Bucky Barnes (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} notzimniysoldat) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} madisonvalley,@ 2018-01-24 08:24:00 |
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WHAT Waking up + Bodyswap = Madison Valley
WHEN This morning
WHERE Bucky & Kara's room
WARNINGS References to sexual activity
STATUS Closed | Complete Gdoc
Bucky was looking forward to the wedding, cautiously optimistic that the kids thing would work out. He still had his reservations, but Steve had talked him through it and at the end of the day, he loved Kara more than anything. At the end of the day, he got to climb into bed with her and wake up in the morning to her. If that was all he got in Madison Valley, he'd take it, kids or no. That was what he tried to have as his last thought going to bed and his first thought waking up.
Of course, it helped when he woke up curled around Kara. Bucky woke up slowly, his body shifting closer to his fiancée. She was warm and solid, but she was Kara more importantly. He liked the feel of her body against his and pulled her closer, one hand sliding up underneath her pajama shirt to feel her skin against his hand. The more he woke up, the more his hand ventured along her stomach. Eventually, he leaned in to press a kiss against her hair.
"Morning."
***
Waking up next to Bucky, wrapped up in Bucky, wasn’t common anymore, but it had been once and was still a familiar feeling. Enough so that Steve didn’t think anything of it when he woke up and realized that he both wasn’t in his own bed and it wasn’t his wife beside him. He just let himself doze back to sleep, something he rarely did but he was comfortable and relaxed enough with Bucky for it to happen at least for a while.
He only half registered the hand against his skin, that was comfortable and not unfamiliar too, roused a little more when Bucky kissed his head.
“What d’you think you’re getting there, pal?” he joked, and immediately froze when it wasn’t his own voice that he heard. He should have guessed that something was up, being in Bucky’s bed and not his own but whatever it was he’d expected his own voice.
***
Bucky froze when he heard Kara say something that was so very Steve. After a moment though, he huffed a laugh and just tightened his arms around the body of his fiancée. "Well, this is a new one, huh Stevie?" They'd been in Madison Valley long enough that he wasn't totally surprised by the fact that his best friend was now in Kara's body. After another moment, he let go and sat up.
"Think the girls will be alright?" he asked, glancing down at Kara's face, knowing it was his best friend behind her features. That was going to take some getting used to, but who knew how long this was going to be their normal. Things like this didn't last very long from what he'd experienced. He was definitely going to have to text Darcy about this.
***
“You know,” Steve shifted a little, managed to peer at his hands and down his body and together with where he was understood that he could only possibly be in Kara’s body right now. “Not as new as you’d think.”
Once, a long time ago now, he’d woken up in Darcy’s body, and she in his. Apparently that was just happening again but with Kara as the poor woman on the other end. At least she was less likely to try to do something untoward with him. It was just as awkward for him, though, maybe more so. He wasn’t convinced he could live life in his best friend’s girl’s body.
“I’m sure the girls are fine. Kara’s probably feeling pretty shocked but nothing too bad.” He hoped. Having seen this kind of thing before, though, hope came from a place of understanding.
***
"Kara's a lot different than Darce," he replied with a smirk. "Good news is, I can help you get changed without you having to look at anything." Bucky knew his friend well enough to know he wouldn't want to look at anything he shouldn't of Kara's body even if the truth of it was, Steve was the only one Bucky wouldn't mind looking at Kara because he knew nothing would ever happen between the two of them.
Of course, a moment later he realized something and looked down at his lap. "How long does this usually last for? Like a week or so?" Usually craziness in the dome didn't last for too much longer than that. Going a week without sex wasn't going to be the worst thing in the world, but it was going to mean he would be racking up more hours in the gym to compensate.
***
Leave it to Bucky to understand Steve’s reservations without him needing to even say that he had them. He wasn’t the kind of man who worried about seeing a woman’s body in a general sense, he’d spent enough time with the USO girl’s back in the day to worry about that anymore, but the women he kept ending up inhabiting for a while were ones he couldn’t bring himself to see that way. Especially now that he was married. For Steve, that meant there was only one woman he was going to see undressed.
At the question, though, he followed Bucky’s gaze, wound up just laughing. “About that,” he confirmed. “You going to make it?”
If their places were reversed, Steve likely would have had the same thought.
***
Bucky reached over to swat Steve on the shoulder and realized a moment later that it was Kara's body he'd just swatted. "This is going to take some getting used to," he lamented. He ran a hand through his hair and just looked at his friend. "Wish I'd gotten the heads up though. Would've had some fun with Kara last night." It wasn't really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
"You and V won't get messed up this week, will you?" He'd been doing a lot of reading about all the things that went into having the best chance at conceiving. That meant a lot of work on the woman's part to figure out when she was fertile. Bucky didn't want this change up to get in the way of Steve and V missing a window to try to conceive.
***
Even knowing how durable Kara was, how little he felt the swat was surprising. Steve got the feeling she’d have to be hit in earnest to even feel it. He’d never doubted her abilities, but that was something else. If ever needed, he might be okay letting her act as a shield. Hopefully that would never, ever come up.
Instead he just laughed softly, and kindly didn’t mention that he might’ve been a bit luckier on that front.
“Don’t know,” he said with a shrug. “If we are, there’s always next time.” He was pretty sure there were a lot of factors beyond this whole thing too. They’d only just decided to give it a try, she was just coming off the birth control and that had to take a while. He wasn’t worried. “The trying’s most of the fun anyway; wouldn’t mind keeping that up for a little while.”
