Emily

Emily woke up with her body entwined with Bucky's. She was sleeping with her head on his chest and one of her legs over him, while he had his arm over her. She couldn't help but smile on how almost perfect it was, the only way it could have been perfect was if Steve was here with them. If anyone had ever told her she would be involved in some weird triad of a relationship, she would have laughed in their face. She always knew she had two soulmarks which obviously meant to soulmates, however she didn't know it meant that they would all be linked within each other. Especially with Steve and Bucky being purely friendship. This was all new to her and coming from a quite conventional family, this is not how she pictured her life.

"Good morning" Bucky said, snapping her out of her own thoughts. She looked up at him smiling, his hair was messy but for the first time since Emily had known him his blue eyes looked well rested.

"Did you sleep okay?" Emily asked, now resting her hands on his chest and facing him.

"Very," he replied, leaning over and kissing her. "I better get up, I'm meeting Sam in ten minutes to go running."

Emily crawled off Bucky, "don't worry, I need to get ready for work myself." She smiled at him before leaving his room.

Emily did her usual routine of preparing for her night performance, she started curling her hair with curlers and clipping them in. She had only just started when Bucky had left. Once she had finally finished she placed a bandana headband on to hold the curlers in place. Emily decided it was best to wear a shirt and trousers today with her usual heels and she quickly picked out her dress she would wear tonight. She placed all the usual stuff she would need on her bed with her dress, ready for when she needed to leave.

As she left her room, Bucky entered the apartment with coffee and a bag in his hand. "This is for you" he handed her a coffee cup and bag, "it's a blueberry muffin" Emily took a sip off the coffee, yeah that was definitely her usual order of a caramel latte.

She raised her eyebrows at him, "I'm not even sure I want to know how you know my coffee order." She laughed, leaning over to him and giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thank you"

Emily made her way down to Tony in the lab, following her usual morning routine. "Ah Emily, there you are." Tony greeted her, "come and have a look at this what do you think?"

Emily made her way to the screens that were being projected in front of Tony, she looked over them. Silent for a few moments before speaking, "I think this is wrong" she told Tony not looking at him and keeping her attention on the screen. "May I?"

"Go right ahead," he told her, his arms now crossed as he looked intently at the screen. Emily picked up one of his electronic pens, "if you change this to this" she marked out, "put this in there and take that away, this should now be the correct calculation" she finished her adjustments before placing the pen down and now looking at Tony.

"FRIDAY can you please run this" Tony said, still looking at the screens.

"It appears that this works, sir" FRIDAY's came through. Tony looked at her and Emily responded with a small smile and a slight shoulder shrug.

"You know, you really should consider going to college with a brain like yours" he said now looking at her.

Emily scoffed at him, "oh yeah because I can afford that, anyway" she paused, picking up her tablet, "I need you to sign these." She opened it up.

"You know, I'd be quite happy to look into it and pay for you. Maybe you should think about it" Tony told her, passing her back the tablet. "So today, you are coming with me to meetings and once that's done you can have the afternoon off."

Later that day

"Well I can tell why you gave me the rest of the day off" Emily groaned as they arrived back at the tower. "How the hell do you deal with that?"

"Well that's why I made pepper CEO" Tony told her, taking a sip out of his scotch. "But she's away dealing with other things, so I dealt with it"

"Pepper threaten you again?" Emily laughed, and Tony pretended to looked shocked.

"Pretty much" he told her, putting his now empty glass on the side of the car. Once they had pulled into the garages they got out of the car, "remember what i said about college."

Emily made her way back to the apartment, she walked over to the large windows that filled the apartment, looking down at the scenery. The beauty of staying in such a tall tower block, you could practically see everything. She was deep in thought on what Tony had told her and how he would pay for her to attend college. That was something she never dreamed would happen, not because she never got good grades but it never being an option due to money and time. Emily let out a sigh, her thoughts now moving back to the closest full of clothes Bucky and Steve had ordered in for her. She didn't have the heart to tell them that they given her more clothes than she had ever owned previously.

Emily was too deep in her own thoughts she hadn't heard Bucky enter the apartment, she only finally snapped out of it when she felt his arms wrap around his waist and his face nuzzle into her neck, his facial hair tickling slightly. Bucky gave a couple of small kisses on the crook of her neck, Emily closed her eyes for a few seconds enjoying the moment. "Everything okay doll?" Bucky asked into her neck, ending the question with another kiss.

