With Him | Bucky x Reader | Enemies with Benefits

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Y/n's POV:

"Who's idea was this?" I sighed, reaching around blindly, searching the kitchen surface for an apple.

"It's a team-building activity!" Tony protested, leaning back on one of the dining chairs with his legs propped up in front of him.

"So you're not just super hungry?" Buck asked in an exhausted tone.

"Just shut up and make my pies," responded Tony.

Steve had been going on and on about how we needed to do more things together as a team and Tony was just always hungry so somehow we had ended up in a pie-making competition, but there was a twist: we were in pairs where one person was blindfolded and the other could only give directions.

Steve had created the teams: Nat and Clint, Pepper and Peter, Bruce and Wanda, Sam and Thor, and Bucky and I. I had to admit that we had been quite lucky with our team, all we could hear from Sam and Thor were various shouts of "Come on man, why would you put an ox tongue in a cranberry pie? Where did you even find that?" followed by "Well, back in Asgard..." "We're not in Asgard!"

It was even more chaotic over with Peter and Pepper, seeing as Pepper was blindfolded and Peter didn't know how to make a pie.

By now we were half an hour into the challenge and I felt like we were making no progress, it didn't help that Bucky was taking full advantage of the fact that everyone was either sightless or distracted to tease me and grab my ass. I had tried to do the same in return but without really knowing where he was, it was a bit of a challenge.

As I reached out for a rolling pin, I felt his warm presence come up behind me and I felt the heat of his warm breath glide over my ear. "You look cute with a blindfold on," He whispered, "Maybe we should try it out sometime..."

I turned my head towards him, trying to stifle a gasp.

"Shut up!" I hissed, "You can't say that around the others."

Bucky rested his hand on the small of my back and handed me a rolling pin, when he spoke again I could hear the smirk in his voice, "That's not a no...so would you be down?"

"Be quiet and tell me what to do." I replied, trying to focus on the task at hand and not the man who was holding me tightly by the waist.

"We both know you like that already, let's try something new." He pleaded, messing with me again.

I hit him with the rolling pin.

"Hey!" Yelled Tony, glancing up from his phone where he had, no doubt, been making Stucky edits. He thought none of us knew about his secret account but when you live in a building of trained spies, most secrets don't stay secrets although hopefully Bucky and I would be able to keep ours. "Play nice, you two. You're on the same team."

"Alright, just roll out the pastry then." Bucky chuckled.

Once The competition had ended, Bucky and I offered to clean up for everyone since they all wanted to watch a movie that I had already seen and Buck had no interest in watching.

"You're coming to my room tonight, right?" He asked.

We'd been essentially alternating rooms every night that we could. Luckily, He hadn't had any overnight missions since I got back from 'The Abduction' and I still hadn't been cleared for any missions at all so we hadn't run into the obstacle of trying to get to sleep without each other, but I had a feeling that it wouldn't be good when we did.

I paused before responding, "I don't know if I should tonight."

Bucky turned to face me as he put a plate on the drying rack, "Why wouldn't you?"

"I've got my period again and I don't want there to be a chance that I get blood on your sheets." I answered.

I didn't think it would bother him that much, but our relationship status was so confusing that I didn't know.
Did we fuck a lot? Yes.
Did we fuck every time we slept in the same bed? No.
Had we been on a date? Yes.
Were we dating? I didn't know.

Bucky looked slightly amused, "If you get blood on my sheets then we'll clean them."

"I always toss and turn when I get cramps." I added, spraying the surface with disinfectant and wiping it down

"If you kick me out of bed then I'll climb back in." He replied, rinsing a soapy bowl under the tap before walking up to me and wrapping his arms around my body from behind. "If you want to sleep separately then we can but don't sacrifice a good night's sleep because you're worried about what I will think, Doll. It's completely natural."

He kissed me on the forehead and held me in his arms as we swayed in the low lighting of the kitchen. 

Moments later, Bucky reached over to the speaker that had been playing some slow music in the background all day and turned it up before taking my hands in his and spinning me around.

The traces of a smile started to show on my face as he lifted my hand in the air and encouraged me to twirl underneath it before pulling me closer and resting his arms on my back as they moved up and down in slow, calming motions.

"I hate you, James Barnes." I whispered into his chest, earning a soft chuckle from him.

"I hate you too, Y/n Y/l/n." He returned, placing another kiss on my head. I looked up at him but before I had time to say anything his lips lightly pecked each of my cheeks, followed by my nose. 

He smiled down at me and placed a final kiss against my lips.

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