Cuddle Bug (Bucky x reader)

Discrete

When the three SUV's pulled into the compound parking lot, Tony was standing outside on his phone glaring in the cars general direction and you heard Loki give a soft giggle before she went back to her male form. He was on his phone, and clearly was not pleased. Bucky got out of your car first and ran around to open the door for you on your side. He reached a hand in to take yours and you accepted it, before sliding out of the car. You saw everyone quickly getting out and started heading towards Tony who finally put his phone down and you saw him try to take on a very serious tone.
"Really? You couldn't keep it undercover?" he demanded. "Bucky publicly went out with his girlfriend, again. Most of the Avengers take a stroll through the zoo" he crossed his arms. "This isn't a low profile."
"Since when are you one for low profiles?" Nat chuckled as she got close. Bruce looked like he was worried about what she said, but you had to admit, she was ballsy.
"Touche," Tony sighed. "Fury wants a status update on when we are going on missions again, since you guys went out in public with Y/N"
"Maybe next week, after I've reviewed all the data" you gave a soft sigh. "I'm only back for half days, and there's weeks worth of data to go over. Unless you want me to start now...?" you trailed off.
"No, I don't want to push your recovery" Tony shook his head. "I'll tell Fury we will when you are ready. You have a lot to review" he admitted.
"Where are you two headed now?" Steve asked quickly as Tony started leading the way inside.
"Unpacking" you gave a soft smile.
"And decorating," Bucky added quickly.
"Did you want some help?" Steve asked politely and Sam's face lit up.
"Yeah, we will come help you two so it goes faster" Sam pushed Bucky out of the way and put his arm over your shoulders. "You know you are still free to come back and take my bed back" he added a little loudly.
"That won't be necessary" Bucky gave a bit of a growl.
"I didn't think the last time would be necessary, but here we are Tin man" Sam shook his head and started leading you up the stairs. "Did he leave you enough room in the closet?" Sam asked you as though Bucky wasn't there.
"You know, you almost asked for this" Steve whispered to Bucky as the four of you got to the top of the stairs. You started to go to your old suite out of habit, but stopped as soon as you walked in and saw the room was indeed completely empty except for the couch, tv, tv stand, and fridge.
"Come on doll, let's go home" Bucky called to you and reached for your hand. You quickly took his hand again and he led you down to his suite.

Going into the suite, you looked around at all the boxes, and Steve went straight to one of the boxes he knew to be just books and he opened it up.
"Where are the clothes at? She's particular on how she likes to put that away" Sam announced as soon as he took in the room full of boxes.
"Bedroom" Bucky frowned, having hoped to be doing this with you alone for the day. Sam grabbed your other hand and led you into the bedroom and he gave a small huff, putting his attention on everything that had to go in the living room and small kitchenette.
"Girl, how did you get so much clothes?" Sam exclaimed from the bedroom, making Bucky want to go in and see what was going on.
"Loki and the girls" you giggled and Bucky couldn't handle it anymore. He came into the bedroom to see you taking each piece of clothing out of the boxes, and either folding it or putting it on a hanger and placing it on the bed. Sam was passing you the clothes one piece at a time with a grin on his face, as though he knew he was getting under Bucky's skin.
"You need more" Bucky's eyes glinted as he saw Sam hand you a lavender negligee. You quickly put it on a hanger to go in the closet. "Do you want me to hang this up?" he asked a little hopefully.
"No, we have a system. You go work with Steve in the living room" you shook your head with a slight flush on your cheeks again.
"I can be helpful" he offered again.
"I've got my cuddle bug, she needs all those books put away. And you did promise decorating" Sam reminded him with a cheeky grin on his face.
"I'll be just in the living room" Bucky leaned down and gave you a kiss on the cheek, and Sam a soft glare who seemed more than happy at the current predicament. He headed back into the living room and Steve was already done putting away one of the boxes, and breaking it down to put in the recycling. Steve gave a soft chuckle and Bucky sighed, attacking another one of the boxes. The two of them worked in tandem with Sam giving commentary on your clothes that he thought were "hot" from the next room, which would make Steve chuckle again while it made Bucky grimace even more. He was jealous that Sam was able to step in so easily, not just for the fight, but helping you as well. He wanted to be the man that you would lean on for everything. He knew what clothes Sam was talking about because he had packed them all. He was dying to know how far along you were, but politely was also holding back. He heard you move to being in the closet with Sam bringing in your stacks to you. He finished putting all the books away with Steve's help, as well as your water globes. He had pictures already printed out by Friday and in frames, he just was waiting on you to give direction on where you wanted it put. He finally sat down on the couch with Steve joining him, both of them drinking a bottle of water when Sam came out with a smirk on his face and you quickly behind him.
"I've got the hammer and nails" Bucky pointed to his walnut coffee table, and the stack of filled frames on top of it.
"I need a minute" you went to the fridge and grabbed both you and Sam a bottle of water and came back into the room to hand Sam his. You went to sit between Bucky and Steve when Bucky grabbed you by the hips and pulled you onto his lap, and wrapped a hand around your waist. You let out a small yelp but settled on his lap easily. He gave you a quick kiss on the back of your neck and hummed to himself. "Let me see the selection" you took a drink of your water and put the cap back on before leaning forward and started sorting through the frames. You saw the pictures of his mother and sister, and from when he was in the howling commandos, as well as an old picture of him with pre-serum Steve. There were a few pictures of the two of you from since you started dating, one of them being the kiss shared in the diner. The last piece was the drawing Steve had done of the two of you in a large frame. You started looking around for empty wall space and saw there was one bare wall that would be perfect for all the pictures and you started mentally mapping it out in your head. Bucky could almost see the wheels turning in your head. "We should make the drawing, the biggest one, the center piece" you decided.
"My thoughts exactly" Bucky quickly agreed. "Are there any pictures you want to add?" he asked, wondering silently if he made the right choices.
"We can add as we go," you shrugged easily, thinking that you wanted to fill the wall with memories of the past and the ones to come. "I'd like to print some of the ones I took today and put them up" you smiled, leaning back into his firm chest, and putting your head on his shoulder.
"Do you want me to put them up?" Sam made another teasing dig to Bucky.
"Nope, I get to do this part" Bucky shook his head. You took that as a sign, and you slipped off of his lap with a slight pout, you had been enjoying the cuddle, however brief it was. Bucky immediately got up and grabbed the hammer and nails off of the coffee table and went to the center of the wall and put up one of the nails, but turned to look at you for confirmation and you nodded. He quickly put the nail in the wall and came over and got the drawing in a frame and put it up. Steve had made it look very realistic and you were in awe of how well he had done. Bucky put up the drawing and stood back to make sure that it wasn't tilted before seeming content with his work. He grabbed another nail, and repeated the same action, turning around to look at you for confirmation then would put the nail up and you would pass him a picture. It only took him around ten minutes to put everything up to your liking before he came back to sit down beside you and put his arm around your shoulders.
"Now this looks cozy," Sam declared.
"It looks like a real home" Steve quickly agreed.
"I think I've made my point" Sam stood up, after finishing his water bottle and Bucky gave him a soft glare.
"You have" Bucky nodded, thinking Sam meant that at the end of the day, he was still the man you would go running back to and trusted the most in your friend group.
"Let's grab these boxes and bring them downstairs. I wanted to message Sarah while before supper" Sam gestured to Steve who quickly got up and the pair of them grabbed all of the boxes between the two of them. Bucky got up to open the suite door for them, and they left the room quickly. As soon as they were gone, Bucky came back to the couch and picked you up before he sat down again, putting you on his lap. He then laid back and pulled you with him so you were laying on top of him. You wriggled slightly to get comfortable, then nuzzled in while both of you were looking at your newly decorated wall.
"What do you think, doll?" Bucky whispered to you, your mind having gone to his proposal again this morning. His hand was rubbing up and down your back, gazing down at you lovingly.
"It looks good," you sighed happily.
"Did you have enough room in the closet?" he raised an eyebrow curiously.
"Plenty of room" you nodded and gave a soft yawn.
"Good, you should fill it up some more" he grinned, leaning down to kiss you on top of your forehead. You looked up at him in surprise, and gave a soft giggle.
"If I get many more t-shirts I'm going to need another drawer" you warned him.
"I'll empty another one for you, I know you have quite a few more coming" he didn't bother hiding that fact from you.

