Chapter 3
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The day has gone well, Bucky being a good guide and Natasha taking everything in stride and they haven’t really had to lie to Bucky which Clint appreciates a lot. He likes Bucky though he doesn’t know him too well yet and he was not looking forward to having to lie to him about who they are but he would have followed Nat if she would have lied but she didn’t. The day has been fairly easy, the three of them talking and spending time together and they are back at the inn where they started this morning, seated at one of the tables sharing a meal when Natasha asks a question of Bucky.
“Are you staying here again tonight? Or do you need to head back?”
“Planning on staying here tonight, rented a room for two nights though I didn’t actually use it last night.”
Bucky says this and Clint can’t help but grin at the reminder of what they did last night and he decides to give it another shot now, figures Natasha won’t mind and it helps with their plans to figure him out and see about his castle.
“You don’t have to stay in your room tonight either, does he, Tasha?”
He looks over at Natasha now, just a hint of a smirk on his face and she returns it before turning her gaze back to Bucky.
“You can stay in ours again, if you would like, if you don’t mind the extra company.”
Bucky looks at both of them now with Natasha’s words and he gives his own smile after another moment.
“I don’t mind the company at all. Has been a good day, hoping it will be a good night as well.”
He gives a smirk now, just a bit of one and Clint knows that tonight will be just as great as the night before. They end up finishing their food after that and then Bucky is asking Clint for a re-match with the throwing and Clint can’t help but accept. Natasha watches them, cheering and jeering both of them whenever she feels like it and Bucky uses his left hand tonight as well as his right and it is a little closer than it was the night before but Clint still wins. Bucky just sort of shakes his head in disbelief but he is still smiling and that smile brightens a bit more when Natasha grabs his hand, stats to drag him to the stairs, giving Clint a nod to follow. Clint gets up and trails just a little bit behind them and it doesn’t take long till they are back upstairs, door shut and it is just the three of them. Natasha does not wait long before she is claiming Bucky’s mouth and Clint just watches for a moment before moving closer and grinning at them when they pull apart.
“Neither of you are very shy, are you?”
Bucky asks this and Natasha just smiles while Clint answers the question.
“No reason to be, not when there is something we want. We can play shy if you want though.”
Bucky shakes his head a bit now
“No, I’m fine with you being not shy. Do you do this often, inviting someone else up?”
He asks , curiosity in his voice and Clint looks at Natasha for a moment and she gives jut a small tilt of her head, letting Clint know that he can handle this one and tell as much truth as he would like. He doesn’t see any sense in hiding anything so he doesn’t, just answers the questions.
“Sometimes, we like having others, when they interest us. Usually it has been a one off but there have been a few repeats. You?”
“I have a few times, with a close friend and the people he cares about. Been a little while though since I have had more than one person in my bed at a time.”
He says this honestly and Clint thinks he can hear just a little bit of nerves in his voice and he reaches forward now and brushes a quick kiss against Bucky’s mouth and as he pulls away, Natasha does the same and gives him a little smirk.
“I’m sure you can still remember how to make it work. I think we’ll have some fun but we should probably lose some of the clothes.”
With those words, Natasha starts to undo her dress and Clint follows suit, Bucky not hesitating either. It isn’t long until clothes are off and skin is being explored. It is a bit of mess in some ways, a tangle of bodies and trying to figure out who should go where but it is a good type of mess. Natasha soon takes control, tells both him and Bucky where they need to be and what they should be doing and Clint doesn’t mind at all and if the little grin Bucky gives is any indication he doesn’t mind either. They spend the night exploring each other and after a while they are spend and resting. Clint is pleasantly sore in the right places and find himself in-between the two of them, he falls asleep that way and no night mares come.
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Natasha wakes before either of the others, stares at them as the sun starts to fill the room up with light. It is sometimes hard for her to sleep when she doesn’t feel waves under her but it hadn’t been too difficult to sleep with the warmth in the bed last night and she reflects on it as she looks them both over some more. The sight of Clint asleep is a familiar one and a comfort in a lot of ways, the way his hair is a mess and the little bit of drool under his chin and Natasha quickly turns her attention to her other bed companion. Barnes’s hair is a mess as well but in a different way than Clint’s and he does not drool as much. She is still making up her mind about him a bit, had thought of him as a ways to land but now she isn’t so sure. She still wouldn’t mind a place on land of her own but she thinks that he could end up being more than that if they continue this path. Natasha will worry about it for later, for now, she makes herself shift to get out of bed and this causes Bucky to stir now, to open eyes and look up at her. She gives him a little smile.
“Good morning. At least we don’t have to introduce ourselves this time. “
She says this and gets a little smile from him.
“No we don’t. Are you getting up?”
He asks and she gives a little nod.
“I am, going to go clean up a bit but I’ll be back. Keep Clint company. He gets whiny when he wakes up alone.”
Bucky gives her a little nod and then she heads to wash up. It doesn’t take her long and when she gets back to the room, she can hear voices talking softly and sees that Clint has woken up as well. She walks in and gives them both a smile as she site in the chair near by.
“Talking about anything interesting?”
She asks as she sits and Clint just gives a little shrug as he shifts to get out of bed but Bucky is the one to answer.
“Nothing too interesting, just telling him that I need to go back today, check up on things but if you’re sticking around for a bit, I would like to see you both again. Would that be possible?”
Natasha tilts her head like she is considering it for just a moment and then gives an honest answer.
“I think that might be a possibility. Do you think so as well, Clint?”
She asks and Clint just turns to Bucky now and gives a brief answer before placing a kiss against his lips.
“I think so. We’ll be around for a bit if you want to find us again.”
