’m takin’ the skiff after supper.” Your voice stayed soft, but the promise in it was as thick as the noon heat. “Could show you that view once your better half’s asleep.”
His breath hitched. “And what view would that be?”
“The one where moonlight paints the bayou silver…” Your fingers ghosted up the inside of his bare forearm. “…and nobody’s around to see if I dip my toes into the water.”
He swallowed hard. “Could be dangerous out there.”
“Only if you scare easy.” Your lips curved. “You strike me as the kind that doesn’t.”
“Saint back there might beg to differ,” he said, jerking his chin toward Steve, who was still hammering like salvation depended on it.
“He’s busy saving souls. I’m busy tempting sinners.” You stepped back, leaving the faintest drag of your nails along his wrist before the distance sealed. “Finish your posts, handsome. Meet me by the dock after dark. We’ll see if romance fits you.”
Bucky’s voice was just a rasp now. “Yes, ma’am.”
You turned toward the barn, hips swaying like slow jazz. Behind you, the clink of wire and rasp of shovel sounded suddenly frantic—as if the devil himself told him every nail he sets is one minute closer to sin.
Across the pasture, Steve finally looked up, sweat-slick hair falling in his eyes. He watched Bucky watching you and couldn’t quite name the tightness curling in his gut; couldn’t decide if it was jealousy, dread, or something hotter than either.
The loft was heavy with darkness—rafters lost in shadow, only a ribbon of moonlight sneaking through the cut-out window. Steve rolled onto his back, blinked, and blinked again. The couch beside him should’ve been groaning under Bucky’s long sprawl, but the cushions sat empty, quilt folded neat as a flag.
“Damn it, Buck,” he muttered.
Boots in hand, he eased to the ladder, the barn’s hush broken only by the soft drip of night dew through the roof tin. Outside, the world glimmered silver—pasture brushed in moon-pale grass, house lights long since snuffed. Steve angled toward the porch first, nothing. He circled the truck, checked the tool shed, found only his own irritation sharpening.
Last option, water.
He followed the narrow path that cut between cane rows, the air warm and wet against his skin. Crickets chirred in lazy chirr-chirrs; now and then a bullfrog belched from some hidden hollow. The bayou opened ahead, black water reflecting slices of stars.
That’s when he heard it—soft at first, a breathy hum sliding into a low, bitten-off moan. Another, higher, drenched in pleasure and muffled by sleepy dark. Steve stopped dead. The sound floated from the dock where the skiff rocked, a rhythm that was distinctly human, distinctly intimate.
He swallowed, pulse thumping in his throat. A rustle followed, then a hushed male laugh—Bucky’s, unmistakable, husky with mischief. Another sigh answered him, velvet-sweet. Steve’s cheeks flamed; every warning he’d given rattled back in his skull.
He stepped closer, shoes silent on damp earth, but stayed behind the screen of cypress trunks. The voices blurred but the tone was clear—slow, wet kisses; a whispered “you like that, darlin’” that tightened his gut. Wood knocked softly, a back hitting the dock, maybe, then a tremor of breathy laughter, yours, sliding straight beneath Steve’s skin.
Steve’s boots sank into the soft mud as he edged forward, the cypress shadows cloaking him like a guilty secret. The air hung heavy, laced with the musky tang of the bayou and something sharper—sweat, skin, raw need.
His heart hammered against his ribs, each step pulling him deeper into the forbidden pull of those sounds; the slick glide of bodies, the creak of the dock under shifting weight, your gasps weaving through Bucky’s low, filthy murmurs.
He parted the low-hanging branches, breath held tight, and there it was—laid bare under the fractured moonlight. The old wooden dock stretched out over the inky water, a threadbare blanket rumpled beneath you, your body arched and exposed in stark naked glory.
Legs splayed wide, knees hooked over Bucky’s hips, you lay on your back, skin flushed and glistening, breasts heaving with every ragged inhale. Bucky loomed above you, just as bare, his muscled frame glistening with effort, driving into you with relentless force—like a piston hammering home, hips snapping forward in a brutal rhythm that made the skiff bob gently against the pilings.
“Goddamn, angel, you’re so fuckin’ tight,” Bucky rasped, voice gravel-rough and dripping with heat, his arm braced beside your head, the other gripping your thigh to spread you wider.
He plunged deep, cock thick and veined, disappearing into your slick folds with each savage thrust, the wet squelch of your cunt taking him echoing softly over the water.
You encouraged him, nails raking down his back, leaving red trails that made him hiss and buck harder.
“Yeah, just like that… fuck me deeper, honey, don’t stop,” you moaned, voice husky and demanding, hips rolling up to meet him, chasing the friction that had your toes curling against the blanket.
Steve’s gut twisted, a vicious knot of jealousy coiling tight. That smug son of a bitch—breaking their word, claiming you right here where anyone could stumble on it.
Part of him wanted to storm the dock, drag Bucky off you, demand answers—Why you? Why him? Why not…?
But his feet stayed rooted, eyes glued to the obscene union where Bucky’s cock stretched you wide, emerging slick and shining with your arousal before slamming back in, balls slapping heavy against your ass.
He couldn’t tear away. Watched, transfixed, as Bucky’s ass clenched with every drive—muscles bunching tight, flexing under the moonlight as he powered forward, burying himself to the hilt.
Your pussy lips clung to him on the outstroke, puffy and soaked, the connection a filthy, mesmerizing sight that sent heat surging through Steve’s veins. Jealousy warred with the fire building low in his belly, his cock swelling hard and insistent against his pants, throbbing with a need that shamed him even as it gripped him tighter.
Bucky leaned down, capturing your mouth in a messy kiss, tongue thrusting in time with his hips, while his hand slid between your bodies to circle your clit, making you arch and cry out into his mouth.
“Come on, pretty girl, squeeze me—milk this cock like you own it,” he grunted against your lips, pace turning frantic, the dock groaning under the onslaught.
You bucked beneath him, moans spilling free, body trembling on the edge, and Steve’s hand drifted unconsciously to his zipper, palm pressing against the rigid length straining there, breath coming in shallow pants as arousal drowned the anger, leaving only the pounding urge to watch you shatter.
His resolve cracked like dry earth under the relentless pull of what was unfolding before him. His hand trembled as it fumbled with his belt, the zipper rasping down too loud in the humid night, but the bayou swallowed the sound.
Shame burned hot in his chest, a sick twist of disgust at his own weakness—spying like some pervert, palming his aching cock free into the cool air. It sprang out, thick and heavy, veins pulsing with the blood roaring through him, pre-cum already beading at the tip as he wrapped his fingers around the shaft, stroking slow at first, then matching the brutal rhythm Bucky set.
Bucky shifted, his thrusts deepening, hips grinding forward with a force that buried him balls-deep, your slick walls clenching around his length in greedy pulls. Steve’s eyes locked on the way your body yielded, pussy stretched taut around Bucky’s girth, juices coating him shiny and wet with every withdraw.
He pumped his fist tighter, breath hitching, hating how the sight made his balls draw up, how the jealousy gnawed deeper when Bucky dipped his head to your chest.
Bucky’s mouth latched onto one breast, sucking hard on the swollen nipple, tongue lashing the peak while his teeth grazed just enough to make you whimper.
Your back bowed off the blanket, fingers tangling in his hair to hold him there, and Steve’s gut clenched like a fist—fuck, he wished that was him, his lips sealing over that pebbled flesh, tasting the salt of your skin, drawing those desperate sounds from your throat.
“Harder, handsome—suck ’em like you mean it,” you gasped, voice raw and pleading, and Steve’s strokes quickened, imagining those words spilling for him, your body writhing under his weight instead.
He leaned against the cypress trunk for support, the rough bark biting into his palm as he jerked himself off in frantic pulls, the wet schlick of his hand mirroring the obscene slap of Bucky’s hips against yours. Every encouragement you tossed out—“Yes, just like that, fill me up”—twisted the knife of envy, but he devoured them, pretending you meant him, that your heat was clenching around his cock, not Bucky’s.
Then it hit—you shattered with a loud, keening moan that sliced through the night, body convulsing as your orgasm ripped through you. Steve watched your pussy spasm, milking Bucky’s shaft in rhythmic squeezes, walls fluttering visibly around him.
Bucky groaned low and guttural, the sound vibrating from his chest as he felt it, your release soaking him further.
“Fuck—yeah, cum all over me, sweet thing,” he grunted, pace turning savage, hips pistoning faster, chasing his own edge with short, brutal drives that made your tits bounce and the dock shudder.
Steve’s vision blurred, the coil in his gut snapping as he stared at the frenzy—your nails digging into Bucky’s shoulders, his ass flexing with each punishing thrust, cock slamming home through your climax.
It was too much; his balls tightened, and he came with a stifled grunt, hot spurts erupting over his fist, splattering the mud at his feet. Ecstasy flooded him in white-hot waves, cock twitching in his grip, but as the peak crested, shame crashed down like a Louisiana storm—disgust churning in his veins, sticky and vile, for getting off to his best friend fucking, to you choosing Bucky’s roughness over whatever Steve might have offered.
Bucky kept going, mouth claiming yours in a sloppy, devouring kiss, tongues tangling as he rode out the aftershocks, hips still rolling deep.
Steve’s hand shook as he tucked himself away, cum-smeared fingers fumbling the zipper up, heart pounding with the need to vanish before the guilt swallowed him whole.
He backed away silent as a ghost, retreating into the cane rows, the sounds of your shared breaths fading behind him, leaving only the bitter ache of what he’d seen, and what he’d done, in the humid dark.
Morning sweated slowly into afternoon, the sun floating white-hot behind a gauze of haze. Down in the west pasture the fence line rattled beneath the steady thunk of a post-hole digger, but today its rhythm belonged to only one pair of hands.
Steve drove the iron blades into the soil again and again—shirt plastered to his back, jaw set so tight the tendon jumped. Every few minutes he straightened, wiped the grit from his palms, and turned the next section of wire without so much as a glance toward the barn.
Bucky tried talking first thing, an easy joke about cane toads croaking love songs, but Steve answered with a curt nod and buried himself in work. Now, hours later, Bucky was done pretending it didn’t sting. He stalked up the fenceline, boots crunching weeds, sweat glistening on his forearms.
“Alright, punk, what crawled up your ass?”
No answer. Steve slammed another staple home, muscles flexing under sunburned skin.
“Come on, Rogers. Usually I can’t shut you up about alignments and load-bearing angles. Now you’re growlin’ like a kicked dog.”
The hammer paused mid-swing. Steve’s eyes cut sideways, bruised with sleeplessness. “I’m working.”
“Yeah, and ignoring me like I shot your horse.”
“You’d have to own a gun first,” Steve muttered, turning away.
The hammer came down hard, bending the staple sideways. Steve cursed under his breath, pried it out, tried again. Bucky leaned on a fencepost, arms folded.
“You gonna keep this up all day?” he asked, softer now. “Or tell me what I did.”
Steve’s shoulders heaved once, twice. Finally he tossed the hammer into the grass and faced him. “I saw you.”
Bucky blinked. “Saw me what?”
“Last night.” The words grated out like gravel. “By the bayou. With her.”
Silence sucked the air from between them. A cicada screeched somewhere overhead; the wind died.
Bucky’s mouth opened, shut, then set in a thin line. “You spying on me now?”
“I came looking because your dumb ass snuck off.” Steve’s voice cracked with heat—not anger alone, but something raw beneath it. “We agreed, Buck. No screwin’ around with Mr Moreau’s girl.”
“She’s not a girl, Steve. She’s a woman. And she made the first move.”
Steve barked a humorless laugh. “So that clears your conscience? She offered, you took, and the rest of us be damned?”
Bucky pushed off the post, expression hardening. “Don’t pretend it’s about conscience. It’s about you bein’ jealous I got there first.”
Steve flinched as if struck. “You think this is a competition?”
“Isn’t it?” Bucky stepped closer, voice dropping. “I’m tired of tip-toeing around you so you can pretend you’re above wanting her.”
A flush crawled up Steve’s neck. “This isn’t about me. It’s about respect—”
“It’s about you not knowing what to do with what you feel,” Bucky shot back. “So you call me reckless to make yourself feel righteous.”
Steve’s fists clenched. “Reckless? You call sneaking out to fuck the farmer’s daughter on the dock responsible? You risked us getting thrown off the property.”
“Worth it,” Bucky said, and the word was all challenge, “I’m not ashamed of wanting her. She sure as hell wasn’t ashamed of wanting me.”
Steve’s breath hitched; the memory flashed—moonlight on skin, your voice breaking open. Shame burned inside him like lye. “We’re guests here,” he managed. “We owe Mr Moreau respect.”
“I didn’t touch her where he could see.”
“That’s not the point.” Steve turned away, picking up the wire as if work could armour him. “You never think past the next thrill. And I’m always the one patching whatever you tear up.”
“So patch this,” Bucky said, jaw tight. “Or admit the real reason you’re mad is because you wanted to be where I was.”
Colour surged up Steve’s throat. He took a half-step back, fists clenching, then exhaled hard. “You don’t know what I want.”
“You think I can’t see it? You stare at her like she’s Sunday salvation—then play saint when she looks back.” Bucky shook his head, frustration edging his tone. “I’m not sorry, Steve.”
Steve’s gaze flicked toward the house, shutters still closed and curtains fluttering soft. His jaw worked. “If you cared half as much about respect as you do about getting off—”
“Respect?” Bucky scoffed. “I asked her what she wanted. She said yes—loud enough the gators could hear.”
Steve’s eyes flashed, hurt bleeding through. “You don’t get it.”
“What I get is a partner who can’t decide if he’s my brother or my warden.” Bucky’s voice dropped, rough. “If you wanted her, you should’ve said so.”
Steve spun, eyes blazing. For a heartbeat words tangled unsaid—about loyalty, about how long he’d followed Bucky into trouble and how this, somehow, hurt worse than any fight in a back alley. Instead he grabbed the digger, drove it into the ground with a grunt.
“Go inside,” he muttered. “I’ll finish the line.”
Bucky took a step, but not back. His voice dropped to a thread. “You gonna tell her you watched?”
The tool froze mid-lift. Steve’s gaze snapped up, raw panic flickering before he masked it. “Don’t.”
Bucky’s anger faltered, replaced by something like wonder. “Jesus, you did more than watch, didn’t you?”
Steve’s face went white, then red. The digger slipped; he caught it, palms stinging. “Shut up.”
Bucky exhaled, disbelief softening into a rueful smile. “Saint Rogers,” he murmured. “Guess halos tarnish after all.”
Steve’s eyes glinted, hurt and humiliated. He dropped the tool, stepped past Bucky, shoulders stiff. “I’m done talking.”
“Steve—”
But Steve was already striding toward the cane rows, boots kicking dust, jaw clenched so hard it hurt. The sky boiled with late-day clouds, thunder rumbling somewhere distant. Bucky watched him go, chest tight with something that wasn’t victory at all.
The stall smelled of clean straw and warm horsehide, lantern light pooling soft over the cedar boards. Steve stood at the far end, shirt stuck to him, shoulders working a curry brush over the sorrel mare’s flank. The rhythm was steady, measured—every stroke a word he couldn’t speak.
You eased between the stalls, plate balanced on your palm, hips brushing the half-open doors as you passed. “Skipped lunch,” you said, “Figured a man could use somethin’ besides self-reproach for fuel.”
He turned, blue eyes wary until they landed on the sandwich, then gentled. “Ma’am, you didn’t have to—”
“Didn’t ask if I had to.” You held the plate until he took it, fingers grazing his knuckles, a quick spark you pretended not to notice. “Eat before you faint and scare my horses.”
Steve managed a crooked smile, sank onto an overturned feed bucket. The first bite broke the tension in his shoulders; you leaned against the stall door, arms folding under your breasts, watching him chew like it was the most interesting thing in Louisiana.
“You work too hard,” you said after a moment. “Makes me nervous—like I’ve gone and offended you.”
His gaze flicked up, guilt flashing. “You haven’t. I’m… just wired tight today.”
“Wired tight.” You tasted the words, slow. “Could loosen you, if you’d let me.”
He focused on the sandwich, and cleared his voice, despite colour creeping up his throat. “Wasn’t raised to pester a lady while I’m a guest under her roof.”
You hummed, unconvinced. “Feels more like you’re dodgin’ than mindin’ manners. You won’t hardly look at me unless I corner you.”
Steve set the plate on his thigh, thumb worrying the edge. “I—” He paused, swallowed. “You make it hard to keep my thoughts straight.”
“That so?” You pushed off the door, closed the distance until your boots touched his. Fingers slipped beneath the collar of his damp T-shirt, brushing the salty line of his neck. His breath caught hard.
“You ain’t doin’ anything wrong, sugar,” you whispered, letting your nails trace a half-moon before sliding away. “Least not with me.”
The mare huffed behind Steve, but neither of you moved. Your palm skimmed the line of his shoulder, slow and coaxing, to where the muscles knotted beneath damp cotton. “Tell me what’s eating you, pretty boy,” you murmured, thumb easing up the column of his throat to the sharp square of his jaw.
Steve’s lashes flickered. He tried to keep his eyes on the half-eaten sandwich, but the gentleness in your touch tugged his gaze up—and once he met your stare, whatever dam he’d built cracked. “I— last night,” he rasped, voice scraping raw. “I went looking for Bucky. I saw you two… by the bayou.”
Heat rushed to his cheeks. “I stayed. Watched. Should’ve turned around, but I—”
The confession spilled in a tumble of guilt and want. “I hated how jealous I felt. Hated that I couldn’t stop.”
“Oh, baby.” The words were a hush, almost a lullaby. You slid your fingers into the short hair at his nape and guided his head forward until his brow rested against the fine cotton of your shirt just above your navel. He inhaled, sun-warmed linen and honeysuckle, and shuddered.
“You didn’t do wrong by me,” you whispered, stroking the back of his neck. “Feelings aren’t sins.”
Steve’s hands hovered, uncertain, then settled at the backs of your thighs, big and tentative. You stroked his hair once more, let the silence breathe. Outside, the afternoon cicadas blurred into a single shimmering note.
“You can want something without tearing the roof down,” you said, voice low. “All that goodness in you doesn’t disappear ‘cause your body woke up.”
He nodded against you, and the movement, the trust in it, pulled a soft ache in your chest. You tilted his chin, thumb brushing the stubble-rough corner of his mouth. “Look at me, Steve.”
He did, eyes ocean-deep and storm-tossed at once. Your pulse skipped. “Let me show you it’s all right,” you breathed.
You bent, brushing your lips to his—a feather’s kiss, barely there. Steve’s exhale trembled, lashes falling shut as though the simplest touch was sacred. You tasted salt and sun and something sweeter before you lifted away a sliver. His eyes opened, dark with wanting, but he waited, polite even here, and that patience lit a spark low in your belly.
So you kissed him again, surer this time. The soft drag of mouths lingered, then opened; tongues met in a slow glide that tasted like a promise. Steve’s grip tightened at your thighs, thumbs sweeping small circles against your skin as though mapping sacred ground. You inched forward a fraction, pressing him back onto the overturned feed bucket; the move stole a breathy groan from him, swallowed into the kiss.
The stables seemed to narrow around you—lantern glow pooling honey-thick, dust motes floating like sparks in the slanted light. Somewhere a horse stamped, but the world had fallen to heat, straw, and the soft slick slide of lips.
You pulled back just enough to speak against his mouth. “Still feel like you’ve done wrong?”
His eyes opened; blue storm clearing to summer sky. He shook his head, a dazed smile ghosting. “Feel like I’m still figuring out what right feels like,” he murmured.
Your thumb traced the edge of his lower lip, swollen now, beautifully kiss-bitten. “Right’s easy,” you said. “It’s what makes you breathe easier, not harder.”
Steve’s gaze dipped to your mouth, then to the stretch of skin exposed where your shirt rode up. Courage flickered. One big hand slid higher, fingertips brushing the curve just beneath your hemline—a question more than a claim. You answered with a slow nod, lowering your weight a breath closer until his knuckles pressed warm between your ribs.
You slid the half-eaten sandwich and tin plate to the floor with one careless sweep, then eased a knee onto Steve’s lap, settling astride him. The overturned feed bucket creaked; Steve’s hands darted automatically to steady your hips, then froze as if he touched fire.
