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Emily

Emily had gotten out of bed without disturbing Bucky. She turned her shower on and just stood there, letting the water pour down onto her. Deep in thought on both the super soldiers, she liked them both more than she would have liked. She knew better than anyone not to let her feelings get the better of her. They were heroes and she was just her. She closed her eyes and lifted her head so the water was now coming down onto her. She was there for several moments before getting out of the shower and wrapping a towel around her.

Emily sat herself down on her bed, now with her phone in her hands. She was expecting the usual phone call from her mother, like clockwork she would call her every Thursday morning before work. On the dot of seven thirty, he phone started ringing and mum flashed up on the screen. Emily smiled, "hi mum," she answered the phone. Of course, Emily knew how the phone call would go, it always went the same way near the end of the month, she would thank her for the money she sent her and how it wasn't necessary.

"Emily, how are you? Thank you for that money you sent over. You know it really isn't necessary, I'm sure I can cope if you need it. I mean you are living in New York now." She could hear her mum saying down the end of the line.

"Mum it's no problem, work is going well." Emily paused, "there was an accident at my apartment block, I wasn't hurt or anything so you don't need to worry. But I couldn't go back into the apartment so I'm staying in an apartment within the tower."

Emily could hear the usual humming of her mother when she was concerned, but it seemed to pass or her mum had just decided she wasn't going to bring it. "Will you be coming home next weekend? It's your brother's birthday and I'm sure he would love to have you home."

Emily smiled, she had missed her brothers and sisters. She would have never admired it but she missed her family, being alone in New York was new for her. That was probably why she was so relieved when she met Bucky and Steve within a couple of weeks of living here. She didn't feel alone around them. Emily and mum chatted some more about things before she had take to do the school round.

Emily got herself ready for work and left the apartment, she could hear Bucky in the shower before she left. Emily was making her way down the corridor to meet Tony in his lab, when she bumped into pepper. "There you are!" She greeted Emily, "is it okay if I borrow you for that day? We need to finish preparations for Saturday's gala."

"Is it actually going ahead this time?" Emily laughed, a few months ago she had spent the day with pepper sorting out arrangements but it ended up getting cancelled due to the avengers all being called away on a mission.

"Fingers crossed" Pepper told her, and Emily followed her lead.

Steve

Steve let out a sigh of relief as he entered the apartment, he had only been gone for a few days but he felt like he had been away for a eternity. He had missed them, he had missed Bucky and he had missed Emily. He had hoped he would have seen Emily around the tower on his arrivals, purposely stopping off at the lab with some excuse to talk to Tony but she had gone out with Pepper.

"Alright punk?" Bucky said as he came out of his room, smiling at Steve as he came over to embrace him. Steve retuned his embrace, happy to see his best friend again. There had always been some sort of pull between him and Bucky, he had always been able to find him and they would always be there for each other. Nothing romantic, but a good old friendship that could survive time.

"How has everything been?" Steve asked, pulling away from the embrace now moving over to the sofa. He noticed Bucky doing a sly grin at the question.

"It's been nice having Emily around. We actually went on a date the other night." Steve knew that smile, he had seen it most weeks growing up with Bucky. He knew what they had been up to while he was away, he felt relieved for his friend. He knew that Bucky had been quite concerned, worried that Emily would prefer him and not want anything from him.

Steve couldn't help but wonder what was in store for their relationship, was Emily okay with them all sharing a bed or would she want to stick to her own bed or since he's been gone would she prefer to sleep with just one of them. He tried to push all the worries and concerns to the back of his head, and it was obvious Bucky had noticed he was worried. "It's complicated isn't it" Bucky chuckled, sitting on an armchair, "not exactly what we had thought when we growing up"

Steve let out a smile at Bucky's comment, the sixteen year old boys thinking that they would meet their soulmate and they would be out dancing every night together, sharing the same bed, even sharing the same girl together. "How has Emily been?" Steve asked, snapping out of his thoughts.

"She doesn't seem any different, I mean she hasn't mentioned the fire since. But she seems happier." Bucky told him and Steve tried not to frown, "oh don't start punk, she's not been happier because you haven't been here."

Bucky and Steve spent the next half hour or so chatting about Steve's mission and things with Emily. Steve's attention soon moved to the door when he heard Emily opening it. She hadn't seem him yet, her face was looking down at her phone and her heels were in her other hand. "No mum, stop worrying. I can get him that. Just send me a list on what he wants for his birthday and I will buy it." He noticed Emily pause, and start to close it slightly, "mum stop worrying. I gotta go. Love you." He heard Emily hung up and sigh, she opened the door again and closes it behind her. Steve watched as she started making her way towards them, now only just looking up.