Bucky smiles at the answer or maybe he is smiling at the kiss but Natasha doesn’t think about it too much, just watches them for a moment before reminding them that Bucky should probably get cleaned up before he heads out. They pull apart then and the next little while is spent with Bucky and Clint, both of them getting dressed and cleaned up before sharing a small breakfast and then Bucky leaves. As soon as they are back in their room, all alone with the door shut, Clint turns to her and speaks.
“You gave him your real name, didn’t make up a cover.”
She hears the question in it but she ignores it right now, just answers with her own statement.
“You gave him your real name too.”
He rolls his eyes at her, they both know it isn’t quite the same thing. Natasha hardly ever introduces herself with her real name, even those who know it often are told something else first. She had thought about giving him bits of truth and she did it faster than she planned at first.
“I almost always give my own name, it is tied to the ship like yours is. You let him know your name, who you are. Why?”
Clint says this, won’t drop it and she can hear the curiosity in his voice. She could lie, it is easy for her after all, but it is Clint and she isn’t going to lie now, tries not to make it a habit with him. She gives him the truth now as it becomes clear to her as well.
“Thought it might work better to not lie and you like him a lot already. You don’t like to lie too much to people you like so I wasn’t going to force you.”
It is a simple truth and maybe she is getting a little soft but it is worth it for the grin that Clint gives her, bright and easy in a way that not even she can fake.
“I do like him and I love you. Thank you.”
He says this and Natasha just gives him a nod and then a kiss against his lips. It felt like the right decision and she will see if letting Bucky know a bit about her is the right all but right now it feels like it is and Natasha has learned to go with her feelings, trusts where they go.
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It doesn’t take long to get back to the castle, to his land and Bucky sort of already misses the other two. He hasn’t know Natasha and Clint that long, not even really a couple of days but he enjoyed his time with them even if maybe he should have been more weary . They didn’t try to hide who they are and Bucky’s own past is not clean so he shared their bed with no problems and is looking forward to seeing them again but first he needs to check in with Steve first. It is as he is putting his horse away that Steve shows up, Sam along with him and Bucky greets them both as they approach.
“I’m back so you can stop fretting about me getting in trouble.”
He says this and Steve just rolls his eyes a little bit.
“I don’t fret about you getting in trouble because I know it is going to happen no matter what.”
Steve says this and Bucky just shakes his head at him.
“Like you can talk.”
“Steve wasn’t the one walking the village with two strangers now was he?”
Sam says this and Bucky had wondered if they would already know about that and he sighs just a bit.
“You and your damn birds like to gossip.”
Sam just gives a grin but doesn’t refute Bucky’s claim. The world is a strange place and between Bucky’s metal arm and everything that happened to him and Steve’s transformation from sickly to what he is now, Sam being able to talk to birds isn’t that odd but it is mildly inconvenient sometimes. Like right now when he was hoping to not have to talk to them about this right away.
“They didn’t tell him much, just that you were walking with two people, close together and all. I’m assuming that you had a nice time then?”
Steve asks and Bucky just gives him a little grin now, isn’t going to say too much right now.
“I had a nice time, punk but I think right now we should focus on your love life considering the big event happens in about a month. Anything I need to know about while I was gone?”
He is hanging the subject but Steve and Sam let him, fill in on what happened the last couple of days as they move out of the stables. Not too much happened but Bucky knows that there is going to be a lot of hustle in the next month, a lot of things to get done. Steve getting married is a big deal and it is a complicated thing, especially considering there are four people involved. It is not the most common marriage arrangement here but it does happen, having more than two people and that is how the ceremony here will be but the ceremony in Peggy’s home land will not be that way from what Bucky understands. There it will be two ceremonies, one between Peggy and Steve, and the other between Sam and Peggy’s lady in waiting Angie. It will be a bit more acceptable there to do it that way but here they can all be joined together and Bucky is glad that it is going to work out for the four of them but he can’t help the little pang of jealousy that he has felt the last few weeks .
The jealousy isn’t really because he used to share Steve’s bed often. What Steve and he have isn’t really a romantic sort of love, it is a bond that is deep but not quite the same as what Steve feels for Sam and for Peggy and what Bucky is sure he will feel for Angie in time and he isn’t really jealous of the other three for getting to be with Steve now. Hell, he has shared Steve with both Peggy and Sam at different times, enjoyed being with them as he did with being with Steve but it never quite felt like it some grand romance or anything. The jealousy is there because Steve has found his great love and Bucky hasn’t yet, sometimes feels too broken to.
Buck isn’t dwelling on the jealousy too much today though, just focuses on his tasks with Sam and Steve and tries not to think too much about the night he spent with Natasha and Clint. He does a good job for the most part but his attention does drift to them every once in a while, to the way Clint had thrown the knife so cleverly, how Natasha moved with such grace, the little smiles they both gave each, the way they had touched him. He tries not to get distracted but he does and it does not go unnoticed.
“You know, I think you had a much nicer time than you let on earlier if the way you keep drifting somewhere else is to go by.”
Sam says this and Bucky glares at him but Steve is looking at him as well now and it is Steve who speaks before Bucky can.
“Its ok if they got your attention , Bucky, you can want things you know.”
Steve says this, voice softening just a bit and it is a constant reminder he gives him all the time and Bucky turns his glare to Steve now but softens it just a bit.
“Yes they have my attention and I’m planning on seeing them again soon. Let’s finish some more of these things up and maybe I’ll tell you a little bit about them.”
Bucky means it, will tell them a bit about them tonight but wants to get their tasks done first. He gets a nod from the other two and he goes back to looking over their stock of supplies with them while trying not to let his attention drift. There will be time to think about them later, time to see them, Bucky just has to wait for a little bit.
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