This is a fan made story. I don't own the rights to Captain America, any of its characters or any characters within the MCU… Much to my disappointment. This will have some violent content and possible triggers. Steve/Bucky Established Relationship. Constructive criticism is welcome but if you don't like it simply because you don't like the line of thinking, please don't attack me for it.

Chapter 8: Love is Love

Steve unlocked the door to his apartment and smiled as he noted the empty cardboard boxes next to the door where Tony's people had left them. He collected the boxes and led Bucky immediately to his bedroom. However, the second they were in the room, Bucky pulled the boxes from Steve's hand and tossed them out of the way and pinned Steve next to the still open bedroom door. The kiss he gave Steve was intense and passionate.

It was several minutes before Bucky pulled back from kissing Steve. At that point, he had both his hands slipped under Bucky's shirt as he clung to him. With a smirk, Bucky spun them around and started walking Steve back to his bed where Steve fell backward when the back of his knees hit the edge of her bed. Bucky landed on top of Steve smirking widely. He took advantage of his position above Steve and intensified the kissing. Halfway through, Steve, running his hands up and under Bucky's shirt pulling it off. He then pulled away to inch up the bed until he was fully on the bed.

Bucky followed to remain hovering over Steve as he pulled his own shirt off. Bucky began to roam across his jaw, neck and chest before returning to Steve's lips. This time to kisses were less passionate but more sensual. When he finally pulled away, Steve wore a goofy grin which Bucky responded with a tender look.

"So, I have a serious thing that I need to talk to you about. You remember back when we were fighting Hydra during WWII? Remember that I promised there would never be anything that could keep us apart?" Bucky watched as Steve nodded, a confused look on his face. Bucky kissed the confusion away before he continued.

"I think it's about time to double down on that promise. Hydra kept us apart for over seventy years. I never want that to happen again. You are the most beautiful, wonderful and perfect person I have ever met. If it had been legal, I would have married you before going off to fight in the war, before you even got that serum, which, by the way, since it means you're still alive, I can't hate. I also think that it is my duty to legitimatize our kids and make an honest man out of you. What I am trying to say is, since you have pointed out that it is legal now, will you marry me? Will you be my husband forever?" Steve's goofy grin had returned and was now accompanied by tears glinting in his eyes.

He nodded before choking out a laugh and yanking Bucky down to kiss him intensely. Bucky could be felt smiling through the kiss. Bucky pulled back and whispered, "Say it out loud? Please? I need to hear it out loud."

"Yes, damn you. Yes, I will marry you. Damn, I was going to give you a few weeks to get used to the idea of being the whole thing being legal before proposing. I love you. You jerk, you stole my chance to propose," Steve chuckled before Bucky's lips crashed down furiously intense. Steve slide his hands down and started to unbutton Bucky's pants as Bucky did the same one handed.

Steve pushed down Bucky's pants as quickly as possible and then flipped them over so that Bucky could use the bed to wiggle the rest of the way out of his pants. Bucky finished removing his pants while unbuttoning Steve's pants with both his hands now free. Bucky, now in the nude, flipped them back over and started sliding down as he kissed down Steve's body. He paused at Steve's nipples as he shoved his lover's pants further down until they were almost off.

Bucky then slid down further before pausing, "Do you have lotion?" His expression was a cross between worry and longing.

Steve smirked, "I have better. One second." He twisted beneath Bucky to reach into the top drawer of the bureau next to his bed. He pulled out a bottle of clear liquid.

"What is that?" Bucky was now the confused one.

"Lubricant. It is designed for this and much more effective than lotions," Steve smiled as he handed the bottle before bringing his legs up and spreading them to give Bucky access to his nether region.

Bucky groaned at the sight before him as his metal hand opened the bottle and spreading the lube onto his flesh hand. He then immediately grasped Steve's member with his metal hand and held it still as he engulfed Steve's member in his mouth as he began to gently probe Steve's hole and prep it. The immediate moans from Steve brought Bucky to move quicker in his preparations. An 'enough, now,' Steve caused Bucky to withdrawn his fingers and shifted back up, bringing Steve's legs up as well and covered his own member with more lube.