“Wait—” His voice was a husky scrape. “What about Bucky?”
You leaned in, thumbs brushing the fine blond stubble at his jaw. “Bucky’s not here, sugar.” Your hips sank a fraction, finding the thick shape straining beneath his work jeans. A tremor ripped through him; his eyelids fluttered.
“I can feel how bad you want it,” you murmured, amusement curling in the words like smoke. “Been feelin’ it since I met you. You think I didn’t notice?”
Heat bloomed crimson along Steve’s cheekbones. “I— I keep tryin’ to be respectful.”
“You are.” You cradled his face between your palms. It was steady and reassuring. “Respect doesn’t mean pretendin’ you don’t ache.”
His fingers finally unclenched, sliding up your thighs, rough thumbs stroking slow circles that raised gooseflesh. You rocked once, lazy and testing, and the low sound that spilled from his throat made the lantern sway on its hook.
“I want you too,” you confessed, voice just above a breath. “Want to hear you forget every polite word you know.”
Steve swallowed hard. “That might… take some coaxin’.”
You smiled, nose brushing his. “Lucky I have time.”
Storm-cloud light flickered through the high slats; somewhere beyond the stables a first fat drop of rain hit the tin roof with a hollow ping. You tilted his head back, claiming his mouth again—slow at first, letting him taste the yes in every slide of your tongue. His hands gripped your waist now, anchoring you as though the whole building could spin away.
“Tell me,” you whispered against his lips, “does this feel wrong?”
“No,” he exhaled, breath shivering through the single syllable.
“Then let it feel right.” Your fingers threaded into his hair, guiding him to the soft hollow of your throat. He pressed his mouth there, and the sharp sigh he let out bloomed heat low in your belly.
Rain pattered harder, drumming steady on the roof—cover for any sound you might choose to make. You rolled your hips once more; Steve answered instinctively with a slow lift of his own. The friction dragged a gasp from you both, tangled in the humid air.
You ground against him harder, hips circling with deliberate pressure, the denim barrier between you doing nothing to dull the rigid heat of his cock pressing up into your core. Steve’s mouth yielded under yours, the kiss turning rough—tongues clashing wet and urgent, his lips bruised from the depth of it. He looked utterly lost in it, eyes half-lidded and glassy, like a man three shots deep into whiskey, chasing the burn of your flavor.
Your teeth nipped his lower lip, drawing a ragged inhale from him as you murmured against the corner of his mouth, “That’s it. Touch me, honey. Feel how wet you’re makin’ me already.”
His palms hesitated for a split second, then surged upward, callused fingers digging into the swell of your ass, kneading the flesh through your skirt with a grip that bordered on desperate.
“Good boy,” you breathed, nipping his earlobe before sucking it between your teeth, the vibration of your praise humming into his skin, “pull me down harder. Make me ride that thick length of yours.”
Emboldened, Steve’s hands clenched tighter, yanking you flush against him with a low groan that rumbled from his chest. The force of it slammed your clit right over his bulge, friction sparking white-hot through your veins, your pussy throbbing with the need to be filled.
He bucked up to meet your rhythm, the overturned bucket groaning under the strain as you rutted rougher, denim grinding cotton in slick, heated drags that had slickness soaking through your panties.
Steve’s breaths came in hot pants against your neck, his confidence blooming like the storm outside—fingers spreading wide to cup your cheeks fully, thumbs pressing into the cleft, urging you to grind faster, deeper.
“God, you feel so good,” he rasped, voice thick and broken, finally shedding that polite shell as his hips rolled up hard, chasing the pressure building between you both.
The storm raged fiercer, rain lashing the roof like a thousand frantic fingers, drowning out the world beyond these weathered walls. Impatience clawed through you, a hot coil tightening low in your gut—you needed more than this teasing grind, needed him bare and buried deep.
With a frustrated sound against his lips, you lifted your hips just enough to break the contact, the sudden absence making your clit ache from the loss of friction.
Steve chased it instinctively, a desperate buck of his hips upward, his bulge straining toward you like it had a mind of its own.
“Easy, baby,” you soothed, voice a husky purr as you pressed a palm to his chest, feeling the rapid thunder of his heart beneath sweat-damp cotton. “I got you… gonna take care of that ache right now.” His eyes were wild, pupils blown dark with lust, but he stilled under your touch, breath ragged and waiting.
Your fingers fumbled hastily at his belt buckle, the metal clinking sharp in the humid air before you yanked the zipper down with a swift tug. Steve’s mouth never left your skin, latching onto the pulse point at your throat with hot, open-mouthed sucks that sent shivers racing down your spine—teeth grazing just enough to sting, tongue lapping greedily like he was starving for your taste.
His hands, bold now in their roaming, shoved up under your shirt, palms rough and seeking as they cupped your breasts, thumbs circling your hardening nipples through the thin lace of your bra. He squeezed , rolling the peaks until you arched into him with a sharp gasp, the dual assault of his mouth and hands making your cunt clench with raw need.
Diving into the open fly of his jeans, your hand slipped past the waistband of his boxers, fingers wrapping around the thick, velvety length of his cock. God, he was huge. Hot and heavy in your grip, the foreskin sliding smooth over the swollen head as you gave him a testing stroke.
Excitement surged through you, a fresh gush of wetness soaking your panties. “Fuck, Steve,” you breathed, as you pumped him slowly, feeling the way he throbbed and leaked pre-cum against your palm.
He pulled back just enough to meet your gaze, his blue eyes hazy and uncertain, searching your face for that green light—like a man on the edge, waiting for permission to shatter.
You smiled, thumbing over the flushed tip to smear his slickness down the shaft. “I love uncut men,” you murmured, low and filthy, watching heat flood his cheeks even as his cock twitched harder in your fist.
“Makes ’em feel so damn good… sensitive and real. Yours is perfect, honey. Thick and ready to stretch me wide.” Confident, you stroked him firmer, twisting your wrist at the base where veins pulsed hot under your fingers, drawing a guttural groan from deep in his chest.
You released him just long enough to hike up your skirt, bunching the fabric around your waist to expose the damp lace clinging to your thighs. Hooking your fingers into the crotch of your panties, you shoved them aside roughly, the cool air kissing your slick folds for a heartbeat before you positioned yourself above him.
His cock stood rigid, flushed and glistening from your touch, the head nudging insistently at your entrance as you hovered there, teasing the tip through your wetness—letting the anticipation build until his hands gripped your hips like iron, urging you down with a plea in his eyes.
Slowly you sank down onto his cock, the thick head parting your slick folds and stretching you inch by agonizing inch. A sharp hiss escaped your lips at the burn of it—uncut skin gliding smooth against your inner walls, every ridge and vein dragging delicious friction as you took him deeper.
You watched him like a predator savoring prey, drinking in the way his jaw clenched, brows furrowing in overwhelmed bliss, those blue eyes fluttering half-shut before snapping back to yours. The power of it surged through you, your pussy clenching around him just to feel him twitch inside, the sight of his restraint cracking making your clit throb with wicked satisfaction.
“That’s it,” you murmured, voice a sultry rasp laced with filth, leaning in close enough for your breath to ghost his ear. “Feel how wet I am for you? Squeezin’ this fat cock like it belongs in me. Tell me how it feels—c’mon, baby, use those words.”
Your hips settled fully, grinding in a lazy circle to seat him to the hilt, his balls pressed snug against your ass, but you held still for a beat, teasing him with the velvet grip of your heat. The rain might as well have been a memory; all you heard was his ragged breathing, the wet sounds of your bodies joined.
Slowly, you started to move—lifting just enough to let half his length slide free before easing back down, the drag pulling a low moan from your throat.
“Take what you want, sugar,” you encouraged, nails digging into his shoulders for leverage, voice dropping to a husky whisper. “Grab my ass, my tits—fuck me like you’ve been dreamin’ about. I ain’t fragile; I want it rough, want you to ruin me with this thing.”
He answered in groans at first, deep and guttural, vibrating through his chest as his hips jerked up to meet your descent. “God... so tight,” he murmured, the words tumbling out low and broken, like they were dragged from some hidden place.
“Feels... too good... can’t—” Another thrust from below cut him off, his cock spearing deeper, hitting that spot that made stars burst behind your eyelids. His hands roamed hungrily now, one sliding down to grip your thigh, the other tangling in your hair to pull you into a messy kiss, his tongue thrusting in time with his subtle bucks.
The pace quickened as impatience won out; you bounced a little harder, the slap of skin on skin echoing, your juices coating his shaft and dripping down to soak his jeans. Steve’s control frayed further; he shoved your tank top down with a rough yank, the fabric bunching at your waist and dragging your bra along with it.
Your breasts spilled free, heavy and bouncing with each rise, nipples peaked and begging for attention in the humid air. He stared for a split second, awe flickering in his lust-glazed eyes, before his hands were on them—palms cupping the soft weight, thumbs flicking over the sensitive tips.
“You’re beautiful,” he breathed, voice sweet and polite even in the haze, like a gentleman undone. “These... perfect. So full, so soft—wanna taste ’em, if that’s alright.”
The contrast hit you like lightning, his polite words amid the filth of what you were doing, making your core clench tighter around him. You arched into his touch, moaning as he leaned up to latch onto one nipple, sucking hard while you bounced faster, the dual sensations coiling that heat low and fierce.
The rhythm turned frantic as you picked up speed, hips slamming down harder onto Steve’s cock. Your ass slapped against his thighs, the wet smack mingling with the creak of hay beneath you and the thunder rumbling outside. He thrust up to meet you now, powerful bucks from below that jolted through your core, his body finally surrendering to the instinct you’d been coaxing out.
You reveled in it, a smile splitting your face as you caught him still fixated on your tits—bouncing wildly with each bounce, nipples grazing his chest when you leaned forward, flushed and heaving from the effort.
“Yeah, that’s it baby,” you murmured, voice breathy, threading your fingers through his hair to tug his head back just enough to force his eyes to yours.
“Fuck me back like you mean it—tell me, Stevie, you like poundin’ into me? Like how my pussy milks this cock?” Your words were a filthy prod, urging him past the groans into something more, wanting to hear that polite facade shatter completely.
He groaned louder, the sound raw and desperate, but he managed words this time, spilling them between gritted teeth as his mouth returned to your breast—sucking the peak hard, teeth grazing just enough to sting.
“Love it... shit, love how you take me,” he rasped, voice muffled against your skin, one hand squeezing your ass to pull you down firmer.
“These tits drivin’ me crazy, so damn perfect, bouncin’ like that. And you... tight, hot, beggin’ for it without sayin’ a word.” The sweetness laced his filth, his blue eyes locking on yours mid-thrust. It fueled you, that mix of gentlemanly sweetness and primal drive, making your walls flutter around his length as you rode him relentlessly.
Eventually, you reached between your bodies, fingers finding your swollen clit amid the slick mess where you joined. You rubbed in firm circles, the pressure building fast under your touch, chasing that edge while his cock stretched you full.
“Keep talkin’, sugar,” you gasped, bouncing even more furiously, the pace turning punishing, your juices soaking his balls with every slap. “Tell me what you like about me—my tight little cunt? How I ride you like I own this cock?”
Steve’s response was a guttural curse, his free hand joining yours briefly to press your fingers harder against your clit, like he couldn’t help but take over even there.
“Everything... your fire, the way you squeeze me—god,” he murmured, thrusting up with a force that nearly unseated you, his cock throbbing inside.
The words tipped you over; your orgasm crashed through like lightning, walls clamping down in rhythmic pulses around him, milking his shaft as waves of pleasure ripped cries from your throat. You shuddered through it, grinding down to ride out the bliss, clit pulsing under your touch while your body trembled atop him.
He followed seconds later, the vice of your release undoing him completely. “Shit—cummin’...”
Steve groaned, hips snapping up one last time, burying himself to the root as he erupted. Hot spurts flooded you, his cock jerking with each pulse, filling your spasming heat until it leaked out around him, mixing with your own wetness.
His hands gripped your hips bruisingly, holding you in place as he rode the high, face buried in the crook of your neck, breaths ragged against your skin. The stables seemed to spin for a moment, the rain’s roar returning as your pulses slowed, bodies slick and spent in the humid aftermath.
Steve stayed where he was, like he didn’t quite trust his own limbs yet—face pressed into the warm softness of your chest, breath still uneven against your skin. His hands hadn’t moved either, still anchored at your hips like if he let go too fast you might disappear on him.
You smoothed your fingers through his hair, slow and steady, easing him down from that sharp edge he’d been riding. “Easy, baby… breathe,” you murmured, voice soft, coaxing. “That’s it.”
He let out a shaky exhale, shoulders finally dropping a fraction. The tension in him didn’t vanish, but it softened, melted under your touch instead of snapping tight like it had all morning.
“I didn’t—” he started, then stopped, words catching somewhere between guilt and something softer. “I didn’t think I’d… be like that.”
You tipped his chin just enough to look at him, thumb brushing the flush still high on his cheek. “Like what?” you asked gently.
“Needy,” he admitted, quiet. “Rough. Thought I was better at keepin’ things… under control.”
You huffed a quiet little laugh, not mocking, just warm. “Control’s overrated.” Your hand drifted down his arm, tracing the muscle there, feeling the last little tremors still working through him. “Ain’t nothing wrong with wanting somebody. Ain’t nothing wrong with taking what’s given, either.”
His eyes searched yours, still unsure. “Even… like this?”
“Especially like this.” You leaned in, pressing a soft kiss to the corner of his mouth. “You’re a man, Steve. You feel things. You want things. That don’t make you bad.”
He swallowed, something easing in his expression, though a crease of doubt lingered. “Doesn’t feel like the way I was raised.”
“Maybe the way you were raised ain’t the only way to live.” Your fingers slid back into his hair, nails lightly scratching his scalp, coaxing another quiet exhale from him. “You keep tryin’ to fit yourself into something too tight. No wonder you’re all wound up.”
His grip on your hips loosened, hands shifting instead to rest like he was finally allowing himself to just be there with you instead of bracing for what came next.
“You didn’t look like you thought it was wrong,” you added, a teasing lilt slipping back into your tone, eyes flicking to his mouth. “Not when you took me like a rowdy bull.”
A faint, embarrassed smile tugged at his lips. “No… guess I didn’t.”
“There you go.” You nudged his nose with yours, playful now. “Honest for once.”
He let out a soft breath that almost sounded like a laugh, the sound low and a little disbelieving, like he wasn’t used to feeling this light after something that intense.
Outside, the rain had started to ease—softening from a roar to a steady patter. Inside the stall, the air stayed thick and warm, the kind that made it easy to linger. Steve shifted slightly beneath you, one hand coming up to your back, resting there more confidently now.
“Thank you,” he said, quieter this time.
You tilted your head, studying him for a beat, then smiled. “Don’t start getting all polite on me again,” you warned lightly. “We just fixed that problem.”
That earned a small huff from him, the ghost of his usual composure returning, but looser now, less rigid. Your fingers traced idly along his shoulder again, slow, absentminded, like you had all the time in the world.
“Better?” you asked, softer.
Steve nodded, eyes lingering on your face—then dipping, just briefly, before coming back up. There was still heat there, still want, but now it sat easier on him. Less like something to fight. More like something he was starting to understand.
“Yeah,” he said. “Better.”
Rain sheeted against the loft’s tin roof hard enough to rattle the rafters, a steady percussion that should’ve lulled tired muscles to sleep.
Instead, Steve lay flat on the thin mattress pulled beside the couch, eyes fixed on the low slope of the ceiling where moon-gray water stains mapped the wood. The darkness felt thick, scented with damp hay and the copper tang of dying storm, but it was the silence between the two men that really pressed on his ribs.
Across the narrow space Bucky shifted, springs creaking under the old couch cushions. Not asleep. Steve could tell from the rhythm of his breathing; too shallow.
They’d worked the afternoon in tense near-silence, traded a few practical words over supper, then climbed to the loft when Mr. Moreau doused the lanterns downstairs. Since then… nothing.
Steve’s guilt gnawed as loud as the rain. All the righteous bullshit he’d thrown at Bucky that morning felt paper-thin now, ripped by the memory of your thighs bracketing his hips, the slick pull of your body around him. He’d sinned in the very place he’d condemned… maybe deeper. Bucky had broken a promise, sure, but Steve had broken it twice. First by watching, then by taking.
If he spoke first, will it sound like confession or a challenge? He imagined Bucky’s face if he admitted what happened in the stables—those bright blue eyes narrowing, that crooked grin folding into something sharp and hurt. Bucky was reckless, yes, but he was proud; jealousy cut him close to the bone. Steve couldn’t blame him. He felt the same knife when he’d watched Bucky with you, a sick cocktail of envy and desire he still tasted on the back of his tongue.
A board popped in the loft floor; Steve flinched. Bucky exhaled, a quick huff that could’ve been a sigh… or a laugh, it was hard to tell.
“Storm’s loud tonight,” Bucky muttered into the dark.
Steve swallowed. “Yeah.”
Another beat. Rain drummed harder, then softened in waves. Steve could picture the bayou swelling, black water rising under the dock where everything had changed. He tried not to think about how your moans had sounded layered over the water, how his own had answered hours later in a dusty stable.
“You finish that west line tomorrow,” Bucky said finally, voice low, almost casual. “We’ll have Moreau paid up.”
“Almost done,” Steve answered. He wet his lips, searching for something, anything really, to ease the weight in the room. The apology caught behind his teeth.
Bucky shifted again, the couch springs squealed. “Punk, you gonna stew all night?”
Steve closed his eyes. I don’t want to fight you. I don’t want to lie either.
Outside, lightning flashed white through the high window slats, illuminating dust motes and the curve of the telescope aimed at dripping darkness. The quick burst etched Bucky’s silhouette; hands behind his head, stare fixed on the rafters, then vanished.
Steve drew a breath, let it out slow. “We should get some sleep,” he managed. “Finish early.”
Bucky’s chuckle was soft, humorless. “Sure.” A pause. “Night, Stevie.”
“Night, Buck.”
The rain settled into a gentle hiss, but sleep stayed distant. Steve lay listening to the space between heartbeats, wondering how long secrets could hang in rafters before they dripped down like stormwater, soaking everything beneath.
Dawn slipped through the loft slats in gauzy stripes, lighting dust motes and the tired curve of two backs turned on one another. Steve sat on the edge of his mattress, boots half-laced, guilt thrumming like an ache in his teeth. Across the aisle, Bucky tugged yesterday’s shirt over his head, humming nothing in particular, almost normal again after a night of storm-soaked silence.
Steve cleared his throat. “Mornin’, Buck.”
Bucky flicked him a sideways grin. “Look who’s talkin’ to me.”
Steve managed a huff of a laugh, tension easing a notch. “Didn’t mean to be a bear yesterday.”
“Figured you were just hungry.” Bucky stretched, joints popping. “Or constipated.”
“Yeah. Something like that.” Steve stood, wiped his palms on his thighs. “Listen—there’s somethin’ I gotta say before we head out.”
Bucky’s brows lifted, but the grin stayed. “Alright, preacher. Floor’s yours.”
For a heartbeat Steve couldn’t find air; the loft felt too small for the words. He ran a hand through his hair, stared at the warped floorboard between them. “Yesterday… after the rain started… I was in the stables.” He forced his gaze up, blue meeting blue. “She came by to give me some lunch and— and things got… outta hand.”
The smile died on Bucky’s mouth, shoulders stiffening under crumpled cotton. “Outta hand how?”
Steve swallowed. “We— I—” The confession lodged, then fell. “I slept with her.”
Silence crashed heavier than the storm. Bucky’s jaw ticked once, twice… his eyes flared a darker shade. “You mean right after you tore me a new one for fucking her?”
Steve winced. “Yeah.”
Bucky laughed. It was short, sharp and no humour in it. “That’s rich, Stevie. Real righteous.”
“I know it’s hypocritical,” Steve said, voice clipped. “But it happened.”
“‘Just respect Mr. Moreau,’” Bucky mocked, pitching his voice higher. “‘We’re guests, Buck.’ Then you go and fuck his daughter in the hay like a damn barn animal.”
“Wasn’t like that.” Heat licked up Steve’s neck. “It wasn’t planned. We—talked, and—”
“And you forgot all about your sermon.” Bucky crossed his arms, biceps bulging. “Tell me, did you watch yourself grunt and moan the way you watched me?”
