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                     “Nada.” Negó con la cabeza. “No, Eliza, no estoy pidiéndote nada, sé perfectamente que no tengo derecho a estar pidiéndote nada y no me atrevería… Es solo que no sé qué hacer. Ese es mi problema, no sé qué hacer.” La persona a la que acudía cuando no podía escapar de sí mismo, la única persona en la que confiaba cuando él mismo no podía dar con una respuesta era su mujer. En su defecto, tratándose de temáticas que aún no estaba listo para discutir con ella, apelaba a su mejor amigo. En este caso, no tenía a quién acudir. 

                   Sentía que la cabeza le daba vueltas, por lo que decidió tomar asiento, cruzándose de brazos y pensando profundamente en lo siguiente que diría. Lo amaba, como jamás había pensado amar a alguien y confiaba en él como en algún momento había soñado con confiar en quien se convertiría en su esposo. “Necesito primero respuestas, Alexander”, porque con respecto a ello podría saber de qué manera actuar. “¿Desde hace cuánto estás con él?”, preguntó en lo que lo miraba con una mirada tan penetrante que pensaba que podría traspasar concreto. Creía que tenía la mirada de sus dos hermanas, porque cuando lo sentía transmitía la dulzura que caracterizaba tanto a Peggy; sin embargo, habían situaciones tan puntuales que asemejaban la mirada dura de Angélica. “¿Has estado con él mientras estábamos casades?”

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              For a few seconds, Loki relished in the silence as he aimlessly watched the ceiling, lost in thought and distractedly tracing random patterns on his partner’s shoulder with his fingertips. “A vacation?,” he then echoed amusedly. “Aren’t we supposed to be doing something from which to take a vacation? I hardly see how that’s the case with us,” he remarked, seeing as neither one of them was employed in the most regular sense of the word. 

              Bucky frowned. “Yes, a vacation,” he repeated, smiling with a hint of confusion, completely confident in his idea. “Is it really that bad that I was thinking of a vacation where it’s just the two of us?” the Amerixan asked, his lips forming a slight pout, perhaps thinking that Loki assumed he was including Timmy and Rigel in his plans. “You’re probably right,” he murmured softly before letting out a sigh, shifting his gaze to the clock, realizing he should take a bath before the kids returned to the apartment.

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                       Eros gasped delightedly against the other’s lips as he was lifted, immediately going for wrapping his legs around his middle and keeping it that way even as they landed on the bed. Taking lead in Bucky’s initiative, he got undressed as well, rushing to get out of the way any layers of clothing separating them. 

                     It was the first time Bucky rushed an action so much. Usually, he took his time because the American enjoyed the closeness he could find in the other person’s body. However, now he was acting from a much more carnal and primal side, trying to ignore his thoughts altogether, solely focused on pleasing the other person and both reaching the final level of enjoyment. James undressed, his lips trailing down, leaving a quick path of kisses from the neck down to the belly button, using hips lips to bring the other one pleasure.

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                  “Oh, I don’t. I’m sorry, I just keep calling them a ‘her’ in my head, for some reason, sometimes it comes out…” She rested a hand on her bump and caressed it. “I realize that’s a lot of pressure on the little thing, we’ll love ‘em either way. But Matty started calling the fetus ‘Lila’ after some character in these books he’s reading and I just loved it so much, I’m kinda hoping that name sticks. But you know…” She saved her hands, as though deciding she’d cross that bridge when she gets to it. “Honestly, we’ll be so happy either way.” 

              “Lila is a beautiful name,” Bucky agreed as he watched the woman caress her belly, smiling at her with tenderness. “The baby is going to be very loved, Amy, I mean it,” the former Sergeant responded, without hesitation, wrapping his arms around his niece and pulling her close. Having a baby in the family was something that always brought him joy, and knowing that he could now be there for his family felt like a new opportunity being given to him.

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                    “Sergeant Barnes…” Loki teased upon having recognized some bashfulness in his demeanour. “—don’t tell me I’ve made you blush.” The fact that he had, apart from being more than evident at that point, was also delightful to him, having always found it thrilling to awaken such a reaction from anyone at all, particularly those he found attractive. After having poured him a drink, he held it out for him directly, taking advantage of the gesture to faintly brush their fingertips together in an attempt to fluster him even further, a faint attempt at tracing his boundaries. 

              The look Bucky directed at him said it all: yes, he had been embarrassed, and he would rather have his other arm cut off than admit that he was blushing. Finishing up stitching his wound, the former Sergeant set aside all the tools he had used and reached out with one arm to take the glass being offered to him. James felt a slight tingling in his back as their fingers touched, allowing the brief contact to linger for a few seconds longer than necessary before abruptly breaking it off. He took a long sip of the drink, welcoming the burning sensation in his throat as he finished the entire contents of the glass, assuming that the alcohol wouldn’t affect him much since his body quickly eliminated it.

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                            “You’re too paranoid to realize he already does,” Loki insisted before sipping from his drink again, stopping abruptly when Bucky asserted he had liked it to shoot him a mildly scornful look. “Yes, your Earthly delicacy has charmed me, congratulations,” he admitted theatrically. 