Maybe he should be concerned about not making it the week.
***
Bucky was a little more sensitive to the whole trying to conceive thing, but he could definitely agree with Steve on that front. “Yea, It sure is,” he replied, and his body took that as a sign that maybe this morning could actually include said fun. It didn’t usually take much for Kara to put him in the mood, especially in the peace and quiet of their bedroom.
“Alright, let’s get you changed and then I can take care of this. No sense in doing it twice.” Because actually dressing Kara? Even with Steve in her body, that just sounded way too intimate to not be arousing in some way. “Then we can see what else befell our family with this latest nonsense.”
***
“Yeah,” Steve agreed with a slow breath. In the back of his mind was, as there always had been, a half thought toward offering to lend a hand, he was never sure whether it was meant to be funny or not and it never really fully formed. Bucky was his friend, nothing else, but at the same time everything else. They had a unique relationship, but one that Steve never questioned and never made any move to change.
So he just slid out of bed. “I guess it’s a good sign there’s not any shrieking anywhere.”
That meant the kids were okay, at least.
***
Bucky agreed. No shrieking was definitely a good thing. “We’ll take whatever small miracles we can get,” he agreed as he climbed out of bed. He went over to Kara’s side of the dresser and pulled out her favorite bra, a pair of panties, jeans and a long sleeved sweater. It’d keep her warm but not too warm no matter where she was, and it wouldn’t be any clothing he hadn’t worn before - bra notwithstanding.
Clothes collected, he moved over to Steve’s side of the bed and gave his friend a reassuring smile. “Well, we can't say life here is ever dull or boring,” he pointed out. “Close your eyes. Arms up over your head.” It was a good thing they’d both gone to bed in their pjs, even if his wasn’t doing a great job of concealing his arousal.
***
Luckily for Bucky, there were worse people who could have wound up in his fiancée’s body. The worst attention the very obvious arousal was going to draw would be a little kind teasing; Steve at least understood and it wasn’t even the first time it had happened for either of them. Enough years sleeping together, like they’d had, and it was bound to happen now and then.
So he just obediently closed his eyes and lifted his arms, making note in the back of his mind about how the movements felt different, tracking how far away things were and how a new body would need to move. At least he’d had experience in that too. It really wasn’t so bad, except for the being in a woman he couldn’t in good conscience look at.
“Don’t think we’ll stay so lucky once the kids wake up,” he mused, just to fill the quiet. Usually he wouldn’t feel a need to but this was an odd situation.
***
It was definitely not as bad as it could have been. V and Kara could've swapped bodies first off, so he'd be grateful it was Steve. Bucky loved waking up with Kara every morning, but he'd always miss falling asleep curled around Steve, trying to keep warm with the cold weather and lack of actual heat. They didn't have those problems in Madison Valley, so it was easier to just let it stay in the past.
"Kara's just as strong as you, maybe even stronger," he cautioned as he pulled off Kara's sleep shirt. He fastened her bra, moving around Steve so he wouldn't have to fumble around without opening his eyes. "There's heat vision and ice breath, too. And the flying. You've got a good handle on modulating your strength so hopefully it won't be an issue," Bucky added as he helped Steve into the shirt he'd picked out.
***
Eyes staying closed, stubbornly though it felt weird not to be looking at Bucky, Steve nodded. “She’s stronger than either of us, I’d say. I’ll be careful of that.”
The rest, he’d have to talk to Kara and make sure he knew how to not light anything on fire, or freeze anything. He doubted flying was going to be an issue, but he’d like to keep his feet firmly on the ground if he had the choice.
“Remember this isn’t the first time I’ve done this, pal. I figured out how to live in a new body a long time ago.” He’d kind of had to, but he did still remember the first couple days after the serum when he’d forgotten how big he’d gotten and wound up walking into a lot of things.
***
Bucky rolled his eyes at Steve saying he'd done this before. It wasn't that different, sure, but it was different enough that it warranted an eye roll. "I know, pal," he added, and it was only a little patronizing, as he helped Steve out of his pajama bottoms. He did his best not to touch too much or to linger as he got Steve situated into a fresh pair of underwear and then jeans.
This was definitely very intimate, even if it was getting dressed instead of undressing. Bucky made a mental note to try something like this with Kara once she was back in her own body. There was a small part of him, in the back of his mind, that thought maybe Steve and Kara would be interested in fooling around with him in their different bodies. That was very selfish of him though, so he pushed it back and resolved to at least try to get through the next couple of days. He wasn't an animal or anything; he could survive without sex.
"Alright, pal. All set."
***
What Bucky clearly didn’t understand was that Steve would always be the first to agree to someone fooling around in his body, if the person they were doing it with was Bucky. The exception to so many rules Steve had.
He tried to focus on not opening his eyes and not paying too much attention to the feeling of Bucky’s hands brushing across his skin, not his skin but it felt like it was, tried to pay attention to the rest of the house instead. Kara’s hearing was sharper than anything he’d ever imagined, he could hear the steady heartbeats of everyone still asleep, could hear the dog padding around on the carpet downstairs, even the neighbours getting up and the mumble of quiet conversations. It was a wonder how she ever ignored it all.
“I guess we’d better get this show on the road,” he said, blinking his eyes open again, the lights were a little bright for a moment but that was quickly adjusted.
***