Choices - Bucky Barnes & Steve Rogers AND OC

Is something wrong?

"You said you were on contraceptives, right? I assume you don't know the date of your last period?" Bruce paused as I shook my head, he rubbed the back of his head and glanced over at Steve. "We need to do an ultrasound, if the ultrasound doesn't show anything we can use the vaginal ultrasound to guess the due date the best we can. It may be hard to do, super soldier serum in the DNA may skew the results," he paused again to take his glasses off and look down at me. "It's beyond my field of expertise but I can give you a rough estimate until we can get an obstetrician in here."

"That's fine with me," I nod and follow Bruce to the bathrooms, he hands me a gown he grabs from a large two door white cabinet and allows me to go in and change. When I come back out, he leads me to a room that Bucky and Steve are already in. I climb up on the medical table and lift my feet when he pulls on the extender.

Bruce has this large ultrasound machine right by the table, he picks up a small white tube and gives me a toothy grin. "Are you ready?"

"Very," I smile as I glance over at Steve and Bucky, standing together on the other side of the table by my left side. They both look anxious, curious eyes taking in everything Bruce is doing.

Bruce squeezes the jelly on my stomach and reaches for the ultrasound wand, after a few moments of probing around in different positions on my lower belly, he stills.

"Is something wrong?" Steve asks, noticing the hesitance.

"I'll have to do blood work but," Bruce trails off as he moves the wand again. His eyes narrowing in on the screen. "I think we are seeing a very rare form of heteropaternal superfecundation, it's fascinating- I'll have to call Dr.-"

"What in the hell is that?" I shout, startling him as he jumps back a bit. "Is my baby okay? Bruce tell me!"

"I'm sorry, I got excited," he holds out a hand in gesture and proceeds. "Twins. You are pregnant with twins. They are in different stages which leads me to believe that you have a rare pregnancy of heteropaternal superfecundation, which means you have two eggs that were fertilized at different times by two different fathers. Baby A is measuring at twelve weeks while Baby B is measuring at nine to ten weeks."

I could hear the breath that caught in Steve's lungs and the boisterous laugh that Bucky let out. I sat in shock, absorbing the words Bruce said.

I knew I was weird, but did I have to be rare pregnancy weird? Two babies from two different daddies?

Wait...

He said twins, oh dear God. Two.

"Mother fucker," I let out before I even realize it.

I don't even remember getting dressed, or walking to the elevator. One minute I'm staring at two blots on an ultrasound screen and the next, I'm curled up with my boys in my bed, staring at the ceiling.

"Twins," Bucky was the first to speak in probably an hour, I glanced up at him and watched as a smile spread on his face, still gazing at the ceiling that I had placed glow in the dark stars on. "Us, being parents to two kids."

"James..."

It sounded so unrecognizable hearing the name come from my mouth... but this was a serious matter. I'm pregnant... and not just by one man but two.

I love them both... so much...

Bucky's smile faded after hearing his birth name escaping my lips. I never called him James... like, ever. "What is it, babe?" His voice was so soft. He rolled over by my side and ran his hand from the top of my head and down the rest of my hair.

"Bucky," I started. Already it started to sound better. "I'm scared."

"Of what?" he asked me, almost in a whisper. "There's nothing you need to be afraid of, doll. Kids don't scare me; they shouldn't scare you, either."

"We are in this with you, Romani," Steve spoke up from behind me, he leaned up on his elbow and wrapped his arm around my waist, his large hand spreading out on my stomach, under the loose white shirt on me. He gently rubbed at the flesh there as his chin settled on my shoulder. "You don't have to be scared."

"I so don't deserve either of you," I don't know why, maybe hormones but my eyes began to fill with tears. A chuckle came from Bucky's chest as he leaned forward and kissed away the tears that fell from the lids.

"You're gonna be an emotional one," Bucky gingerly stated as he reached his hand up to cup my cheek, smiling as he did. "This is a blessing, Ro."

"It is," I agreed, trying to silence the tears. His face was blurry from tears.

"We need to tell everyone," Steve spoke again, he glanced between Bucky and me a few times with a smile on his face. "I've never heard of such a thing, so this is a miracle and we need to tell everyone that will listen."

I laugh, reaching back to pat his head. He was right though, we needed to sit everyone down and tell them.

Later that night, Steve called everyone from the compound to meet at the common room. Everyone was talking amongst themselves, laughing and carrying on...

Once everyone was accounted for, Steve started.

"I'm sure all of you are wanting to know why I've called you all down here tonight," he started with a heavy sigh before reaching down and grabbing hold of my hand. "Romani has something she'd like to share with you all. Now, she's a bit nervous so... she's asked that I speak on her behalf."

He looked over at me and remained silent until I gave him the signal to continue. Once I gave him the nod, he continued.

"We're pregnant," he said simply.

Tony and Sam shared the exact same expression, which was pretty funny, I have to admit. Bruce was just smiling happily from ear to ear. Thor was loud and quite congratulatory, pulling Steve into a tight embrace and shared lovely Asgardian love.

Once everyone settled down, Steve spoke again.

"However, there is a twist to all of this," he started firmly with a nod. "It's rare but nothing to worry about." He sighed again. "Bucky, do you want to tell them?"

"Sure thing," Bucky stood up and grabbed hold of my other hand, I must have looked like a child between the two, looking wounded and scared at the audience in front of us. "Romani has a rare pregnancy called heteropaternal superfecundation, it is when a woman becomes pregnant with the sperm of two different men," he paused at the furrowed eyebrows and wide eyes. "In a situation like this, from the research I have done, it is caused in a few different ways. When one ova, egg is fertilized during ovulation - and if another male fertilizes in the same ovulation period, it creates two sacks, two children with two different fathers."

"Also, from the research, which seems to be the case here- Romani had another period of ovulation shortly after the first where one child was conceived, it is rare but from Bruce's overall evaluation we believe one fetus is ten weeks and the other is twelve weeks," Steve continued for Bucky who nodded, because he wasn't the best at explaining things but he was trying. Steve paused and everyone looked back at us, utterly confused."So basically, we are both going to be fathers to children in Romani's uterus, biologically, one child with my DNA, one with Bucky's."