Steve’s cheeks flamed. “Don’t make this dirtier than it is.”
“Dirtier? Brother, the mud’s already up to our knees.” Bucky stepped closer, anger bright and brittle. “You wouldn’t even let me feel good of what I had with her. Now you want me to swallow this and play nice?”
“I’m not askin’ for forgiveness.” Steve’s voice rose. “But you deserved the truth.”
“Truth is you’re jealous as hell and didn’t want to admit it,” Bucky shot back. “So you took your turn and still wanna be the saint.”
Steve’s fists clenched. “You think this feels right to me? I don’t think I can even look her father in the eye.”
“Good. Maybe you’ll choke on that guilt.” Bucky pivoted, pacing a tight line, boots thumping. He stopped, spun. “Fine. Let’s skip the guilt. Let’s ask her straight out who she wants. Winner keeps the girl, loser keeps their mouth shut.”
“That’s childish,” Steve snapped.
“Better than self-righteous,” Bucky muttered.
They stared each other down, breath quickening with a frustration edged in something hotter. Outside the loft, a rooster crowed. The tension held, buzzing like a live wire between their chests.
Steve exhaled first, the fight draining to weary honesty. “We can’t turn her into a prize, Buck. That ain’t right, and you know it.”
Bucky’s shoulders sagged, but the jealousy still smouldered in his eyes. “Then what? We keep sneakin’ behind each other until Mr. Moreau shoots one of us?”
“I don’t know.” Steve scrubbed a hand down his face. “But we finish that fence today. After that—figure it out with her, together. No more secrets.”
Bucky studied him, jaw working. Finally he nodded stiffly. “Finish the fence,” he echoed. “Then we talk.”
The afternoon never quite decided if it was rain or sleet; it just hurled water sideways until the posts sagged in the muck and both men were soaked to the bone. By the time they slogged back to the barn, the sky looked like a dull bruise and the west line was still three rails short. No one said it, but they were glad for the excuse to quit early.
Up in the loft, Steve kicked off his mud-caked boots and dropped onto the couch, hair plastered to his forehead. Bucky lingered at the hatch, stripping and changing out of his drenched shirt, drops tapping the floorboards. He found a rag, swiped at his face, then tossed the cloth aside.
Tense didn’t begin to cover it. They moved around each other the way soldiers do when the truce is thin—careful, eyes sliding away after the briefest glance. Steve rummaged for dry socks, Bucky fished for a cigarette he never lit. Rain pattered on the roof, steady as a clock.
The ladder creaked.
You appeared with a bundle of quilts over one arm, hair damp, skin glowing from kitchen heat. “Thought y’all could use somethin’ dry,” you said, voice gentle, eyes flicking from Steve’s rigid shoulders to Bucky’s tight jaw.
Neither man answered right off, and the hush sharpened until even the rain felt awkward. You crossed to the couch, shaking out a faded patchwork, the cotton smelling of starch and chamomile. Steve took it with a muttered thanks, knuckles brushing yours; his gaze skittered away before it could catch.
“Fence fight back?” you teased, hoping to coax a smile. It earned only a grunt from Bucky and a shrug from Steve.
You laid another quilt over the couch arm, slower this time—testing the air, feeling the edge in it. “Storm’s supposed to clear by dawn,” you offered, smoothing a corner that didn’t need smoothing. “Plenty of time to finish tomorrow before ya’ll leave.”
Still the silence. Bucky’s cigarette twirled restlessly between his fingers; Steve’s fingers dug into quilt batting like he might wring the tension out of the fabric.
You straightened, eyes narrowing just a touch. “The weather ain’t the only thing foul up here,” you said softly, but there was firmness under the honey. “Y’all gonna tell me what’s crawled between you, or am I supposed to guess?”
Neither answered, but their gazes finally met. It was brief, charged… and you felt the spark skip the space between them like summer lightning.
Bucky broke first, voice rough. “Y’know what this is, sweetheart? A game. You’ve been playin’ us—fuckin’ us both and watchin’ which dog growls louder.”
You propped a hip against the couch arm, arms loose across your chest, unbothered. “Playin’? Honey, I just like good company. Can’t a girl enjoy both flavors without pickin’ a favourite?”
Steve’s tone came gentler but no less raw. “Why, though? If you care for either of us, why throw a match on gasoline?”
“Why not?” You lifted one shoulder in an easy shrug. “World’s big enough for more than one kind of want. I didn’t hear either of you complainin’ at the time.”
Bucky’s jaw clenched. “’Cause I thought it meant somethin’—til I find out you rode him next like a county fair row-pony.”
You arched a brow. “Meanin’ like you cared about Stevie’s feelin’s when you waited ‘til he was dead asleep to slide into my bayou and make me holler? Glass houses, James.”
The barb hit; he flinched, fingers whitening around the cigarette he still hadn’t lit. Steve opened his mouth, a protest half-formed, and you cut him a sidelong glance. “And you—moral high ground looked real pretty till you let me grind it to dust in the hay. Hypocrite suits you about as tight as those jeans did yesterday.”
Colour scorched Steve’s ears. “I won’t deny it,” he said quietly. “I was jealous. Still am.”
“Same,” Bucky snapped, softer now, wounded pride bleeding through. “Feels like we’re bein’ measured for sport.”
You blew out a breath, voice dropping to something low, coaxing. “I’m measurin’ the way I measure ripe peaches—by taste, not by pit. Didn’t reckon either one of you wanted claim-stakes hammered down.”
Bucky ran a hand through his hair, restless. “Can’t keep splittin the difference. Not without someone gettin’ cut.”
You let a slow breath roll out, smoothing the air like a hand over rumpled sheets.
“Alright—enough chest-thumping,” you murmured, voice a lazy drawl meant to soothe. You pivoted first to Bucky, stepping in just close enough that the lantern light caught the silver flecks in his eyes.
“Y’know what I like about you, Bucky?” Your fingers brushed the inside of his forearm—just a ghost of touch, but it made his shoulders ease a notch. “It’s that wildfire charm. You see somethin’ you want, and you grab it like life’s too short for second thoughts. Had me tremblin’ on that dock, remember? You move like you own the night, and for a minute I believed you did.”
A faint, reluctant grin tugged at the corner of his mouth despite the hurt still smouldering there.
Then you turned to Steve, reaching to smooth a wet lock from his forehead. “And you? Gentleman on the surface, but lord—the heat underneath once you let it out.” Your hand slid to cup his jaw; Steve leaned into it without meaning to, “You made me feel wanted in every sweet, filthy way a woman craves. Like I was worth every ounce of that control you dropped.”
Their gazes flicked to each other, some of the sharpness dulling with your words.
“You boys’ve been best friends forever, ain’t that right?” you asked, stepping back so you could see them both. “Shared bruises, shared bottles… but you never learned to share a woman?”
Bucky’s brows knitted. “Ain’t exactly the way we were taught.”
Steve rubbed the back of his neck, eyes darting to Bucky, then you. “Not sure how that even works.”
“Works however we want it to,” you said with a shrug. “Could be one night. Could be more. Only rule is nobody’s feelings get shoved in a dark corner.”
They traded another look. This one was longer, uncertainty warring with curiosity. Rain pinged softly on the roof, a gentler rhythm now, like the storm itself was catching its breath.
You smiled. “Me? I’d rather see the two of you side-by-side than at each other’s throats. Twice the fun, half the guilt.”
Silence hovered, but the tension had shifted, no longer a taut wire ready to snap, more a low hum in the rafters. Bucky wet his lips, gaze dropping briefly to your mouth. Steve exhaled, shoulders softening, as if the idea wasn’t as impossible as it had sounded a minute ago.
Lantern-light flickered across the loft as you stepped between them, storm-tamed curls brushing Steve’s cheek. One hand found the back of his neck, guiding him down; your mouth covered his in a slow, coaxing seal. At first he held himself still, surprised, then his hands rose, steadying at your waist while he answered, tongue sweeping to taste the invitation you offered. The kiss went deep, unhurried, a warm pull that drew a hum from somewhere low in his chest.
Across the narrow space Bucky watched, arms folded but jaw tight, jealousy flashing bright before he masked it. You felt the weight of his stare; when you finally let Steve breathe you kept your gaze on those blue eyes gone hazy, then pivoted without missing a beat.
Your free hand snagged the front of Bucky’s T-shirt, knuckles brushing the hard plane beneath, and you tugged him forward.
“C’mere, hotshot,” you whispered.
He came, like the magnet he’d always been, meeting your mouth with none of Steve’s hesitation. The kiss landed hungry, teeth grazing, his hand sliding to cup the side of your throat. Where Steve’s earlier sweetness lingered, Bucky’s heat sparked bright, and you let both flavors mingle on your tongue a heartbeat longer than strictly fair.
When you broke away the air felt thicker, three sets of breaths stirring the dust motes. Your lips, plush now and tingling, curved into a satisfied smile.
“See?” you murmured, voice lazy as molasses. “Turns out sharing ain’t so hard.”
Steve stood rooted, wide eyes flicking from your mouth to Bucky’s. Bucky’s stare, darker now, drifted to Steve, sharp edge softened by the flush riding both their cheeks. Rain pattered gentle drums on the roof above, the storm’s worst anger spent, leaving only a hush that felt charged rather than tense.
“You pull us in opposite directions long enough,” Bucky said, half-grin creeping back, “might find we land in the same place.”
“Wouldn’t that be a sight,” you answered, giving his shirt a playful tug before smoothing the crumpled cotton flat. You turned, letting your knuckles brush Steve’s knuckles—an invitation to stay right where he was. “The three of us could keep warmer than any blanket in this loft.”
Neither man moved to argue. Steve’s throat bobbed, eyes searching Bucky’s. Bucky’s shoulders shifted, like he was trying on the feel of standing this close without bristling. A tentative thread of curiosity stretched between them stronger than the jealousy that had ruled the morning.
You stepped back just far enough to see them both, palms open. “Fence can wait,” you said. “Weather looks set to keep us indoors.” Outside, thunder rumbled a soft bass note, agreeing.
The air in the loft hung heavy, thick with the scent of rain-soaked earth and the raw edge of anticipation. You stood between them, Bucky and Steve, their breaths syncing in ragged pulls, eyes locked on you like you’d become the only fixed point in the dim lantern glow.
Your fingers hooked under the hem of your damp shirt, the fabric clinging to your skin from the earlier drizzle. You peeled it up slowly letting the cool air kiss your ribs before it whispered over the swell of your breasts still trapped in lace. Their gazes followed every inch, darkening as you tossed the shirt aside onto the couch.
Then came the bra—clips snapping free with a flick, straps sliding down your shoulders. Your breasts spilled out, full and heavy, nipples tightening into stiff peaks under the weight of their stares. Bucky’s tongue darted over his lips, a low sound rumbling in his throat, while Steve’s jaw clenched, his eyes dropping straight to the soft curves, tracing the way they rose with each breath you took.
Not done yet. Your hands moved to the button of your jeans, popping it open with a soft click that echoed in the charged quiet. The zipper rasped down, and you shoved the denim over your hips, hooking your thumbs into your panties and dragging them along for the ride. They pooled at your ankles, and you kicked them free, standing bare before them—skin flushed, thighs slick with the ache building between them.
Bucky’s breath hitched, his cock straining visibly against his jeans, and Steve shifted, a flush creeping up his neck as he drank in the sight of your naked body, every curve and shadow laid out like an offering.
“Who wants to touch first?” you purred, voice husky, letting the words drip like honey over the tension.
It took barely a second—Bucky, of course, moving like he’d been coiled for it. His hand shot out, fingers tangling in your hair to yank your head back, crashing his mouth against yours. His tongue plunged deep, fucking into your throat with a possessive thrust that made your knees weak, tasting of salt and coffee and that unashamed want.
He hauled you flush against him, your bare tits mashing into the rough cotton of his shirt, nipples dragging against the fabric as his free arm banded around your waist, grinding his hard length into your belly through his clothes.
You melted into the kiss, moaning around his invading tongue, but then—hands. Warm, callused palms sliding onto your waist from behind, tentative at first, then firmer as Steve pressed his body against your back. His chest was a solid wall of heat, his cock throbbing hot against the cleft of your ass even through his jeans.
Those hands trailed up, slow and careful, cupping your breasts with a gentleness that contrasted Bucky’s roughness—thumbs brushing the undersides before squeezing soft, kneading the flesh until your nipples ached under the pressure.
A shiver raced down your spine as his mouth found your throat, lips parting to suckle the pulse there, teeth grazing just enough to send sparks straight to your clit.
Bucky didn’t let up, his kiss turning sloppier, wetter, tongue battling yours while Steve’s breaths fanned hot against your neck, his squeezes growing bolder, rolling your breasts in his palms like he couldn’t get enough of the weight, the give.
The kiss with Bucky lingered like a brand, his tongue retreating with a final, teasing swipe that left your lips swollen and slick. You twisted in his grip, turning your head to capture Steve’s mouth instead, and he met you halfway—eager, almost desperate, his lips crashing into yours with a hunger that stole your breath.
His tongue delved deep, exploring with a fervor that matched the way his hands still cradled your tits, thumbs circling your hardened nipples until they throbbed under his touch.
Bucky didn’t yield an inch, his mouth shifting to the curve of your neck, hot and insistent, teeth nipping at the sensitive skin as he sucked a mark into place. One of his hands slid down, palming the swell of your ass with a firm squeeze, fingers digging in to guide your hips forward. You ground against him instinctively, feeling the rigid bulge of his cock press into your belly through the denim, thick and insistent, pulsing with every roll of your body.
Steve’s kiss deepened in response, turning rougher, his free hand tangling in your hair to angle your head just right, devouring your mouth like he needed to erase Bucky’s taste.
“Fuck, you feel so good,” Bucky rasped against your throat, his voice a gravelly vibration that sent shivers racing down your spine, his breath fanning over the damp spot he’d left behind.
You hummed into Steve’s kiss, the sound vibrating between your pressed lips.
Steve broke the kiss to trail his lips along your jaw, whispering hot against your ear, “You’re perfect... so soft, so sweet,” his affirmations spilling out like confessions, voice thick with awe and need as he nuzzled into your shoulder.
You pushed at their chests, firm but playful, breaking their hold. “I want both of ya’ll to eat my pussy,” you said, eyes flicking between them as you backed toward the small mattress piled with worn blankets on the loft floor.
You sank down onto the makeshift bed, the rough weave scratching your bare skin just enough to heighten the thrill. Spreading your legs wide, you exposed yourself fully—the swollen folds of your cunt glistening with arousal, clit peeking out begging for attention.
Bucky and Steve froze mid-step, their eyes locking onto the sight between your thighs, breaths catching in unison. Bucky’s jaw went slack, that smirk faltering into raw want, while Steve’s flush deepened, his cock tenting his jeans obscenely as he swallowed hard.
Then, like a dam breaking, they lunged,both scrambling forward in a tangle of limbs, shoulders bumping as they vied for position.
“Move over, punk,” Bucky murmured, shoving at Steve’s arm, trying to wedge in closer.
Steve pushed back, his voice a strained mutter, “There’s room—back off a sec.” They bickered like that, half-hearted jabs and elbows, but neither stopped advancing, knees hitting the mattress as they crowded between your open legs.
Their argument dissolved into action, mouths descending on your pussy in a frenzy of heat and hunger. Bucky got there first, his tongue lapping broad and flat up your slit, collecting your wetness with a groan that rumbled against your sensitive flesh. Steve wasn’t far behind, angling in from the side to suckle at your inner thigh before dragging his lips to your clit, enveloping it in wet suction that made your hips buck.
They jostled for space, Bucky’s shoulder knocking Steve’s as he delved deeper, tongue fucking into your entrance with sloppy thrusts, while Steve latched onto your nub, flicking it relentlessly with the tip of his tongue.
The dual assault overwhelmed you—Bucky’s mouth devouring your hole, slurping noisily at the gush of arousal leaking out, his stubble scraping your thighs raw; Steve’s lips sealed around your clit, sucking hard enough to pull whimpers from your throat, his hands gripping your hips to hold you steady.
“Taste so fuckin’ sweet,” Bucky mumbled between licks, the words vibrating into you, while Steve hummed agreement, his tongue circling faster, teeth grazing just enough to teeter on the edge of pain.
Their mouths battled over your dripping cunt like starving men, tongues and lips a chaotic symphony of slick heat that had you mesmerized. You watched through half-lidded eyes, pulse hammering in your ears, the way Bucky’s tongue plunged deep into your hole, fucking in and out with obscene wet sounds, only for Steve to shove in closer, latching onto your clit with a fierce suck that made your toes curl.
Their faces were inches apart, cheeks brushing, breaths mingling hot and ragged, and fuck, the sight of it twisted something filthy in your gut. You imagined it—their tongues slipping free from you, tangling together in a messy, saliva-slick kiss, tasting you on each other, and the thought alone shoved you toward the edge.
“God, yes—right there,” you gasped, hips grinding up into their faces, fingers yanking at their hair to hold them in place.
Bucky groaned low, the vibration humming straight through your core, “You like watchin’ us fight over this pretty pussy, huh?” Steve mumbled something incoherent against your thigh, too lost in the feast to form words, but his tongue flicked faster, relentless.
It hit you like a storm surge, that orgasm sneaking up fast and brutal—your walls clenching on nothing, release gushing out in hot waves that soaked their chins. You cried out, back arching off the mattress, thighs quaking as pleasure ripped through you. Bucky and Steve didn’t pull back; if anything, they dove deeper.
“So damn good,” Steve finally rasped, voice muffled as he licked a stripe up your seam, sharing the taste with a quick, accidental brush of his tongue against Bucky’s.
The intensity bordered on too much, sparks of overstimulation prickling like needles as their mouths kept working, tongues still probing and sucking without mercy. “Wait—fuck, too much,” you panted, hands flying to their heads, trying to shove them away, but your pushes were weak, body still humming from the high.
They lingered a second longer, reluctant, before Bucky’s eyes flashed with that predatory glint. In a blur, he shouldered Steve aside, “My turn, Stevie”—the bigger man stumbling back on his knees, jeans strained tight over his erection.
Bucky didn’t waste a beat, fingers fumbling with his belt, the clink of metal echoing in the loft as he yanked it open. His jeans shoved down just enough, his cock sprang free—thick, veined, the flushed head already leaking pre-cum, curving up with a slight leftward tilt.
He gripped the base, stroking once, twice, before dragging the length through your soaked folds, coating himself in your release. The friction teased your entrance, bumping your clit with each pass, and you bit your lip, doing nothing to stop him—hell, you spread your legs wider, inviting the invasion.
“Yeah, just like that,” Bucky muttered, voice rough as gravel, lining up and sinking in slow, inch by torturous inch, your pussy stretching around his girth with a burn that blurred into bliss.
He bottomed out with a guttural groan, balls slapping against your ass as he started thrusting—deep, claiming strokes that rocked your body against the mattress. “Still so tight... takin’ me so good,” he grunted, hands pinning your hips as he set a punishing rhythm, the wet slap of skin filling the air, mingling with the rain’s fury outside.
You took it, moaning with each plunge, walls fluttering around him, but your gaze flicked to Steve, who knelt there looking adrift—lips shiny with your juices, chest heaving, cock throbbing untouched in his pants, a mix of uncertainty and need in his blue eyes.
“Aw, c’mere, sugar,” you cooed softly, voice breathy from Bucky’s relentless pace, reaching out a hand to beckon him closer. He hesitated for a split second, then crawled forward, drawn like a moth to flame.
You pulled him down, crashing your lips to his in a messy kiss, tasting yourself on his tongue. Bucky’s thrusts didn’t falter, each one jolting you into Steve’s mouth, making the kiss deeper, hungrier. “Mmm, don’t look so lost,” you murmured against Steve’s lips, nipping at his bottom one before pulling back just enough to meet his eyes. “I want you in my mouth—wanna taste that big cock of yours while he fucks me.”
Steve’s breath hitched, a flush creeping up his neck, but he nodded, fumbling with his zipper as Bucky chuckled, hips snapping harder. “You heard her, pal. Feed her that dick.”