               “You liked it,” the American teased again, walking over to his side and giving him a fully satisfied smile. “And that’s even though you’ve never tasted the one my mom used to make. It was a thousand times better,” he commented as he began to put on his pajamas.

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             Sensing his partner growing uncomfortable, Loki turned his hand so he could begin to aimlessly toy with the other’s fingers between his own, a distraction technique he would also occasionally turn to whenever James was having a hard time falling asleep. “I don’t know about regular people,” he replied, absentmindedly reminding him we was, first and foremost, a spoilt prince. “but in our case, there would have been some form of arrangement between Odin and another realm, there would have been a ceremony with an exchange of vows, exchange of rings, a blessing by the All Father… Then there would have been a feast, celebrations, fireworks… All the theatrics.”

                       "Regular people,“ Bucky repeated, with a playful twinkle in his eyes. "Sometimes I forget that I’m getting engaged to a prince, but you always help me remember,” the American responded with a smile, giving his
fiance’s hand a squeeze. “Celebrations? In plural?” he asked, raising both eyebrows. “At least from what I’ve witnessed, here it’s something much smaller, with invitations to family and friends, a rehearsal dinner recently, the ceremony itself, a party, whether small or big, and well, the honeymoon,” James listed as he sat up straight now that their appetizers had arrived, taking the opportunity to order a bottle of champagne, which was currently one of his favorites.

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                 “I mean, her head’s supported, her back’s straight, you’re better than I was when Alex was born.” While Amy adored her children with all her heart and had always known she wanted to bring up children, she knew babies would never be her specialty. Fortunately for her, they were only babies for the shortest percentage of their lives. 

“Yes, I heard her the first time,” Loki remarked, thus reassuring him the threat of spit being anywhere near him was threat enough, he did not necessarily need the circumstances to be any worse for him to retreat. Admittedly, though, as he watched her stretch her limbs in Bucky’s arms and yawn with endearing ungracefulness, she did look rather adorable. 

             Bucky looked at him again, raising both eyebrows and with a smile on his lips. He didn’t understand why Loki was reacting as if he had just been informed that the baby could be spitting acid instead of milk at any moment. “I guess I had practice in my time,” the American commented as he took the baby’s hand with his fingers, observing that the little one easily drifted back to sleep without any issues.

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                 “Sí, estoy solo.” A pesar de llevar casi un año entero sin compañía, durante el cual había hecho su duelo, el declararlo en voz alta le pesó, tal vez porque era la primera y única vez que hablaba del hecho puesto que hasta ese momento no había habido nadie a quien reportarle la muerte de su compañero. “Habíamos… dado con gente en la costa Oeste, gente que nos aseguró que si sobrevivías el viaje al oeste, podríamos dar con lugares como este, comunas, ciudades que aún no habían caído en revueltas… La vida en el este era insoportable, sin importar cuán terrible el viaje, quedarse no era una opción.” Negó con la cabeza; no sabía por qué estaba volcándole toda su historia, pero era lo primero que había atinado a hacer, pues no sabía cómo más comenzar su relato. “En fin, di aquí… de casualidad, como dices, he tenido mucha suerte.” 

                      “Completamente has tenido suerte”, confirmó Rómulo, acercándose de nuevo y observando lo que le habían traído de comida. “Sobre todo porque has llegado a una de las comunidades que funcionan”, sabía que las chances de encontrarse con su comuna eran escasas, mucho menos conocía de otros grupos que habían triunfado en prosperar como el suyo. Le agradaba saber que habían más como elles afuera, porque le restauraba la esperanza de que tal vez hubiera un futuro para más personas que no podían pertenecer a Jackson. “Si estás completamente solo, puedo asegurarte un lugar acá. Nos rotamos las labores, y no hay jerarquías. Hay algunas casas libres y honestamente mucho trabajo por hacer”, apretó los labios, observando nuevamente la puerta por la cual había desaparecido su hija. “No esperaba encontrarte acá, Toni, te daba por muerto desde hace muchos años.“

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                             “Estoy enamorado,” confesó Alexander en un suspiro, sin saber cómo más explicarse. “Estoy enamorado de dos personas a la vez.” Se encogió de hombros. “Tú eres la persona con la que quiero formar una familia, con la que quiero construir un hogar, tú eres la persona con quien quiero compartir mi vida—— y él es una persona sin la que no puedo vivir. No puedo renunciar a ningune de ustedes dos. No puedo.” 

                     Sintió que algo dentro de ella se quebraba un poco. Entre todas las cosas que podría haber escuchado, por las que sabía se podía dar una infidelidad, la última razón que pensaba era que pudiera resultar en enamoramiento, sobre todo si no quería terminar la relación que ya tenían. Comenzó a llorar en silencio, sin emitir ningún sonido, simplemente porque no tenía palabras que expresar al momento. “No puedo creerlo”, respondió en lo que se levantaba, pensando en el hijo que tenían y el futuro que habían acordado. Recordando las veces que había estado para él pensando que se trataba simplemente de un amigo al que su esposo estimaba mucho, casi considerándolo un hermano. “¿Qué me estás pidiendo, Alexander?”