After a lengthy cuddle, you and Bucky made your way down to supper and enjoyed having a meal with the team. You did end up getting more gift bags with t-shirts in them from Wanda, Vision, Thor, Bruce, and Steve. You were warned that Clint, Scott and the boys still wanted to give you a shirt each as well. Bucky happily carried the bags back upstairs for you and he promptly cleaned out a drawer for you and watched as you carefully folded each one to put in the drawer. You had made sure to thank everyone before coming back upstairs, and Sam warned you he was checking in with his sister, but he might stop by again. Bucky seemed to take the news in stride, knowing that Sam was still punishing him for the fight. He had no intentions of fighting with you like that again, he had made up his mind on how he wanted his life to be going forward.
"Our bathroom is going to look so weird being the sunset orange and having pink and black towels" you giggled suddenly from where you were nestled under Bucky's arm reading on the swing that was now stationed outside of the suite balcony door. It seemed that Steve and Bucky had moved that the night before last as well.
"We can always pack them away into storage, and get some new towels," Bucky quickly offered.
"We don't need to spend extra money on that, it was just a thought" you gave a soft sigh and curled more into him.

"What color do you think would match?" he asked, trying to keep the conversation going.
"I'm not sure. I think the black fits, but my pink probably doesn't" you scrunched your nose.
"I think the pink fits, like a sunset" he gave you a kiss on top of your head. "Just like we are watching right now" he pointed out. You looked out at the setting sun and gave a soft smile.
"This is nice" you sighed happily, putting your book to the side.
"Come here" he picked you up and pulled you onto his lap and he wrapped his arms around you. You nuzzled in, sitting sideways to look out at the sunset. "I could hold you like this forever" he whispered in your ear and you felt a delightful shiver go up and down your spine.
"Forever is a long time" you whispered back.
"Forever is eventually what I'm asking for" he countered quickly and you looked at him sharply and he broke out into a smile. He leaned forward and gave you a soft kiss on the lips, lingering there for a moment before pulling back.
Instead of answering him, you pulled out your phone and turned on your love song's playlist, but started with Ette James' song "At last" and nuzzled into Bucky again, just taking in the moment and enjoying it. You were starting to suspect that he was serious about his proposal this morning, it just wasn't well thought out. You weren't sure, but you would wait and bide your time, just like he said he would do. You would see if his actions spoke louder than words.