He aligned himself at this point and slowly entered Steve as he engaged Steve in a searing kiss. Once he had entered his lover, Bucky attempted a slow pace, knowing that after so prolonged a time between their separation, neither would last very long. Despite this, he knew the exact angle to use to bring his lover maximum pleasure and used it to the fullest. Steve had similar ideas and they both quickly fell back into the old rhythm they had before their separation. As he felt himself approaching his climax quickly, Bucky reached between them and began attempting to bring Steve to his completion first. It took only a few strokes before he succeeded and Steve's brought Bucky his own.

Bucky refrained from pulling out, knowing that due to Zola's experiments on himself in the prison camp and then after the train had had similar effects on him as the serum had on Steve. As he continued to stroke Steve and they exchanged caresses, he felt himself hardening once more within his lover.

Steve chuckled at his and flipped them over, seating himself firmly on Bucky, causing him to buck and groan from pleasure over the friction at the same time. Bucky laid back and sighed at the magnificent sight before him and knew that he couldn't have asked for more or better because there was nothing more or better than Steven Grant Rogers. Steve lent forward slightly to brace his hands on Bucky's chest before rising himself until only Bucky's tip was still in him before dropping down harshly.

The results of friction had both gasping and Bucky's hands quickly found their way to Steve's hips to help him find the rhythm once more as he thrusted up to meet Steve's downward movements. Having already reached a climax once, it took them both longer this time but as Bucky felt himself nearing it once again, he began stroking Steve towards his climax, this time they reached it together and the groans of each other's names seemed to only prolong the experience.

After this round, Steve pulled off of him and grabbed the bottle of lube so that he could prepare Bucky for the next. He sucked off his lover while stretching him as Bucky had for him. It took Bucky less time to be prepared since his muscles were already relaxed due to the previous releases. Steve was equally as careful entering Bucky, ensuring that he was coated liberally before doing so. As soon as Steve was in, Bucky flipped them back over to be on top and began to ride Steve aggressively.

It wasn't until several more climaxes, mostly due to their enhanced bodies, and two hours later that they finally found themselves almost sated enough to end the love making. They had switched the receiving end several times and both felt the pleasurable ache of the encounter. Steve started to laugh as he laid back on his bed Bucky still over him, placing butterfly light kisses along Steve, worshipping his body.

"What?" Bucky asked between kisses being placed along Steve's jaw.

"I just realized that the tabloids are going to go nuts. I'm marrying a man and I have illegitimate children. There goes the perfect image America has built up about me," Steve stated earning him a sharp bite on his neck before Bucky pulled away a little.

"Who cares what society thinks. You ARE perfect. You have said it a thousand times, we love who we love, regardless of what anyone else thinks. As for the 'illegitimate children' it isn't like you went about creating them yourself. Hydra did that by stealing your DNA and using it illegally. As far as the world is concerned, you taking care of those children despite having no influence over their births, that makes you a real hero. You aren't responsible for their existance but you choose to take responsibility for them anyways," With this, Bucky went back to the spot he bit and began nipping and sucking on the spot until he felt a suitable love bite had formed.

"Are you marking me?" Steve asked incredulously as he realized what Bucky was doing.

"Yes," Bucky stated bluntly before switching to another spot, where the neck met the shoulder. He continued as he finished the second. "I don't have a ring just yet so this is my next best option."

"Fair enough," Steve agreed before flipping over and on top of Bucky and reciprocating. He only made one mark but it was large enough and positioned high enough for all to see and understand what it meant. When he finished he gave Bucky one last searing kiss before pulling away. "We should probably get to what we said we were going to do but we should also shower first."

Bucky chuckled in agreement as Steve pulled off him and led him from the room still completely naked and into the bathroom. While he turned on the shower, Bucky wrapped his arms around Steve from behind, and began kissing his back and fondling his penis. Steve immediately leant back into Bucky's arms and allowed him to make a few more strokes before turning around and pulling Bucky under the spray of water with him.

Bucky was almost instantly pinned against the tiles before Steve grabbed him on his buttocks and lifted him, using the wall as a brace. Bucky immediately wrapped his legs around Steve's waist and allowed Steve to penetrate him once more in his still loosened hole. This encounter was short and slightly rough, bringing out their more aggressive sides. After another two rounds in the shower, they finally cleaned themselves up properly.

