Loose Ends

Fixing What's Broken

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Your POV.

I brought the extra data to Shuri; once letting she had looked it over, she asked for me and the super soldiers to come into the lab. "Alright, this is going to be an awkward conversation. So. I'm just going to start talking, and we're not gonna be prudes because you're going to trust that this is pertinent information. Yeah?" Shuri says in a rush, nods, and looking at me for confirmation, but honestly, I'm a little thrown off.

I nod anyway and she gives both Steve and Bucky a look before tilting her head with a deep breath and flipping her finger to scroll through the chart on her pad and gestures for me to lay on one of her fancy floating examination tables. Both Bucky and Steve are sitting with their arms crossed, leaning casually on various lab surfaces in that causal elegance they both have. "So. The three of you regularly engage in sexual activity. Correct?"

Steve blushes, bright ass red, his whole face going pink instantly. I blush a little and clear my throat as I sit up to answer her questions "Yes." I reply quietly but honestly.

Bucky looks absolutely fine with this conversation, just smirking and happy as a clam as he pipes in. "Oh yes. Quite often."

"Vigorously?" Shuri asks and now I blush. I can see Steve's flicks down his eyes and his face flush down his neck; this time, only Bucky answers.

"Most of the time, yes. Very." He doesn't sound boastful this time; he's trying to be accurate.

Shuri nods and continues. "Are you sore after?"

I shift a little since the question is directed solely at me. "I'm sorry...umm...wha...?"

Shuri rolls her eyes a little. "Promise I am going somewhere. Please just answer as best you can."

I shrug. "Sometimes, but it usually goes away in a few hours or so."

Bucky pipes up then. "When we give her hickeys, they disappear quickly. At varying speeds, I've never really tracked it, but quick for a human. We think she's using her powers to borrow super-healing from us. She's done it when she was physically hurt before."

Shuri nods, wondering if Bucky is the only one who was gonna be straight with her.

"During sexual activity, have your powers been behaving as they normally do?" Shuri asks. I shake my head.

She looks at me closely for more elaboration but I just gulp. Bucky speaks first, being casual and non-judgemental. "In general, there is less significant emotional transference, it is weaker, but functions pretty much the same as I can tell."

She looks back at me. I nod. "It's similar from my side. I just...feel like I can't identify it anymore. Like...a smell you've become accustomed to in your house. Sometimes I get a little whiff of it, but in general, even when I smell it I can't notice."

Shuri nods and clicks some buttons pulling up a calendar projected in the air. "I know that might be difficult to remember, but I estimate you had sex on these days." She flicked a finger up to throw the data onto the calendar and I swear I can feel Steve's ears go bright red and the blush creep down his neck. I blush a little as well. Every day is marked, with yellow, orange or red. The first few days, while I was in treatment, are green, followed by a red day, some yellows, and an orange. There are very few green days after I am released from the lab. I glance over at my lovers and Bucky looks a little proud, his smile lopsided.

I shake my head. "I don't know...I...It seems accurate, we've been very active ." Don't be embarrassed. Don't be. They are gorgeous and I am lucky and the sex is fantastic so why shouldn't I enjoy it.