Steve’s fingers trembled on his zipper, the metallic rasp cutting through the humid air as he finally freed himself—his cock springing out, thick and heavy, the head already flushed and glistening with pre-cum. You watched for a beat, heat pooling fresh in your belly, but then impulse hit like lightning. With a hum, you planted your hands on Bucky’s chest and shoved hard. He blinked up at you, confusion flashing in those blue eyes as his cock slipped free from your clenching heat with a wet pop, leaving you achingly empty for just a second.
“What the—” Bucky started, but you didn’t let him finish, pushing him sideways until he toppled onto his back, jeans still bunched around his thighs, legs splayed. The mattress creaked under his weight, and before he could protest, you swung a leg over him, straddling his hips. His dick slapped against your inner thigh, hot and insistent, as you gripped it at the base and sank down in one fluid motion, taking him balls-deep with a satisfied moan.
“Fuck yeah, angel,” Bucky rasped, hands flying to your waist, thumbs digging into your skin as he bucked up once, testing. “Ride me like one of them horses out in the pasture—hard and wild.” His voice was all gravel and hunger, that smirk creeping back as he watched you take control.
You laughed breathlessly, rolling your hips in a slow grind before lifting up and slamming down, “You’ve got a real dirty mouth on you, handsome,” you teased, picking up the pace, bouncing steadily now, the rough denim of his jeans scraping deliciously against your thighs with each drop. The friction added a bite to the bliss, making you hiss through your teeth.
Bucky groaned, head tipping back against the mattress, but his eyes stayed locked on you. “Shit, just like that. Tighter, darlin’, squeeze me.”
Your gaze shifted to Steve, who hovered there, cock in hand, looking equal parts left out and starved. You flashed him a soft, encouraging smile, slowing your rhythm just enough to beckon him with a crook of your finger. “C’mon, honey. I want you right here.”
He swallowed hard, adam’s apple bobbing, but he shuffled closer on his knees, positioning himself near Bucky’s head, close enough that the scent of his arousal mixed with the musk of sweat and rain-soaked hay.
You leaned forward without missing a beat, your breasts swaying with the motion, and wrapped your lips around the tip of Steve’s cock. He was pretty—long and girthy, the foreskin peeling back as you sucked gently, tongue swirling over the sensitive head to taste the salty bead of pre-cum. “Mmm,” you hummed around him, the vibration pulling a choked gasp from his throat.
Steve’s hand tangled in your hair, not pushing, just holding on as you licked a broad stripe up the underside, tracing the thick vein before taking him deeper, cheeks hollowing with the suction.
“God, your mouth... feels so damn good, beautiful,” he murmured, voice rough and genuine, hips twitching forward instinctively.
Bucky’s thrusts didn’t let up—he drove into you from below, one hand sliding up to cup your breast, thumb flicking over your nipple until it pebbled hard under his touch.
“Look at you, takin’ us both like a champ,” he panted, pinching lightly, sending sparks straight to your core.
But then his rhythm faltered for a split second, eyes darting sideways as your head bobbed right next to his face, the wet sounds of your sucking filling his ears. Steve’s cock glistened with your saliva, inches from Bucky’s cheek, and you caught the way Bucky’s gaze lingered, a flicker of something strange and curious in his expression.
“Hey, eyes on me,” you pulled off Steve with a pop, grinning down at Bucky as you clenched around him on purpose, making him curse under his breath. “Or you wanna join in? Taste him too?”
Bucky chuckled hesitantly, squeezing your other breast in retaliation. “Temptin’, but I’m good buried in this pussy for now.” He bucked harder, the scrape of denim biting into your skin again, urging you back to work.
You obliged, moaning around Steve’s length as you took him to the back of your throat, nose brushing the unkept hair at his base. Steve’s free hand braced on Bucky’s shoulder for balance, the accidental touch making both men tense, breaths syncing in the charged air.
“Fuck, I’m not gonna last,” Steve warned, fingers tightening in your hair, but you just hummed encouragement, riding Bucky faster.
Bucky’s eyes gaze flicked back up, locking onto the way your lips stretched around Steve’s throbbing dick, slurping and sucking with greedy abandon. Steve’s face was a mask of pure ecstasy; eyes squeezed shut, mouth parted in a silent groan, and Bucky couldn’t resist. “Hey, punk, she’s got you leakin’ like a damn faucet.”
Steve’s breath hitched, his hand flexing in your hair, but he shot Bucky a glare through half-lidded eyes. “Shut it, Buck,feels too good to argue.”
You hummed around Steve’s length, the vibration making him buck forward, your free hand cupping his heavy balls, rolling them gently in your palm, feeling them tighten as he teetered on the edge.
Bucky hummed, spreading your ass cheeks wider, his thumbs brushing dangerously close to where his cock pistoned in and out. “Nah, saint, you’re blushin’ like a virgin. Gonna blow already?”
“Screw you,” Steve panted, but there was no heat in it, just desperate need as his cock twitched against your tongue. You could feel him swelling, the salty pulse of pre-cum flooding your mouth, he was seconds from exploding.
But you weren’t ready to let him go over yet. With a deliberate pop, you pulled off, your hand still stroking his slick shaft lazily, denying him that final push. Steve’s eyes flew open, pained and pleading, his chest heaving as he stared down at you.
“Please... don’t stop,” he begged, voice cracking, hips jerking futilely into your grip.
You paused your bounces on Bucky, clenching around him to keep him buried deep but holding still, the ache of denial making your thighs quiver. Leaning up slightly, you cupped Steve’s jaw with your free hand, thumb tracing his lower lip as you met his gaze softly. “Shh, pretty boy. I want you to finish inside me… fill me up proper. Not like this.”
Bucky stilled beneath you, his hands loosening on your ass just a fraction, brows knitting in confusion as he glanced between you and Steve. “You kickin’ me out now?”
Steve mirrored the look, his cock bobbing neglected in the air, still rock-hard and dripping. “But... Buck’s already...”
You grinned, sweet and reassuring, “Fellas, I’ve got room for two. Plenty of space in me.”
Your words hung in the humid air like a challenge, that smile still playing on your lips as you picked up the pace, bouncing with renewed vigor, your ass slapping against his thighs, the wet sounds of your pussy devouring him echoing in the dim loft.
Steve shifted behind you, his uncertainty clear in the way his hands trembled slightly on your waist. He was rock-hard, tip leaking and flushed, but his mind raced ahead—assuming you meant something else entirely. With a hesitant nudge, he pressed the head of his cock against your ass, the pressure firm but tentative, like he was testing uncharted waters.
A soft laugh bubbled out of you, light and teasing, cutting through the tension as you twisted your head to glance back at him. “Oh sweetheart, that’s not quite what I had in mind.”
Steve froze, cheeks burning even in the low light, his cock twitching against your skin. “I... thought... shit, sorry. You said—”
Before he could finish fumbling, you reached back with one arm, your fingers wrapping around his thick shaft—hot and pulsing in your palm. You stroked him once, firmly, drawing a sharp hiss from his lips, then guided him downward, angling him right toward your soaked entrance where Bucky was already buried deep.
The tip brushed against your folds, slick with your arousal and Bucky’s pre-cum, nudging insistently at the stretched opening.
Steve’s eyes widened, confusion etching deeper lines on his face as he stared down at the impossible sight. “Wait, but... how the hell—?”
You paused your grinding just enough to lean forward, bracing one hand on Bucky’s chest, nails digging into his skin for leverage. “There’s enough room in this greedy little pussy, honey. Stretch me wide, fill me up until I can’t think straight.”
Your words were a sultry command, eyes fluttering half-shut in anticipation, but you shot Steve a reassuring wink over your shoulder.
Bucky’s head snapped up, his blue eyes meeting Steve’s in a shared look of stunned disbelief. “You serious, darlin’? Both of us... in there? Shit, that’s—”
“Insane,” Steve finished, voice hoarse, but his hips inched forward anyway, the tip of his cock pressing against your entrance alongside Bucky’s girth. They exchanged another glance; uncertain, a flicker of worry in Bucky’s eyes and Steve’s furrowed brow. This wasn’t some quick tumble; it was pushing boundaries they’d never imagined.
“Yeah, insane,” Bucky echoed, but his voice dropped an octave, laced with a sliver of excitement as he held still inside you, letting you feel the throb of him. “You sure you can take it, angel?”
“Mm, more than sure,” you murmured, rocking your hips experimentally, which only wedged Steve’s tip a fraction deeper, the dual pressure making your breath catch. “Come on, Stevie—push. I want to feel you both sliding in, rubbing against each other in me.”
Steve swallowed hard, resolve flickering to life in his gaze as he nodded, hands steadying on your hips. “Alright... alright, if that’s what you want, sweetheart.” He started pushing in slowly, inch by agonizing inch, the stretch burning sweet and intense as your walls accommodated him.
You breathed in deep, eyes squeezing shut, a shudder rippling through you as you balanced on Bucky’s chest—fingers splaying wide over his pounding heart, grounding yourself in the heat of his skin.
Bucky groaned low, his cock twitching inside you as he felt Steve’s length pressing in against him.
Steve’s breath stuttered, his forehead beading with sweat as he sank deeper, the sensation overwhelming—your pussy clenching around them both, hot and velvety, while Bucky’s cock pulsed right against his own. “It’s—tight as hell. You okay?”
You nodded, biting your lip to stifle a whimper, the fullness bordering on too much but tipping straight into ecstasy. “Keep goin’... just like that. Oh, fuck. Yeah, both of you, right there.”
The stretch was exquisite agony, your body locked in place between them, every nerve ending firing as Bucky and Steve filled you to the brink—two thick cocks wedged deep in your pussy, pulsing hot and insistent against each other through your slick walls.
You could barely shift, let alone move, the overwhelming fullness pinning you like a vice, your thighs quivering from the strain. A hazy fog clouded your mind, cockdrunk and drifting in the haze of sensation, every shallow breath pulling a whimper from your lips.
“F-Fellas,” you gasped, voice slurred with lust, fingers clutching at Bucky’s shoulders for any semblance of control. “I... I can’t—move for me. You gotta fuck me like this.”
Bucky’s eyes darkened, a feral glint cutting through the sweat beading on his brow. He nodded once, rough and sure, his hands clamping harder on your hips. “Yeah? You want us to use you, sweet thing? Pound this greedy little hole till she breaks?” His voice was gravel, hips shifting first—tentative at the start, pulling back an inch before slamming upward, the drag of his shaft grinding against Steve’s in the tight confines of your cunt.
Steve mirrored him a beat later, hesitant but hungry, his broad chest heaving as he withdrew slightly, then thrust in—the dual motion sending sparks exploding behind your eyes. “God, it’s... too much,” he groaned, voice cracking on the edge of a moan, his cock sliding against Bucky’s.
They found a rhythm, tentative thrusts syncing into something primal, back and forth like a seesaw of pure heat—Bucky pushing deep as Steve eased out, then reversing, their groans mingling with the wet slap of skin and the creak of the mattress beneath.
You were their plaything now, jolted between them like a ragdoll, body bouncing on the wave of their cocks, the pressure building in your core until it bordered on delirium. Lost in the rhythm, Bucky’s hand snaked up your back, fingers tangling in your hair to yank you down, crashing his mouth against yours in a bruising kiss—tongue plunging deep, tasting the salt of your shared sweat, devouring you like he owned every gasp. You melted into it, moaning into his mouth as their cocks speared you harder.
But Steve wasn’t going to be left out anymore. As Bucky released you, Steve’s strong arm hooked around your waist, pulling you upright with a possessive tug, his free hand cupping your jaw to turn your face to him. As he sealed his lips over yours—kissing you slower but no less fierce, tongue tracing the seam of your mouth, drawing out a needy whine as his hips snapped forward, grinding deeper alongside Bucky.
Your mind spun, pleasure dazing you into a stupor, words tumbling out in a breathless haze. “Kiss... kiss each other.”
Bucky faltered for a split second, his blue eyes flicking up to Steve’s, surprise flashing before lust swallowed it whole. “What—darlin’, you—”
You didn’t let him finish, one hand snaking behind Steve’s head, fingers threading through his damp hair and pushing down firmly, guiding him toward Bucky’s waiting mouth. “C’mon, hotshot, kiss your golden boy for me.”
Bucky’s breath hitched, resistance crumbling under the weight of your words and the relentless pump of his hips. They kept moving, cocks buried to the hilt, sliding in tandem as their faces drew closer—lips brushing tentative at first, then crashing together in a passionate lock. Bucky’s tongue darted out, claiming Steve’s mouth with the same hunger he fucked you with, a muffled groan escaping them both as the kiss deepened.
You watched, transfixed, the sight of their mouths fusing; tongues tangling, breaths mingling, pushing you over the edge. The coil in your belly snapped, orgasm ripping through you like lightning, your pussy spasming wildly around them both, walls fluttering and squeezing in rhythmic pulses.
“Fuck—yes, oh god, I’m cumming!” you cried, body arching as waves of ecstasy crashed over you, soaking their cocks in your release.
Their kiss broke on a shared gasp, Bucky pulling back first, eyes wide and wild as he felt the vice-like grip of your climax. “Fuck—baby, you’re squeezin’ me so goddamn tight,” Bucky grunted, voice strained, his grip bruising your hips as he drove up into the slick chaos of your pussy, feeling the hot flood of your release coat him. “Gonna make me—”
Steve beat him to it, a choked groan tearing from his throat as his body seized. “Oh shit—can’t hold—”
His cock throbbed wildly inside you, swelling against Bucky’s before unleashing thick ropes of cum, pulsing deep and flooding your core. The warmth spread instantly, mixing with your own juices, the sensation of his load spilling out around their joined shafts pushing Bucky right to the brink.
That was it—the wet heat of Steve’s release seeping through your walls, drenching Bucky’s cock in the messy proof of his friend’s orgasm. Bucky’s eyes squeezed shut, a guttural moan ripping free as he slammed home one last time. His shaft jerked violently, erupting in heavy spurts, pumping load after load into you until it overflowed, the combined seed sloshing with every twitch.
They emptied everything, cocks twitching with brutal oversensitivity, veins pulsing against your fluttering insides. You shuddered between them, body limp and quaking, every nerve raw from the overload.
Bucky’s hands roamed your sweat-slick skin—tracing the curve of your spine, cupping your ass, kneading your thighs—as if grounding himself in the aftermath, his breaths coming in harsh pants against your ear. “Easy, angel... we got you,” he murmured, voice hoarse, fingers digging in just enough to soothe the lingering ache.
Steve, still buried deep, pressed his lips to the pulse at your neck, kissing softly at first, then with more urgency, tongue flicking out to taste the salt on your skin. “So good... you feel so good, sweetheart,” he whispered, nuzzling closer, his chest heaving against your back as he fought to steady the tremors racking his frame.
Steve was the first to stir, reluctance clear in the way his hands lingered on your waist. With a careful shift, he eased back, his softening cock slipping free with a lewd, wet pop. The rush hit immediately—a gush of warmth spilling from you, their mingled cum trickling down in thick rivulets, soaking the denim of Bucky’s jeans beneath.
“Ah—sorry,” Steve muttered, flushed and spent, collapsing onto the mattress beside Bucky, his arm draping loosely over his eyes as if to block out the intensity.
You let out a shaky breath, muscles protesting as you lifted yourself off Bucky next, the drag of his cock pulling a sharp whine from your throat. More seed followed, sliding hot and sticky down your thighs, pooling where you’d been joined. Bucky hissed through his teeth, hips bucking involuntarily at the loss.
“Fuckin’ hell—that’s... messy,” he rasped, a low chuckle rumbling out despite the sensitivity, his hand coming up to swipe at the spill on his jeans.
Exhausted, you collapsed between them, body sinking into the rumpled sheets, limbs twitching with aftershocks. Silence fell, broken only by the trio of heaving breaths syncing in the humid loft air, thick with the musk of heat and raw sex, undercut by the distant patter of rain on the roof and the faint, the sweet trace of your honeysuckle lotion clinging to sweat-damp skin.
Then Bucky’s voice cut through the hush, like he was trying to toss a joke over something that felt too big to stare at.
“Well… guess we learned how to share after all.”
You let out a small huff that might’ve been a laugh if you’d had more air in your lungs, eyes half-lidded and unfocused. Your body still felt like it was humming—too warm, too wrung-out, like you’d been shaken up and put back together wrong in the best way.
Steve made a sound that could’ve been a chuckle, “S’pose that’s one way to put it,” he murmured.
Above your head, Steve turned his head towards Bucky. That familiar, easy glance they’d shared a thousand times in their lives, the one that always said you good? and yeah, I’m good, the one that had carried them through worse than a Louisiana storm. Only now it didn’t land the same.
Because now “you good?” had more weight.
Steve’s eyes flicked to Bucky’s mouth, just a fraction too long, and something tightened in his chest, warm and confusing. A flash of it, all over again, the wet press of tongues, the wrongness-turned-rightness of it, the way it had sparked through the whole loft like lightning.
The two of them had spent their whole lives calling it brotherhood because that word was safe. Best friends. End of the line. A story you could tell people without watching them look too closely.
But you had made them look too closely.
Bucky broke eye contact first, like he felt the heat of the thought and didn’t want to stand in it, his gaze dropping to you like he needed somewhere safer to look. His hand came up, fingers warm and careful at your throat, thumb resting at your pulse like he could feel your heartbeat still stuttering there. He tilted your face toward him with a gentleness that didn’t match his normal charm at all.
“You’re somethin’ else,” he murmured, and there was no swagger in it, no performance. “One hell of a woman.”
“Not so bad yourself, handsome,” you breathed back, a lazy little smile tugging at your mouth.
He kissed you, slow and lingering, like he was claiming the moment for himself. You let him. Let him have the softness. Let him taste the last traces of you on your own lips without making it a fight.
And you felt Steve’s attention sharpen across your skin.
At first it was just presence. Then it became something else, that ugly twist of jealousy rising in him again, quick and hot, like he’d hated it earlier and still couldn’t stop it now.
Only this time it wasn’t simple.
It wasn’t just Bucky’s kissing you and I’m not.
It was tangled up with the memory of Bucky’s mouth against his, with the fact Steve had felt it… felt how it changed the air, how it changed the shape of his chest when he thought about it too long. It was the unsettling realization that what he wanted wasn’t cleanly separated into categories anymore.
He didn’t want to name that.
So he did what Steve always did when he didn’t want to name something, he acted.
His hand came up, palm warm against your cheek, and he guided your face toward him with a firmness that bordered on petulant—like he couldn’t stand being left out even for a breath anymore.
“Hey,” he muttered, as if the word could justify what he was about to take.
Then he kissed you.
Deeper than Bucky had, because Steve kissed like he was trying to anchor himself, like if he could taste you hard enough, he could drown out every complicated thought trying to rise. His mouth was hot and sure, tongue slipping in with a confidence he hadn’t carried before the stables, before the loft, before you pulled all the polite restraint out of him and taught him what he looked like without it.
You hummed into the kiss, letting it be messy, letting him be greedy.
Bucky watched, jaw tightening, though not angry exactly, not anymore. Just… lit up. Like he didn’t know where to put his hands, his pride, his hunger. Like the sight of Steve taking something he wanted did something ugly and thrilling to him at the same time.
You pulled back just enough to breathe, lips swollen, eyes heavy. Your voice came out soft and unhurried like you weren’t about to let either of them pretend this was simple.
“You boys keep lookin’ at each other like you don’t know what you’re seein’,” you murmured, eyes flicking between them. “Ain’t like you didn’t already cross the line.”
Steve’s throat bobbed. His gaze cut away for half a second, reflex and denial, then returned.
Bucky’s mouth twitched. “She’s got a point, punk.”
Steve shot him a look. “Don’t start.”
“Oh, I’m not startin’,” Bucky said, almost too calm. “I’m just… takin’ inventory.”
That made Steve’s brow furrow, something wary and pulled-tight in his expression.
You shifted between them, the movement small but enough to draw both their eyes, enough to remind them you were still the center of gravity here, whether they wanted to admit it or not.
Steve felt it in the quiet seconds after, watching you push yourself upright, stretching like a cat that’d just had its fill. The lamp on the little trunk threw a golden wash over you, catching the curve of your shoulder, the soft hollow at your throat, the confidence in the way you didn’t rush to cover yourself.
And in his head, Steve hated how perfectly Bucky’s pet name fit you now. Angel.