Once they were dried off and dressed once more, Steve sent Bucky to the kitchen to begin packing the perishable foods into the cooler that had also been delivered. Once Bucky was out of his room, he threw the sheets and blankets in the hamper. Then he began preparing a few boxes and emptying his bureau and dresser into them. Another few boxes and his closet was empty. A conveniently located marker was used to label the boxes.

In the top drawer of his dresser at the back, he pulled out a box and opened it and smiled. He had bought the rings online two weeks after he had gotten out of the hospital when Bucky had pulled him from the Potomac. It had been impulsive but he had hoped when he found him that he and Bucky would eventually reach this point. That hope was clearly not in vain. The packing in his room now done, he went to the kitchen and wrapped his arms around Bucky from behind which had the man tense slightly before relaxing.

"You think these will do?" Steve asked as he rested his chin on Bucky's shoulder and opened the box still in his hand for Bucky to see. "I kind of bought them impulsively just after I learnt you were alive."

Bucky looked at the simple twin bands, each held alternating red rubies and blue sapphires in the middle. He was tense as he responded, "I don't know if one will fit."

It took Steve a moment to realize what Bucky was referring to. When he did he turned Bucky around and backed him against the refrigerator. He then carefully pulled out the ring for himself first and handed it to Bucky before holding his hand out so that Bucky could slide it on. Bucky hesitated before doing exactly that.

Once it was firmly on his left ring finger Steve gulped wetly as he pulled the platinum band for Bucky out of the box, "I guess that could be as slight concern. I mean, I knew my size but I did have to guess on yours. The nice thing about rings today is that they can be resized as needed and quite affordably too."

With these words out, Steve firmly took Bucky's metal hand in his own and spread the fingers out. Bucky didn't fight the process even though the rest of his body was stiff. Steve slide the ring on and it stayed exactly where he stopped at the metal webbing between the fingers. Steve smiled at the ring, "Try moving your hand, we don't want it to impede the movement of the mechanics."

Bucky obeyed and found that it didn't impact movement noticeably and finally, visibly relaxed, "You made a good guess. I don't think it will cause any immediate problems."

Steve beamed at him and immediately gave him another impassioned kiss. Before they could go any further in their celebrations, there was a knock on the door. Bucky immediately froze and Steve quickly pulled away. Steve opened on of the kitchen drawers and pulled out a gun and gun clip. He slid the clip home and moved over to the peephole in the door to the apartment. He looked out before relaxing and opening the door for Maria Hill.

She raised an eyebrow at the gun in his hand and he shrugged, "We just raided a hydra base and pulled out a bunch of kids. Also, you or Tony usually call or text before coming over."

"Tony and I both sent texts 45 minutes ago. When you didn't respond he sent me out of concern, although Romanoff didn't seem to worried about the lack of response. What where you doing? I thought you were packing," Hill pointed to his phone that was on the counter.

Steve picked it up after disarming his gun and placing it on the counter. It showed half a dozen texts and three missed calls. He blushed lightly and looked away before moving to his cabinets to begin pulling out the non-perishables, "We were a little distracted. We were in the bedroom packing that."

"Oh, so it has nothing to do with the rings you and Barnes are now wearing?" Hill dryly responded before eyeing Bucky's metal hand.

"Possibly. There isn't anything wrong with asking your boyfriend of 70+ years to marry you, is there?" Bucky was tense as he spoke.

"Not at all. You just should just be more aware of phone calls and messages. Dr. Cho and Dr. Banner turned up something important in their medical examines of the kids. You can leave this here. One of Tony's teams will be around in a half hour to finish the packing and moving everything over to your floor," Hill responded completely ignoring Bucky's defensiveness.

Steve was reading the texts and frowning, "Yeah, ok. You're going to oversee them right?"

"Yes. Here, these are the keys to the car I came in. I'll get a ride back with the movers," Hill handed him the keys. Steve took them before going into his room and coming out with a duffle bag. He put the ring box and the reloaded gun into the bag before leading Bucky out of the apartment.