Preston replied, "We will keep the kids occupied when they're awake later, until you two are ready to head back here by calling for one of us later.", with a reassuring smile, and the couple smiled gratefully, and stepped through the portal, with Bebinn closing it quickly with a fleeting nod of a wink and smile.

Immediately, Peggy can hear the peaceful sounds of crickets in the distance, no sounds of training camp, no mess hall, no gunshots or anything, and she sighed deeply as Steve enveloped her in his arms, "Are you okay, Peggy? You still feel tense, even if I can tell that you're not tense anymore in the head...I guess the brief snog in the snow before our interruption only helped a bit, huh?".

"Just... I know it was a few months but being away from you felt like practically an eternity almost...", Peggy admitted. "Especially during those first few weeks when I thought you really were gone...".

Steve sighed deeply as he kissed her forehead, "I know...Harrison hated to bring it up, but he did...I'm so damn sorry that I hurt you like that...", remembering the heartbreaking conversation he had with Harrison one of the past few days. His heart broke when he heard that Peggy in grief had screamed for him and broke down in the Carter house...

It was more horrifying to imagine it so easily with his wife than experiencing it with Audrey when she cried and shouted in grief for Bucky when he was thought to be really gone.

Peggy exhaled, burying her face into his neck, taking into his scent of his natural musk, whispering, "Your daughter was stubborn and determined to bring me out to the light...She is incredibly smart for her age...", with a watery chuckle, "Even your son collaborated with her at times by making me smile and laugh when he enjoys the baths or asked me to hold him at night in the rocking chair or the bed.".

Steve gave a wry laugh, "Sounds like us alright...We really got some great kids, Peggy...", with a smile, and Peggy chuckled, "Indeed.", feeling his hands caressing her back, almost kneading it, and she moaned in relief and pleasure as he found a particularly tense spot, "Steve...yes...please, take me to bed and keep doing that...I don't want to linger in this hallway...".

"Right. Not exactly the best place to be doing this...", Steve smiled as they walked down the hallway to their room. Steve took a deep breath once they were in the room, "Bucky's right though... just maybe one or two more fights and that might be it for our service for a while. Let us sit out perhaps the fighting with Japan unless it gets too bad, and we'll be needed again.".

Peggy nodded as she turned on the warm crystal-powered lights over the bed, smiling softly at the view of Atlantis outside the window, and replied, "I hope it doesn't get too bad...It wasn't fair that we only got a few months of shore leave between situations like Bucky's amputation and other things like when you first got into training after the change, and sure, they were longer than the usual month break for a normal soldier here and there, but it felt like an annoyance when we just wanted to spend time together and, eventually having precious time with the kids between missions then...I just want to settle down at last, you know?", looking at her husband.

Steve nodded with a smile, "I hear you...I hated missing every little thing next to quite some things we saw in time and all here and there with Brookyln, and even if Asher missed me for two months, it was still an impactful thing when I wasn't there for the baths and such...", grasping her hand, "We'll finish this, Peggy. We'll finally settle down, and we will be there for more wonderful things within our family, extended and immediate.", with a warm, determined look.

Peggy smiled happily, hearing the conviction in her husband's voice, "I believe you, Steve. Now, no more talking about the war or other things...It's only you and me, husband...And I need your talented hands to give some needed massage time...", ignoring the slight snap of buttons as she took off her blouse and trousers with a bit of brute strength, glad that she was free of her boots back in the cottage as she didn't need the sound to wake up the kids suddenly while putting them down to bed.

Revealing herself in only a sparse bra and bikini underwear, smiling shamelessly and lovingly, Peggy asked, "Am I even more beautiful here in our bedroom than I was in the dark machine, even with the glow of the vita-rays?", remembering that Steve compared her to Aphrodite with a hint of Adonis in the machine from the glances she saw him having while she was going through the change...Well, now this is long after the change, and it was a quick span of moments, but now, he's going to have more time to admire her and ogle at her as the husband he is, and she's curious if he's going to say the same, or something else.

"Well, now that I can actually truly see you from a better angle with my own eyes... I can't deny it, you are even more beautiful...", Steve smiled as she blushed, "Hopefully you still thought I was even before-".

"Come on, Peggy, you don't need to ask that.", Steve chuckled with a quirked eyebrow. "I know, I know, just teasing a little bit.", Peggy smiled.

Steve laughed warmly as he came closer, "You are still the witty, determined, compassionate, fierce woman I've fell in love with...", taking off his shirt and trousers himself in a swift motion, leaving him in his boxers, and he then touched reverently over his wife, "And this husband is going to sweep you off into bed and give you the best massage of your life...", smiling wryly as he picked her up as she giggled and shrieked in surprise, laughing as they got into bed, with Steve putting her down on her front as they faced the view of Atlantis.

