Susan chuckled, "True, but you have to admit that your new figure truly brings you out better than anything else. Heck, even your tattoo is even better.".
Bucky was washing himself as he listened to the chat, and blinked curiously when he heard the tattoo comment, and decided to ask her when she gets out. He wondered what type of tattoo she got...
He just about finished cleaning himself when he heard Tara comment, "Thanks for the massage, sis. I better get going. I need a nap, especially when the water was almost getting me to fall asleep.", hearing her footsteps.
Tara recently learned to get a handle on size-changing, but not quite fully as she only manages to get down to 25 ft high, probably because of the Quantonium or something. Bucky figured that she was getting her clothes on, and went on along the privacy wall, and turned around the corner, only clad in a towel around his waist, to head for the compartment section that held his clothes.
Suddenly, there was a collision, and before Bucky knew it, he was on his butt, blinking as he shook his head, and he then froze, his breath escaping him as right before him, Tara was wearing a towel in her hair, a towel around her waist as she was slightly sitting up, slightly on her side, and her upper body is nude, unaware of his towel accidentally free to expose him down there as he was holding it earlier with his hand habitually.
Both of them stared at each other for a moment, red faced before finally Tara's mind clicked from its brief pause and she screamed while covering her chest. Bucky, at the same moment, quickly scrambled back for his towel while trying to cover himself.
That was when he saw it. As Tara was covering her chest with her arms and hands, her sides were exposed, and there on her left side, on the ribs is a light brown wolf paw tattoo.
Suddenly, his mind became filled with everything, every single moment of Bucky and T's time in his dreams, and he snapped back when Susan shouted, "Tara!", coming around, having already wrapped herself in a robe, bringing a robe to cover Tara up...
Bucky exhaled sharply, paling as he realized that Tara is his T, and she is Susan's adoptive sister! He wrapped his towel around his waist even more snug, with his rod slowly waking up at the memory of her grinding on his rod.
He stammered, "S-sorry, I'm sorry!", sprinting and turning to the men's private locker rooms, unknowing that Tara was confused yet allured by Bucky's magnificent body, vaguely having Deja vu for a tiny reason when she saw Bucky down there, but she didn't dare tell Susan, as she actually thought that Bucky's privates looked way much glorious when Derek's privates were pitiful in comparison.
Bucky growled to himself, his wolf instincts screaming at him to kill Derek Dietl, to mate Tara, to claim that the pup inside her is his, and more, running to one of the urinal toilets, dropping the towel to wank himself, punching the wall, imagining Tara instinctively.
Bucky started to feel tears in his eyes. He finally found her... after all this time... and he was so close to her right at the beginning when he and Susan arrived in this reality. Maybe it was somewhat better he didn't so early, especially when she was only a toddler at the time... but now... it might have been much too late. Her heart and mind were still all for Derek, a monster that she refused to believe had harmed her. Every night she was silently hoping that they would have their miracle and be released so she could quickly go back to him.
Part of him wondered to quickly flash his tattoo to her to wake up T... but part of him knew it was wrong. He was certain that it wouldn't work if he did it selfishly... hell, in some ways, it wasn't much different to what Derek had done.
After wanking so hard and causing damage to the walls, he released hard into his urinal toilet, giving out a strangled howl of angst, sexual tension, sadness, and fury, panting heavily as he collapsed against the wall, watching blankly at the mess of his cum washing down the urinal, wishing that it was instead Tara's womb, where he could claim her for the first time as his mate, but alas, Tara was already taken away of her virginity, that precious wall of life breaking open...hell, not even her pup isn't part of him...
"First time I ever saw you like this, Buck...You look like a drowned werewolf, mooning over something really desperate.", said Mo's voice, and Bucky only looked up to see Mo standing at the door of the stall, in his clothes, very worried and curious, very curious to see what is happening to his best friend, and he smiled a little, holding up a robe. "Come on, I think you have some time to talk to me before dinner. Let's go to my room, hmm? I have a feeling you don't want to go to your room as it is next door to the girls, I presume.".
"I don't know how their hearing is... and I just really need to talk to someone about this... that certainly isn't family.", Bucky answered as the two left. "Monger's not going to be happy about that...".
"He'll just have to live with that then.", Mo gave a small chuckle. Bucky and Mo got into Mo's room, with Mo closing the door with a button, and they headed deeper into the room, to Mo's favorite hangout which is the hammocks. Mo sat in his hammock, and nodded to Bucky, "Alright, pour it all out to me. No judgements just like past times. You remember the one rule?".
