Bucky's head fell back, off your neck, and he groaned loudly. Your eyes snapped over to the door.

"Don't answer that." You growled, guiding his face back to yours and kissing him again. He almost forgot about the person at the door, grinding back into you, when they knocked again.

"Bucky?" Came Steve's voice from the other side. Bucky reluctantly pulled his mouth off yours.

"Yeah, one second." He spat before letting you down and noticing you glowering at him. "We'll carry this on later." He promised in a strained voice before he walked over to the door, doing his trousers up uncomfortably as he went. He swung the door open, and Steve jumped at the sudden movement, then looked between you and Bucky, and cleared his throat.

"Tony needs to speak to Luka." Steve said simply.

You nodded, and marched out of the room, the two supersoldiers following behind. You automatically headed back to the lab, and Steve didn't correct you.

"What do you want?" You said with a fake smile as you walked into the lab. Tony swung round on his wheelie stool to face you, watching Steve and Bucky follow you in.

"Kid," He started. "I just want you to know that-"

"Tony, we can do the heartfelt discussion over Nick's betrayal later. I'm still mad about it. What are we doing now?"

Tony inhaled deeply before responding to you, his hands on his knees.

"Senator Ross took him to the Raft." Tony said, and you nodded. "Now, I have two more things that I realised we need to discuss." Typical Tony, turning into Avenger mode whenever something traumatic happened. He held a finger up and pointed between you and Bucky. "First, we will need to schedule in a serious talk about this."

You felt your face go hot, and you're quite sure that Bucky's did the same.

"Second," Tony added, dropping his hand, reaching behind him and grabbing his tablet. He stood and walked over to you. "We'll have to make sure that Hydra's intel on you ends with Nick." He swiped and tapped on his tablet before handing it to you. "Which means a few more missions."

"Right, and what's this?" You asked as you looked over the schematics for a-

"That is your first suit design."

"My...my first what?"

"Suit. As in, an Avengers suit. Because I'm making you an Avenger now." Tony said bluntly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Then he tapped the side of his hand on each of your shoulders, as if he was knighting you. "There. I think you proved yourself quite...adequately lately. Now you can come on the missions with us."

You stood there dumbfounded, until Steve suddenly clapped his hand on your shoulder from behind. You turned to him.

"Welcome to the team Kid." Steve smiled at you.

You didn't say anything. You couldn't think of anything to say.

"Well you could at least say thanks." Tony chuckled. You looked up at him.

"Tony, I...don't think this is a good idea." You replied cautiously, hating the way the excitement drained from your face.

"You get to come with us, no more staying in your room, no more-"

"Tony, a few months ago you didn't want me to get a coffee. Now you want me gallivanting around fighting people?"

"Look, you'd be a good asset, I just think-"

"I know what you think Tony, but this is not what you should be suggesting after-"

"He betrayed me!" Tony suddenly yelled, silencing the entire room. "I trusted him, and he betrayed me!"

"He betrayed me too!" You yelled back, tears forming in your eyes. "But you're making a rash decision because of what just happened!" Tony fell quiet, his breaths heavy in the tense air. "You don't think I want to find out who he was working with? Cos I do. But throwing me in the spotlight after he just admitted that he told them where to find me is an idiotic move."

Tony sniffed, and wiped his nose with his hand.

"I'm not moving the compound again." He muttered.

"You don't have to. But I think I should sit this one out." You replied softly. He nodded, still staring at the floor. You gently put the tablet down on the counter next to you. "I'll help, from here. Tech, comms, planning, whatever. But I don't need to be..." You trailed off, not really knowing what you were trying to say.

"I think she's right." Bucky said, saving your ass and stepping forward. "She needs to stay out of the public eye."

"So she needs to stay here? With you? Is that the play here?" Tony said with a bite to his words as he stepped closer to Bucky.

"I - okay." You moved between them and held your hands up. "When is the next meeting?" You asked your father, who was still staring over your head at Bucky. "Tony!" You clicked your fingers in his face to make his eyes snap to you. "Next meeting?"

"Thursday." He muttered.

"Right, so let's go over weapon specs, you know your left boot jet was dragging last time-" You herded Tony away from Bucky and towards one of the counters, giving Bucky and Steve a pointed look before immersing yourself back into distracting Tony.