He had always thought angels were meant to guide you back toward the straight path. You were the opposite kind. The kind that smiled sweetly and led you off the road on purpose, deeper into the dark, deeper into want, like sin wasn’t something to fear but something to finally stop lying about.
He should’ve hated that.
Instead it felt… like relief.
It felt like coming home to a part of himself he’d kept locked up tight, because being Steve Rogers meant being good, meant being steady, meant being the one who held the line. Out here… on this farm, in this heat, with your hands on him and your mouth on his—he didn’t have to perform holiness. He could just be a man. Hungry, human and wanted.
And Bucky, reckless, charming and always halfway out the door, had been tempted into stillness for once. Steve could see it. Even now, with Bucky sprawled beside him, breathing slower, eyes heavy, there was a calm in him that didn’t usually last longer than a cigarette.
You’d done that. To both of them.
Then you spoke again, and the words hit like cold water.
“Shame you boys’ll be leavin’ tomorrow.”
You said it so goddamn easy. Like you were talking about weather. Like you hadn’t just cracked something open between them that didn’t fit back the same way.
The warmth in the loft went cold.
Steve’s throat tightened. He glanced at Bucky without meaning to, like he needed confirmation he hadn’t imagined the sting. Bucky’s face had gone still, brows drawn together, mouth set in a line that looked almost… hurt. Just that faint pout of a man who didn’t like realizing he’d started wanting something he couldn’t have.
Steve recognized the expression because it was sitting on his own face too.
Leaving had always been the plan. Finish the fence. Get the gas. Roll out. Keep moving. That was Bucky’s rhythm. That was the only rhythm Steve had been able to follow for months without losing him.
But now, hearing you say it out loud, Steve felt something stubborn rise up in him. Possessive in a quiet way. Not of you exactly… though that was in it. Of the whole thing. The strange little pocket of peace this place had offered. The way his shoulders had stopped riding his ears. The way he’d slept deeper here, even on a hayloft mattress.
He could feel that same resistance in Bucky, of all people.
Steve swallowed, voice coming out quieter than he meant. “Who says we have to leave tomorrow?”
“My daddy’s got you on a job. Fence gets finished, you take your gas, you go,” you said. “That was the arrangement.”
Bucky shifted beside you, shoulder tightening. “Arrangements can change,” he muttered, rougher than necessary.
Steve’s eyes snapped to him, surprised by how fast the words came out of Bucky’s mouth. Bucky didn’t meet his gaze. He stared at the sheets instead, jaw working like he was annoyed at himself for saying anything at all.
Steve felt a tug in his chest.
You tilted your head, studying them both. “Y’all don’t like bein’ told when to leave, huh,” you murmured, almost amused. “Thought drifters lived for the road.”
Bucky’s laugh came out flat. “Usually.”
Steve looked at you, really looked, and he didn’t like what he saw. You didn’t look afraid of losing them. You looked like you knew exactly what it did to men to feel wanted, then be reminded it had an end date.
Steve’s voice dropped, honest without meaning to be. “This place… it’s been good for us.”
Bucky’s fingers flexed against the quilt. “Don’t start getting sentimental,” he muttered, but there was no bite in it. Only discomfort.
Steve glanced at him again, then back at you. “If we asked, again, would your father consider letting us stay a few more days?”
The question hung in the air, heavier than the rain outside. Bucky finally looked up, and for a second their eyes met again.
You let the silence sit just long enough for it to sting. The lamp warmed your skin into gold again, turning you soft around the edges, almost holy if a person didn’t look too closely. But Steve knew better now. Bucky did too.
Two grown men were lying on either side of you like you were the altar and they were the ones who’d come to kneel.
Your mouth curved. “I’ll talk to Daddy,” you said, voice lazy, sweet as iced tea. “If he’s in a good mood.”
Bucky’s brows lifted, hope and irritation tangled. “And what puts him in a good mood?”
You hummed, rolling a shoulder in a shrug that made Steve’s throat go dry. “Could be the fence looks right. Could be he slept decent. Could be the Lord whispers in his ear.” Your eyes flicked to Steve. “Could be the sun decides to shine.”
Steve felt his chest tighten on a rough breath. He didn’t know whether to laugh or grit his teeth.
Bucky shifted beside you, restless. “So we’re just… waitin’ on weather?”
“Mm-hmm.” You let your lashes lower. “Seems y’all are good at waitin’ when you want somethin’ bad enough.”
Steve had been stuck his whole life being the good one, the noble one, and you’d given him freedom not to be. Bucky had waited his whole life for something to matter enough to make him stay. And now here they were, both acting like it was anything but your hand on the leash.
You didn’t even have to tug it.
You simply settled back down between them, shoulder brushing Steve’s arm, thigh sliding against Bucky’s, casual contact that made both men go quiet. You fit there too easily, like you belonged in the seam between them.
You lay between them like a secret, like a blessing, like a sin dressed up in honeysuckle and honeyed words.
Angel, Steve thought again—then corrected himself. No. Not an angel. A temptation that looked like one.
Your hand drifted lazily up Steve’s chest, fingers splaying over his heartbeat as if counting it. Your other hand found Bucky’s wrist on your waist, thumb stroking once, absentminded.
You sighed, content, as if the question of tomorrow didn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that tonight was still yours.
“If the morning’s kind,” you murmured, voice soft as prayer, “maybe I’ll keep you boys a little longer.”
And you didn’t say anything else. You didn’t promise, didn’t explain, didn’t give them the comfort of certainty. You just settled deeper between them, warm and wicked and impossibly at ease, like the devil himself could’ve learned a thing or two from you about patience.
And outside, rain kept whispering its steady sermon against the roof.
a/n | hope ya'll enjoyed my freakiness, tell me what you think, also im thing abt starting a fresh new taglist, so let me know. and i had to a lotttt of research, so i hope my potrayal of New Orleans, Louisianna is the tiniest bit accurate. the title is based on the movie Wild Things, obviously this fic has no relation, except for the very heated sex and erotica
also the barn loft was based on my man, Clark Kent's favourite spot
𝘉𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘴
Writer's note: This is part 2 of my personal headcannons. Again, this is non-canon, and may not include any material from Marvel.
Warnings: mentions of weapons, sex, smut, r18, MDNI
Bucky would definitely call you sweetheart, something about the endearment just melts the anger in you when he did something.
Bucky takes you to shooting ranges as another added hobby to your list. The first time he taught how to pull the trigger, he was pressed behind you, his hand guiding your own as you held the gun, and his breath on your ear that made it hard for you to focus.
Bucky takes pride when you land bullets on every mark, often boasting that he was the one who taught you.
Bucky keeps a picture of both himself and yours in work uniforms in his wallet. His I.D. also has another picture of you. His phone wallpaper is a picture of the both of you with Alpine close to your chest.
Bucky likes to cuff your wrists and pins them above your head while he drills his cock in your cunt, your legs wrapped around his waist and moaning praises of desire.
Bucky's favorite sex position is missionary because he likes watching the way your mouth hangs open when you are reaching your climax.
People say you and Bucky have the same mannerisms and facial expressions when someone says something out of place or the joke is bad, often noting that you look like twins. Bucky found that absurd until when you were both in a social event and caught something drastic and embarrassing in public, you slowly turn your head towards him, only to find him doing the same, and you snorted hard catching the attention of a few. That's when he knew you both shared the same expressions.
Maekar: Shh...hear that?
Daeron, Aerion, Egg: What?
Maekar: That's the sound of my patience breaking into a billion fucking pieces!!!!
Modern Maekar
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June 1st - Joy To The World - Three Dog Night / “I never understood a single word he said”
June 2nd - I Wanna Be Bad - Willa Ford / “No I can't promise that I won't do that”
June 3rd - Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin / “And he shows them pearly white”
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June 6th - Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish / “I don't think I caught your name”
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June 8th - Living La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin / “I feel a premonition”
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June 12th - Tainted Love - Soft Cell / “I cannot stand the way you tease”
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June 15th - Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran / “I got nothin' left to lose, or use, or do”
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June 17th - Say Something - A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera / “It was over my head”
June 18th - Come and Get Your Love - Redbone / “What's the matter with you”
June 19th - Raise Your Glass - P!nk / “You can choose to let it go”
June 20th - All Shook Up - Elvis Presley / “Who do you thank when you have such luck?”
June 21st - Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace / “I can't control myself”
June 22nd - Wonderwall - Oasis / “Because maybe”
June 23rd - I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness / “We'll be rocking till the sun goes down”
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June 29th - Mr. Brightside - The Killers / “But it's just the price I pay”
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Don’t Stop Believing - Journey / “A smell of wine and cheap perfume”
Season of the Witch - Donovan / “When I look out my window”
Cry Me A River - Julie London / “Now you say you love me”
Daydream Believer - The Monkees / “You once thought of me”
Dancing Queen - ABBA / “Anybody could be that guy”
I Touch Myself - Divinyls / “I don't want anybody else”
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling / “Well, then I hope there's someone out there”
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the pitt x reader | dr brendon "the shark" park x black! fem! reader
after snapping your leg while defending a friend in a bar fight, you are rushed to the pitt against your will. you refuse to tell the night shift your name in hopes of saving yourself from your husband's wrath, but it isn't long before he discovers what happened. and all hell breaks loose.
cw - wc: 4.2k, fluff, angst if you squint, protective brendon, jealous brendon, abbott is funny, reader is tough, brendon's a bit of an ass but justified.
a/n - send more requests if you want more pitt stuff i'm losing steam.
Years of loving an orthopedic surgeon had, quite naturally, turned a large part of ordinary life into forbidden territory.
Power tools were out.
Motorcycles, absolutely not.
Seat belts were nonnegotiable, lawn mowers were "death traps," and trampolines might as well have been medieval siege weapons.
Snowboards, mountain bikes, ladders, roofs.
Jet-skis, regular skis, bagel slicers, box-cutters.
Dogs with too much enthusiasm—every one of them had been blacklisted by a man who had seen too many fractures, too many mangled hands, too many limbs that couldn't be saved.
Even jogging too much had earned a suspicious side-eye from him, Brendon muttering darkly about cumulative joint damage and cartilage wear as if the use of your legs was a personal betrayal.
He had known long before marriage that you possessed a surplus of common sense the rest of the population seemed to mysteriously lack—especially in the realm of mundane, everyday tasks—and part of what had first drawn him to you was the cutting sharpness of your mind.
You were the first woman he had ever met who could truly keep pace with him, match his wit stride for stride, keep him honest, keep him guessing.
You never once allowed him to disappear too far into the polished arrogance of a surgeon's ego without neatly taking him down a peg and planting him back on earth where he belonged.
And yet, somehow, the sight of a mandolin slicer anywhere near your hands still sent his pulse into a frenzy, the same way he used to go visibly pale if you so much as reached for a meat cleaver.
It had always annoyed you—that suffocating, almost absurd protectiveness—because Brendon knew exactly who you were.
He knew you were careful.
Capable.
Sensible.
So for him to look at something as harmless as jogging and act as if your knees were one careless mile from catastrophe, it had always felt, if you were honest, just a little belittling.
But now, given your current situation, you had the creeping feeling that once he found out, he would never let you leave the house again.
"Thirty-two year old female involved in an altercation at a bar!" one of the EMTs piloting your gurney barked, breathless but practiced as the trauma team converged at the threshold of PTMC's emergency department. "Exchanged blows with an adult male, was knocked to the floor during the crowd surge, then sustained a compound tib-fib injury after being stepped on."
Jack Abbot was already at your bedside, gloved hands moving with cool efficiency over your face and splinted leg while Dr. Ellis and Dr. Shen flanked the gurney
"Active bleeding from the right temple, three-centimeter scalp lac. Split lower lip. Bilateral abrasions to the knuckles consistent with closed-fist strikes. Open fracture to the left tibia—visible bone protrusion lateral shin, splinted in field, distal pulse present before and after splint placement, foot warm, cap refill under two seconds."
You groaned, voice slurred but sharp with irritation as you pressed the blood-soaked pad tighter to your temple, "I told you guys to take me to Presby."
One of the EMTs exhaled through gritted teeth, exhausted. "Ma'am, please, this was the closest hospital."
John Shen's brows shot up as he glanced at the shredded knuckles and the blood on your lip, "You got into a fight with a man?"
Despite the temple blood trailing warm down the side of your face, you turned your head just enough to flash a crooked, drunken smirk. "You should see the other guy."
Your friend, Nicole, breathless and disheveled beside the gurney rail, immediately jumped in, "He pushed me off the bar while I was dancing. I was fine—she really didn't have to—"
"Shut up, Nic," you muttered, eyes half-lidded but fierce. "The bastard had it coming."
Jack's mouth twitched into a smirk as he palpated carefully around the temple wound, gaze laser-focused, "I like her."
Ellis leaned in, penlight already out as she held your cheek steady, guiding the light over your pupils, "What about the head lac? Did you fall into glass?"
You huffed a humorless laugh, "No. He clipped me with one of those ugly rings he was wearing."
You shifted, trying to lift the bloody gauze pad from your temple.
"I'm not concussed," you assured. "I just need some water."
"Keep that dressing on, ma'am," the second EMT said firmly, pushing the gauze back against your head.
The first nodded to the physician team.
"Intoxicated but alert and responsive, GCS 15. Oriented to questions. Respiration's normal, O2 sats 99, blood pressure 128 over 82, pulse 112 sinus tach, likely secondary to ethanol, stress response, and blood loss. Pupils equal and reactive. Denies loss of consciousness."
"Open fracture site dressed with sterile wet gauze, leg immobilized with vacuum splint, bleeding at temple controlled with direct pressure," the second EMT added. "No narcotics administered en route because patient repeatedly stated she doesn't feel any pain and remained hemodynamically stable."
That made Dr. Shen glance up sharply."No pain?"
The EMT gave a grim look, "None. Not even when we aligned the leg."
You shrugged, "I got a high tolerance."
"Yeah, adrenaline and alcohol'll do that to you," Dr. Abbott confirmed.
Ellis's eyes flicked up, "Name?"
Your gaze immediately shot to the ceiling.
The EMT gave a helpless shrug, "She's refusing to state. Friend won't provide it either."
Nicole pressed her lips together apologetically and stayed silent.
You let out a sigh, muttering, "My husband'll kill me if he finds out."
John gave a short incredulous scoff, partly joking, "What, does he work here or something?"
"Yes."
Ellis deadpanned, already reaching for the side rail as they turned toward Trauma One, "That is the least of your worries right now. We need your name."
A drunken chuckle escaped your split lip, "Jane Doe."
Jack huffed a laugh of his own, then his voice snapped back into crisp command. "Let's stabilize the leg, pressure bag fluids, trauma labs, type and cross. Head strike plus temple lac buys her a one-way ticket to CT soon as she's secure."
The team surged forward, gurney rattling down the corridor at top speed.
As they whipped past the central desk, Dana stopped dead in her tracks, expression twisting into one of concern.
"(y/n)? The hell you doin' here, kid?"
At the sound of your name, you groaned, allowing your head to fall back against the gurney as it disappeared into Trauma One.
"Looks like we got a name," Jack smirked, quickly lowering the rail on his side.
"Goddamnit, Dana..." you huffed.
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.
.
Up at Orthopedics, the air still carried that sterile, metallic chill unique to post-op corridors—chlorhexidine, cautery smoke ghosts, and the faint rubber scent of fresh gloves.
Dr. Brendon Park strode out of the OR like a storm front in navy scrubs, mask already long gone, hair still slick despite the cap he'd just stripped off.
Behind him trailed a small cluster of medical students, all of them bright-eyed in the way only the deeply sleep-deprived and painfully ambitious could be.
Brendon, meanwhile, looked about as thrilled as a man walking behind his own casket.
"Post-op for BKA," he said flatly, voice clipped and fast enough that pens nearly scratched through notebook paper, "is not complicated unless you make it complicated. Serial neurovascular checks of the residual limb. Monitor flap perfusion, capillary refill at the skin edges, temperature, color changes, any duskiness that suggests ischemia."
He calmly turned the corner, gait smooth and to-the-point like that of a dormant predator.
"Dressing stays clean, dry, and intact unless there's strike-through. Rigid removable dressing or immediate postoperative prosthesis if PM&R clears it. Elevation for edema control in the first twenty-four hours, but don't leave the knee in flexion unless you enjoy flexion contractures."
He cut a look over his shoulder so sharp it could have opened skin.
"And if you forget early prone positioning and aggressive hip and knee extension exercises, congratulations, you just bought your patient a future revision."
The residents murmured frantic notes.
Brendon hated this part of the job.
Not the surgery—never the surgery.
The amputation had been clean, efficient, textbook: posterior flap preserved, tibial cut beveled, fibula transected proximal to the tibia, myodesis secure, hemostasis immaculate.
No, what he hated was this.
The teaching.
The hand-holding.
The dead-eyed terror in learners who somehow survived anatomy and clinicals only to stand here blinking like livestock.
Teaching hospital, he reminded himself bitterly. Comes with the territory.
Without warning, he pivoted mid-stride, nearly causing the MS3 closest to him to trip over her own clogs.
"You," he snapped, fixing her with a stare. "Hypothetical. POD one, BKA patient spikes tachycardia, increasing pain out of proportion, tense posterior flap, drainage darkening under the dressing. Next step."
The student froze.
Actually froze.
Her mouth opened. Closed. Her pupils went wide.
Brendon stared at her for one beat, then another, jaw flexing.
"Well?" he said curtly. "Go on. Quit wasting my time."
"I—I'd probably increase the opioid dose and maybe loosen the ace wrap to reduce—"
He cut her off with a sharp exhale through his nose.
"No," His tone was dry enough to desiccate tissue. "The next step is immediate dressing takedown to inspect the stump. Assess compartment tension, evacuate hematoma if present, and get the patient back to the OR for emergent decompression or hemostasis if there's any question of vascular compromise. Pain out of proportion after amputation is not treated by loosening bandages."
The student went pink with humiliation.
Brendon had already turned away, uninterested.
They rounded the corner into the Orthopedics charge station, the fluorescent buzz louder here over the drone of printers and distant telemetry alarms.
Charge nurse Sally was just hanging up the phone, expression pinched.
"Park," she called, "ED just called up a gnarly open tibial fracture. Sounds like a grade III, stepped on in some kind of bar fight. They're asking if you want to come take a look."
Brendon scoffed, already snagging the chart from the BKA he'd just finished.
He uncapped his pen and scribbled quick postoperative orders across the margin.
"Tell them to irrigate, start cefazolin and gent, tetanus if needed, splint, and wait." His tone was dismissive, eyes never lifting from the page. "I've got better things to do."
Then the elevator chimed.
A soft, ordinary ding.
But it sliced clean through the station noise.
The doors slid apart.
Nicole stepped out.
Brendon's pen stopped moving.
His head snapped up so fast the residents actually flinched.
His brows drew together instantly, dark and severe, eyes narrowing with a speed that telegraphed something far rarer than annoyance.
Recognition.
And then something colder.
Nicole.
Your best friend.
The two of you were supposed to be downtown right now, out celebrating her birthday.
For one suspended, electric second, the entire floor seemed to go still around him.
What the fuck was she doing here?
The instant Brendon's eyes locked with Nicole's, every trace of color drained out of her face.
Her mouth dropped open.
"Oh, shit."
The curse came out in a frantic hiss, far louder than she probably intended, and then she lunged for the elevator panel, jabbing the close door button with panicked, repeated stabs of her thumb.
Brendon moved before the doors even started to slide.
"Nicole!"
His voice cracked through the Orthopedics floor like a rifle shot.
Every resident at the charge station went rigid.
Sally's brows shot nearly to her hairline.
No one—no one—had heard that much raw emotion in Brendon Park's voice in years.
Not anger, exactly. Something sharper. Hotter.
Something terrifyingly close to fear.
He abandoned the chart in his hand without a second thought, pages fluttering against the counter as he crossed the distance in three furious strides.
His palm slammed between the narrowing doors with enough force to trigger the sensor, metal panels shuddering back open.
Nicole winced.
Brendon's face was taut.
"What the hell are you doing here?" The words came rapid-fire, clipped with fury. "Where the hell is (y/n)?"
Nicole's eyes darted left, then right, like she could physically outrun the question.