Bucky nodded, knowing not to touch Mo's stuff by smashing or throwing them, and exhaled, "You know my back tattoo?", and Mo nodded, and Bucky then started by pouring all his thoughts into words while pacing and ranting.
Bucky went through about how the Quantonium connected him to his mate in many ways through his dreams, how she wasn't born yet nor of his own world but one similar. Such as the situation that he found himself in. He went on to explain how eventually, it was Tara who was the girl of his dreams, and Mo certainly could feel the pain and rage that Bucky was trying to repress.
Mo summarized, "So, in short, you're happy that you found your mate, relieved that she's alive and solid in front of you, but on the other hand, you're upset that your mate is already taken, furious that Derek Dietl, which sounds like a beta to me, has taken her as his mate figuratively, enraged that her cub is made from self-detreating rape, not even pleasure to describe it really, and most of all, not equal love, and desperately sad that her cub isn't even yours, or that she isn't your mate on all levels. Am I right so far?".
Bucky huffed, "More or less. My wolf instincts are less wild now after that episode in the bathroom, but still telling me to claim Tara as mine, to kill Derek Dietl, to announce that I am Tara's alpha mate and the father of her cub...It is almost like Tara is somehow a repressed alpha, down to omega level...Before, from Susan's stories, before meeting Derek long ago, Tara sounded like a true alpha, always knowing what she wanted, just like how she was in my dreams...And now...her confidence is barely on low levels...".
"That Derek, more than likely, is the answer there.", Mo said. "Yeah, certainly that shithead mindset of the past where more or less the man does whatever he wants while his wife, woman, girlfriend, however you want to describe it, just shuts up and stays pretty. Tara claims that she and him are a team, but just from what some of the things Tara says as well as, of course, Susan... seems more like Derek's completely running the show: teamwork isn't even a concept he can comprehend.", Bucky scoffed.
Mo rolled his eyes, "Typically. It's rare on my island, and like I said, we usually hang those types of bastards up and throw them in the shark-eating waters.", before looking straight at Bucky, "Either way, all that I can say is that you must tell your wolf to wait with the mating claim while you go apologize to Tara for the incident, and smooth things over, and if you are close to her anytime, don't wolf out around her otherwise you'd have...ah, let's say, incidents similar to earlier, but you need to get used to her full load of scents including the cub's as you now know that she's your soul mate. And as for the killing/maiming Derek thing, give Tara the reins on that as she was personally harmed by him, not you.".
"I know, I know what I need to do.", Bucky sighed as he put his hands into his head. "But I fear it might all be too late; she'll probably never believe that Derek did anything horrible to her... she'll have the child... and that is if we're still stuck in here... if somehow we get out... she'll go right back to him.".
Mo sighed deeply, hating to see his best friend looking depressed and sad, and bit his lip nervously as he remembered about feeling so right with Susan...He has been getting to know her over the past week and half, and somehow, they were able to have long conversations, enjoying each other's company, teaching each other about things, and Mo is shocked to find out that he's falling in love with her.
Should he change the topic, and tell him? Or wait until he himself tells Susan somehow? Mo decided the sensible thing to do was at least come clean, even if the person he was telling was the surrogate uncle to the woman he was having these feelings for.
"Bucky... I should probably say something... it might not be the best thing to say at the moment considering the pain you're going through... but I need to get this off my chest as well.", Mo exhaled anxiously.
Bucky blinked at him, exhaling in surprise that he looks quite serious, and nodded, "Okay, Mo. What is it?".
Mo took a deep breath, "As you know, on my island, once men like me reach a certain age of maturity and strength and wisdom, we go around through different tribes to find the one true mate for ourselves, and the story tells that when someone find a true mate, that person get very big sparks, almost like a jolt, and that's how that person come to realize that he or she found his or her true mate...I always thought I never would find one when I am stuck here since I was captured on the start of my mission...and then well, I was literally shocked when I took your niece's hand...Bucky, I have feelings for Susan Carter-Rogers. And I cannot stop from falling in love with her.".
Everything was silent for a few moments as Mo's mind raced at what might happen next. After a few seconds, Bucky gave a small nod, "Well, if you truly think that... but I hope you just remember that she's the one that has to accept you, not me.".
"You're not mad?", Mo asked as Bucky shook his head, "I'm jealous... at least your love life is so much simpler than mine... Susan doesn't have her heart set on anyone else... you haven't missed your chance...".
Mo smiled softly, exhaling in relief, and nodding, "I know...And Bucky, you will get your chance. After all, life has many windows to open, and those open windows are chances.".
