Darcy Lewis and the Many Cases of PDA
Sam’s the most physically affectionate with her.
He tangles their fingers together when they’re walking side by side, slides his hand into her back pocket when they’re waiting in line to order coffee, peppers kisses across her face when he’s in a good mood and can’t help but to share.
He likes it when she sits in his lap during game night, loves to rub his thumb back and forth against the skin on her hip when she settles in and leans against his chest.
Darcy loves it when he reels her in first thing in the morning and kisses her stupid against the kitchen counter on the common floor, anchors one hand in the hair at the base of her skull and pulls her closer with the other.
He kisses her like that in the middle of the street after an alien invasion, decked out in all of his Falcon glory.
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Darcy had been in line to get smoothies as a surprise for everyone when it happened, screams echoing in the air around her and she’d run into the fight without even thinking; her trusty taser taking down aliens surprisingly well considering they were the size of hippos.
Sam had seen her from the air and calls her a fucking moron when the fight ended.
Darcy tells him he’s just as fucking stupid as she is then and he can fuck right on off if he thinks she should have just stayed inside.
They don’t hear the shutter of a camera going off but it’s front page news according to every magazine in New York the next day.
Darcy kind of wants to frame it, even if they do run through the names of every woman Sam’s ever been associated with and hers doesn’t even make the list.
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There’s a spot on the side of her neck that Bruce likes to pay close attention to, leaves dark bruises that look like charcoal smudges against her skin.
He’s still learning how to ask for the affection he needs, blushes when Darcy trails her fingers down his chest and looks up at him from under her eyelashes.
Darcy likes to link her arm through his when they walk down the street and lean into his side.
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There’s a small section dedicated to them in one of those gossip magazines you can buy at any bodega on the street, pictures of Darcy on Bruce’s back while he holds her heels in his free hand.
She’s pressing a kiss to his cheek and Bruce’s eyes are crinkled at the corners.
It takes Darcy approximately three seconds to buy the magazine when she goes back out and even less time to clip the pictures from the page when she gets back to the Tower.
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Natasha strolls down the street holding her hand.
Darcy likes to pull Natasha’s hair back and press kisses to the nape of her neck, curl around her until they’re just a tangle of limbs.
Natasha likes to herd Darcy into empty alleyways and press her against the brick, kiss her until her lips are swollen and Natasha’s breathing hard.
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Someone sends a video of them making out to TMZ. You can see Natasha’s thigh slip between Darcy’s leg if you watch it close enough.
Fox News doesn’t call her a whore, but it’s a near thing.
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Tony likes it when Darcy sits on top of his workbenches in the lab, so he can periodically wander over to her and kiss her within an inch of her life.
Darcy likes it when he throws his arm over her shoulders while they’re walking through the mall so she can slip her hand in his back pocket.
He loves to feed her though, will hold up a fork full of whatever he’s eating to her lips because she likes to try new things but she’s always scared to order them for herself.
She shows her appreciation by sucking the sauce off his fingers and always leaves him blushing.
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There’s a debate on Twitter after someone uploads a picture of Darcy getting in the car and Tony staring at her ass.
It’s not about anything important, just if Tony shows her breasts the same kind of attention.
She retweets it with an enthusiastic ‘YES’.
She knows she has a nice body. It deserves to be appreciated.
Twitter looses its collective goddamned mind.
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Pepper’s probably the hardest when it comes to touching.
She guides Darcy around with her hand on the small of her back and never lingers when she kisses Darcy goodnight.
“You know, you don’t have to do the whole physical affection thing if you’re not in to it,” Darcy points out, sprawled on the couch Pepper keeps in her office.
They’re supposed to go out for lunch once Pepper gets done signing the stack of papers in front of her.
Pepper drops her pen and swivels around in her office chair to look at Darcy like she’s lost her mind.
“It won’t make me think you love me less is all I’m sayin’,” Darcy says honestly, holding her hands up and shrugging.
And it’s true. Pepper still snuggles with her like a champ and sends her impractical flower arrangements once a week that leave Darcy swooning. She doesn’t have to ever wonder if Pepper loves her, just that if Pepper doesn’t like PDA.
