#17pansies

[hils79]

I was told to watch this and I regret everything because he’s so adorable and I just want to cuddle him forever

[stuckyfanficrecs]

Author: 17pansies

Word Count: 23,332

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

Summary: "If he's just minor nobility, why does he need a bodyguard?" Steve shoved the folder which held Barnes' details towards the middle of the table. "He's not exactly prime kidnap material."

"His parents aren't worried about kidnapping," Fury said. "They need someone to steer him away from the dumb ass situations he keeps getting into."

"You mean he needs a babysitter." Steve sat back and folded his arms. "Seriously."

"If he's just minor nobility, why does he need a bodyguard?" Steve shoved the folder which held Barnes' details towards the middle of the table. "He's not exactly prime kidnap material."

"His parents aren't worried about kidnapping," Fury said. "They need someone to steer him away from the dumb ass situations he keeps getting into."

"You mean he needs a babysitter." Steve sat back and folded his arms. "Seriously."

"It's a one week assignment whilst he's in the country. If they like you and the two of you don't actually kill each other in those seven days, there might be the slim chance of a full time retainer - which," Fury held up his hand before Steve could get another word out. "Would be more than lucrative for both you and the company."

Steve stared at the face which looked out of half a dozen photographs on the table. Ridiculous eyelashes framed eyes that seemed to flit between silver-grey and palest blue depending upon the light. Full lips pouted at the camera, or, in one shot in particular, wrapped around a cigarette in the most obscene way possible.

"What kind of situations?" Steve asked, and ignored Fury's triumphant smirk. Yeah, yeah, so he'd bitten. Call him a sucker for lost causes that needed rescuing. Although listening to Fury's recounting of some of the things Barnes had been caught doing, it sounded like he needed saving from himself more than anything.

[fleetwoodmouse]

Fresh from a resolved case, Watson does his best to hide his feelings from Holmes’ vitriol. But the detective’s mind works in strange ways.