'Till The End of The Line

Chapter 7

It's been three months since Bucky and I mated in my heat. I've followed my ovulation cycle and I've not become pregnant yet. We were fucking like crazy. We were trying to conceive and every time I took a test it said negative, but I was gaining weight and my clothes weren't fitting. Bucky and I decided it was time to go to Wakanda and see what was going on. Wanda was off doing her thing. Steve had moved into the guest house and was staying busy, helping Sam here and there.

Shuri walks over and smiles, "good to see you two. How have things been since the wedding?"

"Great," I say softly. "We've been going through everything that was left to me in the house the last few months. It's been a process."

She smiles, "so we'll do blood work and an ultrasound. See what's going on. Maybe at-home kits don't work for you. Maybe you are pregnant."

I nod and she smiles as she grabs her stuff to get started. She pulls some blood from my arm and looks at me, "so you seem different since I saw you last."

"What do you mean?" I ask, looking up at her confused by her words. She takes the blood over to one of her assistants to run and walks back, "well, you had a glow about you on your wedding day, but today. Today you have a different glow. If I didn't know any better, I think you are pregnant. I think the at-home tests don't work for you, maybe because of your genetic condition."

I nod slowly as she pulls out the ultrasound machine and brings it over. She looks at Bucky, "so what have you been doing the last few months? Out saving the world with the new Captain America?"

I chuckle, "we've been a bit busy..." I say looking up at him and he looks at me smiling, "um, no, we have been busy. Did you know that Howard actually left everything that was left on the property in LA according to the will to Skylar?"

I chew my lip and look at her, "Howard was like the other big brother I had when Steve and Bucky disappeared." She helped me get comfier on the exam table and get my shirt adjusted just under my bra before applying gel as I explained, "he gave me a place to live up until I was taken." I shot Bucky a look and he just smiled, and I continued, "Howard gave me a job and a home to live in. We were working hard to find Steve and eventually we were working hard to find Bucky. So when Tony told me a few days after we had put Bucky on ice that I had home to go to if I wanted to, we could."

I felt Bucky's hand take my hand as we both looked at the screen as she began to move a probe on my stomach. She hums softly and looks at me as she presses harder, "sorry you have thicker skin here like scar tissue so that's why I'm pressing so hard." She gets to an angle and then we start to hear a loud thud which sounds like heart beats. I look at the screen, Bucky and then her, "is that?"

She nods, "I think." Her lab tech walks over with papers and hands them to her and she smiles at me, "congratulations, parents."

I look at Bucky, "we did it..."

She chuckles and moves the probe around more, giving us printouts, "by my calculations and everything that I've determined. I think you are three months along. Just be careful. With your genetics you may go through pregnancy faster than the average person." She says softly, "there is one more thing I want to check though." She moves the probe around more and looks at my lab work and smiles, "congrats you two are having twins."

"Twins?" I ask, looking at her. "Two babies?"

She nods, "yes. I had a feeling this would happen as it happened with the ones we placed under cryo after fertilization. So I'm not surprised by this at all. One of you has some good genes somewhere to make twins."

I look at Bucky who is at a loss of words, per usual. I look at him and squeeze his hands, "baby." I wipe my stomach off. I grab his hands and wiggle my nose, zapping us away from this place to somewhere private. Our favorite tranquil place here on Wakanda -out in the fields where no one to pester us.