"I—I was just looking for the cafeteria," she blurted. "I got turned around."
Brendon's expression somehow got darker.
He leaned in, voice low and dangerous, every syllable razor precise.
"You know damn well that's not what I'm asking." His jaw flexed. "Why are you in a hospital, Nicole? Why aren't you out with my wife like you're supposed to be?"
She clammed up so fast it was almost audible.
Her eyes dropped.
Dodged.
Brendon barked her name again, louder this time. "Nicole."
Her chin lifted in stubborn apology, "I was sworn to secrecy."
Brendon's eyes widened.
"What do you mean sworn to secrecy?! What the hell happened?!" he snapped. "Is she hurt?!"
He stepped closer, voice dropping into something so cold it made even Sally flinch from across the desk.
"Nicole, so help me God..."
But she held.
Not a word.
Not a single word.
Brendon stared at her for one searing, vibrating beat, chest rising once, sharply.
Then he let the doors close.
The second the elevator sealed shut, he pivoted on his heel and stormed for the stairwell so fast the residents had to flatten themselves against the wall to avoid getting clipped by his shoulder.
Sally watched him go, wide-eyed.
The med students stood frozen in his wake, mouths parted.
Now that wasn't new.
This was Dr. Park the brilliant, merciless orthopedic shark who shredded residents for sport.
This was blood in the water.
And he was already hunting the source.
.
.
.
He hit the ED level in a blur of motion that made the elevator look lazy.
Fifteen flights should have left any normal person winded.
Brendon barely seemed to notice.
The stairwell door slammed open hard enough to ricochet off the wall as he strode into the chaos of PTMC's emergency department, eyes cutting through the movement with ruthless efficiency.
He scanned for one thing only:
Dana's blonde hair.
He didn't see it.
As Princess swept past carrying a stack of warm blankets, he turned sharply enough to stop her in her tracks.
"Where's your charge nurse?"
Princess blinked, eyes going wide.
He had never once, in the handful of ortho consults that dragged him down here, acknowledged her existence beyond the patient in question.
The sheer fact that he was speaking directly to her left her momentarily stunned.
Three seconds.
That was all the patience he gave her.
When she still hadn't answered, Brendon scoffed under his breath and moved on.
Across the pod, a cluster of male nurses and a couple of security guards stood in a loose knot, voices low and animated.
The second Brendon's expression came into view, the older nurses instantly read the room and scattered like prey.
Everyone except Ahmad.
New enough not to know better.
He looked up, grin easy. "Hey, man, you want in on the pool?"
Brendon ignored him, using the slightly raised vantage point near the desk to keep scanning the room.
Ahmad kept going anyway.
"Female in Trauma One. Bar fight, won't give her name but says her husband works here." He lowered his voice conspiratorially. "Abbott's the favorite since he admitted her, but weirdly enough Robby's pulling as a dark horse."
And then Brendon saw Dana.
He was moving before Ahmad finished the sentence.
Dana barely had time to look up before Brendon was in front of her, looming, eyes dark with something far more dangerous than his usual surgical arrogance.
She blinked once, surprised, then smirked, "Sally just called. Said you denied the tib-fib consult."
"I've got something more important," he bit out.
Dana folded her arms. "What can I do for ya, Shark?"
His response was curt, immediate.
"Park."
The smirk slipped.
"Did you admit a woman with the last name Park? Brown skin, brown eyes, curly hair." His throat bobbed once. "About this tall."
He gestured roughly to his own shoulder.
Dana frowned, already mentally running the board.
"No Parks."
His brows drew together so hard it almost looked painful, "Double check."
She held his stare, then shook her head once, firm, "No Parks in the ED today with that description."
For one second, pure frustration flashed across his face.
Then Dana's expression shifted.
"...Though," she said slowly, realization dawning, "there is that woman in Trauma One. Same description. The tib-fib from the bar fight."
The words hit him like blunt force trauma.
Brendon went still.
His heart dropped so violently it felt like it hit somewhere near his knees.
Shit.
You were the tib-fib.
Without another word, he turned and strode hard toward Trauma One, every step faster than the one before, fury and fear now fully braided into something lethal.
Dana watched him go, then slowly turned her head toward Ahmad across the room.
A grin spread across her face.
"Ahmad," she called.
He looked up.
She jerked her chin toward the retreating orthopedic surgeon. "Put fifty on Park the Shark for me."
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.
The doors to Trauma One slammed inward so hard they rebounded off the stopper.
Both you and Jack Abbott jumped.
"For fuck's sake!" you yelped, your hand flying to your chest hard enough to jostle the blood-pressure cuff around your arm.
Abbott looked up from where he'd been checking the gauze at your temple, blatant displeasure flattening his mouth.
"Well," he drawled dryly, "look who finally came down from his ivory tower to join the rest of us."
Brendon didn't so much as glance at him.
His eyes found you.
Then your leg.
And every trace of color seemed to drain out of his face as his gaze landed on the mangled reality of your grade III open tibial fracture—the splint peeled back enough for the jagged cortical edge of tibia to protrude through torn skin and soaked dressings.
"Jesus Christ, (y/n)..."
His stomach visibly dropped.
He was at your bedside in two strides, all sharp motion and barely restrained panic, hands hovering before settling into practiced purpose as he took in the injury.
The second you realized it was him, your eyes screwed shut.
"Nicole," you hissed under your breath, "I'm going to kill her."
Brendon's voice came fast, rougher than you'd heard in a while, "Are you okay? Did you hit your head? Any dizziness, nausea? Can you move your toes? What the fuck happened?"
At the sheer informality of the exchange, Abbott's brows drew together.
Then it clicked.
A slow grin spread across his face.
"No shit," he said, looking between the two of you with delighted disbelief. "This is him?"
Brendon's head snapped around so sharply his curls shifted over his forehead. "What do you mean, this is him?"
And then, against his better judgment, something hot and ugly curled low in his chest.
Jealousy.
You... alone in a room with Jack Abbott for God knew how long, while you were hurt and vulnerable and half-drunk.
Not that he thought you'd do anything.
But Abbott?
He was a psych case with a stethoscope.
You turned to Jack with a pleading look, silently begging him not to say a word.
His grin only widened.
"The ED's been runnin' a betting pool on who her husband is," he said, enjoying every syllable. "Ever since she let it slip he works here and refused to give us her last name."
Slowly, Brendon's stare slid back to you, laser-sharp.
You visibly deflated.
Your glare cut to Abbott, "This is coming out of your patient satisfaction score."
He shrugged with an amused huff, "Worth it."
At the door, he paused just long enough to toss over his shoulder, "I'll take it we've secured that ortho consult."
Brendon answered with nothing more than a grunt.
The door shut behind Abbott.
Silence.
And then Brendon erupted.
"You deliberately omitted your name so I couldn't find you?!"
You scoffed right back, temper flashing despite the throbbing in your temple, "Because I knew this is how you'd react! Brendon, I am not made of glass!"
He took in one short, incredulous breath, anger still sharp but fraying at the edges with fear.
"I have every goddamn right to react like this when I find out from someone else that my wife nearly snapped her leg in half!"
His eyes dropped to the injury again, horror freshening as if seeing it for the first time.
"What the hell happened?!"
You exhaled through your nose, "It was just an incident at a bar."
That somehow made him look more alarmed.
"(y/n)," he started, voice low and serious. "Tell me what happened. Did someone do this to you?"
You held his stare for a beat.
Then sighed.
"Nicole and I were out celebrating. She was dancing on the bartop, we were having a good time, and this random asshole shoved her off."
Brendon's jaw tightened.
"She fell hard," you continued. "Really hard. So I punched him in the face."
His eyes widened a fraction.
"Then we got into it. Fist fight, cops got called, crowd rushed, people started pushing, I got knocked down..."
You gestured vaguely toward the leg.
"Yada yada, here we are."
For a moment Brendon just stared at you.
Then he almost stammered, disbelief cracking through the anger, "You got into a fight... with a man?!"
Your bandaged knuckles and split lip suddenly made awful, perfect sense.
You blinked at him, "Why is everyone so surprised by that?"
"What the hell were you thinking?!"
"I was thinking about my friend!" you snapped. "She could've cracked her skull open because of that guy. You of all people have told me enough stories to know people get seriously hurt from way less."
He shot back immediately, "Nicole isn't the one with the broken leg!"
You folded your arms over your chest and turned your face away.
"I'm not arguing with you about this," you said curtly. "It's already done. So you can either be my husband and leave until I find another doctor, or you can be Dr. Park and do the damn consult."
That hit.
It showed only in the brief tightening around his eyes, the smallest fracture in his expression, but it hit.
He wasn't trying to be that guy.
He'd spent the last ten minutes wondering if his wife was visiting a friend... or lying unidentified in the morgue.
And all because you'd hidden your name so he wouldn't get upset.
He exhaled once, slow and controlled, and forcibly redirected every ounce of emotion into the place he trusted most:
The medicine.
His gaze returned to your leg.
"Alright," he said, tone leveling into pure surgeon.
He snapped on gloves.
"I need you to answer everything honestly. Any numbness in the foot before EMS splinted it?"
"They already asked—"
"Humor me."
At his curt tone, you scoffed, but complied, "...No."
He palpated gently along the exposed margins of the wound, assessing the soft tissue and contamination. "Pain when you stretch your big toe?"
"A little."
He checked distal pulse at the dorsalis pedis, then capillary refill in your toes.
"Good distal perfusion. Toes are warm."
His fingers moved with meticulous care over the deformity.
"Obvious displaced open tibial shaft fracture, likely with associated fibular fracture. Significant periosteal stripping but the posterior soft-tissue hinge looks partially intact. No gross vascular compromise on exam, but I still need to rule out occult injury."
None of that sounded remotely reassuring.
He continued, snatching up the chart Abbott left and glancing it over.
"This needs urgent irrigation and debridement in the OR. Looks like broad-spectrum IV antibiotics were already started, but we'll need repeat tetanus verification, then likely external fixation. We'll also monitor closely for evolving compartment syndrome given the crush component."
You blinked at him.
Half of that might as well have been another language.
He finished the exam, stripped off his gloves with a sharp snap, and let out a breath.
Then his whole posture softened.
"Look," he said quietly.
Your arms loosened a little.
"I'm sorry for how I came in," he said first. "I'm sorry for how I spoke. And I'm sorry that you felt like you had to hide from me to keep the peace."
The anger had burned off, leaving only the truth beneath it.
"You scared the hell out of me," he admitted, voice lower now. "For ten minutes I didn't know if you were in the ED, visiting someone, or downstairs in the morgue. I was furious because I was terrified, and no one was telling me anything."
He rounded the gurney and gently took your hand, his thumb gliding carefully over the bandage wrapped around your raw knuckles.
"You are a strong woman, (y/n). You wouldn't be married to me if you weren't," he murmured. "But strong doesn't mean invincible."
His eyes lifted to yours, steady and sincere.
"And as your husband, it is my job to worry. I'd never forgive myself if something happened to you when I could've done something to prevent it."
Guilt curled warm and uncomfortable in your stomach.
Your arms fully uncrossed.
He reached up, cupping your cheek with a careful hand, thumb brushing beneath the uninjured side of your lip.
"But I'll try to be... softer about it," he said, the word sounding begrudging but genuine. "But you can't avoid me. Not in an emergency, and especially not when you're hurt."
You caved.
Slowly, you nodded.
For Brendon, the faint curve that touched his mouth was practically a beaming grin.
"Thank you," he muttered.
Then he leaned in and kissed you.
Soft.
Tender.
A world apart from the fury he'd entered with.
You hummed in pleasant surprise against his lips, the corner of your mouth quirking when he pulled back.
"Trying to bring up your patient satisfaction scores, Dr. Park?"
A quiet chuckle escaped him, forehead touching yours.
"Maybe."
.
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Bucky is an awful dancer, sometimes his left foot becomes his right foot or that he has no rhythm or flare...but when he gets into a different mood without any validation, he can suddenly pull you into a space where you both can get crazy, dancing with the rhythm and flare you both understand.
Bucky when the music slows dance, he pulls you close to him, heads resting each other and swaying side to side on the slow rhythm of the music.
Bucky sometimes randomly touches you, bluffing and kidding around.
Bucky loves resting his head on your arm then drapes his arm across your body. It's moments like this when the world is cruel and he just wants to be small for a change.
Bucky has been in army bases most of his life, and he is a highly-trained fighter and assassin. So he knows a great deal of things about weapons and you are too curious for your own good and immerse yourself when you go to shooting ranges, and even ask him to teach you some training moves during sparring sessions.
Bucky even teaches you how to disassemble and assemble a gun.
Bucky as a loving and protective boyfriend, he also teaches you how to spot danger and how to act based on its level. Should you run or should you kick him in the nuts and slice his neck when a knife points toward you?
Bucky is cool, but not as cool as you knowing how to land darts on the marks.
Bucky says “good”, in that restrictive, dry tone when you land bullets on the marks. When you look at him gleefully, he just sends you a nod with that dead, focused look in his eyes.
Bucky when all gets worse, it gets worst for the suspects, the most important thing is your safety.
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Summary: Working as a governess in Summerhall for the two young princesses, you see how things have changed after the death of Lady Dyanna Dayne, but you try your best to change things... And perhaps convince an absent father to be more present in his children's life?
Pairing: Maekar Targaryen x governess!reader
Warnings: 18+, mature content, child neglect, oral sex (fem receiving)
Words: 8.3k
A/N: this was quite a lot to write (the last part took me like a week to work out the logistics and then Tumblr fucked my final edit and I had to do this all over again...) but I really hope y'all enjoy it!
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Summerhall has quite changed since the death of Lady Dayne.
Not that there’s been too much of a change for you: Daella and Rhae are still young and need a governess, now more than ever.
And yet, even after a few years, you can still tell the difference.
The corridors feel colder. The halls darker, even when the days are bright and sunlight streams in from the windows. Laughter is a rare sound these days, and a duller one. A fog of misery looms over the residence, and it’s infected everyone like a deadly disease.
Daeron is so lost in the bottle that sometimes you worry one day he won’t be able to find his way back up. Aerion has become something ruthless, something… terrifyingly uncaring; something that you don’t dare to get too close to. Aegon’s fear of him tears your heart apart, and when you find him in the library – where he hides during most of his free time – you try your best to bring back the childish spark that used to light his eyes.
He wouldn’t feel so lonely if Aemon were still home, but he’s not come back for a while now, and you’re not sure if he ever will. The maester business, Aegon told you once. You should take that as a blessing – maybe this plague won’t touch him, away from Summerhall – but part of you misses that small child running around the corridors with his younger brother with wooden swords and screams of joy filling the halls. You just hope he doesn’t feel too lonely at the Citadel.
The two girls don’t seem to be yet affected by this curse – if you forget the incident with Rhae and the love potion… – and you try your best to keep it so.
And Prince Maekar…
Well, you don’t see him much these days. Not that you ever saw him much more before.
He’s always been a pretty private person, and nowadays he’s often locked in his chambers. Probably tending to his responsibilities, possibly still in mourning. Everyone in the household knows better than to disturb him when the door is closed shut. After all, despite the hard times that the Seven Kingdoms are facing, you all still have an appreciation for life.
However, in those rare moments you see him in the corridors of the residence, it’s hard to ignore the heaviness that weighs on his shoulders, heavier that the name he gained during the Blackfyre rebellion. Sometimes, when he strides past you, hands behind his back and eyebrows constantly furrowed in a stern expression, you forget that he’s younger than his brother.
The heir to the throne was the first one who had managed a smile on his younger brother’s face, after the death of Lady Dayne. In his presence, the weight on his brother’s shoulders seems to ease ever so slightly. However, he doesn’t often stop by Summerhall. His duties as Hand of the King keep him in King’s Landing, as they should.
Lucky him…
“Miss?”
You look up from your book open in front of you and immediately realize it’s gotten quite late.
The candles’ flickering flames dimly light the room in which you normally spend your evenings. Daella sits in front of you, her needlework forgotten to the side while she gently caresses Rhae’s white hair, her head resting peacefully on her sister’s lap. Eyes closed, her chest rises and falls regularly, her limbs limp hanging from the edge of the couch. How long has she been asleep?
“I think it’s time for bed,” Daella says with that telling tone of voice that shows her regal birth, but that still holds some of her youth.
“Indeed,” you agree, closing the book and taking Rhae in your arms.
She’s getting heavier, you ponder when your back aches as you pick her up. Or I’m getting older.
You hold her close to her chest, her small body breathing softly against yours, and, with a candle in your empty hand, head to the chamber of the girls with Daella close by your side. She’s started to walk with her chin up at all times, back straight and a fierce look in her eyes.
And yet, when you look at her, you still see the little girl who used to play with dolls under the table of the Great Hall.
You dread the moment she will become a woman, but it eases your worry knowing you will still be by her side when that moment arrives.
The chamber of the girls, unlike the dark and freezing corridors, is warm – lit by a dancing fire that covers everything in the room with a golden light. While Daella starts to get ready for bed on her own, you quickly change her sister into her nightgown. Her half-asleep body and your experience aid you in the struggle and Rhae is soon tucked in bed with her favourite doll.
You pause to look at her for a moment, at her peaceful face that’s already started to drool on the pillow. You tuck a few strands of white hair behind her ear and leave a quick peck on her temple.
Then you walk to Daella and help her out of her daydress.
As you brush her hair, you notice a slight frown in her expression. “What’s on your mind, my lady?”
“Father says he’ll be leaving soon.”
You nod. “I heard something of the sort.”
“For a tourney, in Ashford Meadows.”
Her small fists clench around the fabric of her nightgown. You gently pass your fingers through her hair to untie any knot.
“A tourney such as this is not something that a young girl like you and your sister should witness yet.”
“Gwyn Ashford is not much older than me and I bet she’ll be in attendance,” she bites back, pouting her lips.
“Well, the tourney is in her honour…”
The face of the girl suddenly lights up. “Maybe I could ask Father to have a tourney in my honour!”
You smile gently. “In a couple years, perhaps.”
She turns to you, eyes wide and brimming with hope. “Do you think he would say yes?”
Knowing the prince, you doubt he would. Even when the news of the tourney at Ashford Meadows had just reached Summerhall, you heard the other servants whispering… how Prince Maekar despised the idea, how he had begged both his father and his brother not to go, how abrasive he’d become since then.
But who were you to crush the dreams of a little girl looking at you like that?
“I’m sure he would do anything for you.”
Before Aemon was sent to the Citadel, you remember the long discussions in Maekar’s chambers. The screaming and yelling that seemed to reach every corner of the house.
I will not force my son to leave his home!
And yet…
Daella jumped out of her stool and into bed, tucking herself under the wool blankets as best she could with a bright smile on her face. You walked near her bed and your hands, out of habit, fixed the blankets right under her chin, like you had to do for so many years – first with your younger siblings, then with all the children that followed.
“You don’t have to do that anymore,” she points out, pouting her lips.
“I know.” You hesitate for a moment. “Sometimes I forget you’re almost a grown-up now.”
Her smile gets even wider and that’s enough for the dull pain in your chest to ease up, ever so slightly.
“Goodnight, then.”
You take the candlestick on her night table and make your way to leave the room. But a tug at your skirts stops you. When you turn back around, Daella’s hand holds you in place with the stubbornness of a ten year old.
“What about the lullaby?”
A small smirk pulls your lips. “Oh, so you’re not too grown-up for lullabies?”
She shakes her head – hiding a shy smile under the blankets. With a soft giggle, you sit on the mattress next to her. “Very well.”
Closing your eyes, you hum the melody that’s written in your bones, that’s part of you like the blood running in your veins. You may not know many things about the future – what’s to come? What awaits you tomorrow? – but in all this uncertainty, you’re sure that this melody – and the words that you now softly sing to Princess Daella as her eyelids grow heavier and heavier – will always stay with you, no matter what.
You watch as her body falls deeper into the bed, her breathing becomes regular and her hand finally lets go of your skirts. When it does, you tuck her hand back under the blankets. It might be your imagination, but you feel her fingers tighten ever so slightly around yours for a moment, before they relax against the pillow.
As your heart wells with love, a smile grows on your lips.
“Sleep well, princess,” you whisper, as you stand back up with the candlestick in your hands.