Peggy rested her head on an offered pillow as she laid, and then moaned in pleasure and relief as she felt Steve's hands gently massaging her shoulders, "Steve...Oh...please, don't hold back, I'm not fragile anymore, give me the damn best massage of my life...".

"Hey, let's not exactly try to test things here... how do we know the only way to truly hurt a super solider is with another super soldier?", Steve asked as she rolled her eyes, "Steve, sometimes I think you think way too much for your own good at times... come on, it'll be fine. You don't have to go so rough, but you can at least probably add a bit of strength you were holding back before.".

Steve replied, "Yes, ma'am...", as he added a bit of strength and pressure to the massage, causing Peggy to moan a bit louder in pleasure and relief as she felt knots of tension disappearing, "Oh...yes...keep going...That's it...".

Indeed, Steve was awed that he didn't have to hold back, using his fingers, hands, and elbows into a deep, long massage as Peggy was right...So much tension in the back and spine. Of course, he couldn't help getting turned on by hearing the moans and pleas of his wife as he got closer to her waist, and whispered into her ear, "Are you relaxed, my love?".

Peggy replied, "Oh, yes, very much so...", and Steve purred huskily, "Do you want me to ravish you now, and to make you come for me?". Peggy widened her eyes as she felt him poking and such against her ass crack to her vagina within her underwear, and she became a bit wet at the implications, excited as she nodded, "Please, Steve!", as she felt him pressing into her, feeling his presence over her body, shivering at his breath upon her neck as she slightly propped herself up with her arms.

"Okay then...", Steve gave a chuckle as his hands moved down her body. "Should probably get these last few articles out of the way then...". His hand slipped into her underwear.

Peggy pleaded, "Steve...Do that in the middle of the ravishing and pleasure, please...", and Steve whispered huskily, "You got it...", as he then went to ravish her by kissing her neck reverently yet passionately, intending to move slowly down with his lips, his hand working on his bundle of nerves from around her waist, into her underwear as he then moved closer with his waist to graze her vagina with his restrained, very turned on erection in his boxers, causing friction against her ass, while his other hand caressed her bra-clad breasts.

Peggy gasped and moaned even more louder in pleasure and surprise, "Yes! Steve!", feeling her core growing as she is slowly getting wet and excited by the feeling of his grazing thrusts and his hand on her bundle of nerves.

"I didn't know how much I missed this...", Steve admitted as he kissed her neck once again. "I really was afraid I'd never be able to touch you again, to caress you, to make you feel good...".

Peggy admitted, "I missed this so much too...I felt so empty without you at the other side of the bed, cool sheets all the time...", and Steve nuzzled her neck, "Don't worry, I doubt Phillips would be mad if we slept together in one of the bunk beds...After all, we're married, and they would have noticed our rings already...".

"As long as it's pajamas...", Peggy chuckled before moaning in pleasure, "Oh, please, Steve, don't stop...", and Steve whispered huskily, "So beautiful and eager...", as he kept his ministrations going of his hands on her bra-clad breasts, her bundle of nerves, and his grazing thrusts against her vagina faster.

It was several minutes before Peggy pleaded, "Do it, now, please!", and Steve knew what she meant, and he snapped the ends of her bra, freeing her breasts with her arms moving to let them off, and his hand in her underwear moved to pull it down and away with her legs slightly propping to let him take it all the way past her socks, and he took her socks, caressing her feet for a moment as he stopped momentarily and moved slightly off her, and took off his boxers and socks.

He moved back down to ravish her neck and shoulders with his lips, his hands moving to squeeze her breasts as he thrusted-grazed her vagina, as his knees shook off the boxers as Peggy moaned and cried out in pleasure, "Oh, gods, yes, Steve, please!", feeling the edge getting closer in her core, getting wet quickly by the friction and pleasure of his warm, thick, and eager penis, wanting him in her so bad, but she knew that she had to get him lubricated with her juices first...

Steve felt so hard and tight and eager, so close yet so far from her sweet warm vagina and womb and waited patiently for some minutes as he pleasured and ravished her before finally, Peggy loudly cried out in pleasure as she came, soaking his penis.

To his shock, Peggy took only a minute as she didn't pant or heave in bliss, but rather breathing sort of heavily as she turned over, smiling as she looked at him, opening her legs even wider, "Looks like I can do this all night...Please, make us one again...I need you...I want you, Steve...", smirking as she took Steve's infamous words from that day he exercised in the gym under Preston's manor with a slight twist.