Bucky smiled and nodded, "That is truly a fact of life...I hope so...", before sighing, "Well, I better get to my room, and get into some clothes. This robe is comfy, but it's a bit awkward.".
Mo chuckled, "Can't blame you there. The girls are probably all calm by now, but still, you can apologize to Tara at dinner.", and Bucky grinned sheepishly, "Sounds like about right.".
"Hopefully at least they'll have something good tonight, for once...", Mo joked as Bucky rolled his eyes.
"With how long we've been in here... I'd be more frightened if they did. Means something really bad is about to happen. They served us the good meals in the army when we were about to thrown onto defended beaches or the first ones in an offensive on a fortified position.", Bucky reminded.
Mo hummed lightly, "Doubt the same thing would happen, but good to know.", and Bucky chuckled before heading back to his room in his wolf form, not wanting to hear questions from Bob or anyone else if they saw him in a robe.
At dinner, Tara accepted Bucky's apology, and as a peace offering, Bucky told Tara that she can decide on the card games between him and her for the next few days.
Tara grinned, hoping to beat Bucky somehow, and so, they smoothed things out, luckily, with Susan offhandedly telling Mo that the incident in the men's bathroom was paid for by an earlier curfew for Bucky.
Despite the apology, Bucky obviously had clearly changed after that incident... almost everyone could tell something was off with him but only Mo knew the truth. Just the fact that she was stuck in here with him... that the love that he spent what felt like almost part of a second life with her in one dream would pretty much be beyond him just was eating him away.
"I know those looks...", Bucky sighed as he was looking in the mirror once more to see Peggy and Steve. The two of them mostly had been not appearing as much from the moment Susan and Tara arrived. It made sense in a way... but Bucky just wished they'd hurry up and essentially break them all out with the portal. At least get on the outside once more so he could deal with Derek... the bastard would be confessing the truth for sure before he was done with him, and he hoped that Tara would finally see the truth too.
Steve and Peggy sighed heavily, with Steve looking tired yet determined, having worked so hard with Stark on the portal, but from the sounds of it, it's still gonna be a couple days before they can turn it on, and with the timing different in both worlds, it would have been as well as perhaps by the third week of Susan and Tara's imprisonment.
They are still wary to go when the law of monsters is still in effect, and the miracle hasn't happened yet. Sure, two size-changing people could theoretically destroy a castle, but not a mega-super-fortified secret place, and they don't know the exact location of the base, and they cannot risk Henry's life either in that situation...
All the same, they are so glad to see that Susan and Bucky is reunited and Bucky is happy to have family, and they felt bad for Tara in a sense as Tara had technically the most to lose in her situation, her life, her parents, Derek. Susan was less worried about things, but still a bit hopeful.
They were shocked to find out that Tara was Bucky's soul mate, especially after Peggy learned of Bucky's story when he ranted about the unfairness of it all, but most of all, they were beyond shocked to find out that Mo is having feelings for their daughter.
Bucky watched as Peggy and Steve were talking with each other. "I guess I'll leave it up to you two for the moment since this is your daughter we're talking about.", Bucky said as he leaned back and looked at the ceiling.
"Susan... and Mo?", Peggy asked as she looked over to Steve, more of just thinking about the idea of them as a couple. "He's... he's not a problem with you, is he?", she asked.
Obviously, she had to ask since the US had a very ugly history with slavery and by extension, the current environment dealing with segregation as opposed to Britain who had some similar issues, but it wasn't as extensive in terms of the nation's entire society as it was in the states. Even recently in March of '45, when the all-black 92nd Infantry Division won great glory in taking on the 3rd SS 'Totenkopf' and crushed the entire division at Brno in the Czech Republic, made little difference to many in American society.
"No.", Steve shook his head. "I'm not like quite a number of folks I've known and met in the past. I was always taught to judge a man as a person, not by the color of his skin. And Mo certainly has proven to at least be a responsible and trustworthy person. At least what we've seen with Bucky...".
Peggy nodded, "True, and he's a gorilla shifter, and infused with Quantonium as well...From what Bucky said, Mo is one of the alphas on his island, and if gorillas are similar to wolves in hierarchy or something, Mo is clearly protective and non-possessive of Susan yet allowing her to be her own individual, independent.".
Steve exhaled deeply, "And we know our daughter, she can take care of herself really well, with defensive tactics of her body like how we taught her, and her powers of invisibility and force fields, and of course, the Quantonium enabling her to size-change as well...".