"Yeah I'm just thinking about tonight," she said now smiling and facing him. Emily studied his face and she knew he wasn't buying it but she was glad he didn't press the matter further.

Emily spent the afternoon within the apartment, spending a couple of hours sat around with Bucky. They both ended up reading on the sofa, he was sat on one end of the sofa and Emily was laying down slightly with her feet in his lap. They sat there in a comfortable silence, enjoying each other's company. It felt almost surreal to Emily.

She checked the time, realizing she needed to start getting ready. Emily got up, gave Bucky a quick kiss on the cheek before taking herself to her room to get ready.

Bucky

Bucky watched as Emily got herself up from the sofa, he tried to fight the urge to smile when she kissed him on the cheek before going into her room. Bucky followed Emily's lead and took himself off to his room to get changed, he didn't want to make Emily late for her performance. Bucky knew Emily would be dressed up and he suddenly felt nervous, he wanted to make a good impression. He knew last time he went there with Steve and everyone, and none of the others blended in but this time it would just be him. He took out a white shirt and some black trousers, once he was dressed he went back to the living room to continue reading his book and wait for Emily to come out.

Bucky could hear Emily enter the room, he closed his book and looked up. She really was something else, her hair was down and curled. She wore a tight polka dot dress which clung to her in all the right places. He felt as if he had gone back to a time where he would go take dames out dancing. Bucky smiled at Emily, standing up. "Looking good doll," he told her, his hands now wrapping around Emily's waist and pulling her close to him. Her hands came up to his chest, resting on it,

"Not so bad yourself" Bucky leant down and kissed her, he felt Emily grab his shirt slightly and let out a small moan. He deepened the kisses for a few moments before pulling away.

Bucky and Emily has made their way to the speakeasy and they were both sat down at a table with drinks. People kept coming up to Emily, chatting to her and he watched how she smiled and would introduce him and try to include him in any conversation. When the show was about to start, he observed how everyone had taken seats at tables. Men and women were singing throughout the first half, some couples would go up to the floor and dance. Bucky glanced over to Emily, who appeared to be lost in the music and singing. Bucky turned his attention back to the performance in front of him, he knew Steve would have loved tonight. It was in full swing, completely different to how it was when they had first seen Emily perform. It reminded him of all the dancing he did before Steve had become captain America, before the events of what happened to him.

He had always dates plenty of girls and none of them ever really kept his attention for long. He would take them on a few dates, go dancing and maybe more. He never saw them for a very long, but he had always treated them right. Bucky's thoughts were quickly interrupted when he felt Emily put her hand on his, he looked over and she was still focusing on the performance in front of them.

After 45 minutes, Emily was introduced to the stage with her name of baby Jane once again. He watched as she sang amazingly, people would get up to swing dance to all her upbeat songs and near end of her performance he watched as she sat on top of piano singing. She had flirted with the audience within her performance, but he noticed how her eyes always ended up back at him. Once Emily had finished her performance, there was a break for people to get more drinks. Bucky took himself to the bar to get refills while Emily was at the back.

Emily soon joined Bucky at the table, both of them smiling at each other. Before he could say anything, the lights dimmed and the next performance started. It was a lot slower, and people from the tables soon got up and made their way over to the floor dancing. Bucky stood up, offering his hand to Emily and she smiled up at him and took it. They made their way to the dance floor, where Bucky held Emily close dancing to the slow rhythm.

"I can't remember the last time I danced like this" Bucky told her

"Oh yeah? I bet you and Steve used to take all the girls dancing." Emily teased him, Bucky let out a small chuckle.

"Not so much Steve, but I can't deny nor confirm your allegation" he winked at Emily.

She let out a laugh, and he felt a warm sensation seeing her laugh, "oh I'm sure you did. I bet you had all the girls asking Sargent barnes for dances."

She had called him Sargent barnes, he wasn't sure why but that caused some sort of fire to stir within him. The way she was now looking at him. Bucky pulled her closer, so her hips were against his. Emily let out a small gasp, and Bucky kissed her, Emily returning the kiss.

He knew he needed to get her home now.