Great prompt list. Wintershock 10 please 💛
Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Darcy LewisWord Count: 848Prompt: #10 "Can you keep it down?"
Darcy thought she heard a knock on her door, but she wasn't entirely sure.
She was vacuuming, so it totally could have been her mind playing tricks on her. It wouldn't be the first time this happened, so it was entirely possible.
She turned off the vacuum and listened hard, her ears ringing a little. Her vacuum was old and loud as hell.
Sure enough, there were three sharp knocks on her front door.
Glancing up at the clock, she groaned. It was past nine. So, she knew exactly who was knocking on her door.
She sighed heavily and unlocked the deadbolt, swinging the door open to a slightly miffed version of her hot downstairs neighbor.
He was hot, but good gravy, he was easily miffed.
"I'm sorry to keep asking this…" Bucky began. "But, could ya keep it down? I mean...I think I've explained this a couple of times, but I have to --"
"Get up early for work, yeah I know," Darcy grumbled. "You and me and everyone else in this Thorforsaken building have to get up in the morning for work. It's not a new or relatively hard-to-understand concept, Barnes."
He frowned. "Look, I was trying to be polite here...but if you have to get up too, maybe you should think about going to bed at a reasonable time."
"And just leave my apartment in a complete and utter mess? Not-effing-likely, dude. Because the next thing would be you complaining that I gave you mice or something stupid like that."
He snorted. "Doll, it's Brooklyn. Everyone has mice."
"And did they all come from my noisy apartment? Because a lot of things seem to be my fault around here."
"I don't think that's very fair…" he countered, crossing his arms and somehow managing to look even more hot the grumpier he became. It should be illegal.
"I have to vacuum my floors. Maybe invest in some ear plugs or something, I dunno." She shrugged and placed her hand on the door frame.
"Or just vacuum at a decent hour."
"Nine fifteen IS a decent hour, Gramps! You'd think that with all that sleep you're getting, you'd be in at least a marginally better mood!"
"Who are you callin' Gramps?" he sneered.
"Who do you think?" was her enlightened retort.
"Sweetheart, I'm the only one here!" He smirked and opened his arms wide.
"You want me to repeat it, Gramps?"
"No, I can hear ya just fine, and that's the problem, I'm hearin' ya!"
A door opened across the hall and Mrs. Washner stuck her head out into the hallway. "Could you two take your foreplay inside? I'm trying to put my kid to bed over here!"
"Foreplay? What, you kiss your kid with that mouth, Mrs. Washner?" Bucky snarked across the hall.
"Just keep it down, got it?" Mrs. Washner slammed her door and left them in silence.
Silence that lasted an awkward amount of time.
Bucky turned back to face Darcy. "Look, I'm just...uh...gonna...go back to my place."
"Cool. Awesome. I'm just gonna finish my vacuuming."
He paused, taking a deep breath before turning back to face her. "Can it wait until the morning? Please."
"Nope," she said, popping the 'p' before smiling sweetly in his direction. "And I've got the whole rest of my apartment to do."
"The whole rest of it, huh?" He tilted his head and moved fractionally closer. "You're gonna be up for a while, then."
"I was planning on it. I was gonna watch 'The Tonight Show' after I'm done. I was gonna turn up the surround sound so it would really feel like I was there."
She wasn't sure when the tone of their argument had changed, but if she had to put her finger on it, it was probably right after Mrs. Washner had accused them of engaging in foreplay.
Because while yes, it felt like flirting before...what with how his hotness levels increased in ratio to his grumpiness levels...it really felt like more now. With the ever shrinking distance between them. And her one hand on the vacuum handle because that was the only thing grounding her and keeping her from wrapping herself around his waist.
"Are you really gonna do that, Darce?" he asked, his tongue flicking out to wet his lips. "Are you really gonna turn up your surround sound that late at night?"
"I live alone," she teased. "So who's gonna stop me?" Running her tongue along the underside of her top teeth, she leaned against the door frame, her hand mere centimeters from his. "You?"
"Be kinda hard to stop you from my apartment…"
"Yeah, it would. You'd have to be here."
"That an invitation?" he rumbled, his voice dropping nearly an octave.
"You'd better believe it," she breathed, letting go of the vacuum.
One arm snaked around her waist and she tilted her head as he sealed his lips over hers. Their kissing was wild, all teeth and tongue. Arms and hands, gripping and tugging and pulling.
He slammed the door behind them, sliding the dead bolt into place.