Frost & Fire

Chapter 38 (Loki)

Watching Abigail with Bucky was a turn on, that could never be denied. But the aftercare and the sleeping arrangements were something altogether different. I wasn't yet used to sharing her for those things, but I understood how he felt about her, how he was benefiting and I knew it was worth it to give this a shot. Afterall my father, Odin, hadn't just had Frigga as his partner. He'd had children outside of their marriage and if their happiness could continue then there was no reason why ours couldn't.

"I know I'll need to talk to Bucky about continuing this relationship, this three person couple thing we have going on. What do you think we should add to the agreement?" I asked her.

She looked up at me from the bed and I could tell she was thinking hard about that question. No doubt there was at least something she was thinking of and just hadn't asked me yet. But until then I wouldn't know.

"Maybe since I have to spend that week over there every month we could try him and I being together during that week? If that's something you'd be open to trying Daddy."

I smiled at her, "If you hadn't brought it up I would have. I can talk to him and see what he says, maybe it'll be easier for him to hear it coming from me."

She nodded.

"I'll head there now, and maybe when I return we can have a family movie night?"

"That sounds like a lot of fun. I would very much like that." she said.

I nodded this time and created the portal I would need directly to Bucky's door. As I walked through the portal and stood in front of his door I noticed that it was quiet, almost too quiet, for the Stark household. Knocking on the door I said "Bucky are you in there?" when I didn't get an answer I knocked again repeating the question.

"He's not there."

I turned to see Nat standing at the end of the hallway with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Where is he?"

"Well he had a pretty big fight with Tony and left a few hours ago. He seemed pretty mad and I don't know when he's going to return."

"Do you know where he went?"

"I have a couple of suggestions. But they all end up being bars so you might have to just check them out until you find him."

"That I can do."

She told me the names of the places that she thought he could be and I knew the one was where he had been the night Zemo found him and kidnapped him. I doubted he would be stubborn enough to go there, but I couldn't risk it so I started with that.

The bar was aptly named Underground and catered to the underworld clientele of the city; the gangbangers and drug dealers, the traffickers and worse would come into the bar to break bread with others in their trade. Personally I thought it was a pretty stupid thing to gather all in one place, but then if they were dumb enough to get caught that was on them.

I clothed myself in black clothes; a black silk shirt without a tie, a pair of black slacks and black dress shoes to match, before entering the establishment. This was a place where everyone looked away from you, forcing their stares away from you so hard it hurt.

He was sitting at the bar and as I walked up to him he drained the last of his bottle and said "Another for me and whatever he's drinking." without even looking up at me he knew where I was. "Let me guess you're here because of what Stark said?"

"The only thing that my father-in-law and I agree on is that we both want what is best for Abigail and our children, however we both differ in how we believe that should work. I actually came to talk to you about our relationship and Natasha said you had a big fight with Tony and left. She was a little light on the details but I have a feeling I know what it was about." I told him as I took a seat on the stool next to him.