Later that week, you attended the team meeting, and actually paid attention for once. Nat and Tony had narrowed down his most consistent contacts to draw up a suspect list of who else he could have been working with. The team would be spending the next few weeks in two separate groups scratching names off the list. You and Tony had also been refining some weaponry and communication links, and you also set up a base in one of the conference rooms with four different computers, for you to liaise with the team from the compound. They headed off a few days later, not knowing when they would be back.

Obviously, Bucky was staying behind with you. You weren't sure if it was because he was still taking on a bodyguard role, or because of what was going on between you, but either way, you weren't exactly going to complain. Especially not when every other night you ended up in the position you were currently in...

He was laid back on the bed, you straddled over him, fingernails digging into his chest as you rocked your hips, him thrusting up to meet your rhythm, his cock fucking into you in a way that just made your entire body light up. His fingers were digging into your thighs as you moved, the praise falling from his lips in strained mutters.

You could feel the sweat starting to roll down your back, but you could also feel your climax inching closer, and you tried to move faster, desperately chasing it.

Bucky's metal hand suddenly wrapped around the front of your throat, and he pulled you down, making you gasp as your face hovered over him.

"You are so..fucking...beautiful." He growled, his tone of voice not matching his words in the slightest. You licked your bottom lip as you stared down at him, your breath starting to shake from the feeling of his fingers on your throat, and his cock pushing into you. "Riding my cock so fucking well. I can tell you're getting so close princess, aren't you?"

You nodded eagerly, and then he wrapped his other arm around you and flipped you over onto your back, slamming straight back into you as he took his hand off your throat to lean down and kiss you into the bed. You moaned into his mouth, grabbing his head and kissing him harder. He grabbed your thighs, bending your legs more, and you arched your back as you felt him reach even deeper.

His tongue ran over yours, your breaths mingling together hotly as he fucked you. As always, he could tell in the way that your body started to tense that you were getting close, and he moved his hand down your body, instantly finding your clit and setting your nerves on fire. You broke the kiss to swear into the space between you, quickly morphing into a wrecked moan as you watched him biting his lip and feeling his fingers speed up.

You wrapped your legs around him, your thighs tensing as the rush of endorphins started snowballing through you. His hips started snapping harder into you as he felt you tightening around him. He pushed his mouth to your neck, chaotically kissing you as the orgasm exploded through you both at the same time.

The feeling kept pumping through you as your muscles started feeling like jelly, your legs falling from him as his movements started to slow down, your skin started prickling as you suddenly realised how hot and sweaty you were. Your fingers went into his hair, gripping it loosely as he continued to kiss your neck, his hands starting to run up your body as he slowly pulled himself out of you. You closed your eyes as you let the ecstasy of his lips on your skin roll through your veins.

He started to climb off of you, his mouth trailing down your neck to your chest, briefly and lazily licking over your nipple before falling onto his back beside you and letting out a loud exhale.

"That was good." You breathed.

"Better than on the counter in the lab the other day?" He asked, and you looked at him to see his eyebrow raised at you.

"On par." You smiled, and he smiled back.

"I'm enjoying this dating thing." He said as he sat up from the bed and started walking around his room looking for his boxers.

"The uh...this what now?" You spluttered, pushing yourself up on the bed. He laughed at you as he pulled his boxers on and walked back towards you, grabbing your ankle and dragging you down the bed so that he could lean over you.

"Come on princess. My tongue has been inside you and the word 'dating' makes you feel weird?" He smirked. You glared at him. "You've stopped insulting me every chance you get, we spend all day together, and we've been fucking pretty much every night. I figured that dating was kind of what we were doing."

You huffed, then let him pull on your hand until you were kneeling on the bed, and crashed his lips to yours.

"I guess I can accept that." You muttered as you seperated.

"Yeah, you will accept that," He growled. "Cos if we're not dating, then we'll have to stop with all the sex."

"No I would very much like to keep the sex." You pouted innocently, making him smile back at you. "I suppose we are doing...what you just said."

"Dating?"

"Yeah that."

"You can say it, you know."

"Nope." You shook your head as you pulled away from him.

"Go on, just say the word."

"Definitely not."

"Say we're dating." He grinned.

"Fuck off!"

You squealed as he tackled you back onto the bed, still trying to get you to say the word as he switched between trying to tickle you and kiss you. You tried to fight back, but in your mind, all you could think about was the fact that realising you were dating Bucky made you feel really, really happy.

And for the first time in over 10 years, you were glad that you finally let someone in.