“I think that’s about the stupidest thing you’ve ever said,” Pepper admonishes.
Darcy rolls her eyes so hard she’s surprised they didn’t get stuck that way.
“Hey, don’t do that. I love touching you. But our relationship is something that I’ve been flying a little blind on since I’ve never done this before, and I don’t know what I’m allowed to have yet.”
Darcy sits up on the couch and looks Pepper in the eye.
“Every single one of you is allowed to have everything from me. There’s blanket permission to do whatever you want.”
Pepper kicks off her heels and stands up from her chair, smooths down her skirt and makes her way to Darcy.
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They don’t get lunch.
Pepper’s lipstick is ruined beyond saving and so are Darcy’s panties.
She’s not even mad that she’s hungry when she stumbles out of Pepper’s office an hour later, just has JARVIS order a shitton of sushi and falls asleep out of sheer exhaustion before it even gets there.
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Clint kisses her before they head out on every mission, grabs the back of her thighs to get her to jump up and wrap her legs around his waist.
Darcy likes to ambush him as soon as they get back because he’s a clumsy fucking idiot. She presses kisses against all of his bruises and forces him to go to medical if she thinks it’s bad enough.
He wraps his arms around her waist and buried his face in her hair and lets her guide him down the sidewalk when they go out, waddling along like penguins.
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Someone videos Darcy calling him every disgustingly cute pet name she can think of.
She’s kissing him between every one of them, lips curled up in a smile.
Clint’s trying so hard to act unimpressed but he’s holding onto her hips and doesn’t let her get further away than a few centimeters.
The internet puts two and two together and realizes she’s the same woman Sam kissed in the middle of a war zone.
Surprisingly, very few people are actually bothered by The Avengers having what seems to be a team girlfriend.
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Bucky takes her dancing.
She’s got two left feet but it doesn’t matter, it’s just an excuse to press their bodies together and Bucky’s pretty fucking talented at getting her to loosen up enough to enjoy it.
Darcy loves to take him to her version of dancing, loves to move her body to the music that floods the club while he stands behind her and just enjoys the show.
He also likes to plan breakfast picnics at the park and bask in the sunshine with her, holds her hand while they lay back on the blanket.
He kisses her soft and slow and traces her jawline with his thumb.
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Darcy posts a picture to Instagram of her and Bucky at the beach.
His metal hand is resting on her stomach and he’s passed out in the sand beside her.
There’s a perfect indent of his teeth on the swell of her right breast.
Fox News does call her a whore this time.
Darcy convinces Bucky that he can’t track them all down and kill them with promises of licking things off of certain parts of his body.
Bucky graciously accepts his defeat.
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Steve is a goddamned heathen and loves to slide his hand up her thigh when she wears skirts or dresses, hauls her up and sets her on the closest flat surface available to smooth his palm up her skin and kisses her until she can’t breathe.
She makes a point to wear something he can get his hands under at least once a week.
Darcy, in turn, loves to slip in the shower with him. It’s about getting to touch all of him just as much as it’s about getting to take care of him in the one way he won’t bitch about, makes him bend down so she can shampoo his hair and rubs out the knots in his back under the hot spray of water.
She also really likes it when Steve backs her against a wall and braces his arms above her head, kisses his way down her neck until she’s got his shirt wrapped around her fingers and she hauls him in for a real kiss.
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Steve convinces her to go to the movies with him and they makeout like teenagers on the back row.
“Always wanted to do that,” Steve laughs on their walk home, his arm wrapped around Darcy’s shoulders. “Couldn’t do it with Buck and no dame gave me the time of day back then.”
“Their fuckin’ loss,” Darcy snorts.
It was. Steve, no matter what period of time he was in, is a goddamned treasure and Darcy’s more than willing to prove it to him.
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JARVIS sends Darcy a picture of all of them on their last movie night.
They’re all asleep, the soft glow of the television lighting their bodies up in shades of blue.
She’s not quite sure how she did it, but she’s touching every single one of them.
She makes it her phone background and sets it as her avatar on Twitter.