"I want you too, Peggy... if you're game... we can go all night...", Steve chuckled as she wrapped herself tighter around him and leaned into his ear, "I was hoping you'd say that...".

Steve shivered in delight and then kissed her passionately and deeply as he enveloped her into his arms and body as he smoothly came into her, slowly and tenderly and eagerly, starting their challenge of lovemaking.

It was indeed an incredible night with five rounds of lovemaking and two additional rounds of pleasure time everywhere in their room and the bathroom.

Peggy traced his abs with an awed, blissful, almost exhausted smile as she laid on his chest/side as Steve thrusted slowly and contentedly into her, almost exhausted yet still got one more load left in him, "So warm and full in the womb...", Steve murmured, kissing her on the forehead.

"Yet still having a bit of room left for you, husband...I think I'm going to sleep almost all day now with being so sore, not painfully sore, I promise, but still...I wish we didn't have to leave this bed anytime soon...I think Phillips would notice sooner or later with a few hours in the timezone back in Germany near Austria...", Peggy sighed as dawn is already breaching over Atlantis, through the blackout curtain is helping out.

Steve caressed her frenzied hair and back gently, "I know...Me too...I don't want to make you upset by having cold sheets again...", amazed that they literally lasted all night, and he knew he would make it all up to his wife when she wants dinner in bed or something of the sort after sleeping almost all day, but with the timezone, best bet is to leave by noon and make appearances to Phillips and such.

Suddenly, a note appeared to them by portal on one of the side tables, almost startling Steve to thrust swiftly for a moment into Peggy's G-spot, making her moan and gasp in surprise, as they instinctively protected each other before realizing that the note was harmless.

Peggy blinked as Steve reached over gingerly to pick it up, reading it as his eyes widened with a smile and a laugh, "What, who sent it?".

"Came from Bucky through Preston. He convinced Phillips that we secretly snuck out to a safe inn, wanting to be together for a while as it was two months of separation, and the general gave us permission to be together for three days, including presumably today to his perception, to your birthday, and we leave the day after that, presumably from the inn...", Steve replied.

Peggy's eyes widened, tears in them, "He said that? No joking?", as she knew that sometimes Bucky can make a joke.

"Guess considering how we're overrunning much of Germany and there's practically little left to where the Wehrmacht can run to. Maybe he feels we'll be alright where we are; doubtful the Germans will counterattack and overrun the area or something.", Steve said. "Crazy just how fast we're pushing now. The Dutch are almost fully liberated; the British are heading to Denmark and have probably just reached Hamburg or will soon, our forces are spreading out towards the Elbe, Vienna and Bohemia and the French taking care of most of Bavaria and the Austrian Alps. And of course, I heard that our forces in Italy are finally making final breakthroughs so we all might link up in the northeast and west parts of the country.", as he read the rest of the note.

"The war's almost over... there was a time I really didn't think that was going to happen... at least with us winning...", Peggy sighed.

Steve nodded, "The war's almost over, Peggy...", with a smile as he dropped the note away, "And I'm all yours, including right now.", as he kissed her tenderly and deeply, thrusting faster yet with contentment, and she moaned and smiled happily in pleasure as they held each other, "Oh, yes, Steve...And I'm all yours too...".

Indeed, they slept almost all day after that, with having meals in and out from their kitchen which was gratefully stocked up between visits on the previous weekends with the kids for Peggy, and the next two days and nights were spent between taking called portals to the cottage to spend time with their children, and back into their bedroom, trying in breaking their record of lasting all day or all night of lovemaking here and there.

And on Peggy's birthday, they spent time in the snow back at the cottage, enjoying time with the family, and then headed back to their bedroom once again in Atlantis, and to Peggy's shock, they broke the record by straightforward having eight rounds with Peggy in charge in the first four rounds, and Steve in charge in the final four rounds.

At midnight, Peggy heard a soft whistle, and woke up sleepily to see a paper glowing bird of magic on the side table, and it changed into a note, and she picked it up to read that it came from Audrey and Bebinn, saying that Brookyln and Asher was insistent to sleep in the Atlantean nursery/bedroom, wanting to keep to tradition by waking them up in the morning, and they are safe and tucked in.

Peggy chuckled, shaking her head at the tender thought, realizing that they wanted to do it for their parents together as she knew that their children woke her up on the times she was without Steve before he returned to civilization and then while she was occupied for last week, their children must have woken Steve up on his mornings in the cottage without Peggy.