Its single, small flame is the only light in the dark room. In the fireplace remain a bunch of dying embers amidst the ashes, on which you throw a small log that should keep the room warm for the night. As you scout the room, you put away a couple of dolls and toys forgotten on the floor.
“These girls would probably forget their head if it wasn’t stuck to their necks…” you mutter with a smile while you’re stepping outside the chamber, closing the door behind you.
“Like their brothers.”
“Fuck!”
The startled word escapes your mouth before you can stop it; before you can realise who’s standing next to you in the dark corridor, his white hair and beard almost glimmering in the dim light of the candle you hold in your hand.
“My Lord.” With your heart still racing in your chest and drumming in your ears, you quickly bow, keeping your eyes stuck to the floor beneath your feet. “I didn’t see you there.”
You wait for a reproach, or something worse. After all, you did just curse in front of one of the princes of the realms. Accidentally, of course, but still…
However, nothing comes.
The prince remains silent.
After a few moments, as your fear slowly subdues, you dare to look up. His gaze is focused on the door you just closed, as if he could somehow look past the wood and see into the chamber. His usual frown’s abandoned his features, leaving behind a pained expression that fills your own heart with ache.
“They’re both asleep now,” you say with a small smile.
He nods but doesn't move.
You hesitate before speaking again: “Did you want to go in, my lord?”
“No,” he quickly utters, shaking his head. “I heard someone singing and I thought–”
He stops himself before he can finish the sentence. Nevertheless, what he meant to say is not lost on you. It's easy to see it in his eyes, fixed on something that's not there – a ghost of a memory you can't see.
“It was just me, my lord.”
“Of course,” he quickly nods. His gaze stops but a moment on you before he turns away and starts striding down the corridor.
As he walks away, the image of Daella's frown comes back to you like a punch in the gut. And so does all the pain you've seen growing on the children's faces for the past few years.
All this grief they have to face… alone.
Before you can stop yourself, before he turns the corner, you open your mouth.
“The princesses would be very happy to see you tomorrow, my lord!”
For a mere moment – so brief you might've imagined – Prince Maekar falters his stride at the edge of the circle of light created by your candle. Then, without a word, he turns right and disappears into the darkness.
You stand still for a moment, pondering how could a father simply forsake his blood like that, until a drop of melted wax falls on your fingers.
“Fuck…”
—
“Lady Rhae, be careful with those plants!”
A few feet away in the garden, the young princess nods silently as she carefully takes some purple berries from a thorny bush and throws them in her basket, almost overflowing with all kinds of small, colorful fruits.
“Aren’t those poisonous?” Daella asks as her sister tries to sneakily put a handful of black berries in her pocket and fails miserably.
“I’ll confiscate them when we go back in,” you assure the princess next to you.
“If she doesn’t eat them before that,” Daella mumbles, her attention moving away from Rhae and going back to her embroidery.
You take a deep breath and stifle a laugh. Sitting on a stone bench in the gardens, your focus shifts between the series of red stitches that the older princess next to you is monotonously sewing into a piece of black linen, and the younger girl sprinting from one wild berry bush to the other, leaving a trail of smashed pink and blue behind.
Every now and then, when Daella’s lost in her work enough not to care for conversation and Rhae isn’t watching too keenly a poisonous plant, you close your eyes and revel in the warm rays of the sun. These past few weeks, the weather has been a mystery – more than usual, that is. Warm days follow cold nights, clear nights follow rainy days, in a confusing sequence that it seems has also left the maesters puzzled. So, whenever the clouds open up, you try to enjoy the sunlight as best you can.
Sunny days remind you of a time in your life you have almost forgotten.
A time when you and your siblings ran in gardens just as beautiful as the ones of Summerhall. A time when the world smiled on your family, when the future still held hope for all of you.
Before everything was destroyed, and you were left alone in the ashes of a house no one dared to speak of. A house whose name you don’t even remember.
“Father!”
When Rhae’s voice reaches your ears, your gaze immediately goes to her. The young princess’ basket has been thrown to the ground, berries scattered all over, as she’s sprinting to the tall figure dressed in black that stands under one of the entry arches to the gardens.
The surprise of seeing Prince Maekar there – outside, nonetheless – is enough to freeze you for a moment or two. Thoughts start filling your head: did he truly listen to you? Or is this just a coincidence that he’s there after your brief conversation – even though you’re not sure you can call it that, given how little he had spoken?
It’s only when his gaze stops on you that you manage to pull yourself to your feet and curtsy with your head bowed, before sitting back down.
Rhae throws herself against his legs, hugging them tight, and you see the prince slightly falter in his stance under the mighty force of the small impact. You press your lips together, trying to restrain a smile.
“Father, I’ve picked so many berries!” Rhae’s eyes shine when she looks up at her father. “Do you want to see them?”
Even though he doesn’t smile, his expression softens as he places a hand on his youngest’s head and gently caresses her hair. “Of course.”
With a smile that could light up the entirety of Summerhall, Rhae takes his hand in her two small ones and drags him strenuously to the spilled basket. She’s not bothered by the mess; she simply starts picking back up the berries, telling her father the name of each and every one of them. The prince crouches next to her – the hint of a pained look crossing his features as he does – and listens carefully, every now and then furrowing his eyebrows when she shows him a poisonous berry that he is quick – and yet ever so gentle – to take out of her hands.
Still sitting at the bench, you notice a hesitation in Daella’s stitching. Her attention has left the embroidery in her hands, her focus on the scene in front of her instead.
“Why don’t you go to your sister?” you whisper in her ear when she misses another stitch. “The embroidery can wait until tomorrow.”
She looks up at you, a pleading look that slowly shifts into a grateful one. “Really?”
As soon as you nod, Daella’s just as quick as her sister to leave behind everything to sprint next to her father. When she appears at his side, Maekar doesn’t say anything. His hand, however, reaches for his older daughter’s and pulls her into his side.
From the bench, you watch for a while the three of them. The smile on Daella’s face, the laughter coming from Rhae as she crushes some berries in her hands. The soft look in Maekar’s eyes, the hint of the faintest smile on his lips.
As a feeling of warmth fills your chest, you avert your gaze. You shouldn’t be the one watching this. You take Daella’s embroidery and, carefully, undo her mistakes. However, you can’t help but steal a couple glances.
And every now and then, when you look up, you meet Prince Maekar's gaze. There almost seems to be a certain softness in his eyes even when he looks at you.
You quiet down the traitorous jump in your chest.
My eyesight must’ve gotten quite worse lately…
—
Surprisingly, Maekar spends the rest of the day with his daughters.
You keep away as best you can, trying to leave them to enjoy each other’s company, still keeping a watchful eye as you’re used to.
He’s not very talkative, but he doesn’t need to be: Rhae talks enough for all three of them, and when she’s busy munching her dinner, Daella seizes the opportunity to inform him of her embroidery works and her studies. A couple times she tries to start a conversation regarding the tourney at Ashford Meadows, but each time the prince answers with a mumble or a grunt.
Daella’s pouting expression, luckily, doesn’t ever last too long when that happens.
At one point, the two princesses start to bicker over the size of their desserts – Rhae’s quite convinced hers is smaller than Daella’s, while her older sister considers that only logical since she needs less food, given her younger age. You promptly settle the quarrel, and when peace is brought back to the table, you notice Maekar watching you from his chair.
In his ever present frown, there’s a certain degree of amazement in his expression.
You hide a smile behind a spoonful of pudding.
He stays even when the girls head to their bedchamber, helping to tuck Rhae in while you take care of the older princess. When the two girls ask for their usual lullaby, Maekar moves away. You expect him to leave – there’s not much else for him to do there and, having spent most of the day with his daughters, you imagine he’ll have a lot to do to catch up on his duties.
However, his steps halt in the doorway.
As you sing, you can almost feel his silent presence looming behind you, distracting just enough for you to lose the rhythm a couple of times, but not enough to ruin the melody. It doesn’t take long for the two princesses to fall asleep, and when you finally turn to head to your room, you find him still standing there, watching you closely. You lower your head, ignoring his attention as best you can, and take the lit candlestick on Rhae’s night table.
He moves away when you leave the room, just enough so you can pass through, and carefully closes the door behind.
When the latch clicks, the silence stretches for a moment. Maybe it’s just an impression, however – in the darkness lit only by the candle in your hands – the prince seems to be standing close to you, closer than he should.
“I’m…” – you clear your throat, suddenly dry – “I’m glad you took some time to see the princesses today, my lord.”
He nods, his hands behind his back as his eyebrows furrow slightly. “I had no idea Rhae was so keen on plants.”
“Yes, she’s had me read A collection of plants and roots of the Seven Kingdoms to her at least a dozen times, before she was able to read it by herself.” You smile softly at the memory. “But she still prefers dolls to other books.”
A small smile pulls Maekar’s lips upwards. “Understandably so.”
Another moment of pause. The candle flickers between the two of you, slowly burning away.
You should go to your room.
It’s been a long day.
And it’s quite late.
And yet, as the moments pass, you stand still.
As does the prince.
There’s something hanging in the air, something that needs to be said – or done – and that holds you in place.
“I…” Maekar stops – a certain hesitation in his voice, so unlike him. “I will visit them more often.”
You smile, keeping your gaze low.
“I don’t know how much time I will have with the preparations for that bloody tourney… and Daeron’s so adamant on not participating–”
He stops once more, taking a deep breath. When he speaks again, the hints of anger in his voice have faded. “But I will try.”
“I’m sure they will appreciate your presence in any case, my lord.”
He nods and a relieved sigh escapes his lips. The flame in front of you flickers erratically for a second. As it does, a thought crosses your mind.
“My lord–”
The two words escape your mouth before you can stop them. You hold your tongue before you can continue, but you can feel the way Maekar tenses next to you. The way he straightens his sloching posture and pulls his shoulders to gain back his height. Almost as if he knows that, whatever you're about to say, he won’t like.
You hope he will let the matter drop, given you have said nothing that could earn a reproach. You hope he will simply bid you good night and let it go.
“What is it?”
How foolish of you to think he’d do that…
You tighten your fingers around the brass of the candlestick, the metal just as cold as Maekar’s voice.
You could always lie: say the first thing that crosses your mind and hope for the best; hope that he will believe you. He might be a prince, a Targaryen, blood of the dragon and all that, but he’s not a mind reader…
You’ve never been a good liar though, not even when it meant hiding from the people who wanted to see your house burn, or saving your own skin.
And the unuttered words burn in your throat, needing to be let out…
So you take a deep breath, bracing for the impact as you look up at him. “Will you find some time for Aegon as well?”
Maekar stares at you, his eyebrows more furrowed than usual.
“After Aemon’s been sent to the Citadel,” you continue in the silence that follows, swallowing down your fears as best you can, “I worry he’s been left quite alone. Perhaps too much.”
“He has his brothers.”
“They’re much older than him, my lord,” you point out as gently as you can. “And they–”
You stop yourself once again and his eyes sharpen with rage. “They what?”
Shaking your head, you lower your gaze for a moment.
And they’re either drunken or cruel fools; those are the words that dance on the tip of your tongue. A harsh truth, one that you’re sure Maekar’s already well aware of… he doesn’t need you to remind him of his sons’ failures.
You take a sharp breath and meet his gaze with a pleading look. “He could use his father, every now and then.”
“Aegon’s no longer a boy,” Maekar quickly replies, turning his head to the side to avoid your gaze but you’re quick to move back in his line of sight, a bewildered expression on your face.
“He’s but nine–”
“He’s to squire for Daeron at the tourney,” he interrupts you, with a tone that brooks no arguments as he starts walking away. “He’s old enough and it will be good for him, toughening up on his own.”
“But–”
“He’s my son!”
His voice echoes loudly in the corridor and your first thought goes to the two girls in the nearby room, hoping they aren’t woken up by the commotion. Seeing the way Maekar closes his eyes for a moment and clenches his jaw, you imagine he’s had your same thought.
Only when you don’t hear any noise coming from the princesses’ room do you allow yourself to really take in those words.
He’s my son.
Meaning, he’s not yours – a reality that in brief moments escapes your mind.
Therefore, it’s not your place to advise on how to raise him.
“Of course, my lord. Forgive me.”
You bow your head, taking a step back and feeling something cold spread from the depths of your chest through your entire body. The corridor is suddenly freezing, the candle almost out. You’ve stalled long enough. “I shall bid you good night.”
You curtsy as quickly as you can and turn away, heading to your room a couple of feet away. As you open the door and are about to step in, you give in to your weak heart’s request and glance down the corridor.
With the light of the moon coming through the window, you see Maekar’s silhouette in the shadows, standing right where you left him.
A statue as dark and cold as obsidian.
Ignoring the tugging in your chest, you enter your room and close the door behind, just as the candle gives out.
—
Prince Maekar might not be many things.
Kind.
Patient.
Pleasant.
These qualities are not in his nature.
But he is a man of his word, and in the weeks before the tourney he manages to spend a little time every day with the princesses, time that spans from mere minutes to hours on end. The girls are obviously delighted by this sudden care from their father.
You’re… not as delighted.
Your nightly discussion is still fresh in your thoughts, a cold sting in your chest that hits you again every time Maekar appears. So, you keep to yourself whenever he's around – even more than you did before.
Worry fills you every day, thinking about the moment Maekar will go back to his usual ways – forgetting his children even exist – and how that will tear Rhae and Daella’s hearts to pieces.
But that’s not the only reason your stomach churns: the blatant attention Prince Maekar is paying to his daughters might go unnoticed for a while, however in the long run it could grow from a seed of resentment into a fiery hatred from his other neglected sons, especially the younger ones…
Sometimes, you catch glimpses of Aegon, hidden behind a hedge or a wall, spying on his father and sisters spending time together. Waves of emotions run on his young face, ever shifting when he looks at them. Envy, anger… But most of all, heartache.
That same expression twists his features when he’s told he and Daeron will have to leave for the tourney a couple of days before the rest of the family.
“They’ll have more time to settle in,” you heard Maekar a couple of days before – probably talking to the designated escort – while passing in front of his chambers, his voice clear even through the closed door. “And I don’t want to hear Daeron’s grievances all the way to fucking Ashford.”
It’s no surprise that, when they’re all ready to leave, neither of the princes can be found anywhere.
While Maekar shouts orders that reach every corner of Summerhall, you silently slip away, leaving Daella in charge of her sister for a short while. The corridors are filled with knights and Kingsguards, looking everywhere for Aegon. Passing them by with your head bowed, you head to the library. The old wood creaks when you push the door open and the smell of dust and old paper fills your senses.
You’re not surprised to find Aegon under the long table, a book in front of him and a dragon egg in his lap. You crouch, despite the slight pain in your knees, and wait silently next to him.
“Daeron’s a shit knight,” he mumbles after a while, pulling the egg closer to his chest. “He’ll do a shit job, get thrown off his horse immediately and I won’t be able to squire for him for more than one joust.”
“Perhaps he’ll do better than that.”
“Not with all the wine he drinks.”
You smile softly.
“I should stay home,” he continues, lowering his head and his long white hair falling in front of his eyes. “It’s not like father will notice if I’m not there.”
“That’s not true.”
“Yes, it is,” he replies with a decisive tone that reminds you of Prince Maekar. “You don’t have to lie to make me feel better.”
A moment of silence falls between you as you can hear the guards still running outside, their metal armours clanking along the corridors.
“Aegon?”
He turns his head to you ever so slightly, just enough to see you through his white strands, eyes starting to well up with tears. You swallow down the growing lump in your throat.
“Your father…” you pause for a second, gathering your thoughts, “is a difficult man. A harsh one at times. His life hasn’t been easy, and that’s sharpened his edges, more than he cares to admit. But he’s still your father, and you should never doubt his love for you.” You push a strand of hair behind his ears. “He’d be ready to go to war for you.”
“Really?”
You nod with a smile. “Really.”
There’s doubt in Aegon’s eyes as he searches your face. But as the moments pass, you can also see a glimmer of hope. And in this house of gloom, that’s more than you could’ve wished for.
“Now,” you pull yourself up, which earns another crack from your knees, “you have a tourney to head to, don’t you?”
Aegon sighs, closing the book and pulling himself up with the egg still in his hands. “If they managed to find Daeron.”
“I’m sure they did. Unlike you, he’s not very ingenious in his hiding places.”
“But you found me,” he points out as you both leave the library.
“Well,” you give him a playful push, “I know you very well.”
Finally, a smile opens up on his face and, while you walk down the corridors of the house, he takes your hand. You try to play it off, to silently treasure this moment that won’t last for long, but a smile escapes your control and pulls your lips upwards.
When you step outside, Daeron’s on his horse, a tired expression on his face and a wineskin to his lips. The Kingsguards are talking to Maekar, probably to inform him that they found his first-born in the cellar, given the stains of wine on his otherwise clean travelling clothes. As soon as his father appears in his line of sight, Aegon’s hand quickly lets go of yours.
“Please,” he says as he then hands you the dragon egg. “Take care of it while I’m gone.”
You take it with a nod, the scales that glimmer like metal in the sunlight cold to your touch. “Of course, my lord.”
As he runs back to his father, something shatters in your chest.
You want to run after him and take him back inside, to safety; the need to stop him is like a call to war impossible to ignore. And yet, you can’t do anything but stand still next to the princesses while Maekar puts a hand on his shoulder and says something that brings a small smile on Aegon’s face; as he’s helped onto his horse and, together with Daeron and their escort, rides away as the day starts burning brighter.
Taking a deep breath, you try to ease the fear that seems to have taken hold of you; the feeling something awful will happen.
He’s going to be fine.
It’s just a week’s journey.
Nothing could ever happen to him.
You keep repeating that to yourself, but it’s no help: dread has its claws dug in your chest and no intention of letting go.
Looking around in a desperate attempt to find something that could ground you, you meet Maekar's eyes. You hold his gaze for a few moments, seconds that seem to last a century, as you finally manage to breathe again.
If something does happen, he will tear the guilty party to pieces and burn their bones to ashes.
That cruel truth, somehow, manages to calm you down more than any other gentle lie you could’ve told yourself.
—
That night, you can’t sleep.
It doesn’t surprise you: worry has never aided your slumber. Your mind seems set on picturing the most terrible possibilities that await Aegon on the road to Ashford, from plausible encounters with thieves to impossible encounters with dangerous creatures that only exist in books and your morbid fantasy. Trying to focus on the good memories doesn’t help either; it only heightens the absence that you feel in your chest.
You’re not sure, however, what pushes you to your feet and out of your room.
Restlessness, perhaps. The need to do something – anything – when you have no control whatsoever on what could happen far away from where you stand.
You walk aimlessly through corridors and halls in the day dress that you didn't find the strength to take off, cold feet on cold tiles or soft carpets or rough bricks, your way lit only by the moonlight streaming from the windows. Another clear night. A good omen, one can hope.
But wasn’t there a clear night when your family was slaughtered?
You wrap yourself tightly in your shawl, shivers running down your spine. You’re not sure what scares you most: the memory of all that blood and violence – so vivid even after all these years, the taste of iron still stuck at the back of your throat; or the fact that some details of it are starting to slip away from you.
What colour were your mother’s eyes?
Which one of your brothers had the loudest laugh?
How old was your father when he was killed? Older than you are now? Or younger?
As you head back to your room, trying to outrun those questions that your memory is unable to answer, your steps take you past Prince Maekar’s chambers. A light shines through the open door, a knife of warmth cutting through the cold that stops you in your tracks.
You haven’t seen this door open in years.
Curiosity pushes you closer, but self-preservation stops you on the edge of the room. From the open crack, you can’t see much: the dying embers in the fireplace, fine carpets and the hints of an even finer collection of furniture, lit candles in silver candlesticks above the carved wood. You should probably – no, most definitely! – leave.
You knock on the door.
“What is it?”
“It's me, my lord.”
Silence is the only reply you hear.
He doesn't tell you to come in... but he doesn't tell you to leave either.
You push the door and slip inside. The chamber is smaller than you expected for a prince of the realms, but still larger than your quarters. Most of the fabrics in the room are in shades of black and red, giving the entire space an almost funereal look. What really draws your attention is the ceiling: even in the dim light, you can see a large fresco of brightly coloured dragons soaring in the sky.
It seems almost cruel to you, that he has to stare everyday at what the follies of their ancestors lost them.