Emily's face lit up when she saw Steve, "you're home" Emily said dropping her shoes and coming over to hug him. Steve couldn't help but smile at her, feeling a sense of warmth and love. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her onto his lap. "It's so good to have you back," Emily told him, kissing him softly on the top of his head.

Steve, Bucky and Emily chatted some more, Steve was happy that Emily was still sat on his lap. He had missed her and wanted her close by, "right guys, I better get changed. Pepper has had me running around like a mad man today for Saturday's gala" Emily stood up, giving Steve a quick kiss and made her way towards Bucky, she bent down and gave him a quick kiss before leaving the room. Steve could hear Emily's shower running after a few moments.

"You're right, she does seem happier." Steve told Bucky, who smiled at him.

Emily

Once Emily had showered and changed she made her way into the living room. Steve and Bucky were sorting through containers of take out on the table. She smiled at them as she made her way to the fridge and poured herself some wine and got two bottles of beer for the guys.

Once they had sorted everything and finally sat down at the table they were in non stop conversation. Emily had missed all three of them being together, and she hadn't yet bought up that she would be leaving next Friday for the weekend to be with her family. She really didn't want to leave them, and she wondered if it was too soon for them to come with her. She took a sip of wine, trying to rack her brain on what to do. On one hand they are soulmates so technically they are destined to be together, but on the other hand she would need to go into details of her family and she wasn't quite sure if she was ready yet to divulge into it.

"So are you prepared for this gala on Saturday?" Steve asked Emily, snapping her out of her thoughts, she looked at him and she could see a small hint of concern over his face. Obviously her thoughts were showing on her face, she quickly recovered and gave him a small smile.

"Pepper took me shopping after all the running round, how about you both? Ready to get suited and booted?" She looked between Bucky and Steve.

"I seriously hate these things" Bucky groaned, she knew Bucky wasn't a big fan of these events and being in the spotlight so to speak. Steve on the other hand was a natural of it, but that was probably due to the early captain America days. Tony had shown her a reel of footage of one of his early day performances, and the fact that her brother had shown her some gym footage of captain America.

"What are you smirking at?" Bucky asked playfully and Steve turned to her, Emily shook her head taking another sip of wine.

"Oh just some old footage Tony showed me a couple of days ago." Emily said, now smiling at Steve.

"Why do I have a feeling I'm not going to like this?" Steve asked, looking between Emily and Bucky.

"So changing the subject," Emily said pushing her plate away, "I have a proposition for you." She looked at Bucky, "and you can get your mind out of the gutter" Bucky and Steve both laughed at that comment and Bucky raised his heads in mock defense. "My mum called earlier, I'm going to be going back home next Friday and I wondered if you guys fancied coming with. You can say no, because I'm not sure if that would be weird but I didn't know what the protocol was for these sort of things and I'm not entirely sure how to bring up to my mum about having two boyfriends." Emily took a sip of wine to stop herself from rambling.

She looked between to the guys, Bucky was now smirking and Steve was smiling looking pretty amused. "What's so amusing?" She asked, now feeling confused. She replayed everything she had said in her head.

Oh crap. She had called them her boyfriends.

"So we're your boyfriends?" Bucky asked teasingly. Yep, Emily wanted the ground to swallow her up. She mentally groaned inside her head.

"Oh shush, you know what I meant." Emily said, now standing up taking her glass to refill with wine, hoping by the time she came back they would drop it.

As Emily bent down to put the wine bottle back in the fridge, she felt a pair of arms wrap themselves around her waist turning her around. She was now facing Steve, who was looking at her with desire. His lips came crashing down onto hers and after a few moments, he pulled away. She now noticed Bucky was standing next to Steve, moving closer to her, his hands now cupping her face and his lips had caught hers hungrily. She was standing in the kitchen with Steve's hands around her waist, while Bucky was making out with her. She could feel Steve's thumbs rubbing her hips, and after a few moments Bucky pulled away.

"To answer your question, of course we will come with you. What kind of boyfriends would we be if we didn't go with our best girl?" Steve said, smiling down at her.

"Pretty bad ones at that, ain't that right doll?" Bucky said, now releasing his hands from her face and Steve removing his arms. Emily noticed a glint of mischievousness in both Steve's and Bucky's eyes. She wasn't 100% sure on what had just happened, but she knew he had liked it.