“The door was open,” you simply say, closing it behind you and looking around for him. “I wondered if there was something wrong, my lord.”
“Wrong?”
The voice reaches you from a poorly lit corner, but you can make out his silhouette in the dark, slouched on an armchair, still in his black tunic with a glass hanging precariously from his hand. “Many things, I suppose…”
“Such as?” you ask, taking a small step into the room.
“My sons…” he sighs, head sunk between his shoulders. “They are lost. One to the dreams and the bottle, one to his own vanity and cruelty, and one to the King’s wishes.” He shakes his head, gaze lost as he taps a finger on his glass. “No matter what I try, I’ll never be able to reach them again.”
Have you truly tried?
You torture the hems of your shawl, biting your tongue. “What about Aegon?”
“Aegon…” He scoffs softly, a small smile pulling his lips upwards. “He’s a smart boy, smarter than I was at his age… And I’ve forsaken him too.”
He gulps down what remains in his glass before placing it on the ground with a shaky cling. He runs a hand over his face, a long sigh escaping his lips, and you realise just now how tired he looks; how hopeless. Part of you, the part that understands his pain and can’t help but feel it, wants to reassure him – to tell him that he did his best and that there’s still time to be a better man for his sons.
Another part of you – the one that loves his children as if they were your own and knows what it truly means growing up alone – burns with outrage.
“So you’re simply going to give up,” you take another step in the room, “when he needs you most?”
“He doesn’t need me.”
Maekar states that with such ease, such resignation, that makes you scoff in bewilderment. At that sound, he tilts his head to the side, a combative glint back in his eyes. “You find that funny?”
“My lord, I beg you to stop being so blind.”
His eyes widen in surprise for a mere moment before his brows furrow and he leans forward in his chair.
“You have a family,” you continue with a firm tone, despite the beating heart in your chest – that threatens to jump out of it in fear, “a torn one but a family still. And they all need you. They need you to help them work through the pain you all share. I know Lady Dayne's death was hard on you,” – he clenches his jaw but you try to ignore it – “but so was on the children.”
“You think I don't fucking know?”
His voice is but a whisper, low and menacing like the growl of a wolf ready to attack. And despite the urge that begs you to run away, you straighten your back and stand still.
“I don’t dare to try and guess your thoughts, my lord… But I lost people I loved as well, and when I did, I was left alone and it almost killed me.”
Memories flow in your mind, past the violence you know all too well. Days of running through the woods as far as you could to the meadows and woods you once called home, weeks of solitude on roads you barely knew where they would take you, months of begging whoever you crossed paths with for a piece of bread and a roof.
Sleepless nights filled with nightmares, contemplating if being alive was even worth it.
Feeling as if you could slip into those memories, back into that endless pain, you close your eyes for a moment and take a deep breath.
“I would've given anything,” – your voice cracks, but you swallow down the tears – “to have someone by my side, someone else to share my pain with. You have that. And your children need someone to lean on.” You pause, looking back up at him. “Why won't you see that?”
Silence follows, and all you can hear is your heavy breathing and the blood pumping in your ears as a jumble of relief and terror swirl in your stomach.You feel as if a certain heaviness has been removed from your chest, however shivers run down your spine as you wait for Maekar to say his piece. After this speech he clearly didn’t ask for, you don’t expect that the prince will keep you in his staff any longer – you’d be surprised if he doesn’t immediately send you to the stocks – however you don’t regret speaking up.
He needed to hear that, even if it’s going to be your ruin.
After a few more moments, Maekar stands up. Holding your breath, you watch as – step after step – he gets closer to you until he’s less than a foot away. Only then his face is finally caressed by the candle light. Only then you notice the tears welling up in his eyes.
“Do you think they will still have me?” he asks softly, his voice trembling ever so slightly. “That they will forgive me?”
The pain that tears into your heart when looking at the broken man in front of you resembles nothing you’ve ever felt. Your fingertips itch with the need to comfort him, to take his hand into yours or gently caress his cheek. To hold him close until the sun makes his appearance through the windows of his chambers.
Instead, you grip your shawl, physically restraining yourself from reaching out.
Remember your place.
So, all the comfort you wish you could give him with your touch, you mold it into your voice.
“I can't assure you that they will, my lord,” you murmur gently, a hopeful smile on your lips. “But they're still young. And forgiveness comes easy with youth.”
He nods, lowering his gaze for a moment. “And you?”
“Me?”
“Will you forgive me?”
The question takes you aback, but you quickly answer as you’ve learnt to in a prince’s household: “My lord, there’s nothing to–”
“Don’t,” he quickly stops you, shaking his head. “I know I hurt you, I meant to hurt you. I didn’t want to admit that you could know my children better than me… but you clearly do.”
A fierce pride warms your chest, making you stand ever so slightly taller.
“So… will you–” Maekar stops, then looks up and meets your gaze – a silent plea in his eyes. “Can you forgive me?”
You take a moment to really ponder his question – if you can truly forgive his words, and as you do you drink in that begging look on his face. When you finally nod, relief washes over him, relaxing his features into a calm expression.
There’s still a line in between his eyebrows though.
If only I could just kiss it away…
A traitorous warmth climbs your neck. You lower your gaze and take a small step back. “I should go now.”
You turn around to leave, but a hand wraps around your wrist before you can take another step.
“Please don’t.”
There it is again...
That deep, pleading tone, that blesses your ears and shakes you to the bone.
Your breath escapes shakily your lips. “The hour grows late, my lord.”
“Don’t call me that…”
He’s closer now, his words soft blows of warm air that caress the back of your ear when he speaks again. “Not while I’m begging you to come into my bed.”
Fuck.
You should leave.
You should definitely leave.
His grip stops you, it’s true, but it’s loose enough that, with one pull, you’d be able to free yourself…
And yet, you don’t.
You can think of a thousand reasons why this is a horrible idea, but none of them feel as good as Maekar’s hands roaming on your body.
The one on your wrist moves along your arm, his fingertips leaving a warm trail along your skin, while the other finds your hip and grabs a fistful of heavy fabric of your gown, pulling you closer. Your shawl falls to the ground and his chest meets your back – a soft gasp escaping your lips, and he drowns his face in your hair, inhaling deeply.
“Stay with me tonight,” he pleads in a whisper, his lips moving against the back of your neck. “And I'll make sure to eat every last part of you until there will be not one breath left in that pretty mouth of yours.”
Suddenly, the cold you felt while wandering through the castle is far gone.
Your skin burns with every touch as his left hand moves from your hip down your thigh – taking and grasping all the fabric he can find in the hopes of a hint of flesh – and then back up again, leaving a painful ache between your legs.
You throw your head back against him and close your eyes as his hand moves up your body, pressing into your flesh to pull you even closer. It stops just below your breast, his teasing thumb caressing the curve of it through the fabric, in a motion that drives a soft mumble of desire out of you.
His mouth shifts against your skin, a smile pulling his lips upwards as they press against your neck. “I can tell you’re hungry…”
Hungry?
You turn your head to him and see the ravenous look in his eyes. There’s a promise of ruin in his gaze, one that should scare you, bring you back to your senses and make you leave.
Instead, your right hand – forgotten like its left twin by your sides – reaches up behind you and grabs hold of the back of his neck.
“I’m starving.”
Maekar leans in right as you’re pulling him in. Your mouths crash together, devouring each other’s lips with the desperation of the people haven't eaten for years.
His beard is rough against your skin, but his tongue and teeth are no less ruthless. He takes your lower lip into his teeth as his left hand finally cups and squeezes your breast. As a gasp of pleasure leaves your mouth at the friction of the fabric against your nipple, your fingers grip his hair and pull them with more strength than you wanted to.
A low groan rumbles in his chest and through your bones, an execpeted sound that pulls a smile to your lips.
His right hand pulls down the sleeve of your dress, exposing your naked shoulder. You hear the stitching rip under his grasp, but that's the last thing that bothers your thoughts at this moment. His mouth leaves your tormented lips – much to your dismay – only to dip on your bare flesh.
Teeth, lips, tongue, all move against your skin, leaving not one inch untouched from his torture. You throw your head back, one hand still holding on the back of his neck and the other hanging onto his forearm.
There's something addicting in being needed like the very air you breathe. Everything feels too much, and at the same time not enough…
Almost as if he read your mind, Maekar starts walking backwards, dragging you both to bed.
As he does, he turns you around and dives once again into your mouth. While your hands run through his hair – gaining soft groans of appreciation whenever you feel like pulling them slightly – his fingers dig into your hips, gripping your dress so desperately that for a moment you think he wants to tear it apart.
Then, the fabric held tight in his hands, you yelp in surprise when he lifts you up and drops you on the softest mattress you've ever laid on. You didn't expect such a hard man to appreciate these kind of comforts, but it seems Maekar still has many ways to surprise you.
“Damn these bloody skirts…” he mutters, as he crouches at the end of the bed and reaches for the hem of your dress.
Laid back on the bed, you can't help the laugh that leaves your lips. You prop up to your elbows to see his relentless fight against your gowns and undergarments. “Impatient, are we?”
His gaze meets yours – hungrier than ever – as his fingers trail the length from your ankles to your knees. “Can you blame me?”
Your breath catches in your throat as he brings the fabric up to your waist. His mouth meets your skin, leaving a trail of sloppy kisses and teasing bites on your things. His touch is just as ravenous, fondling the flesh of your legs as he pushes them open and hooks them around his arms before pulling you closer.
Until his warm breath blows shakily, desperate, against your aching core.
His eyes have never left yours as he moved, and they still look at you.
Waiting.
Taking the last deep breath you know you'll be taking in a while, you nod.
And that's all he needs before plunging in.
Bliss.
That's the first word that comes to mind as his tongue revels inside of you. Unrelenting shocks of pleasure run through your body, in a crescendo that builds in your abdomen and renders you completely limp in his hold. You grip the sheets, your dress, his hair, anything you find in your reach as you swallow down the moans that threaten to spill from your mouth, worried that someone outside the room could hear.
However a few wayward ones escape your control, and every time you try to bite them down.
The bliss, suddenly, comes to a quite unfortunate halt.
Flushed and annoyed, you look down. Maekar looks at you, his lips swollen and glistening in what remains of the candle light.
“You like to express your opinion, darling,” he groans against your thigh, his beard grazing against your sensitive skin in a painful pleasure. “Don't be shy now.”
You throw your head back as his mouth covers your folds once again and a loud moan leaves your lips.
May the Seven above assist you in this folly.
—
Tags: @theloveclub-18
Caught in a difficult position
Fem reader x multiple male characters
Has it been so long? This should be part of a book but what use of it when I am not sure if I can include this. Anyway, I'm left hanging towards the end, maybe we can collab in finishing this excerpt?
The practice of gratifying oneself by means of masturbating when done right and by essence taking pleasure from oneself and for oneself alone can be a healthy part of life. Supple fingers that prance around a delicate bud making its way its petals until a sweet sometimes salty water leaks from within. Fingers like torch lighting and igniting flames of desire that cripple across the rigid body. A cavorting pleasure and a trembling desire, spread wide and fingers trembling in the decreasing aftermath of gratification.
You step out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around your body, another one on your head knotted and spun around coiling around your head like some Korean empress’ hair. The sudden urge to give in to pleasure jumps inside you, slender fingers tracing your thigh upwards to your soft breasts tracing its curvature, and pinching your nipples.
You remove her towel and throw your hair towel on the chair. You open the bottommost drawer of the cabinet and take out a large pink pouch onto the bed. The urge of gratification heightens and the fan becomes chilly against the heat. You lie on the bed naked and sprawled with a thick and curved representation of a phallus, a little longer than what your lover packs under, not that you would not choose, but his romantic passion bordering on control and soft touches. When he thrusts his cock into your cunt, he radiates a gentleness and the desire to only pull out your desire.
The silicone phallus traces circles slowly around your delicate pink bud, shuddering by the strict contact as opposed to a callous finger on a clothed cunt. Slow and deliberate until you feel herself getting wet, relishing on the indulgent feeling of raising the temperature. You cup one of your breasts, squeezing lightly to the tips hardening, and you lean your head forward to lick your nipple while simultaneously encircling your clit. You spread your legs further, knees touching the mattress as you spread the slick around your cunt.
When he touches you, it’s gentle and unrushed. Slow and steady, he even makes you ride him, bouncing on his cock, your arms around his neck, and his hands on the firmness of your butt. Never dominating, only gentle, like what he really is, and it was only a few nights ago during another love-making when you asked him to release the chains that bind him, but you're met with a smile. “I don’t like to hurt you.” You slowly push the dildo toy inside you, stretching its gummy walls, your bare lips slowly gaping with the tip to its hilt. Your hand mimics his slow motioning exit of his cock to rub its tip to your clit. “Fuck,” you push the length imitating the way he thrusts his cock, albeit a little faster and harder, “Oh my fuck!”
You squeezes your breasts together, licking your nipples while you continue to thrust the dildo in your pussy. Your supple finger reaches for your clit, rubbing circles greedy on pleasure, cavorting desire, the pleasure heightens as you chase. Praising and singing, mental images of him forming in your mind, his voice gently coaxing you almost feels so close— “My heart?” Like a bubble holding its weight pops mid-air, he is home. You scramble to pull yourself together but the door opens and he walks in before you could even cover yourself and hide the dildo. “My love!”
Baelor Targaryen, Maekar Targaryen, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Daeron the drunken
Asking writers, how would you finish this one?
Caught in a difficult position
Fem reader x multiple male characters
Has it been so long? This should be part of a book but what use of it when I am not sure if I can include this. Anyway, I'm left hanging towards the end, maybe we can collab in finishing this excerpt?
The practice of gratifying oneself by means of masturbating when done right and by essence taking pleasure from oneself and for oneself alone can be a healthy part of life. Supple fingers that prance around a delicate bud making its way its petals until a sweet sometimes salty water leaks from within. Fingers like torch lighting and igniting flames of desire that cripple across the rigid body. A cavorting pleasure and a trembling desire, spread wide and fingers trembling in the decreasing aftermath of gratification.
You step out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around your body, another one on your head knotted and spun around coiling around your head like some Korean empress’ hair. The sudden urge to give in to pleasure jumps inside you, slender fingers tracing your thigh upwards to your soft breasts tracing its curvature, and pinching your nipples.
You remove her towel and throw your hair towel on the chair. You open the bottommost drawer of the cabinet and take out a large pink pouch onto the bed. The urge of gratification heightens and the fan becomes chilly against the heat. You lie on the bed naked and sprawled with a thick and curved representation of a phallus, a little longer than what your lover packs under, not that you would not choose, but his romantic passion bordering on control and soft touches. When he thrusts his cock into your cunt, he radiates a gentleness and the desire to only pull out your desire.
The silicone phallus traces circles slowly around your delicate pink bud, shuddering by the strict contact as opposed to a callous finger on a clothed cunt. Slow and deliberate until you feel herself getting wet, relishing on the indulgent feeling of raising the temperature. You cup one of your breasts, squeezing lightly to the tips hardening, and you lean your head forward to lick your nipple while simultaneously encircling your clit. You spread your legs further, knees touching the mattress as you spread the slick around your cunt.
When he touches you, it’s gentle and unrushed. Slow and steady, he even makes you ride him, bouncing on his cock, your arms around his neck, and his hands on the firmness of your butt. Never dominating, only gentle, like what he really is, and it was only a few nights ago during another love-making when you asked him to release the chains that bind him, but you're met with a smile. “I don’t like to hurt you.” You slowly push the dildo toy inside you, stretching its gummy walls, your bare lips slowly gaping with the tip to its hilt. Your hand mimics his slow motioning exit of his cock to rub its tip to your clit. “Fuck,” you push the length imitating the way he thrusts his cock, albeit a little faster and harder, “Oh my fuck!”
You squeezes your breasts together, licking your nipples while you continue to thrust the dildo in your pussy. Your supple finger reaches for your clit, rubbing circles greedy on pleasure, cavorting desire, the pleasure heightens as you chase. Praising and singing, mental images of him forming in your mind, his voice gently coaxing you almost feels so close— “My heart?” Like a bubble holding its weight pops mid-air, he is home. You scramble to pull yourself together but the door opens and he walks in before you could even cover yourself and hide the dildo. “My love!”
Baelor Targaryen, Maekar Targaryen, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Daeron the drunken
THE FAVORITE CHILD | BAELOR TARGARYEN
✧ characters: Baelor Targaryen x Daughter!Reader, Valarr x Sister!Reader, Matarys x Sister!Reader
✧ summary: Baelor has never been able to say no to his daughter. Her older brothers choose to take advantage of this fact. Valarr and Matarys are like 12 years old in this.
✧ genre: fluff
✧ warnings: she/her pronouns, children
The afternoon had settled into the kind of golden quiet that only came when lessons were finished and supper was still hours away. She had found her usual spot near the old stone bench, skirts spread around her in the warm grass, her doll propped carefully against her knee. Six years old and entirely content, unbothered by the heat, unbothered by anything at all.
The shadows that fell over her belonged to her brothers.
Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. They stood over her with the particular energy of boys who had a plan and were very pleased with it.
She looked up.
“We need you to ask Father something,” Valarr said.
She tilted her head. “What?”
“We want to go to the tournament next week.” Matarys crouched down to her level, which she had always found more convincing than being talked at from above. “All three of us. You have to be the one to ask him.”
“Why?”
The brothers exchanged a look. Valarr cleared his throat. “Because he likes you best.”
Tournaments held no particular magic for her. She had never once begged to attend one, never pressed her face to the window when the knights rode through the city, never cared much for the noise and the crowds and the dust. But Valarr and Matarys were looking at her the way they always did when they wanted something, that particular hopeful, slightly guilty look, and she loved them more than she disliked crowds.
“What do I say?” she asked.
They told her, carefully and in some detail. Matarys made her repeat it back twice. Their father was not an unreasonable man. It was simply that no one had ever worked out how to say no to her, least of all him. His sons had noticed. They were not subtle about having noticed.
She listened to all of it. Then she picked up her doll, stood, smoothed her skirts, and went inside without another word.
The study was quiet save for the scratch of quill on parchment and the distant sounds of the yard below. Afternoon light fell long and warm across the desk, catching the dust motes that drifted in the still air.
Baelor looked up from his correspondence just in time to see his youngest come through the doorway at something between a walk and a run, cross the room entirely, and climb onto his knee before he had said a single word.
“Hello Papa!” she exclaimed settling in
“Hello my love,” he responded, setting down his quill
She looked up at him with great purpose. “Papa. Valarr and Matarys and I want to go to the tournament.”
He looked at her baffled. “You want to go to a tournament?”
“Yes,” she said, without hesitation.
“It runs three days. The last day goes very late into the night, and it is very loud.”
“I am very brave,” she said.
“You are,” he agreed, because this was simply true.
She looked at him carefully, weighing something. Then, with the air of someone bestowing a considerable honour, “You can come too, Papa. If you want.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.” A nod, “I will hold your hand the whole time so you won’t be frightened.”
His expression shifted entirely. This small careful child had arrived with what was clearly her brothers’ agenda and somewhere along the way decided to protect him. At that, the last of his resistance simply gave way.
“That is very kind of you,” he said
She nodded. It was only fair, her expression said.
He glanced toward the door. Two faces disappeared from the gap so quickly they might have been imagined.
“Valarr. Matarys.”
A beat. Then footsteps, nervous and shuffling. The footsteps of two boys who had absolutely not just been crouching at a door. The boys appeared in the doorway, doing their very best to look as though they had simply been passing.
Baelor regarded them over his daughter’s head. They had the grace, at least, to stand up straight.
“We go on the first day only,” he said. “You leave the moment your sister is tired and you do not argue with me about it.” His eyes moved between them, “Understood?”
“Yes, Father.”
“Yes, Father.”
He looked back down at his daughter, who had already returned to her doll, entirely satisfied with the afternoon’s work.
Baelor tucked a strand of hair back from her face and reached for his quill.
“Thank you for the invitation,” he told her.
“You’re welcome, Papa,” she said, content
From down the corridor came the muffled but entirely unmistakable sounds of celebration.
✧ a/n: I am simply trying to create as much Baelor fluff as possible before the pain of this week’s episode. Thank you for the likes, comments, reblogs, and messages. Send me your requests
